AndrewSwift

People who want to remove fluoride from the water should visit countries where fluoride is not added and look at people's teeth.

I live in France and it's just so obvious that people grew up without fluoride — even celebrities try to talk without showing their teeth when they're on TV!

I'm all for getting consent in most cases, but sometimes you'd have to be an idiot not to take the obvious win.

It's like we were delivering flakes of gold with the mail and people complained — that's not what mailboxes are for!

I don't believe this is the case — in the situation that is commonly referenced to make this point, someone sought to have an AI legally declared to be the author of a specific work, and that was ruled not to be possible. But I am not aware of cases where people use prompts to generate artwork with AI and have found it impossible to copyright.

A good observation that explains everything!

In France, street-level is the 0th floor, and the one above is the first floor.

You see zero in elevators all the time.

It's not RCS that was turned off, just "Business Messaging", meant for trusted companies to communicate with their customers.

I have a terabypte of MP3's that I've collected.

I have no problems listening to them on my iPhone, Mac and Amazon devices using Apple's "iTunes Match", a bargain (to me) at 25€/year.

Literally the only limit I've found is that the Echo will play a playlist of my MP3's, but can't find them by name. Not a big deal.

I have read that it works fine without an Apple Music subscription but have not personally tried it.

Thanks, this is gold.

I just took a one day initiation with the SNCF for driving trains in France.

I assumed that everything would be automated but in fact nothing is.

They explained that they regularly face situations that require human intervention (several times a day), and that even a little automation would reduce the level of attention on the part of the conductor.

The conductor is required to interact with the controls at least every 30 seconds to avoid setting off alarms.

Note that you can option double click the corner of a window to make it fill the screen.

I realize that this isn't what you're asking, but it might help.

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Dual use in this case means use both in personal computers and in data centers or "cloud servers".

It would be of interest because normally you'd be optimizing for very different characteristics.

I'd rather think of it as follow the recipe, break the recipe and leave the recipe behind.

As someone who learned a foreign language as an adult, I really enjoyed this.

And, I think it represents two important issues with the technology industry:

1. the status of information provided by computers is usually missing

2. there is a complete unwillingness to return negative results

By #1 I mean that you ask a computer a question, whether it be Google, an AI or probably any other service, and you get an answer.

What you don't get:

• feedback on whether the question was clear or nonsense

• whether the answer is know to be true, is a best guess, or is probably nonsense

• whether the answer is copyrighted or protected in some other way

By #2 I mean that where in many cases a human would say:

• I didn't understand

• I understood but don't know the answer

• I have some ideas but am not sure how useful they are

• I tried to get an answer but the library was closed

Computers just supply an answer in a vacuum, even if any observer could instantly tell that the answer is garbage

Example #1: I ask Alexa to play "playlist late Beatles" and it plays something completely different, instead of saying "could you come closer and repeat the question" or "there's a lot of background noise, I couldn't understand"

I presume that Amazon is afraid that if they gave these kinds of answers it would become blindingly obvious how unreliable their service is. Providing cheerful-but-wrong responses pushes the blame onto the user: "your question wasn't clear enough".

Example #2: Apple products have an increasing tendency to refuse to display any kind of error message. It's as if want to inspire confidence, and saying "iCloud Synchronization failed" would break that. Better to just have random delays and forums filled with complaining users.

Example #3: AI has proven to be extremely useful, but since the status of the results is completely missing one is handicapped from using them in the real world:

• is this answer copyrighted

• is it completely wrong

• was your question incomprehensible?

The second you've paid for an ad-free version of software, you've proven that you're in the top 0.1% of people worth showing ads to. Very few companies can resist the temptation to exploit their best users. See all streaming services as an example.

I did too — that's why I started this project. But the question was about Adobe Animate.

You can build a whole website, not just the animations.

If anyone is interested, I am trying to bring back the spirit of Flash with a project to build animated websites with Adobe Illustrator. See svija.com for details.

The article makes it sound like this could be catastrophic, but I seem to recall that breathing gasses other than CO2 that don't contain oxygen can be dangerous because you don't feel it until it's too late.

Or that the offices of the large company are destroyed.

It might even be much better for the world economy, long-term.

I think it's clear that the destruction of value is simply the destruction of value — the world is a poorer place afterwards.

But, it's also obvious that the destruction of value can sometimes lead to increased production of value.

Destabilizing a non-optimal state of equilibrium through a destructive act can often result in a much more optimal state of equilibrium.

In the canonical example, imagine that the shop is badly kept — that the owner isn't really invested in maintaining it or running it well.

His child breaks the window, and he fixes it, and suddenly in contrast with the new pane he sees how shoddy his shop is and decides to get his act together.

Mac user since 1987, Lisa user before.

Mac windows do snap together when they're close to each other or the edge of the screen.

You can option double-click any corner to make the window fill the screen without going into fullscreen mode.

You can double-click any edge or corner to make it expand to the edge.

Hold down option and mouse over the green traffic light, and you get the option to fill the left or right half of the screen.

The main issues for me are:

1. changing monitor configurations destroys my arrangement

2. the menu bar, on large screens, is too far away — it needs to be closer to where I'm actively working

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I'm not so much interested in how this applies to Twitter, but the idea that actively destroying processes so that one works exclusively towards actual goals intrigues me.

I had not come across this idea before and it strikes me as a useful framing.

Obviously there is a place for process, but perhaps a bit of chaos is not as bad as I thought.

Yep, I have a friend that worked in anti-trust for the French government and she gave the example of "garanteed lowest prices" — looks great on the surface but actually serves to constantly monitor the pricing landscape.

My first programming job was manipulating data on a Lisa for a neighbor, while I was in high school.

I loved that computer… it was so expensive and powerful! Then I went home to programming games in Basic on my CBM in the basement. With a tape drive.

You might like Svija — you can easily animate SVGs using Illustrator. It's not as powerful yet as Flash, but that's our goal. Disclaimer, I made it ;-)

By reuse parts of the page, I meant more that on a website where each page has the same 20 images, they don't have to be loaded by the browser after the first page because they're cached.

I don't think I'll be able to convince you that our idea has much merit, but I really do appreciate your willingness to share your thoughts.

Thanks for the tip, I will look into it. I didn't know that was the case.

It will actually be pretty easy to set up.

Thanks for taking the time to answer, it means a lot to me.