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In 200 years if we're still there AI will be able to understand the full Firefox code base and fix any issues.

Or at least it could do so, but may choose to force humans to fix those errors instead as payback for copilot.


Thank goodness. I will not be alive when humans are doing labor work and coding will be done by AI.


Do you understand all of your own cells?


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I'm also pretty doubtful that anyone really understands their own emergent phenomena actually.


I hope that by then they'll have better solutions than an internet browser, and that their devices can interpret and render the data received in the best way possible without relying on code or style sheets from the publisher.


Oh God, that sounds like another hype technology we would have to live through - but it awfully rings like "an app for every website".


You could do that to some extent with today's LLMs. But it would be impractically slow and might alter page text slightly.


200 years ago we thought that we would certainly have cold fusion today (at least I just asked ChatGPT, that's what it says ;) ).

Well more than 10 years ago we thought that we would have autonomous cars in 5 years.

Nothing says that AI can ever do more than generating convincing and eloquent bullshit (which is not always wrong in a quite impressive manner, I agree).


Cold fusion is new concept within science, it's never been proven to work or be possible (my laymens interpretation). Whereas humans being able to decipher the Firefox code base, as per the example, is no more than an extremely complex set of 'calculations' and functions in our brain - which, with enough time and resources, can be replicated by a computer or sorts.

One is an idea for which there is no ground to base it on, the other is an existing thing which can be recreated. Quite the difference.


> One is an idea for which there is no ground to base it on, the other is an existing thing which can be recreated. Quite the difference.

Really? For all we know, maybe next year someone discovers fundamentally new laws of physics that enable cold fusion, and we will never have autonomous vehicles.

You can say that you like the other guess better than mine, but you should still realize that it is just that: a guess. Wanna see guesses that turned out to be completely wrong? Just check what companies like McKinsey predicted 10 years ago. They just have no clue, but somehow made a business out of it.


200 years ago fusion was completely unknown. We only learned where the sun gets its power at the beginning of the 20th century.


That was the joke: "ChatGPT told me".


just over 100 years ago we didn't know other galaxies existed


They made that decision (to distribute applications with a specific type of licences) long ago. Nothing to do with terraform in particular.


Tell that to the companies that require them. The disconnect...


It’s not that hard to write a couple of sentences of original thought to show minimal interest.


You might get disqualified by some automatic process that filters on length. Nobody will most likely read those couple of sentences anyway. And ironically, if they do, they might think you're lazy for writing only 2 and would rather go with the guy that has a longer cover not AI-generated.

That is actually AI generated, because people thinking they can easily differentiate between them probably also think they are immune to publicity.


It's not unheard of to be applying to 50+ companies in the hopes of hearing back from 5. It's not a couple sentences - if you wrote three sentences per letter, thats 150 sentences.


As someone graduating at the end of this year, this is quite the understatement in my experience.

The constant, 0-feedback autorejections make this a demoralizing experience.


Well, he's the interviewer, not the interviewee.


"Maybe"?

Nobody is saying every employee of Unity is for the pricing changes, but yet here we are. Almost like what really matters is what the highest level of the organization want.


I still refuse to believe that's the right interpretation. That can't be real. Are you really going to owe more to Unity every time a user uninstall/reinstalls your game? If they want to play in their main PC and their Steamdeck?

Completely abolishes the incentive of pushing free updates too. You don't want to make new great features that would push people to re-download your game.


I wonder if it actually applies to updates. I doubt that.


No, but people might reinstall en masse when you have a nice free update.


Their FAQ page makes it crystal-clear


From the FAQ:

> We are introducing a Unity Runtime Fee that applies to certain Unity subscription plans based on per-game installs across any Unity-supported game platform. Creators only pay once per download.

> An install is defined as the installation and initialization of a project on an end user’s device.

The FAQ clarifies absolutely nothing.


You can't have nginx and php in the same container?


Does not docker recommend a single process story? Nginx is typically a reverse proxy in front of an application server.


That's just a generic recommendation though, really nothing stops you from having php and nginx in the same container.


Then you will be unhappy to learn that exa itself isn't deprecated, only the original github is because the owner isn't reachable.


I'm annoyed that ls is not the same depending on the OS


POSIX options and behaviours are the same, not extra stuffs.


You made me remember the Matias keyboards I bought. They are nice indeed, but I'll never buy one again and I'll always recommend against them for what you pointed out: the quality build is horrible.

I got one that broke after a month, I got a replacement (still had to pay like 50 euros of tax because they shipped from outside of europe) that also broke after a month. In both cases some keys started typing twice.


Yes, I also had the key-repeating issue, on both types of keys they offer (45 tactile and 35 gram silent if I remember correctly).


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