That all these major companies insist on using AI for these completely worthless features that actively make their products worse I think shows that not even they (the companies involved in AI development) know what to do with AI. Like, it really doesn’t matter that this was an “experiment” supposedly. It should have been obvious to anyone with a brain that this was a bad idea, but they did it anyway.

I like how they’re charging more for making their products worse. I have to use Windows for work, and the laptop runs like dogshit. Nearly everything is laggy, Teams is a dumpster fire, etc.

https://xcancel.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1996468025063796795

His posts are pretty nuts. Like, you’re already struggling against Ukraine. I can’t imagine things would go well if you invaded the rest of Europe too.

I can’t believe this is real lmao

It says they’ll have to renegotiate every year, so presumably upper.

I haven’t looked into how the tokens work, but IIUC that should only matter for node operators, not end users.

The politicians in this country are completely out of touch with reality.

This is sort of amusing because you need to disable your VPN to make an account on WAFRN last I checked.

I’m guessing the problem is they want a relatively unique font to avoid looking the same as other games, and then once they’ve chosen their font they’re pretty much stuck with it unless they’re willing to change the look of their game (for live-service games at least). A number of the fonts there might work for new stuff though.

Realistically if a game company made their own font, they’d probably do that and then have to go through and piecemeal add more kanji that they used. Or just use hiragana/katakana for those words I guess.

Ancient Peruvians were masters of AI technology.

It sounded like she has an accent, so you may be onto something lol

Yeah, sure, but a number of them still exist. They’re just mostly reliant on word of mouth now (or using something other than Google). There’s some old Star Wars forums that seem to still be surviving, for example.

They still exist, they’re just kind of rare. There’s even federated forums like NodeBB. I actively read stuff on SpaceBattles, Sufficient Velocity, etc. It’s admittedly difficult to find something with absolutely no like/karma system, but for instance the hellhole known as GameFAQs still exists.

Have you ever looked at the original JS implementation? It looks nothing like what JS is today. Saying the bones were spat out in a couple weeks is like saying Linux was developed in a few months.

And yet working groups have spent literal decades trying to make JS less shitty. The fundamental basics of JS can’t be changed in backwards incompatible ways without breaking a huge number of websites. The Linux comparison is just wrong because Linux has broken backwards compatibility to fix problems. A better comparison would be Linux’s policy to never break userspace. Backwards incompatible changes to JS would break a bajillion websites, much like breaking userspace would break a bajillion programs.

TS transpiles to JS, and any JS is valid TS. Take any TS, remove the types (and some syntactic sugar) and you have JS. I feel like if you like TS but not JS, you just don’t like loosely typed languages. That’s just a preference. It doesn’t make a language bad.

JS is valid TS. TS is not valid JS. This is the fundamental point. TS essentially fixes issues that JS cannot fix without breaking the world.

Loose typing is fine if the language’s type system isn’t insane. I prefer static typing, but as long as the type system is coherent, it’s not an issue.

TBH IMO the only reason JS became popular is because it was provided by web browsers, and if you wanted to make your site do anything complex, you thus needed to use JS. This eventually led to the JS VMs being very fast, so Node was created, and now it’s all over since you can learn one language for web and server.

I’m pretty sure most people do not like JS’s loosey-goosey, who-knows-what-ur-gonna-get type system, which is why TS is so popular. Not really surprising since the bones of the language were basically spat out in a couple weeks. TS is a custom type system on top of JS, meaning it’s not just JS’s type system expressed through strict typing. They added a bunch of useful features like discriminated unions and so on to make using TS more pleasant than raw JS.

TS is actually usable (although NPM and the environment built around it still suck). It’s inherited a bunch of weird shit from JS, but the type system generally makes them bearable.

I mean, just the fact that you’re using TS instead of plain JS (and that TS even exists) should tell you that the language has issues…

The completely bizarre implicit type conversions, for one thing.

Interesting username.

For something you’re getting paid for, sure. But if you’re contributing in your free time for fun or whatever, presumably you’d prefer to use a language you actually like.