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drmath
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
The California WARN act effectively requires 2 months severance for large layoffs at large companies (or 2 months notice, but companies almost always prefer severance).
drmath
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
One source of trouble here is that the agent's view of the web page is so different from the human's. We could reduce the incidence of these problems by making them more similar.

Agents often have some DOM-to-markdown tool they use to read web pages. If you use the same tool (via a "reader mode") to view the web page, you'd be assured the thing you're telling the agent to read is the same thing you're reading. Cursor / Antigravity / etc. could have an integrated web browser to support this.

That would make what the human sees closer to what the agent sees. We could also go the other way by having the agent's web browsing tool return web page screenshots instead of DOM / HTML / Markdown.
drmath
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
I could handle this style when it wasn't everywhere. But now I've developed a hypersensitivity and can't bear it. It's like suddenly most of the internet is in a language I can't read.
drmath
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
I wish almost every news article came with a statistics section. If you must, go ahead and write that article about a particular murder or traffic accident or drug trial or earthquake. But if you don't include statistics on similar events over time, geography, demographics, etc, you're misleading more than informing.

I'd _like_ to blame the reader -- inferring anything about how common something is based on how often it's reported is unreasonable. But readers do make that inference, and writers shouldn't pretend they don't know it.

And for most of us nowadays it's not about articles and writers. It's about eight-second video clips on TikTok and creators. So I don't have any hope that we'll become better informed.
drmath
·11 maanden geleden·discuss
Even in the just-photoshop-not-ai days product photos had become pretty unreliable as a means of understanding what you're buying. Of course it's much worse now.