That's why certain tracks were played with the Torpedo/Spear in that game. It's very fast, but has the turning radius of a bus on ice. Great on something like Mario Circuit, probably a complete catastrophe on something like Bowser's Castle or Rainbow Road.

There's also battle mode, but I have no idea which karts are preferred there.

First are those that care very little about the quality of the work, or the process behind it, and just want a 'finished' product no matter what. These are many of the folks vibe-coding everything without even looking at the output, and a depressingly number of those getting hacked or what not.

But hey, if you've got an idea for a complex app or website but no interest in actually building it, an LLM will get you... something vaguely like what you wanted.

Second are small projects and small sections of existing ones, most of which easily fit inside the LLM's context window. If you're making a fairly basic WordPress plugin or React component or one page website, an LLM will probably be able to handle it just fine. Heck, it might not even look all that different from what a human might have created code wise.

One of the big issues we have those is that plenty of people and companies are using these tools despite having requirements that aren't met by them in the slightest. If you're working on a Google/Microsoft/Meta scale product where performance and security and code quality are of the utmost importance, then an LLM isn't going to be a great fit. Unfortunately, that's exactly where this technology is being used, and the results are becoming more and more obvious.

No-one knows exactly how said images ended up getting this sort of usage. Presumably some random journalist was on Google Images one day, come across pics that looked vaguely like what they remembered the games to look like, and just kinda went with it.

I also remember quite a few cases where fan-made box art mockups got accidentally used as the pictures of the real thing, and when the BBC used a logo from Halo to represent a real-life organisation.

Going online without an adblocker just feels like playing with fire, especially nowadays.

It's an interesting point, though not 100% accurate due to how there were early video game consoles at the same time as arcade games. Pong clones were common for home play in the early 1970s, and things like the Fairchild Channel F and Atari 2600 date from the mid to late 1970s.

See the Nostalgia Critic review of the Wall. Or the Alex Meyers review of Obsession.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ultracrepidarianism

(the Wikipedia article has that as a subheading on the Ne supra crepidam page instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_supra_crepidam#Ultracrepida...)

But I'd say it's a subtype of the Dunning-Krueger effect rather than part of the general definition.

Personally I've always thought of Dunning-Krueger as an extension of the first definition here. Newbies/amateurs overestimating their skills and experts underestimating them, though I feel like the second definition is probably more true of human behaviour.

Because in the 2026 world cup, every single team except Argentina in the quarter-finals onwards was a member of UEFA. And even in the earlier rounds, it was probably like 50 or so percent of them...

If neither side backs down before 2030, you may as well just call off the next World Cup. Especially given that two out of three hosts would also not be participating...

Honestly, LinkedIn is 99.99% noise, regardless of whether the posts are written by AI or not.

But they're in an interesting situation where they can't really get rid of it, because many of the site's power users are using it. Subreddit moderators use it for tools that aren't available in the new interface, regular submitters have kept using it for decades, etc.

So, they're kinda stuck. They want to kill it, realise that doing so would be a terrible PR move, and are hence trying desperately to 'encourage' said existing users to move over or leave.

Practically speaking, is there really a difference between prompting an LLM to create a CMS for a website and installing something like WordPress or Ghost? The setup requires no understanding of the underlying software, but you'll have to build up a mental model from scratch if you want to extend or modify it later.

Of course, it's not going to please anyone that likes the process of programming or knows enough to tell that the output is mediocre at best. But it's very useful for people that don't know how something works and want a 'workable' solution that functionally does what they need. It's basically the next iteration of the WYSIWYG web design tool, the CMS, the site builder, etc. A professional software engineer would be horrified by the code they output, but a non-technical manager type wouldn't notice or care.

Plus there's just a level of control over the design and features that you can't get elsewhere. Want to make the site look completely unlike any other? It's 100% doable, as plenty of blogs posted here show very well. Want to add a new feature like polls or surveys or quizzes or interactive infographics or what not? You don't need a third party service or some premium account, you just add it yourself.

Running a website is like owning a home rather than renting one. You decide what furniture, what colours, what utilities and service providers, whether you want pets, etc.

That said, someone has to have shared these links publicly at some point, since there's nothing on the Claude.ai site linking to all these shared chats. If you shared the link to your chat on Reddit, Stack Overflow, Hacker News or some other public internet forum, Google is going to find it.

Edit: I've heard mixed things about this, but as far as I can tell, there's no evidence that Google uses pages viewed in Chrome/links shared in emails to/from a Gmail account as things they should index. So, it seems like these links had to have been shared publicly at some point.

It's because for the most part, there's not really any automated moderation on the site, and the folks running it don't really care too much about copyright or IP laws. Add this to a really generous video upload limit for paid accounts, and people are just sticking whole movies and playthroughs on the platform.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2026/7/20/donation-controversy

Alternatively, it could be a lack of servers meaning that a few services seem to be blocking all traffic from them. I've had that issues when trying to use it for services like Reddit.

However, is there any JavaScript functionality implemented here? I tried clicking on the tabs in the tab component, and nothing happened. There's also no talk about that side of things on the page itself.

So, would be nice to have some sort of scripting functionality for the more interactive elements here.