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This puts it in a way I was struggling to do so. The "we are just saying we should improve society somewhat" counterclaim is disingenuous because the "we should improve society somewhat" is usually expressed in criticism and not solutions, and when solutions are suggested they are pretty vapid and full of wishful thinking.

I've never figured out how to manage battery power settings on my windows MSI laptop after I installed Ubuntu.

Wokeness is moral panic. We must root out whiteness around every corner.

They took away full screen viewing of someone's shared screen on the browser version. I only use the browser because I run ubuntu. It really sucks now to have someone try and show you their code.

> no more choice between different kernels in case the newest one broke something

Ah, I see. That's a deal breaker for me. Switching to an older kernel has saved me many times, usually when I completely mess up my nvidia drivers.

I mean, do you honestly think that the graph represents a good linear fit?

Author is doing nothing wrong, not even in tone.

One could argue that demanding something of a developer of software you don't pay for is the jerk move.

FDroid still has the option to remove the app. Author appears to be okay with that. No issue, unless you are demanding something of the developer.

Freedom cuts both ways, both for the user and the developer.

Care to give some examples? I am still too young in Unix years to be wise enough to judge what is good and what is bad.

Which was better, Denver or MA?

Let's say ChatGPT gives you false information 50% of the time. It is still useful.

Just like it is harder to find primes numbers than verify that a number is prime, it is harder to dig up potential tidbits of information than to verify a piece of information handed to you is true.

Does anybody of a way to play text adventure games on your phone using text to speech and audio only? Last time I looked for something that did this I couldn't find anything. Seems like there should be a demand for it.

> Note that I cannot get chatgpt to write about why Donald Trump is terrible as well.

I asked chatgpt to write a tweet praising Trump. It declined out of respect for political neutrality. I then asked it to write a tweet praising Joe Biden. It happily complied.

I repeated this two more times with alternate Democrat and Republican politicians, and the same pattern emerged.

NaNs are incredibly helpful in numpy. Often I want to take a mean over a collection of lists but the size of each list isn't constant. Np.nanmean works great.

I think it makes sense, but it would be less annoying if it was emphasized as being OpenAI's editorial decision, not some vague "I was trained to..." and such.

I am quite interested in this. I take a similar approach using SingleFile and then a watchdog script to watch for SingleFile downloads. But mine doesn't look as mature as yours.

If I have a large collection of SingleFile bookmarks can I upload them to hamsterbase?

Another goal of mine is to make conversions to epub easy so I can read on my Kindle.

This comment pulled me in and I've reread it several times. Tere is a lot of truth here. I appreciate how information hoarding can be a sign of status seeking. More knowledge, more skill, more times being the person who just knows the answer. Fear (of missing out) is a classic symptom of status seeking.

The problem is that some degree of information hoarding has paid off for me. It sometimes really does improve your skill and impress your peers. Aside from fasting type interventions, what I think is needed in addition to this is some form of wisdom relating to knowing what is valuable to hoard, read, or study. It's like drinking alcohol. If you are getting drunk all the time it is probably a good idea to stop completely. But there are real benefits of social drinking.

This makes me convinced I need more skill in establishing and recognizing priorities when it comes to information gathering.

Musk is known to be dishonest, but something tells me the person making this claim is an ideological opponent of Musk. I would hesitate to believe this until more information.

How many kids will performance in philharmonics because they played Trombone Champ?

I think the advice was to forgo TENS in favor of breathing, not to mitigate adverse effects of TENS with breathing.

> Corporations and the super rich have bought out democracy, and what is crazy is that they are supported by the very groups they intrinsically hate and hurt through their policies.

Oh yes, the "they don't know what's good for them" argument.

I voted Yes because I want someone who has principles and doesn't act on personal whim.

It seems curated towards scientific misdeeds. Maybe non-neutral is the wrong word, but I could totally understand being upset having your name on the site.

Maybe the article is neutral, but the site does not come off as such.

From their homepage:

>The week at Retraction Watch featured:

> Mathematician withdraws preprint – 24 years after initial submission

> Penn says access to former Twitter employee’s thesis was ‘mistakenly closed off’ following Elon Musk tweets

> PLOS flags nearly 50 papers by controversial French COVID researcher for ethics concerns

> Cancer researcher banned from federal funding for faking data in nearly 400 images in 16 grant applications

> ‘I never asked or expected to be included as an author’: Retired Penn State prof has three retractions for manipulated peer review

The thing about mathematics papers is that, for the most part, social acceptance is _the_ test of research. I say social acceptance, because that is what it is, namely a culture of rigorous logical review of the arguments in a paper. As such, you don't really have ethics concerns relating to faked data or p-hacking in a math paper.

When a math paper is retracted, it is almost certainly due to an honest mistake. Papers with such an error are likely not a very significant paper to begin with--as the error likely escaped noticed because there were fewer eyes on it--or there is a very deep and subtle error that would be hard for anyone to catch.

Love it, couldn't help but sing!

She directly interviewed Jack Ruby and leaked information in the Warren Report before Congress could report it. They got mad. She had the credentials, and wasn't a flake like Avenatti.

The best linux evenings are the ones which happen and the StackExchange network is down for maintenance. Got burned once screwing up GNOME on my Ubuntu install, and what do you know, Ask Ubuntu wasn't available.

I wonder how many people know about Dorothy Kilgallan. Her story really makes one think. She was a famous investigative reporter who got involved, contemporaneously, in trying to understand what happened after JFK's assassination. She told people she had a big file on what she was discovering. Then she died from an "overdose" of alcohol and barbiturates.

I am curious, do you feel similarly about chess?

If effective altruism is the best philosophy then anything that supports effective altruism must also be good. And anything that supports that, etc.

So make sure to buy comfy plush pillows and foot massagers for the effective altruists so they can do their effective altruism more effectively!

If chess is truly a drawn game with perfect play then whoever makes the second to last blunder is the winner.