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The American College of Pediatricians are basically a fraud. It's a conservative abstinence/anti-LGTB advocacy group hoping you confuse it with the (legitimate) American Academy of Pediatrics.

How do other companies come into play if you buy a car and are suddenly told 6 months later that you need to pay up or they will disable the heated seats you got?

Yes, my point was that that person having a position where they are able to do that is already wrong. If a car salesman was telling every woman that came in they should get an abortion, there are places that person should be, and none of them are a car dealer's.

If someone doesn't have the skills to parse text programmatically, the situation can often be something like "a Word table of names in a 4-wide grid with random missing fields, spanning three different pages, one of which is no longer a true table because it was copied out and pasted in again from a messenger chat someone sent last year", and LLMs can be quite good for one-off tasks like that. Definitely good enough that people will keep using them like that, at least.

> Just a monthly fee for everything from heated seats to garage doors and forced obsolescence for everything that hasn't been turned into a subscription yet.

To be fair, that type of nonsense is something only the government can really deal with on a general level. (Obviously we need to actually care about it enough for that to happen, but still.)

I think these are valid concerns, but I would also say that there is an underlying issue with medical malpractice and disregard for the suffering and needs of certain groups of society which we tend to brush under the rug. I'm going to assume the concerns you have probably don't stop at just euthanasia - mine definitely don't, and I worry that a ban just makes the issue more... abstract, and PR-friendly.

If an individual in a difficult life situation comes to the state for help as a last resort, and there is a chance the representative they are assigned would recommend they should consider just dying as their last resort, the state has already failed to protect someone vulnerable, and obviously won't be giving them the help they deserve/need/should be entitled to as a human.

Any wrongful death is horrible, but I sincerely believe a "representative" like this and the harm they inflict is going to have an almost identical death toll, even if it's by way of consigning people to sub-human lives of physical or mental torment instead of pushing them towards a tool that "everyone" understands we need to keep a close eye on. My utilitarian take would be that many would happily extend the torment of the terminally ill and suffering, as long as they don't have to deal with the suffering their neglect inflicts on countless vulnerable people and the terminally ill already. (For e-clarity, I don't mean to imply that's your motivation here!)

I guess the phone company is more likely to see if they reassigned it, but Skype might not need to notify them/might have stopped doing that at some point.

In many countries that'll be ~0/10.

I meant that "Cultures and systems might change in the future" is the current/proposed state, and "All future dates beyond the current year are currently unknown" is unreasonable.

That's what the end of my last comment was trying to touch on - timestamps are always imperfect for certain edge cases, but I would say that scheduling radio telescope time probably doesn't meaningfully benefit from trying to latch itself on to this RFC either, in that case?

The problem of "All future dates beyond the current year are currently unknown" is unsolvable in a very different way to "cultures and systems might change in the future".

(Though, wouldn't you be fine in your example? "X time after TS" wouldn't change, right? If you need atomic time anyways.)

Before that observation (and importing that event into your application!), is it not semi-arbitrary, as far as the code is concerned? A fully defined point in the future (currently) corresponds 1:1 to a unix time, or a timestamp from this RFC, almost by definition.

If you can't calculate a delta from $now, or "are $X and $Y the same moment in time" , I don't think "timestamps" are the tool. Seems beyond the scope of RFCs like this, at least to me.

Without guaranteed internet access, how would you set an alarm for "this day next year"? Timezones changing already cause problems there, but those were least correct at one point - not a "quantum timestamp" of sorts.

I don't know about other places, but here there's no bank that will turn that slip of paper into real money. I've never even seen a cheque or chequebook in person, it's almost exclusively mentioned by Americans (In my experience)

> Nor does it allow setting a date on e.g. 25th of Shaaban, considering that we don't yet know on which day the 25th of Shaaban will fall on the Gregorian calendar.

What's an example this would matter for? In my head, you wouldn't/couldn't store "a currently semi-arbitrary undefined time between X and Y" as a timestamp, because it isn't one, and can't be used as one. I don't think timestamps should handle Easter either, it feels like two very different domains.

You are severely underestimating 3D printed firearms, unless you are saying it must be entirely, 100% 3D printed. PSR on YouTube is an interesting channel to skim through.

As an anecdatapoint, I have replaced the button with a redirect to Google maps. It's not worth trying to extract value from the Kagi one, I probably gave it a chance ~20 times and I don't think it did what I needed a single one. (In Scandinavia)

If I had to respect the basic human rights of my LLM backends, it would probably be less appealing - but "Unlimited free smart-for-being-braindead zombies" might be a little more useful, at least?

> Why should a life style support that many, if valid?

Personally, I would say a lifestyle that isn't just a thought experiment should answer one of

  A) How do you support the current population of the planet like this?
  B) How do you humanely reduce the population over time if you can't?

Obviously still value in thought experiments, but if you're talking about real life, ignoring those two questions gets a bit euthanasia/genocide-y pretty easily. "Every human being alive today not existing" should probably not pass the lifestyle test suite, right?

Not at all, but I would absolutely argue pretty much all instances of "List of single-sentence heavily polarised and editorialised talking points" are. You're not looking to engage in a good-faith discussion by throwing out a pile of points and hoping nobody puts in the effort to actually engage with every single one - look at the sibling thread to my comment and the disproportionate amount of effort it takes to respond without just being pulled aside to debate the minutiae of specific events.

Of course, that is all assuming they actually have some level of familiarity with what the topic being discussed and the talking points they are using. They could simply be uninformed, but trying to engage in rhetoric before learning more at that point doesn't seem like it would be in good faith either way.

(That is not to say that one should never respond to an argument that takes way more rigor than throwing it out there took, but it's definitely not "should always" either :p.)

That entire paragraph is mostly a strawman, or, if you're feeling charitable, coming from an extremely surface-level awareness of the actual issues they're talking about.

> This falls well into the category of a feature that nobody asked for and which shouldn’t exist.

I am curious what makes you say that. I don't use Windows any more, but I have been experimenting with setups that basically try to do the exact same thing a fair bit lately. I've tried multiple different projects from different authors/teams that solve the same basic problem, it definitely doesn't seem like something nobody is asking for/wants.

pCloud will sell you "lifetime" cloud storage - current price for 2TB is 400eur, but they do black Friday/such sales too.

Honestly, it looks like it would take pretty minimal effort to just enable SSO yourself. It's not like they can do anything to stop you, right?

It seems to do pretty well with zsh, go, python, and rust when I use it. Even for more complex tasks - but "context-aware universal snippets/boilerplate suggestion" already sounds pretty valuable, doesn't it?

> Discord is a bloated RAM hog that uses too many system resources, and will slow a gamers PC down.

Not enough to matter for the vast majority of people, not even humanly noticeable for most of them. How does that skewer anything?

Most people have Chrome running in the background behind their games too, maybe one or two apps like G-hub or Razer(whatever they call theirs), one to several apps like steam/origin/epic games, etc.. This clearly isn't a relevant argument to normal users, or to serious/professional gamers.

Does that distinction matter when we are talking about something that absolutely causes loss of human life?

It's somewhere around $3.5/1k streams - you're not exactly super far off their estimate either, though. It varies a bit based on (listener, or artist?) regions too, I believe.

I'd say that is more about hip-hop, really. (And a couple of names that aren't exactly the most relevant to this decade)

I'm going to go out on a limb and say you don't listen to much "modern pop" - the production quality of the biggest mainstream pop is _extremely_ high at this point, and while "worse voice" is obviously subjective, this really wouldn't be anything stand-out in that regard even if it didn't sound like a robot.

People born just after the war in Europe and North America had pretty different degrees of prosperity and struggles to rebuild around them. I just don't think the American sense of the word quite makes sense here.

I meant more in the sense that if you're creating an open source project, especially one with serious security implications, you should be extremely aware that you have a dependency that a single individual can update with minimal oversight. Somewhat idealistic take, maybe, but not something you should just be able to ignore either.