I find it so bizarre, too. I've been using quite a similar autosuggestion feature as part of Fish shell for a few years now. But when an LLM keeps spewing words at me, that's a whole different shtick. It genuinely just inhibits my thinking, which is a feeling I never had with Fish.
I guess, one difference is that Fish uses real intelligence, a.k.a. my shell history. If it has a suggestion, the chance is high that it's actually what I want to do or close to it. And it also shuts the hell up when there's no good suggestion. I don't have to be constantly vigilant that what it suggests might be complete garbage.
And the other difference is probably that it's my intelligence, my shell history. I will have thunk the thoughts before which lead to the command it suggests, which brings the brain load much further down again.
Occasionally, it'll suggest something where I have no recollection of having run that command before, but knowing that I have, is still really useful and this only happens for niche commands anyways. Most of the suggestions are just stuff which I've run a few minutes ago or last week or such, where I won't have to think about it.
I guess, it probably also helps that commands have simple formatting, with only a single line and you can mostly read the flags in any order...
Krass, in der Außenansicht könnte man teilweise meinen bei der Endlagersuche passiert einfach nichts. Mir ist bewusst, dass das Quatsch ist, dass da Geologen kontinuierlich Gesteinsmassen scannen und bewerten. Aber dass es Teil eines so großen Budget-Topfs ist, hätte ich nicht gedacht.
But basically, Firefox ESR ("Extended Support Release") means that you still get security fixes in a timely manner, but feature updates are delayed. Firefox normally gets feature updates every 4 weeks, whereas ESR averages one (larger) feature update per year. You might know such a model as LTS ("Long-Term Support") release from other software.
Essentially, the current 'normal' Firefox version is 141.0, whereas the ESR version is 128.13.0.
Mozilla does maintain a separate changelog for ESR, but basically it's as if from 129.0 onwards, you only included the "Fixed", none of the "New" or "Changed" stuff.
The next ESR will be based off of Firefox 140, as can be seen in their release calendar, so this change that OP praises here will not make it into ESR for another year or so.
And then you gotta also pay the Debian toll, which is that they won't upgrade to the newest ESR right away either. 😅
Mozilla actually still maintains the Firefox ESR based on version 115, which is about to be discontinued with the new ESR major release.
Debian will typically maintain the ESR even beyond that (Firefox is open-source, so they can retrofit patches themselves), because they have an even longer support lifecycle for their OS release. But I believe, if you always upgrade to the newest Debian release as they make them available, you should be covered by the Mozilla-supported ESR at all times.
If you do not want to pay the Debian toll (not just for Firefox, but any software where you care about new features), then Flatpaks are typically the solution of choice. It's a different way of installing software, which allows you to get the newest version, independent from what Debian is doing.
But back to the normal Debian experience. How does it affect the user experience for Firefox? Well, we've already covered that others may be happy about new features when you've gotta take solace in your disgustingly stable software.
These feature updates also include the newest support for web standards, so it's theoretically possible that a webpage doesn't work right in ESR. In practice, I don't think this happens very often, because webdevs can't use the newest web standards right away anyways. There's always gonna be users on old browsers or there's whole browsers which don't support the new stuff right away.
How does it affect security? Generally, ESR is secure. Occasionally, the feature updates might introduce security-relevant stuff, too, like when they switched to the multi-process architecture, that brought along much better isolation and you can't just retrofit that into ESR. But yeah, this isn't the norm. You shouldn't be particularly worried about security. You do get the normal patches in a timely manner.
Well, and to infodump a little more, you could also take a look at Linux Mint Debian Edition. It's Linux Mint, but instead of Ubuntu underneath, it's Debian underneath.
Ubuntu is actually itself based on Debian, so I've heard LMDE described as "What does basing it on Ubuntu even add? LMDE feels exactly the same as normal Linux Mint.".
Of course, if you're switching because you want to try something different, that would be counterproductive. 🫠
I believe, Firefox bugfix releases get rolled out pretty quickly on most non-rolling distros, too, so I don't think it's a terribly different experience, unless you're on a distro with Firefox ESR, like e.g. Debian.
Ja, das finde ich auch hart. Wenn die Medizin nichts diagnostizieren kann, dann liegt das doch schon ziemlich oft daran, dass die Medizin nicht soweit ist. Es ist bei Weitem nicht so, dass wir alles diagnostizieren könnten. Aber auf dem Papier gilt man dann eben trotzdem als kerngesund. Du könntest totkrank sein und das Arbeitsamt will dich trotzdem einziehen.
I was just wondering that, too. Wasn't the first one almost like an indie title? Not sure, how much I'm mixing it up with Outer Wilds, but Wikipedia tells me their teams were around a similar size anyways...
It's the bane of being built-in. You don't have an extension page to explain to people that the link might not work anymore. You certainly also can't assume that your users should know of such a possibility, because this can be clicked by any user.
I guess, there could be like a workflow where it opens the URL in a new tab and asks you, if it still works, but that's also a good way to ensure your less techy users will not press that button again...
YouTube comments in general are so predictable, for some reason. You've got your classics, like the sex bots and the "Just leaving a comment for the Algorithm". But you can also be sure, for example, that if there's a funny oneliner in a video, that one of the top comments will be a direct quote of that oneliner with nothing added.
I guess, to some degree, it's just the socialization reactions like you might have when watching a movie together. They don't have to be deep and meaningful.
But I almost wish there were separate comment sections, one for the shallow reactions and jerking off the Algorithm, and one for people actually wanting to add something. There's often lots of interesting parts about videos where I'd like to know what others have to say about it, but good luck finding those comments.
Honestly doesn't surprise me that they re-invited the guy, especially when he got fired. If he was there for a longer time, he'll leave a hole which is gonna match his skillset pretty well.
And the hiring manager isn't the firing manager, so they won't know who got thrown out for what reason. Their job is just to hire someone new and boy-howdy did they just find the perfect match for the opening.
I believe, so long as you as you always reply to your own last post, you can then select your last post in the chain and it'll only show your own posts. Like, it is tree-shaped under the hood, it just hides that in the UI for whatever reason...
I find it so bizarre, too. I've been using quite a similar autosuggestion feature as part of Fish shell for a few years now. But when an LLM keeps spewing words at me, that's a whole different shtick. It genuinely just inhibits my thinking, which is a feeling I never had with Fish.
I guess, one difference is that Fish uses real intelligence, a.k.a. my shell history. If it has a suggestion, the chance is high that it's actually what I want to do or close to it. And it also shuts the hell up when there's no good suggestion. I don't have to be constantly vigilant that what it suggests might be complete garbage.
And the other difference is probably that it's my intelligence, my shell history. I will have thunk the thoughts before which lead to the command it suggests, which brings the brain load much further down again.
Occasionally, it'll suggest something where I have no recollection of having run that command before, but knowing that I have, is still really useful and this only happens for niche commands anyways. Most of the suggestions are just stuff which I've run a few minutes ago or last week or such, where I won't have to think about it.
I guess, it probably also helps that commands have simple formatting, with only a single line and you can mostly read the flags in any order...