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I interpreted it more like "I have these 500 different cronjobs all spread out across $unit_of_time. If the system is down for longer than $unit_of_time and then comes back, does all 500 jobs start running instantly (since they missed their previous deadline)?"

I think that might be the thing. Parents whose children are more challenging might more often "be at wits end" and turn to online communities for guidance, help, or other insights, whereas parents whose children are not as challenging just breezes through, and thus do not end up as a data point online on how difficult parenthood is.

Also, even though I don't know you, I am certain that you are a good parent, and that you are doing your very best, and that your child is lucky to have you as their parent. :) Stay strong.

Aren't they actually readline keystrokes, and emacs is "readline-aware"?

This could be an argument for investing in more reliable/higher capacity public transit systems though. Which would also likely result in a fair increase in public health from moving a bit more and possibly less polluted air going in an out of the lungs of the populace.

I don't know whether or not it is our instance at $dayjob that has a wonky setup, or if it is the elements client, or what (probably the client, as the problems all but disappear in the webb-ui version), but oh how many synchronization issues we are facing. threaded conversations not showing up, or randomly disappearing, clients getting stuck in message fetching loops, not actually fetching anything, notifications of new messages either not appearing, or not disappearing upon reading them, and ON TOP OF THAT no custom stickers/emojis/gifs...

but those synchronization issues... if I want to be sure something reaches the rest of the team in a timely manner, I have reverted back to email

The carriers can provide almost as good location data through just doing fairly simple calculations on timings and signal strengths received by the cell towers, and their implicit knowledge about where those cell towers are located. Good keywords for further reading are (("4G" or "LTE") and "GMLC") or ("5G" and "LMF") and/or OTDOA.

While Google and Apple may be hesitant, what are your thoughts about AT&T or Verizon?

an evolution of the gpg web of trust could possibly be part of it

`uniq -c` introduces a "count" at the beginning of the line, so what we are then sorting is on frequency of the unique terms in the output, not sorting the unique terms again (which indeed would be kindof nonsensical)

There was also Anna Lindh, Sweden, 2003

Aha! I too have seen thumbnails of videos with context clues (product brands in the thumbnail which doesn't exist under that brand in my country) yet with a video title in my native tongue, which a clear "machine translation"-feel to it.

Until I read this thread I assumed that it was the content creator doing shenanigans (low quality AI slop video mass-produced in many languages and targeting my locale with videos for my locale), but it does make so much more "sense" that it would be YT doing this.

And my reaction to those thumbnails, thinking it was the creator doing low quality AI slop, was to "reward" them with "Don't recommend this channel".

So I have been punishing innocent channels for crap that YT is doing...

I can't argue that you are wrong, but I can argue that, for myself, if I don't trust a developer to not screw me over with telemetry, I cannot trust the developer to not screw me over with their code. I can't think of a scenario where this trust isn't binary, either I can trust them (with telemetry AND code execution), or I can't trust them with either. Could you describe what scenario I am missing?

I read the gp to mean that error.log (being parsed to look for OOM) would have no associations with userSearches.log, in which an end-user searched for OOM

Aaaaaaand I replied to the wrong comment, mea culpa!

Chiming in as an end-user of software: please try to minimize the amount of times I need to re-learn the user interface you put in front of me.

And then there is teapot, previously mentioned in relation to sc-im

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29241136

If I'd try to describe/categorize it, I'd call it a local, ?most often? single-user, scriptable and plugginable wiki-software.

I use it for taking notes, keeping a journal, TODO-list, and to bookmark/annotate stuff. Basically my own personal "knowledge base".

Technology-wise it saves notes as markdown, optionally with a yaml-style frontmatter, built on/with javascript, and exposes a bunch of APIs making it very extensible.

A strength/weakness with it is that it exposes the end-user to all this power, and does not enforce much in the way of ways of working, so you get to define for yourself how you go about using it.

I have mostly settled on workflows that works for me, but it also seems, if I am being completely honest, like there is always some little tweaking/refactoring going on.

At various places of employment, /some/ meetings have absolutely been just so. Nothing of day-to-day value was ever communicated in those meetings, and nothing of value was lost when I stopped attending them.

Sprint Demos could also fall into this category if you squint, but at least there is a good chance you pick up something useful

> If a user really cares about changing the internals he can make his own operating system.

Don't we already have that, and it's called... Linux?

So say we all.

Vaguely reminiscent of another Xkcd: https://xkcd.com/979

I just re-read the entire reasoning, and I got it all wrong I think. N%2 will only ever yield one of two inputs. In short, I shouldn't try to brain before the morning coffee ;D

> What we can do is replace the number N with the equation N % 2. That has only a finite number of inputs and leads to a valid table.

Just so I'm understanding it correctly, it should say "finite number of OUTPUTS" there, right?

Apologies for not using a better source than wikipedia, but I could believe that the anecdotal woman was not such an outlier, when you take into account that whole "one child policy" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

I am not yet done thinking on this area, so my thoughts here are incomplete, but thay said:

Would this not also open the door for any snakeoil salesman to prey on what might be medically "hopeless" cases?

If I am ever diagnosed with something currently uncurable, but there are experimental stuff in the works, of course I'd like a shot at those experimental drugs, but I hope that me/my family would also not squander whatever assets we have on snakeoil, in which case I'd rather my surviving family was not impoverished in the fight.

I assume that, at least partially, this is why regulations in this area were put in place to begin with.

Oh, this gives me flashbacks from Call of Duty: ?Advanced? Warfare (the one with Kevin Spacey as the plot antagonist).

There was this one level, which begins with a cutscene and then a car chase on a highway, eventually (after many game crashes, restarts, rewatches of the unskippable cutscene) lands you on ... I'd like to say an aircraft carrier?

Perhaps it was my hardware which was shit, but the game worked well enough on every other level, but that one. damn. level... it just kept crashing. Which lead to a restart and that unskippable. fricking. cutscene...

ugh. just ugh.

While I believe much of what you argue is correct, I do unfortunately also believe that ultimately you are incorrect:

For the non-techy part of the population, and certainly eve a percentage of the techy part of the population, there will be those who don't have an hour out of their daily lives to play around and discover the limits of chatgpt etc.

Worse still, an even larger portion of that crowd, even if they have an hour to spare, just... won't. Playing around with an LLM just isn't something most people would find entertaining or enlightening enough to do out of their own volition.

What I find more likely to happen, is that the members of above crowd will instead slowly, over time, get the occasional dose of exposure of an interaction with an LLM, and as long as the response yielded isn't batshit crazy, these people will likely develop a growing sense of confidence in these LLMs.

At that point, it will likely be very difficult proving to them that the LLMs are far from perfect.

Am I mistaken in thinking that "The last of us" covered this?

Is your reasoning here that it is selfish, because not everyone can do that, and if everyone could/did, then society would collapse due to no food production, garbage collection, emergency services, law enforcement etc, as all those people would also be out painting/kayaking etc?

I ask because as I first read your comment I was unable to see the selfishness, since GP outlined that they lacked the financial means to support that lifestyle (also implying that taxes would still be paid and money would flow through the system all the same). It took me writing out a reply to you, asking how you thought it selfish, before my brain came up with the potential answer I outlined in the first paragraph.

Giving GP the benefit of the doubt; how long now have we (at least the more tech savvy crowd) been aware of the fact that filter bubbles does exist?

It could be the case that search engines did not yield good results for GP.

I think the "used every day" point was more along the lines of a cargo / passenger jet can haul stuff all day every day, whereas (hopefully) you don't have a need to bomb the living shit out of someone all day every day.

Then again, perhaps maintenance of a stealth bomber really is horrendous enough that it wouldn't be able to fly sorties "every day".

But basically I read GP cooment as an apples to oranges comparison (since you traditionally wouldn't drop bombs using a cargo aircraft, and wouldn't airlift cargo with a bomber.)