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“Manual” has a negative connotation. If I understand the article correctly, they mean “human coding remains key”. It’s not clear to me the GitHub CEO actually used the word “manual”, that would surprise me. Is there another source on this that’s either more neutral or better at choosing accurate words? The last thing we need is to put down human coding as “manual”; human coders have a large toolbox of non-AI tools to automate their coding.

(Wow I sound triggered! sigh)

Because the old machine is still useful intact. I don’t see a difference between laptop and desktop here. I agree I don’t see myself ever swapping in an upgraded motherboard.

iNaturalist is another gem. Hackers please support these apps so they don’t turn into the AllTrails and Couchsurfing type rackets that we deserve.

I have no idea and didn’t comment on what the sensors are. Before the new gates, they worked. Now they only half work.

Did they ever fix this as announced in 2022? https://sfist.com/2022/12/08/rejoice-bart-is-dumping-the-6-4...

I’m worried about BART. The new gate tap scanners work so poorly, somebody really screwed those up, and they haven’t publicly explained what went wrong. I don’t understand why the media doesn’t cover this apparent bad screw up. There were a number of articles on the selection of the design and the planned rollout and the demonstrated susceptibility to ongoing fare evasion, but silence on the adverse impact on paying passengers.

Every day the last week at my station there are piles of commuters held up by the semi-broken scanners. Kudos to the front line staff down there apologizing. I am not holding my breath it’ll be fixed anytime soon.

You can call your existing reverse proxy a WAF to check this checklist item. (Your point still stands, on the median companies may opt to purchase a WAF for various reasons.)

(I’m in the anti-WAF camp) That does stand to improve your posture by giving you the ability to quickly apply duct tape to mitigate an active mild denial of service attack. It’s not utterly useless.

Grandparent post mentions Portland. PSU may mean Portland State rather than Penn State

A single tank hot water heater provides 72 hours of drinking and cooking water in many cases, for what that's worth.

> probably learning from Whole Foods.

Oddly our local Whole Foods, is just a couple years old, and has very poor self check-outs. They error out on random bar codes and stop until a human staff member unlocks them. The Prime barcode scanner is “broken” half the time, and can’t be overridden by the human staff. It’s bad. I go on the human side now exclusively, where they also have hilarious problems. It's like grocery store management peaked, was utterly and perfectly solved, but Whole Foods can’t stop trying new things that only make the shopping experience worse.

I actually didn’t realize till reading this article that The Long Now was so closely tied to Singularity theory.

The clock being deep in a cave reminds me of the clockworks in Even Cowgirls Get The Blues. The clockworks are more of an entropy amplifier than what we think of as a timekeeping device, which I guess is the point of the metaphor, in a way. The clockworks embody eastern philosophy and humility and Bezos’ clock embodies manifest destiny and arrogance?

Digestive bitters can also be glycerites. And probably oils even.

How about digestive bitters?

Also AI for accountability laundering. It gives plausible deniability. It's a sociopathic manager's dream.

There comment is in response to the article. The article straight up advocates for starting from LLM generated code. This is a perfectly valid counter point.

Aside: it’s confusing that parent commenter used “cheating” in a completely different way than the title of the article.

I think the inverter is always running in between the batteries and the AC outlets. It's a dedicated "solar circuit".

I have questions. What's the point of a dedicated solar circuit? They are leasing from their "local lines company". If the lines company is in the leasing business, this system must be grid-tied right? Why the dedicated solar circuit?

Also, is it common for full sine wave inverters to produce power less clean than the grid? Maybe when the batteries are low? Curious.

E-bikes though?

Unfortunately the citi bikes are expensive enough that they may be more expensive than sharing an uber with one other person.

Anecdote, paid $15 x 2 to take two citi bikes across Brooklyn to avoid a two-leg l-shaped subway ride. Coming home took a $25 uber. The bike trip was ~30% faster. It sucked having to navigate around all the delivery trucks and random private cars parked in the bike lane.

$15 seems too much to me for the citi bike for a 25 minute ride. But I'd do it again to save 10 minutes sitting in traffic in an uber.

Oh and the next day we did the same journey via l-shaped subway ride. It took about 10 minutes more than the bike ride, and included an awkward street-level and overpass transition between the two subway lines. Much much cheaper than uber or bike.

My take is there are a variety of crappy options to get around Brooklyn.

> but at the end of the day I'm not building the service. I _am_ the service.

I agree. For me though, it gives me pride to own my services and be fully accountable to the business, especially as part of a team with whom I build comradery, and of course our value to the business justifies our good compensation. It only works because we are empowered to make decisions that keep our on calls sustainable.

Here’s a house in San Francisco that’s on a dirt road: https://maps.app.goo.gl/UeLKZmXAcHUhTn848?g_st=com.google.ma...

My late model Subaru uses this cheap solution for the protection of the infotainment system. If it trips I need to wait for it to cool down for about an hour.

Put samples out

> hole that size

Bingham Canyon is roughly cone shaped, not comparable to the rectangular prism described above.

To achieve comparable volume of the rectangular prism, you will need to dig a much deeper cone.

https://www.mining-technology.com/features/feature-top-ten-d...

But you want a MMF that is the sweep. Like Vanguard, but not Schwab.

Or cooking with gas instead?

Yep it’s a small minority of herbs whose effectiveness is backed up by quality studies. Modern herbalists have “debunked” some traditional remedies. Some herbs have legitimate uses but are also fairly dangerous, like lobelia. There’s a whole continuum. Flower essences are popular among legitimate herbalists, but smell bogus to me. I suggest to try for yourself and come to your own conclusions. The areas where I have found the herbs decisively effective are improving my sleep quality, quieting anxiety, and soothing and improving my digestion.

The short answer that an herbalist will give you is to use the whole plant in order to benefit from non-active compounds that balance out the active compounds, perhaps providing benefits like reducing side effects or potentiating the active compound. Also sometimes there's a sensory quality of the herb that contributes to its effect, eg. digestive bitters. Sometimes the herb tastes good. And often they are nutritionally beneficial too (vitamins, minerals, etc).

Personally I have observed the benefits firsthand of herbs including blue vervain, California poppy, chamomile, gentian, kava kava, lemon balm, marshmallow, motherwort, Oregon grape root, pedicularis, skullcap, wild lettuce, all quite safe (though some you don't want to take regularly). My herbalist doesn't bother with willow themselves, they've tried it and it's just not as effective as acetaminophen or ibuprofen, so I haven't bothered to try willow. Apparently the concentration of aspirin compounds in willow is quite low, perhaps that's why: https://www.evolutionaryherbalism.com/2021/07/28/willow-bark...