I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve told it to stop using terms like “evidence boundary” when writing specs. I still have no idea what that means.

Me too. Linkedin helpfully keeps finding new people for me to follow and automatically follows them.

Hmm that doesn’t happen to me. But it does suggest content from users I don’t follow

> What happens to the pages after? No one needs them anymore, so they get mulched and recycled.

Strictly speaking, no one needs the Sistine Chapel or the Pietà etc. It would be a shame if they were mulched and recycled, though.

Same with the magna carta and the American constitution.

ChatGPT know them, i'd count that as digitalised why keep the originals?

One thing that drives me nuts every time I save a new file or 'save as'. File chooser appears and I automatically start typing to enter/change the filename. But the filter input always gets focus and now I'm filtering the list of visible files instead of naming my file...

(Yes, I know I could try to submit a PR but I don't have the energy to figure out the Gnome governance process.)

plus the filter search is very slow. plus the async race conditions if you click or keyboard enter too quickly.

"This is the killer issue"

I have to ask - did you use AI to generate this response?

Nope, I'm not a native speaker and the damn thing has probably already affected my perception of what's idiomatic.

Ugh.

This is the question nobody's asking.

It's not just about the question--it's also about what's in the answer.

Possibly just a case of having seen "AI-language" too often and just starting to use it themselves?

I’ve started using HTML for reports recently. But I always use a markdown file as an intermediate and tell the LLM to generate a fancier version of it with SVG for graphs/pictures based on tables in the markdown.

One idea that could be useful for products like Browser Use and Stagehand is instead of using videos of the session, they can use HTML slideshows to show the step-by-step progress of the session. Single file HTMl can be downloaded and shared and annotated as well. I hope someone from those companies are here and will take this advice. I am not advocating for replacing the video sessions but also have the HTML Slideshow as another session artifact.

Or your provider randomly decides you need to be on an enterprise plan: https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-web...

I switched to Niri (https://github.com/niri-wm/niri) about six months ago and I find it does wonders for focus.

Set the default window width to 1/4 or 1/3 of the screen width (depending on the screen size) and it's easy to keep just the right context visible.

Niri is so good. The spatialized layout really keeps me aware of where I need to go.

I do wish it had virtual outputs though. Such that we can either combine screens to form a big monitor, or subdivide a screen to make multiple outputs. I have been doing some coding on a 42" OLED tv, and I really want both a side tray and an overhead output. There's stilch which does this; I wonder if River is capable enough to do something similar. https://github.com/wegel/stilch

And that’s fine because that photo (probably) has some utility to you.

The 39.99MB of ads accompanying the 2KB of text you want to read possibly has less utility to you.

A lot of people are paying for their data. If a web page uses 40 mb and you have 4GB of data quota per month, you can only load 100 pages per month. Apparently the article text describes the page actually using 500 MB over 5 minutes, which means a 4GB quota can be used for less than an hour of reading.

Maybe it's different if advertisers or publishers are paying viewer's data costs. But some amount of restraint might be nice. Personally, I don't use a lot on my phone when I'm out and about, other than chat apps, hn, text NPR and lite CNN, cause I used to be on a plan with a hard cutoff. But then, I have unmetered networking at home.

A reader who hits their mobile data cap after thirty minutes on your site will not be viewing any more of your ads for the next month. But if businesses were capable of thinking more than exactly one step ahead for any action they take, the tech industry wouldn't be such a shithole in the first place, of course.

I don't think what these websites are doing is "good", but I can't see them stopping any time soon.

I imagine people remember what site they were on when the data usage warnings came up, and they don't come back.

The question I guess is really if PC Gamer earns more by sending 100 mb / minute and chasing some eyeballs away faster, than by using a reasonable amount of data and losing eyeballs at the normal rate of attrition for written word outlets.

If anything ads on page built like that will make sure I won't buy that particular product ever