Case insensitive file systems arent lazy, they’re a programmer putting in a lot of effort to try and be helpful only to realize that their helpful system doesn’t actually cover all the edge cases it needs to and thus just adds a whole extra layer of complication and annoyance to the project.

OSs and filesystems aren’t built for programmers, they’re built for grandmas.

You’re just flat out and completely wrong.

1. No grandma is typing out file URLs. This is not a point.
2. OSes literally do nothing useful on their own. Their explicit purpose is to allow developers to write applications for them for users to use.
3. Case insensitivity can be handled at the application level, there is no necessity to handle it at the OS level.
4. Case insensitivity isn’t even clearly defined as Linus outlined, but you know what is clearly defined? Different character byte codes.

… shredmills was right there …

If you can’t imagine why this is bad, maybe read some Kafka or watch some Black Mirror.

Lmfao. Yeah, ok, let’s get my predictions from the depressing show dedicated to being relentlessly pessimistic at every single decision point.

And yeah, like I said, you sound like my hysterical middle school teacher claiming that Wikipedia will be society’s downfall.

Guess what? It wasn’t. People learn that tools are error prone and came up with strategies to use them while correcting for potential errors.

Like at a fundamental, technical level, components of a system can be error prone, but still be useful overall. Quantum calculations have inherent probabilities and errors in them, but they can still solve some types of calculations so much faster than normal computers that you can run the same calculation 100x on a Quantum Computer, average out the results to remove the outlying errors, and get to the right answer far faster than a classical computer.

Computer chips in satellites and the space station are constantly have random bits of memory flipped by cosmic rays but they still work fine because their RAM is special, error correcting ram, that can use similar methods to verify and check for errors.

Designing for error correction is a thing, and people are perfectly capable of doing so in their personal lives.

Yes, they literally are. Or maybe you haven’t heard of human caused climate change?

But a) they don’t refuse, most will tell you if you prompt them well them and b) you cannot rely on them as the sole source of truth but an information machine can still be useful if it’s right most of the time.

My friends would probably say something like “I’ve never heard that one, but I guess it means something like …”

Ok, but the point is that lots of people would just say something and then figure out if it’s right later.

The problem is, these LLMs don’t give any indication when they’re making stuff up versus when repeating an incontrovertible truth. Lots of people don’t understand the limitations of things like Google’s AI summary* so they will trust these false answers. Harmless here, but often not.

Quite frankly, you sound like middle school teachers being hysterical about Wikipedia being wrong sometimes.

Lol

• God 31:5

Or the ever coveted …

😶🤨😲🤔😓🫩 “Fuck you…” 🖕😏🖕

“Regurgitation without critical thought is fundamentally counter to the principles of science and engineering”

• Jesus 4:12

Their office is downtown, go down and ask to talk to someone. Don’t leave until they ask you to.

You have no obligation not to inconvenience them.

Search for the company on LinkedIn, click through its employees. Have them get a bunch of ‘Appeared in Searches’ notifications from LinkedIn. Make sure they feel seen by a bunch of their fellow citizens.

Try this on your friends, make up an idiom, then walk up to them, say it without context, and then say “meaning?” and see how they respond.

Pretty sure most of mine will just make up a bullshit response nd go along with what I’m saying unless I give them more context.

There are genuinely interesting limitations to LLMs and the newer reasoning models, and I find it interesting to see what we can learn from them, this is just ham fisted robo gotcha journalism.

PC Gamer regurgitating the abstract of a random research paper makes baby jesus cry.

I became a much better player after I DM’d.

It taught me that it is possible to thread the needle and do both.

Social media said Mark Zuckerberg was over and sadly I think neither are right.

Build your cat a pillow fort, be the change you want to see in the world.

Based on the shape, at first I it thought was one of the new mesh network streetlights, but after zooming in more I think you’re right, it looks like an antenna box for a wireless metering network.

I will just say, having gone through a real rough year, it’s not always black and white. I be vulnerable with the boys and ask for help, but I need time to process first, and to do it in the way I want and the time I want.

In the meantime, I am often sending memes for that small comfort of friendship while I process.

I mean, yeah, I’m not saying don’t use one ever, there’s just a lot of people in here very confident that they’re essential.

And the only downside I would say, is that if you put a scratchable surface on top of an unscratchable screen, then your screen is going to look scratched up more often, during the period after the protector gets scratched but before you replace it.

Though this is a relatively minor downside if you are seriously risking scratching the glass underneath.

But like, what do you have in your pocket? My phone goes in my right pocket with my earbuds, my left pocket has my wallet and keys if needed.

If I’m doing construction work and have screws and drill bits and stuff on me I put them in my hoodie pocket, back pocket, mouth, or just put my phone down on the table nearby…

Like I get it if you had a purse or handbag you regularly kept it in but if it’s just from stuff in your pockets why do you always have sharp stuff in the same pocket?