esquivalience

It's still out there! It only _seems_ distant.

> Which finally gets to my point: What are the allergic affects of the tree, its raw sap, the liquid lacquer, and maybe for hypersenstive/reactive urushiol allergies, the finished lacquer?

The Wood Database can be a useful practical site for this sort of thing. I found [0], a page for a different wood which is said to contain the same allergen:

> The sap contains urushiol (the same allergen found in Poison Ivy), and can still be irritating to some sensitized individuals even after the wood has been dried, and sap can also seep through some wood finishes to the surface of the wood.

Same as poison ivy? Count me out if true: I react badly.

[0] https://www.wood-database.com/rengas/

Alin (OP), what a wonderful article. I've had the same problem and had given up experimenting for similar reasons to you. I'm now thinking to finish the cup I've half carved and have sitting on the shelf in the shed. Thanks!

Your shop looks great too. Others might enjoy folowing the link buried towards the bottom of the article.

This is fairly highly accurate (from a skim read, close to but not quite 100%). The article describes fooling ChatGPT with a caeser cipher, but not a full test of the obfuscation in-practice.

From the article:

> Nearly half of all phone numbers that appeared in the 2021 Facebook data leak of 500 million phone numbers (caused by a scraping incident in 2018) were still active on WhatsApp. This highlights the enduring risks for leaked numbers (e.g., being targeted in scam calls) associated with such exposures.

Fascinating to me as this seems to imply that a phone number has a half-life of about 4-5 years (unless the fact of the leak persuaded a significant number of people to change their number, which I suppose is unlikely?)

> " This was my first ever project in Python, and in many ways, the start of my life as a programmer. The domino effect here is a little mind-boggling for me."

I can certainly relate to this. I started scripting for very obtuse reasons, and quickly started seeing things everywhere which I could apply a little code to and improve my life.

Is it possible you mean 'readings' from the monitor rather than 'lectures'?

If so that would be a very easy translation error to make. ('Readings' and 'lectures' can be synonyms, in the sense of someone knowledgable reading something out loud.) But it could just be me misunderstanding: sorry, if so.

"Let 'em whine until ninth" just didn't have the same ring to it.

I'd be more sympathetic to this response if the article didn't begin with:

> Yeah, you read the headline right. Ford has patented a system...

The fact is that it is not protected by a patent. That said, the fact that they are _trying_ to and investing in their attempts is indeed worth attention, as it indicates they think it's a good idea. Just without the sloppy reporting.

This comment was really helpful, and addressed many of my instinctive reactions too.

> "Conflict of interest All the authors declare that they have no conflict of interest."

Glad to see this in the original article. I had been wondering whether they were in the pocket of Big Crow.

I found your last paragraph entirely unambiguous at all three levels, which led me to disgree with your overall point. Before that I was with you!

The concept of 'gift' is inherent in the meaning of donation and has been understood that way for centuries: https://www.etymonline.com/word/donate#etymonline_v_31787

The listed features hardly seem like bloat!

> markdown import, templates, filename autocomplete, a Windows console version, numbered list items

PyMuPDF seems to be intended for this use-case and mentions images:

https://medium.com/@pymupdf/rag-llm-and-pdf-conversion-to-ma...

(Though the article linked above has the feeling, to me, of being at least partly AI-written, which does cause me to pause)

> Update: We have now published a new package, PyMuPDF4LLM, to easily convert the pages of a PDF to text in Markdown format. Install via pip with `pip install pymupdf4llm`. https://pymupdf4llm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Thanks, I overlooked that

This interested me enough to convince me to click through to the article itself. Is your observation allayed by this rule?

> Rule 2: a. Moves are tried in both orders, and only moves that are legal in both orders are merged. b. If both moves are legal in both orders but a different game state is reached in each order, neither move is merged.

The premise may not hold - you're right - but the logic seems to.

GP observed that either the profit margin or the input cost is absorbing the difference, so I think the logic holds well and you are in agreement :)

Sonehow, I wonder if this might be more ass-covering than anytbing else. Perhaps to report to the regulator that they've done all they can. Or maybe, if they ever track down the people responsible fot the hack, you can imagine AT&T suing for breach of contract!

I think the answer is that each time you reveal the colours, you observe that they are within the set of three colours illustrated at the beginning of the proof. Whichever you reveal, you never find a fourth colour.

This confused me at first.

Your friend will likely be familiar with this notation, which is fairly standard (though not by any means universal). I think it means: knit 2 stitches, then knit the next stitch twice (incrementing the number in that row as result); knit 6 more then slip the last 3 stitches while holding the yarn in front.

My reading of this was that the fourth dimension was time. First, a loose dress is 3D-knit; then, when the owner buys it, it's possible to apply heat to cause parts of the fabric to tighten up, overall making a bespoke fit without significant manual labour.

in the case of Craig Wright - Bring a multimillion dollar court case to prove it.

Wine, fortified with the power of porting? I should say Port was a perfect name.

Strongly disagree on this. Where I am, a lawyer will tell you squarely if something is criminal. If the facts or law are unclear, they may advise about the balance of risk that creates, but the conclusion (if x, therefore crime) will be clear.

My understanding was that the two domains are equivalent. The following sites seem to confirm my understanding. Are you sure it isn't you?

https://support.google.com/mail/thread/125577450/gmail-and-g...

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-gmail.c...

https://www.gmass.co/blog/domains-gmail-com-googlemail-com-a...

Thanks for this. As a new user of Ubuntu I stumbled into the meta-T shortcut but couldn't find out how to take advantage of it. Shift-T is what I was missing. I didn't have the terminology I needed to search effectively either.

I read that as being a subscription to lesson-planning software for teachers, not for the calculator itself.