We can all run this through our LLM if choice, why post this?

When there was only a single terminal it was common in Europe to just... walk to the counter and pay for the meal card in hand. No other way to type in your PIN

Not universally true. I had a couple of cards without a chip because, reasons. I still was walking to the counter myself, because giving somebody my card feels weird.

Sometimes you start reading comments like this being like "interesting viewpoint", but then somehow Russia deciding to invade a foreign country is the fault of the west and you're like "ah it's a Russian troll"

This is like being in the 2000s and saying "Why would I use anything but IE5, everything works with it"

The market share is what makes those circumstances exceptionally rare. Meanwhile we're having to use safari specific fixes and refrain from using he newest standards just because of safari

Where "newest standars" are inevitably "Chrome-only non-standards".

Safari is not just fine. It's more than fine: https://wpt.fyi/interop-2025?stable

Safari's problem has never been the lack of supported standards, more that the support is buggy. You'll find that yes the feature is there but it throws a nonsense exception in a weird case and same in CSS.

It's also the last non-evergreen browser so bugs take longer to fix than Firefox or Chrome, compounding the problem.

It’s much easier to make stuff work with Safari first then last.

"No X, no X, no X, just Y"

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Heh. I had the same impulse but then didn't do it, upon refreshing the page your comment was there :)

...only to find out they invaded the wrong country! (Nobel peace prizes are awarded in Oslo)

To be fair, it would bw totally on brand. They would not admit mistake tho declare it a success and award own nobel price.

Ooops. I thought something was off when I looked it up (headquarters of Nobel Foundation are in Sweden).

I don't know how others use LLMs, but once I find the answer to something I'm stuck on I do not tell the LLM that it's fixed. This was a problem in forums as well but I think even fewer people are going to give that feedback to a chatbot

The problem that you worked out is only really useful if it can be recreated and validated, which in many cases it can be by using an LLM to build the same system and write tests that confirm the failure and the fix. Your response telling the model that its answer worked is more helpful for measuring your level of engagement, not so much for evaluating the solution.

You can also turn off the feature to allow ChatGPT to learn from your interactions. Not many people do but those that do would also starve OpenAI for information assume they respect that setting

Kessler Syndrome mentioned in the first line? With the air resistance at 400km that seems unlikely

My Mastodon feed absolutely blew up with anti-Starlink posts crowing about Kessler Syndrome. It was an echo chamber of dislike, with very few facts involved.

While somewhat lower-keyed, and with a few more (well-chosen) facts, this article seems to target those people in same echo chamber.

A table is a grid, but a grid does not have to be a table