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I don't think I'm qualified to provide an answer - trying to detail how execs should not be able to profit from fail-cases like this is a mine-field of edge cases, I expect.

I do think that you shouldn't be doing anything to destroy their lives "no pension" (outside of any judicial outcomes); but it should be sufficiently comprehensive such that you can declare both that no one profited from malfeasance/incompetance and that poeple in positions governed by these provisions are strongly encouraged to make sure that they don't fall foul of them.

I agree with what you're saying, however I think talking in absolutes is counter-productive:

> No golden parachutes, no deferred bonuses, no pensions

In my opinion, hard cutoffs like this create perverse incentives, but there definitely need to be consequences for actions.

The tradeoff suggested above (not saying that it's the right way around or correct) is:

* If you provide ChatGPT then 5 people who would have died will live and 1 person who would have lived will die. ("go to the doctor" vs "don't tell anyone that you're suicidal")

* If you don't provide ChatGPT then 1 person who would have died will live and 5 people who would have lived will die.

Like many things, it's a tradeoff and the tradeoffs might not be obvious up front.

It's the trolley problem reframed; not sure we have a definitive answer to that.

that sounds like something that would be worthwhile presenting to a wider audience

GP's reply was written to emulate the sort of response that ChatGPT has been giving recently; an obsequious fluffer.

FYI that page linked does not work in firefox

Sonos were originally great, when they were a platform to injest your music and stream to your various rooms.

That was years ago, and now they want to own the whole thing, from music to speakers, and are willing to brick old devices to force you onto more isolating versions of their app.

I'm very glad I never switched to them (was close when Logitech killed squeezebox), and would not recommend them to anyone for any reason.

Explain XKCD to the rescue: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1242:_Scary_Names

Something needs to be done; Google's mission is at odds to good browser development, and having an effective monopoly with the world using a single browser is not good for users even without the advertising conflict of interest.

A timely message, particularly given the apparent sabotage of undersea cables and other hubrid warfare we've been seeing recently.

I hope this also helps with morale in Ukraine.

it's a bit more involved than that, IIRC (been a while) - the civilisations involved typically migrate around the galaxy, entierly abandoning entire arms of the milky way and moving to another; agreements with other non-compatible civilisations mean that those that remain exist in an extremely hostile environment (the wars between the oxygen and hydrogen breathers, in particular, were notable until they managed to come to this arrangement).

There are also significant numbers of extremely agressive and militaristic civilisations, mostly held back by the laws and customs of setting, who would gleefully seek out and destroy anyone not following along.

I have a wobble board at my standing desk; keeps me moving constantly without distracting me.

Pedestrians have quite broad right of way in the UK - you can't step into moving traffic and expect them to slam on the brakes, but you will see people crossing anywhere and everywhere at any time:

https://www.thewindscreenco.co.uk/help-advice/highway-code-2...

I've posted in the sibling thread r.e. the density (which I believe you have underestimated by several orders of magnitude), however a stroll around london will show you that, excepting arterial roads, cars always have to deal with pedestrians crossing at any time and place, including between you and the car ahead if you come to a stop, or if there's more than a couple meters between you and the next car. Even busy arterial roads will have to deal with people walking across them if there are large gaps or the traffic is slow or stalled.

I believe you'll find that the London number you mention is the average density of the Greater London Metropolitan Area.

The City of Westminster has a day-time population of around 1 million people, and its area is around 8 sq miles; (doing casual searching).

unfortunately it's not much different carrying an adapter around than carrying the cable; but I'll have a look at options, thanks

ah, I missed that announcement - that's a shame; thanks for the info

no oasis refresh?

no buttons? no purchase.

Been waiting a long time, I suppose it's time to move to alternatives, as it's a pain to carry around a usb-micro cable just for my kindle.

FYI Reader mode solves most of these problems (not that it should be needed)

I like your idea of spotify for news; it's quite similar in idea to the "If YouTube had actual channels" from yesterday [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247023

I don't let my phone make any noises, but I do use it for music. Would be nice not to have to turn "do not disturb" on or off to listen to music.

I've never seen one on mine - behind a pihole though.

It does push paid content (as in rented/purchased movies/tv shows); I don't consider these to be adverts, per se, but obviously you might.

I disagree; it's much longer than it needs to be, is filled with pseudo-technoese to hide that there's little of consequence in there, and the tiny bit of real information in there is couched with distractions and unnecessary detail.

As I understand it, they're telling us that the outage was caused by an unspecified bug in the "Content Validator", and that the file that was shipped was done so without testing because it worked fine last time.

I think they wrote what they did because they couldn't publish the above directly without being rightly excoriated for it, and at least this way a lot of the people reading it won't understand what they're saying but it sounds very technical.

Such a disingenuous review; waffle and distraction to hide the important bits (or rather bit: bug in content validator) behind a wall of text that few people are going to finish.

If this is how they are going to publish what happened, I don't have any hope that they've actually learned anything from this event.

> Throughout this PIR, we have used generalized terminology to describe the Falcon platform for improved readability

Translation: we've filled this PIR with technobable so that when you don't understand it you won't ask questions for fear of appearing slow.

There's a certain comfort, and security, from the anonymity afforded by randomly generated SSIDs.

depending on your NAS, you might be able to run [0] Logitech Media Server; I still have it running on mine, and use it occasionally - I use it particularly for "play random album" which I have never seen elsewhere, and is great if you have a large collection of ripped music.

It also runs fine on an rPi.

[0] https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Logitech_Media_Server

Provided the advertisers like what you're saying

You might enjoy "The Robot's Rebellion" by Keith Stanovich (in this context, you are the robot)

the UK is supposed to have made it illegal to have unhealthy stuff etc. near checkouts and illegal to include them in certain promos (e.g. buy-one-get-one-free) - I thought it had passed into law years ago, but when I had a quick look it isn't even due to take effected until 2025 and until then everyone is ignoring it anyway.