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> The glass that formed as a result of such a unique process attained a perfect state of preservation of the brain and its microstructures.

I'm no neuroscientist, so I wonder what research opportunities this could open up for studies of the brain.

I think parent is saying that by self-censoring, expression others enjoy is lost, with the example of Shakespear as an expresser whose impact would have been lost if he'd decided to be anonymous instead.

There are several cheap (not free) email providers that allow you to create unique emails per service for this precise purpose, and do not require a phone number, however they are lacking significantly in every other way, like an easy to use inbox, so not great for your main contact. One I tested out I found to be good for these random sites that want emails as your username. Then I set the custom email to forward the mail thereby maintaining unique usernames on each site. If the site does not use an email for the username and does not make the provided email public, you could use your regular email with the handy features that come with a Google/Microsoft suite, or air on the side of caution by still having the unique email.

Very recently. I only noticed it about 2 years ago when I went to make a throwaway gmail account exactly for the above opsec purposes.

I exercise semi regularly and use a watch + phone combo to watch my health stats regardless of my physical activity, to include calories, so I feel like my experience is decent data.

On a day that I don't work out, I burn about 2000 calories. On days that I work out (weekly run), I burn 2800 calories, but I am so hungry that I have to eat huge meals and I have consumed the additional 800 I burned within 12 hours. Perhaps weekly runs are sufficiently infrequent for my body to not get "used to" the run, fitting it into the 2k calorie burn, thus I go way over on those days no matter what, but my body is getting those extra calories no matter what, to make up for it due to how significantly more hungry I am after.

Everyone I know who lost weight basically just starved themselves (net calorie loss).

My figurative farts aren't that cool but I do appreciate the inspiration I get from all y'all's gold-star farting

> What previous tools would you say replaced basic reasoning?

No tool replaces reasoning itself. Not even an LLM. All (most) tools have the capacity to, if you use them for this purpose.

> I would not classify calculators, spreadsheets, spelling and grammar checkers etc as basic reasoning tools.

Why not? I have seen people use calculators to chug "6-2" before, and they were not children. In fact, all four of those examples are perfect for my point. They create the opportunity to do great things, or be a crutch so you don't have to think. If you are convinsed that there is no user of grammarly that didn't just quickly type a draft and throw it in without proofreading, for the sake of not needing to use basic grammatical reasoning, then you have a very kind view of mankind.

> I'm talking about bringing together several independent concepts or sets of facts and forming a coherent point of view or argument from them.

This is a more narrow view than what I was arguing, so it's possible we will have to agree to disagree. I guess a quick rebuttle here is that people who don't exercise sufficient thought to form coherent conclusions from separate information were going to stay stupid anyway. And then yes, ChatGPT would be bad because it could in theory enable this behavior in its handouts.

Depends on the job. My sister uses an AI (Gemini) so much that she has a subscription. Her husband also uses it frequently, and keeps it open in a tab at all times. He is a programmer, and she does marketing. I don't use an LLM for work, but very easily could if I wanted. All three of us mostly communicate with coworkers/partners/clients through email, so it's definitely doable.

ChatGPT is not the first tool used to replace basic reasoning, and we haven't collapsed yet. I would argue that nearly all tools can be used to remove basic reasoning, depending on if you choose to use it in such a manner.

If I lived before the tape measure was invented, and rely on carefully placing my metersticks to measure things, I can get really good at measuring without the need for a measuring tape. After all, a measuring tape is just a few flexible metersticks anyways, so if you need to measure something longer than the full length of the tape, you are screwed.

If you take the measuring tape away from the person who relied on that tool instead of being good at using a meterstick, or perhaps no tools besides their own arm length, they are gonna suddenly not be able to measure, unless they go through the effort of learning to measure without the tape.

You can argue that measuring tape is a crutch preventing people from learning how to properly measure, and has its own limitations, but regardless its still really helpful, especially for people who only need to measure things occassionally, and not super long things.

ChatGPT is a tool. Just like all other tools, like computers, cars, etc., if you take it away, most people cannot perform the function for which they relied on the tool to help them do.

I've used a few apple products -- the iPhone 3 was my first smartphone, and an iPad mini back when tablets were starting out. At the time of the switch to android, I didn't think too much of it, but definitely enjoyed the customisation.

A couple years ago I was gonna get a new phone and, half my family being Apple devotees, I was considering switching again so I could stop hearing the 'blue bubble' nagging, plus they seem to genuinely enjoy their phone.

In pure luck, a friend had a new iPhone 13 and hadn't switched from his old phone yet, and allowed me to use it for a couple days so I could see just how incredible the phones are and I should switch. After about 48 hrs, I was so done with the product, and like you, preferred to switch back to my old 'crummy' phone until I bought my next flagship.

I can't imagine being locked in till it dies, because as you said, the iPhone is such a miserable product. I'm sure you could resell and get a flagship for a similar price. You'd still net loss, but IMO it would be better than keeping the phone since you don't like it.

> I use a text-only browser.

Which browser is this?

You can check to see if you were in the breach here:

https://npd.pentester.com/search

This will save you the effort of a 30min search per `grep` on the original breached files.

Did you use a grep command? The file is too large for me to open and I have not used grep before to have confidence with it.

Edit: nvm, ``` findstr /i /r ".000000000." ssn.txt ``` did the trick in powershell, with the zeros replaced with the ssn. Also there is a star after each period that HN has changed to italicize the text instead of showing it.

As much as I want to agree with you, saying the main purpose of a smartphone is to make calls is like saying the main purpose of amazon is to sell books. Only in the beginning was it so

I have a smart home gym that does not run unless it successfully reaches the servers first (I found out after the return period was over, while my WiFi was down for a week). This really shoved this issue to the forefront of my mind and I am now trying to understand the packets it sends and receives with the hope of running a fake host on my home server, redirecting the traffic to a local destination and returning fake data to trick it into thinking it succeeded the fetch and finishes bootup.

The idea that I can't work out because of an internet outage upsets me greatly. Also their recent updates have added more ads into the gym interface which I am not a fan of, so I might just never have it connect to their servers ever again if I get my workaround working.

If you rotate the phone backwards 90°, you can reach all corners but the depth will be like 7"

If I ever happen upon a large fortune, I'd gladly give it to you if you used it for this and let me play with all the computers until I knew how they work. I studied mechanical engineering, and work in other fields now. Although I see and understand their importance to society, I am always fascinated by manipulation of mechanical principles to reach an objective.

I've been able to start at A, E, L, or T, and your explanation makes sense.

I usually know a letter is near one of those four, but not if it is before or after, so if I am looking for P for example, I'll start with T for a bit, realize I've gone too far, and start over at L in hopes of finding it.

The primary purpose of rockets these days is to put satellites into space, not to bomb people. This includes the rockets built by the world's militaries.

> I plugged in my phone to the USB-C dock cable on the meeting room table

This was allowed? I don't think I have ever worked somewhere where plugging company devices to anything other than other company hardware was allowed, for security purposes.

Do you know what an 'assault' rifle is? I only heard that term used by people who want them banned, who usually think this means automatic weapons, like the other commonly misused term machine gun.

The correct term that 'assault' has become an umbrella for is semi-automatic. That means 1 bullet shot for every 1 time the trigger is pulled. There are technically other guns, like pump-action, that require literal pumping of bullets into the chamber between each shot, or even powder guns which are extremely dangerous due to their inaccuracy and jamming (read jamming as: higher probability to explode during use)

'Assault' is used to try to demonify 'bad' guns but really at that point you might as well ban all guns, because the few remaining are useless.

Just be anti-gun instead of anti 'assault' rifle so you aren't pretending to support 'good' guns

> Show me earplugs that REDUCE equally across all frequencies and I’ll invest every dollar I have to my name.

It has been a long time since I worked tangentially with frequencies, but IIRC it physically isn't possible to block/dampen all frequencies of sound. Although due to different physical phenomena, this is why everything has a color and nothing is truly black - it is impossible for a material to suck in every wavelength of light.

How do you determine if an AI is sentient?

By it's nature as the execution of code, even if we reach AGI I don't consider it sentient. They wouldn't require rights unless that was required to prevent an apocalyptic scenario. Even then, that would be down to bad code rather than because they were alive.

I can see an argument that we are robots because we just execute DNA, protein, and chemical code, but I don't think that really is comparable. We live, grow, and die and then are completely dead, as opposed to being bootable and killable in a responce to flow of electricity, on the whim of someone deciding whether it is time to use the tool.

I know about the identity protection PIN, so I've been assuming this whole time that's what I was choosing a number for. It is possible I was just doing the self selected PIN and wasn't aware that I should be doing something additional for other one. FWIW I haven't needed the PIN later but saved them in case I did.

During tax season (in US), for security, you may optionally create a 5 digit pin. I wanted mine to be unaffiliated with any existing pin I have, and chose a 'random' number and wrote it down. A year later I repeated this (and had long since forgotten the previous pin), went to go write it in the same place, and saw that both 'random' numbers had the same first four digits. I now use a computer to choose random numbers because I no longer trust myself to be random.

I have a pin lock on a shared device, that friends use occassionally. Of the three friends I have given guest access to, all three asked for their pin to be 1234, to which I said no. One had the audacity to follow up with 123456

As a former employee of a 100K+ person company, I've had these exact thoughts several times. I worked in acquisitions, and constantly was finding out that we were reinventing (or rebuying) the wheel internally in independent departments.

Know Your Customer. It's when you are asked for legal docs so a business can verify your identity. Like what banks do

> I can't think of any US service I am using that doesn't already require KYC? None of the large providers will let you get far without a credit card, as far as I remember?

There are several credit card vendors that do not require KYC that are easily available. I don't know of any banks that don't require KYC that you would use to pay those CC bills, but I wouldn't be surprised if they exist.