if you can!

This is very much what apple wants you to believe; they have very good PR.

In actual fact, though, apple is a very effective fifth or sixth mover, and has been for a very long time. They watch everyone else fuck it up and get it wrong a bunch of times, and then throw scads of cash at threading the needle.

So, we can anticipate that the new Anthropic browser will now have the interpreter Ken Thompson previewed for us 41-odd years ago?

> Soon ChatGPT will start to weave ads into their output because they'll need to make $.

you have no reason to believe this is not already the case.

Sincerely, thanks for making this point. It may explain some subtle oddities I feel (cannot accurately reproduce them) I've observed using copilot in my daily workflow.

I wondered why it was using fast food items for variable names..

> If they'd just kept on quietly making the best IDEs available while everyone else in the industry has lost their damn minds, they'd be golden.

I recently heard this referred to as "the Brother Strategy": where you don't do anything, but become market leader because everyone else has been actively working on making their offering _worse_.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_of_Lisieux also bears reading. Her "Little Way" is well worth chewing on.

I started using RSS in ~2007, and I haven't stopped. I think i used thunderbird first, then google reader, then feedly, then a self-hosted freshrss for the last few years.

I have a graveyard of old blogs and webcomics whose URLs I can't bear to delete. I have a crapton of feeds still happily churning out articles.

A lot of folks say the worst thing to happen to RSS was the shutting down of Google Reader.

I say the worst thing to happen to RSS was Google Reader in the first place.

Native apps! Forever!

> Oh... the "worst protein powders" section is just a link to:

> https://www.consumerreports.org/health/nutrition-healthy-eat...

paywalled.

Good old vdiff: https://catb.org/jargon/html/V/vdiff.html

Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by eyeball search. The term optical diff has also been reported, and is sometimes more specifically used for the act of superimposing two nearly identical printouts on one another and holding them up to a light to spot differences. Though this method is poor for detecting omissions in the ‘rear’ file, it can also be used with printouts of graphics, a claim few if any diff programs can make. See diff.

An interesting variant of the vdiff technique usable by anyone who has sufficient control over the parallax of their eyeballs (e.g. those who can easily view random-dot stereograms), is to hold up two paper printouts and go cross-eyed to superimpose them. This invokes deep, fast, built-in image comparison wetware (the same machinery responsible for depth perception) and differences stand out almost immediately. This technique is good for finding edits in graphical images, or for comparing an image with a compressed version to spot artifacts.