Hasn't eBay's traffic been 80% bots since day one? I haven't participated in an auction in forever because even 20 years ago you were guaranteed to get sniped by a bot on anything except actual garbage.

We're in such a stupid time. I'm an EE, I typically do all my engineering in millimeters, but most of my coworkers prefer the clownshoes unit "mils". Half our soldering irons are set to Fahrenheit, the others Celsius.

In ordinary every day life, I've found that I use metric for measurements under an inch or under an ounce. At a certain upper limit it makes more sense to use metric for large values too.

So I have to suffer with the magic constant 25.4 bouncing around my brain every day forever and constantly converting trivial measurements into worse units.

I will never convert a measurement to fractional inches. If you must have inches as an input you can suffer a damn decimal point.

Shocking how the US has pushed all global allies into putting more trust in China. And by shocking I mean the thing where everyone saw it come screaming a mile off.

I would just like fewer masked maniacs abducting and murdering civilians in broad daylight

I can count on one hand the number of monitors I've seen with auto brightness. The number of monitors with acceptable and non distracting auto brightness is zero.

Right? What an insane statement. Of course Musk thinks he can do this with impunity. He thinks he has the absolute right to do anything he wants.

I open Mastodon many times a day, see what my actual friends are really doing, smile, and go back to my day. It's lovely.

You have correctly identified how tarriffs work, congratulations! You have not correctly identified how the administration thinks they work or how they've told constituents they work.

People do believe this because that's what they were sold. Whether the line they bought has any connection to objective reality is irrelevant.

What I'm hearing is that if I tweak robots.txt I can exclude my site from google? Excellent news!

This is literally the point of robots.txt. It was created to allow site owners to configure how and which parts of their website can be scraped by what bot, and all the "decent" ones (Google, Bing) respect it.

Spoiler: They don't.

Google, Bing do

Was that not possible before?

no-index is a thing.

no-index is per individual page, not for an entire domain, IIUC?

You can pretty easily send no-index for an entire site by configuring it as a site-wide HTTP header.

That's precisely how LLMs work for code, yes. Were you not aware?