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Like you mentioned near the end, all this has been possible with photoshop, with amateur level skill. Hollywood can CGI the entire Captain Marvel movie, so as far as state-level efforts go, AI can really only be an incremental improvement at best.

I think this is all just trendy popular sentiment moralizing AI.

Everyone is comparing it to the M series Macbooks, but modern Macbooks really can't run Linux well, if at all. (It was comedy trying to install Linux on my touchbar mac, obviously the touchbar wasn't working and without that you don't have function keys, which many linux installers use!) You should compare it to other Windows/generic laptops.

I switched away from a macbook after the 3rd time my OS decided to "relocate" all my desktop files without asking me, and after all the fans would turn on after a reboot for 5 minutes.

There's a joke about the "year of the Linux desktop", but honestly I don't know what everyone's waiting for. Unless you're using software that doesn't run on Linux (which is getting more and more rare every year), it's ready! And I've run gnome-shell, i3, sway, and pantheon on a Framework laptop without issue. Well, the battery life doesn't compare to a new Macbook. I'm still working on that.

Even if they were supposed to be held in escrow, you'd need access to courts to enforce it.

Well, record keeping and also an American occupation. From your link: "We believe that current loss of longevity advantage in Okinawa is a result of diet westernization"

You don't have to use the company name in the email address, just use a unique email. If you start getting spam on a certain email address, search your email archives to see what company was associated with that address to link it back to them.

A web search suggests that the "skipping breakfast slows metabolism" idea is actually a myth.

Of course, eating food you don't like so you end up eating less doesn't sound like the way to go through life!

I don't program professionally, and I struggle with dicts and classes. On one hand, I want to avoid the Java world of needing to learn 8 new classes to use any library. So dicts are lightweight and extensible and feel like the modern way of doing things. One the other hand, all the problems listed in the article are right. You really do need to document different expected dicts somehow, which is basically structs/classes.

The other thing that always burns me are lists. Specifically lists of lists and lists of strings. Since python allows you to index into strings the same way as lists, for some reason I always loose track of where I am in the unpacking stack. This is when I switch to type hints.

> This is why contract law exists, doesn't it?

When I worked with non-trivial (>$1m) contracts, I learned that the sooner you start pointing to contract language, the sooner the relationship breaks down. “Working with” partners through shortfalls and giving second chances resulted in much more long term success than sticking to the letter of the contract.

Part of the reason, I think, is simple human relationship-building. And a big part of that is trust. Trust and credit also play into it directly - the vendor knows we didn’t penalize them when they delivered a feature a month late, so they’re willing to surge when we have a requirement pop up that needs fixing quicker than we agreed to.

One of my favorite parts of these simple languages is implementing more advanced data structures myself!

My guess would be that ads are incompatible with white noise use cases. If the white noise “podcast” inserted ads, I would guess that people would find a different place to get white noise.

Can you use iSH to do the standard dev stuff like rename files on the host system? I think vim even works in it, so there’s a text editor too!

Well, he’s Catholic and I think the Catholic Church has specific rites that must be performed even to call a building a church. So really he just built a really cool building inspired by his faith.

Off topic, but this caught my attention:

“In future work we will explore a framework for responsible externalization that balances the value of external auditing with the risks of unrestricted open-access.”

I work for a big org myself, and I’ve wondered what it is exactly that makes people in big orgs so bad at saying things.

“After a quick burst of manic energy during exam phase…”

It’s amazing what humans are capable of achieving while avoiding doing something else.

Or a “dogpile” for 3d printed things, like yeggi.com?

Is it really that hard to defend a peg? As long as you don’t spend the money people give you, you’ll have 1:1 dollars to stable coin. Then you can earn interest on the dollars.

It works with humans when they don’t need to constantly run a consensus algorithm (like agreeing on a problem or understanding the team’s relationship with externals.)

An assembly line of 3 people will probably be >3 times faster than a single factory worker.

sort of like how smartphones without cameras cost more than smartphones with cameras.

It’s different than grocery stores and plumbers I think because roads are seen as a public good, and if they’re using space in a crowded city, that space was/is also a public resource. Since everyone contributes their individual sovereignty equally, there’s a sense that govt should serve everyone’s interests equal, as best it can.

responding to sibling, in my experience it actually goes “i have controls, you have controls, i have controls”. always ending on someone saying “i have controls.” so if someone doesn’t hear a call or response, it ends with either two people on the controls (not a disaster), or the person relinquishing controls repeating his line.

On the plus side, if you are successful switching to software development, having a background as a practicing nurse will allow you to pretty much write your own paycheck if you’re willing to work in medical software.

It’s been mentioned earlier in this thread, but base16 is basically that. I use it, and it’s ok! After setting up a program to support base16, you can just type

> base16-manager set nord

to use the nord theme on all programs.

http://chriskempson.com/projects/base16/

There’s a monk out there somewhere that would say it is.

Web interfaces are the GUI equivalent of the simple, timeless tty interface. My 10 year old router still renders html just fine on modern Chrome.

Funny enough, for jobs that do schedule around sunrise/sunset (like flying), DST is even more disruptive. Perhaps you used to get a sandwich after your day flight but when DST starts, everything suddenly closes an hour earlier!

I was on on a US Navy ship, and the main display clock in combat control had two times - Zulu and a local time adjustable by an hour offset. This was obviously terrible... when we docked off India we had no way to set the correct time!

That’s true, I guess I think bad explanations of good rules are insidious: they alienate kids and create an us-vs-them mentality. If parents stay up late but don’t allow their kids to stay up late, it seems like parents are entitled and even a five year old can sense entitlement.

Here’s the thing, though: it’s true that going to bed early is a good rule, and it’s also true that parents feel entitled; that their rules apply to their kids but not them. That’s one reason kids hate their parents - they often deserve it!

An increasing population wouldn’t need more gold, gold (and money backed by it) would just become more valuable, right? Or, in other words, prices would drop and there would be deflation, for better or for worse.

Saying “because I said so.”

Or “stop it,” out of frustration.

Family members have babysat my kids, and this is a mistake I see all the time. If you tell kids not to do something, always tell them why. And be honest about it. It’s kids’ job to learn about the world, and it’s your job as a parent to teach them about it.