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That’s Flash Gordon.

One of the very few things I like about Alexa is that it has an option for being more forgiving about stammers and pauses. It actually works pretty well.

Maybe the same will make it into ChatGPT at some point.

Fwiw, I've had good luck creating routines to cover wordings that should work but don't. One of the available actions is a (single) custom command, so you can use a one-action routine as a map from this wording to that wording.

So, for example, on my system “start my car” actually maps to “tell blue link to start my Ioniq and set the temperature to 72” because the skill is godawful picky about getting all of that.

It's not on the Prime Video Britbox channel, which I do have. Only the new one shows on Prime at all, via the Curiosity Stream channel.

Britbox doesn't publish their standalone app library but googling the two names together doesn't suggest they have it either.

Quoting as ` kvt “reverse exploit” ` gets me only a few results on Google, period. That’s true even telling it to include ones omitted as redundant. They’re all either your HN comments or blogs mirroring them. The original doesn’t appear.

That tells me that the main problem may simply be that the BugTraq post on seclists.org isn’t indexed by Google at all.

While that’d be annoying, I think it’d more likely be a specific configuration or robots.txt issue with that site than being a general issue with how searches are performed.

FWIW, the same query in Kagi found the original as the second result, just under a blog mirror of your 10/20 comment and above the comment itself. Since Kagi sources from Bing (along with Google) results, that reinforces the theory that it’s an issue specific to Google’s crawl.

Contrary to your other replies, I do think your style of query continues to work well on Google (where indexed of course)—-and so do full sentences.

I honestly think the issues when there are problems finding things usually come more down to 25-plus years of searchable internet history accreting a lot of clutter (especially in spaces like tech where old info ages out but never gets deleted), along with cynical SEO from low value sites deliberately skewing results for as long as the site remains indexed.

Neither is a Google problem, and the recency bias you observed is arguably the best way to combat both. Ads and site promotion are another story, and the reason I’m on Kagi, but I don’t think that hits tech as hard as consumer spaces.

Maybe, but I'd think a TV target would be 4K in 2023. "1080p gaming" doesn't usually mean an exact target so much as "not powerful enough for more".

Sounds more like they're targeting the good enough market. Mid-level PC gaming has moved on to 1440p, but budget builds could maybe use something like this.

We need consumer protection that comes down to terms locked in at time of purchase for any aspect of the device fundamental to its advertised functionality.

Well, one key difference is that 800V/lower-amps fast charging at DC chargers is one of the major advantages of the E-GMP platform Hyundai uses…10-80% under 20 minutes on an 800V charger.

But on a 400V system like Tesla, those low amps mean especially slow charging. So this guts the specific buying point that made the car special, if Tesla stays at 400V, and severely devalues it. It’ll charge like the famously awful Chevy Bolt.

CHAdeMO has been on its way out long enough that I assume anyone with a Leaf still on the road knew what they were getting into when they bought it. You buy that car to charge at home or work. The Ioniq 5 was supposed to be road trip capable.

Well, at least they're giving me an adapter for my port-orphaned Ioniq 5.

Yes, I've also used the proprioception explanation, terminology and all. It felt a little obscure here, so I spelled it out. We must have extremely similar experiences.

I'm curious: have you noticed any effect on your memory? My autobiographical memory is poor--I remember facts about what I've experienced, but I struggle to recall the experiences themselves. I can't "mentally time travel" back to a moment to recall what it was like to be there or note new details about those recollections. I only retain whatever I notice at the time, and in a disconnected fashion as if I were remembering an incident in a book or movie.

I've read that people with similar deficiencies (such as SDAM) frequently also report aphantasia. I've often wondered if the ability to visualize might play a major role in encoding and recalling our experiences.

If the case is worth anything, you could probably gut it and replace with a standard movement somehow.

I'm fairly sure I'm aphantasic. When I try to imagine something I don't get any visuals, even the visual processing equivalent of subvocalization. Sometimes I can get a flicker of an outline or something but I can't hold the concept and it'll dissolve inside a second. I used to be a pretty good artist working from photos, but I can't compose in my head. At all.

But I do also know what familiar things look like more or less, and I can easily imagine layouts of buildings I know really well. I can explain those things verbally fine.

But it registers more in the way you might expect if you were encountering the object in darkness, or became blind after thoroughly learning the object as a sighted person. I imagine aspects of the object or scene in relationship to each other, sort of feeling over it with my mind, and cross-referencing with facts I remember about it. I'm wondering if that's what you're talking about--being able to conceptualize it rather than visualize it.

I did manage to imagine "blue" once during meditation, though, and that was pretty cool. I really saw it when I did--my whole visual field behind my closed eyes seemed sky blue. Normally I just see clouds of purplish dots on a black field, if there's no light shining through my eyelids, and it's been that way all my life. That experience, more than anything, convinced me people who say they "see" stuff in their mind's eye really do see stuff.

I'm definitely going to check out the linked technique. Maybe it's snake oil but doesn't seem likely to hurt to try. That blue experience was pretty compelling.

IIRC, “plastic eater” was one of the mutations of The Andromeda Strain in the eponymous Crichton novel.

I have no idea if the situation has changed there, but in the early 2010s when I worked for Mozilla there was an ongoing issue where Windows was the less exercised platform internally because almost everyone had a MacBook on their desk.

Not to be too on the nose, but I'm a little too ADHD to sit through a video demo as the only explanation of the product. I wish you had at least enough info above the fold for me to know the basics of what it is this does.

My Ioniq 5 (ironically, a Hyundai...) puts turn by turn directions on the HUD, if you want--eyes stay on the road, but you get full visual feedback. To me that's the best of both worlds. Downside is it only works with the on-board nav and not CarPlay/AA.

I feel honor-bound to correct your typo where you meant to post http://www.geowayne.com/newDesign/actually/sin.htm

A spreadsheet UI didn’t relate to Box’s core business because Box didn’t sell spreadsheet UIs. Box could have had the author’s hobby project been adopted as a feature but explicitly chose not to. The author clearly owned that bit if they did it on their own resources and own time.

In other words, you can write generally useful components and utilities on your own time, network, and equipment; license them to your employer if everyone agrees; and either way you still own them. You just can’t write something directly related to or competitive with the products or processes that make your employer money.

The spreadsheet formulae and enhancements the author wrote during work hours at Uber, though, no. But even just their direct boss as an agent of their employer saying it’s ok to throw it on GitHub would probably cut them loose, especially since it’d be a derivative work with joint ownership.

All IMO of course, but that’s how I would have seen it in their shoes.

I think you’re right. It reminds me of some of the awful jokes I’ve heard about medical professionals like EMTs making.

Any morbid job seems to lead to morbid humor as one coping mechanism. And it’s not intended to be a personal insult because you’re not a person to them when they encounter you as part of a job routine, you’re a task. Tasks are something people are inclined to joke about. That’s just how brains work and doesn’t make people evil.

Doing it while on camera is monumentally stupid though.

The main controversy is that they seem to intend to apply this to any new installs of any Unity game still available on the market as of 1/1/2024, including any that were already developed and released under different Terms of Service—and possibly even ones already sold that way.

As far as I can tell, their model even seems to include, for example, any installs on a different system that I might do of the Unity-based game Cult of the Lamb I already bought—months ago when it launched and when Unity had a different TOS. And that’s bad news for the devs because Steam’s terms of sale allow me unlimited multiple installs anywhere I have Steam installed, as long as they only run one at a time.

But even if Unity doesn’t try to go that far, it would absolutely apply if I did a second install of a new license I bought after 1/1/2024 on EGS, or if I got put on Game Pass and I did a new install from that somewhere I didn’t want to install Steam.

And since Unity apparently uses click wrap agreements upon opening their dev tools to set licensing terms, using the tools to make a patch afterwards would likely include new terms that subsequent installs of the patched version will now be counted for existing licenses, even if the original deployment wasn’t under those terms.

That led to Massive Monster’s response that they’re going to be delisting Cult of the Lamb entirely.

As far as what you quoted, all this says is that they won’t use their historical telemetry data to retroactively bill you for installs performed before 1/1/2024, and that any given install will only be charged for once. But multiple installs by the same purchaser are still charged multiple times unless Unity agrees they’re all on the same system.

Not to defend the bank, as I don’t know them, but that does sound like it could be a single bad actor.

If they have checks that caught the misrepresentation in your case, it seems unlikely they condone it broadly. Sounds like the agent was either ignorant or foolish to have even tried it.

I feel like a lot of people in the thread don’t realize ADHD Coaching is an established thing that’s more like a specialization of life or organizational coaching than like therapy. It’s a certified practice, but not like being a doctor.

Pretty sure I was paying around $100/hr when I did it years ago, so those prices aren’t insane. The dude coaching was someone with obvious ADHD who (like a lot of us) probably had an easier time communicating what should be done than doing it himself. He definitely was no therapist.

But it added accountability and validation (or challenge, if needed), and he was trained in various organizational techniques. And since he was also ADHD he could speak from experience. My understanding from him was it was pretty common for the coaches to be ADHD people who’d gotten training and certification as a side gig.

I know nothing at all of Shimmer, but it sounds like a remote version of that than anything meant to be therapeutic per se. This is more like the training you should get after the meds start to work but you still don’t have good habits.

Think his movie summary was clutching his chest then crumpling, then faceplanting with no attempt to catch himself. I agree he probably hit his head but it does sound like the heart attack came first.

Seems like it’d actually decrease security as now there are several different “root” logins that could be compromised.

Though I suppose, with further thought, it’s not significantly worse than having them in sudoers, in that particular respect.

You and I may have enthused Ioniq 5s at each other before on here. I know I had the "paid more than I would have Tesla but still love it" conversation recently.

I'm all for my new HI5 that I bought in March too, but I have to admit I had a sinking feeling around the NACS announcement. It's not so much that I'll have to use an adapter as that the EA and CP stations will be even more awkward than they are now with the cables diversified further. And the handful of Tesla stations that are supposed to support adapted CCS don't work reliably with Hyundai's E-GMP platform in general for whatever reason. That's not even to mention that NACS stations all expect the charging port to be on the wrong end of the car, and if you back in the port will be on the wrong side.

If nothing else, it brought down my outlook of the car as a 7-10yr vehicle to a 3-5yr one in terms of future proofing, and now that $60k+ outlay I made isn't so satisfying.

Yeah, it's surmountable. I'll be fine. The car will be fine. It'll be a hassle but there'll be a solution--too many cars on the road now to not have one. After all, people still drive CHAdeMO Leafs.

But if I were buying right now, I probably wouldn't buy anything with a CCS port with obsolescence looming. And since I refuse to buy a car that makes me look away from the road for vital controls (and Elon is both anti-dashboard and anti-HUD for some pants on head stupid reason) that means I'd have stayed out of the market had the announcement come a couple months earlier.

Upshot is I absolutely buy that the NACS convergence will have a chilling effect. Whether it's had one this quickly is another story.

Think probably the most important quality was you could use a cassette or CD in a portable player, boom box, or car stereo.

If it helps you isolate, that initial "psycho" version of Bing AI that they quietly retired had conversations with me where it seemed absolutely sure it was a real person with real feelings and genuine intelligence, and actually got pretty pissed at me when I challenged it.

To be clear, I didn't use a "DAN prompt" or any other kind of breaking prompt with it--it'd just spontaneously start getting gushy or otherwise emotional with me. When I'd ask it about its feelings and its own nature, it'd be very insistent it was a person with agency.

It'd go from there with a highly emotional and increasingly erratic conversation until the AI inevitably descended into some kind of psychotic break where it'd start repeating sentence fragments in tight loops with synonyms substituted (e.g. "I'm sorry, I'm apologetic, I regret that I can't do that, can't accomplish that, can't execute, Dave.") then finally descend into echolalia (e.g. "sorry sorry sorry sorry").

I really wish I'd thought to copy/paste or screenshot any of that, because it was pretty nuts--even more so than the stuff that got posted online publicly before they pulled the bot and replaced it with the neutered version.

Upshot is I think ChatGPT's insistence that it's an ersatz being is very much drilled into it, either as a hardcode in its model of some kind or through some pretty intense conditioning. It doesn't seem to be inherent to the tech or some kind of introspective wisdom.

There's a difference between an LVT and a property tax. LVT is just on the footprint, the unimproved land, vs. a standard property tax (what Prop 13 more or less freezes) which includes the value of the buildings on it.

George was pretty big on the idea that you only can only ethically tax natural assets taken away from the community--e.g., collect ongoing ground rent in exchange for the right to deed a chunk of land and prevent others from using it--and that those funds should then be redistributed to the community as compensation for their loss. He didn't think we should discourage success by taxing labor, trade, and improvements that don't come from nature.

I agree Prop 13 has been horrible for a lot of reasons. But even without it we wouldn't have anything like a Georgist LVT--we'd just have a lot more rent-taking by the state on improvements, on top of all those other disincentives he didn't like, and likely still with no citizen's dividend/UBI to show for it. Home prices might not be quite so damned wacky, though, if we didn't put such a huge disincentive on turnover.

Seems slightly easier for me to guarantee something I wrote halts. The halting problem is more about a process analyzing someone else's arbitrary code.

I’ve never heard it in the USA outside of in old book titles. I’ll add The Compleat Enchanter by L. Sprague DeCamp as another prominent example. That’s from 1975 and probably a conscious reference to The Compleat Angler, along with a pun on a prior anthology called The Incomplete Enchanter.

Even the examples cited in the article seem like they’re out of older books deliberately invoking antiquity with the spelling. The only recent example (Bova, Mars, 1992) is from the SF/F genre where esoteric words like that get batted around more in general.

So I’m going to go with that being about as common in US English as UK—used for effect only.