Late to the party but OMG this is possibly the greatest tech news discussion page of all time. Not just hilarious and impressive, but so many fantastic ideas / weirdly believable news items from the future! As an old fart software developer I've been slowly dipping my toe into the AI pool, I may have to just dive in!

Finally, a use case for AI that we can all get behind :-)

Yep. The Curse of Knowledge is a real thing.

Reading (someone else's) code is a whole lot harder than writing it. Which is unfortunate because I do an awful lot of it at work.

But will the smell be in 3D?

I know someone whose sense of taste was ruined by a small stroke. He said basically everything tastes like old gym socks now. That would suck so bad.

Now, either (except, of course, to himself).

There's something particularly pathetic about lauding a guy for not taking a $400K yearly salary when he spends $4M a weekend on taxpayer money playing golf, but that's what you get when we've spent the better part of the past 50 years demonizing social programs and the people who have been forced to rely on them.

For a massive part, if not the majority of his voter base, they don't get to experience assets and investments that aren't their regular salary or wages and the physical items they purchase with them. They don't get high value benefits, vesting stocks, or auid pro other than bartering with their pees. From that perspective, forgoing a salary seems like a huge personal sacrifice.

Getting a "not available in your state" page, does anyone have an archive? I've only recently tried out fil-c and hope to use it in some work projects.

Firefox profiles have worked really well for me for years. I only have two complaints. (a) I like to configure my tools, and setting prefs via user.js has just never really worked - anything there is ignored. Probably it's just because of my particular setup, but I eventually gave up on it. (b) It would be super nice if profiles could [edit:] share common prefs. I certainly don't expect the developers to make it a feature, and it seems like fixing (a) and using symlinks would do it. But overall, yeah profiles work great.

The point of profiles is that they are completely isolated from each other, like separate installs, so I don't think starting to share preferences would be great.

> "if profiles could common prefs"

sorry I couldn't quite parse this

Absolutely.