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Text to speech systems seem to have largely avoided the uncanny valley effect. I've encountered robotic sounding voices but it's way less unsettling than bad CGI. I'm not sure why this is. Maybe looking at faces is just way higher bandwidth so more things can go wrong?

Ooh, I've just discovered that you can enable actions on GitHub pull requests by default! This is the actions settings page. My understanding is that GitHub introduced these limits to prevent people trying to run cryptominers on GitHub actions. Sounds like GitHub has largely fixed it.

It's funny how markdown has won in so many tools for prose, but doc comments syntax is so varied. Rust and Julia are largely markdown, Python is ReST plus doctest syntax, and Java even an HTML dialect!