DavidVoid

The author must not have a very big imagination.

Most people seem to miss that generative AI is basically an inevitable result/continuation of the Internet. With generative AI we can be "personify" the Internet, or rather, personify the data available on the Internet. It's not hard to see how that would be a very useful tool. When actually useful AI assistants like the ones from Her and After Yang are eventually created it'll be thanks to generative AI.

[1] https://www.fjallraven.com/us/en-us/about/our-materials/g100...

(I also suspect that podcasts and audiobooks are more lucrative for Spotify than music is, since long-form content likely has a lower royalties/minute rate than music does)

Regulations around telemarketing are pretty strict here. I did report the one call I got and I got a follow-up email a few weeks later explaining what had happened (the company doing the marketing had experienced a technical glitch [1]).

[1] https://nixnamnden.se/2020/10/20-196-20-197-20-198-20-199-20...

Another upside that wasn't mentioned in the post is that all this legally required information really simplifies a lot of bureaucracy. It could be done without the info being public I guess, but the law requiring that you register your place of residence makes voting and paying taxes really easy. The state already knows what municipality you live in, so you don't need to register to vote yourself and you don't have to figure out what taxes you need to pay (unless you're self-employed).

"My bad, this easy SMS client I got you to switch to is going to stop supporting SMS, and we're going to have to export all your old texts or they'll be gone forever."

Reminds me of a story from the video game industry. Halo 2 for Vista got delayed and had to have its packaging updated, all because ESRB changed their rating to include "Partial Nudity" after an obscure developer Easter egg was found [1].

[1] https://www.cbr.com/halo-2-re-issued-warning-dev-prank/

> Yeadon falsely claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom was "effectively over" in October 2020,[17][18][a] that there would be no "second wave" of infections,[6][20] and that healthy people could not spread the SARS-CoV-2 virus.[1][21] He has claimed without evidence that COVID-19 vaccines were unnecessary,[22][21][20] unsafe,[1][23] and could cause infertility in women.[1][6][24] In a letter to the European Medicines Agency, Yeadon and the German physician Wolfgang Wodarg called for all vaccine trials to be stopped, falsely suggesting[25][26][27][28] that mRNA vaccines could target the syncytin-1 protein needed for placenta formation.[29][30][b] In an interview with political strategist Steve Bannon, Yeadon falsely asserted that children were "50 times more likely to be killed by the COVID vaccines than the virus itself", citing a high number of events following COVID-19 vaccination reported on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database.[34][35][3] The US Centers for Disease Control, which operates the database, cautions that such reports are not verified and do not prove that vaccines caused any given adverse event.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/vv2tca/app_...

[1] https://we-make-money-not-art.com/tiny-mining-extracting-min...

They wrote a retrospective piece on MT3 earlier this year [1].

[1] https://matt3o.com/mt3-keycap-profile-a-brief-history/

[1] https://guillaumeplayground.net//wp-content/gallery/gh60_sat...

[1] https://youtu.be/jld6BSQfDnk

And it means you now need to deal with raw pointers, which often isn't optimal or preferred (over say references for example).

At least we'll get modules soon. That should reduce the need for some of these workarounds that are really mainly used to reduce compile times, and not to improve the code in any other meaningful way.

You can call the 64 bit architecture x64 all you like, but it's still using the x86 instruction set and it's frequently referred to as x86-64, so naming that 32 bit only folder "... (x86)" will just make things more confusing than they should be.

That said, I think it's something people should be allowed to do (as long as it's safe enough), but we should be very careful with letting this be pushed on younger and more impressionable people.

If you actively aid a country in avoiding financial sanctions† then you pretty much only have yourself to blame when you eventually get thrown in prison for a few years.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Worthy#Right_to_travel...

†: Medical and food sanctions are a different question imo.

Due to this thorough investigation, the committee was able to pare down the number of kanji for which the source cannot be confidently explained to twelve, shown on the adjacent table. Of these, it is conjectured that several glyphs came about due to copying errors. In particular, 妛 was probably created when printers tried to create 𡚴 by cutting and pasting 山 and 女 together. A shadow from that process was misinterpreted as a line, resulting in 妛 (a picture of this can be found in the Jōyō kanji jiten).

Any modern application that has more than 20 settings should have a good search function in its settings menu. That way you can have as many configurable options as you like without them being impossible to find. The defaults should ofc be the most common (or best) ones, but some users really do value customizability and respecting the users is (almost) always a good idea.

This is pretty much how I first found Dracula. I was looking to make my VSCode editor more fun and someone linked https://computecuter.com which included Dracula in the example themes.

A few weeks after Texas adopted the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, Dr. Andrea Palmer delivered terrible news to a Fort Worth patient who was midway through her pregnancy.

The fetus had a rare neural tube defect. The brain would not develop, and the infant would die at birth or shortly afterward. Carrying the pregnancy to term would be emotionally grueling and would also raise the mother’s risk of blood clots and severe postpartum bleeding, the doctor warned.

But the patient was past six weeks’ gestation, and under the new law, an abortion was not an option in Texas because the woman was not immediately facing a life-threatening medical crisis or risk of permanent disability.

“So we look at them like a ticking time bomb and wait for the complications to develop,” Dr. Palmer said of her patients.

In this case, the woman had the means to travel, and she obtained an abortion in another state, an option unavailable to many low-income and working class women.

From: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/health/texas-abortion-law...

And sure, as a non-parent I can't take a multi-month long vacation every year, but even as a recent graduate I get 25 paid vacation days per year (5 of which can be saved for a few years). So long vacations aren't a pipe dream for non-parents.

And with the way the economy currently works and the gradually increasing life expectancy, increasing the birth rate is a good thing, and generous parental benefits are a way to encourage that. I personally think it would be best if society/the economy wasn't dependant on an increasing population, but that's a separate conversation.

I bet over time that fraction would grow larger as paternal leave got more normalized, especially if the parental leave could be spread out over a few years (like it can in many European countries) instead of over the first few months.

Here's how the percentage of parental leave days taken by mothers and fathers in Sweden has changed over the years [1]. Note that between 2002-2015 each parent had exclusive right to 60 of the total 480 days of parental leave (12.5%), that has since then been increased to 90 (18.75%).

[1] https://i.imgur.com/FSOK5eD.png