‘We changed scope and it’s your problem’ does not parse.

Could Lucasarts not secure the rights for “Fistful?”

I mean, the cult of MBAs expecting miracles from the hot new thing is a pattern we’ve seen before. The functionality of LLMs does not match Sam Altman’s fantasies - but it does function. People are getting use out of this tech. But they’re vastly outnumbered by some mixture of optimistic experimenters and trend-chasing dipshits.

Paragraph one says things getting better is bad because what if we stop.

Paragraph two is bemoaning the abacus for ruining mental math.

Paragraph three blames a new gizmo for the system as it exists.

This year they stopped fucking trying. You search three words and it ignores two of them. “We didn’t find many results for that.” Yeah! That’s why I wrote it that way! I didn’t type “colossus of argyle” because I wanted a thousand generic pages about a statue. Gimme some damn prog.

Which does cause problems now that Google search is shit.

Every time ‘new tool makes old skills rusty’ is treated as novel, I’m reminded of The Gentleman’s Magazine:

Instead of simply reproducing the operations of man’s intelligence, the arithmometer relieves that intelligence from the necessity of making the operations. Instead of repeating responses dictated to it, this instrument instantaneously dictates the proper answer to the man who asks it a question. It is not matter producing material effects, but matter which thinks, reflects, reasons, calculates, and executes all the most difficult and complicated arithmetical operations with a rapidity and infallibility which defies all the calculators in the world. The arithmometer is, moreover, a simple instrument, of very little volume and easily portable. It is already used in many great financial establishments, where considerable economy is realized by its employment.

It will soon be considered as indispensable, and be as generally used as a clock, which was formerly only to be seen in palaces, and is now in every cottage.

This was a crank-powered adding machine. Numbers used levers instead of buttons because buttons hadn’t been invented yet. There were already people who expected it the next version would do everything for us - and people who thought that would be bad, somehow.

AI helped health professionals to better detect pre-cancerous growths in the colon, but when the assistance was removed,

AI improved doctors’ ability to spot cancer.

The problem was not exercising a skill for several months, and then taking away the tool which was better than that skill.

Seems like loss of context. By the end it’s seeing a list of US states, alphabetically, and it’d usually be weird to skip one.

The question is not kept at the forefront for each state named.

Always amused when leftist instances treat intellectual property like it’s real.

This is a weird use of MOBA-style punishment games, if we’re talking about an entire minute of wasted time. Surely you’d be better-off making repeat disconnectors more likely to pair with other disconnectors. Just teach them that it sucks… or leave them mad at each other. Like pairing cheaters with other cheaters.

Rule of thumb: anything that’s pushed as ‘the X killer’ won’t.

Put the name in the goddamn title.

Integrate DownThemAll, without fucking up existing installations of DownThemAll. Like how you uninstalled and blocked the Pocket plugin.

Allow blob:// videos to be saved normally. It’s just a file. I’m looking at it. Move it from memory to the hard drive.

Tab Mix Plus needs to be feasible again, with multi-row tabs that aren’t a hundred pixels wide. I want a grid of favicons. I don’t give one solitary shit how anyone else feels about that desire.

Aggressively commit to supporting adblockers. Browsers obey the user. Servers can send documents, and we will do with them as we please.

Ah, so there’s a grain of sense in this. Shame about the aggressive irony in whinging about tone while throwing dull insults.

The money to be made on operating systems was power over platforms, back in Windows 98 times. That’s the whole reason the Xbox project emerged. They wanted to PC-ify consoles on the assumption they’d still own PCs. The project succeeded! The assumption, not so much.

I think MS barged its way into browsers because it already owned the desktop, and browsers were the next big thing, and barging was just how they did things. And they only integrated IE in the sense you could not uninstall it. Windows obviously still ran Netscape (and later Firefox), and the OS needing a browser is vastly different from the OS being a browser.

Why did you obliquely reference a different company doing a completely different thing? Microsoft did do something very similar on desktop - making Windows 8 tablet-centric. Nothing in XP or especially 98 has anything to do with mobile computing.

Yeah it’s almost like we were talking about something else entirely.

I’ll thank you not to refer to 2012 as “two decades ago.” Felt like I drank from the wrong grail, before double-checking when Windows 8 came out.

A decade ago this would have been exciting news for mobile computing.

Enough has changed that all I can think is, uuugh.

These tools aren’t going anywhere.

Make your peace.

how many ways can you really communicate with a cell tower?

Analog encoding assigns each device in a cell its own frequency range.

Time-domain multiplexing assigns each device a fraction of a second to transmit.

Quadrature phase-shift keying alters the timing of a signal to convey data.

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing has each device transmit the same signal over P out of Q bands, such that each device’s signal can be reconstructed by knowing which bands it transmitted on.

There’s a fucking reason your phone is faster now than in 2010.