At least 10 years ago, some IBM tools I was forced to use worked faster in a linux VM on Windows (through VirtualBox) than on Windows.

> I think that something in Google engine is profoundly broken

Optimizing for ad revenue is a good start.

"This is AI" is the new "This is 'shopped, I can tell by the pixels."

I can tell by the em dashes

Total tangent, but what vagary of HTML (or the Brave Browser, which I'm using here) causes words to be split in very odd places? The "inspect" devtools certainly didn't show anything unusual to me. (Edit: Chrome, MS Edge, and Firefox do the same thing. I also notice they're all links; wonder if that has something to do with it.)

https://i.imgur.com/HGa0i3m.png

CSS on the <a> tags:

word-break: break-all;

It's an error in the site's CSS. CSS has way better methods, like splitting words correctly depending on the language and hyphenating it.

Although I can never remember the correct incantation, should be easy for LLMs.

CSS word-break property

Ask Claude?

Going to give this one a try; I'm still partial to Atkinson hyper legible, but this one looks fun.

"some of you may die, but it's a risk I'm willing to take"

> give reasons why

Because it'll be an LLM guided bot handing out bans, so no one will actually KNOW why.

"I will never be a world class athlete, so I play for the love of the sport."

Helps me.

> What problems (besides the obvious) have been found in which "memory-safe languages" can help.

Why isn't that enough?

Probably too early to tell, but the tech industry is rife with magic incantations and long held beliefs that we do because we've always done them, not because they "work".