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Good luck banning certain kinds of math.

You're the one dramatizing here

At least in my case, I had Youtube Red and would watch a few hours of content per day. Then I canceled and found the ads so unreasonable that I just stopped using youtube altogether. Now they make no money from me.

on the nuclear front, the administration has cut investment and reduced action in exchange for cheap promises. judge actions, not words.

I'm an engineer that has both an apple silicon laptop (mbp, m2) and a linux laptop (arch, thinkpad x1 yoga.) I choose the mac every day of the week and it's not even close. I'm sure it's not great for specific engineering disciplines, but for me (web, rails, sre) it really can't be beat.

The UX differences are absolutely massive. Even after daily-driving that thinkpad for months, Gnome always felt kinda not quite finished. Maybe KDE is better, but it didn't have Wayland support when I was setting that machine up, which made it a non-starter.

The real killer though is battery life. I can work literally all day unplugged on the mbp and finish up with 40-50% remaining. When i'm traveling these days, i don't even bring a power cable with me during the day. The thinkpad, despite my best efforts with powertop, the most aggressive frequency scaling i could get, and a bunch of other little tricks, lasts 2 hours.

There are niceties about Linux too. Package management is better and the docker experience is _way_ better. Overall though, i'd take the apple silicon macbook 10 times out of 10.

the extra dot is easily hand waved away as a mistake. a non breaking space looks intentional.

They do have an unsubscribe from all button. It's in the delete my account because i get too many emails user flow. Ask me how i know. Nextdoor is a master class in dark patterns.

i have a .af (afghanistan) domain that will expire next month. i can't renew it because the registrar isn't able to make contact with anyone at their noc since the US pulled out.

agreed, but i almost feel like it's supposed to feel a little weird to avoid accidentally buying things. either way, if you want to make it easier, there's an option under settings > accessibility > side button. You can adjust the speed required to register a double or triple click.

i tried this with the 50 foot sycamore in my back yard and the leaves didn't decompose at all. they fell and froze. then in the spring when things thawed out, they formed a thick wet mat that suffocated and killed everything underneath.

Unless they needed to pay their employees or vendors today.

-- prompt --

John posts 1 chatGPT challenge that is too ambiguous to be a valid test. James posts 14 well formed, unambiguous challenges that clearly highlight chatGPT's shortcomings. How many challenges remain too ambiguous to be valid?

-- response --

15 chairs.

I understand the solution that you consider obvious. There are other posters in this thread with different solutions that they think are obvious. If several of people parse several meanings out of one statement then the statement is ambiguous.

> Q: The room has 19 chairs. We are using 10 and then bought 9 more, how many chairs do we have in the room?

This is a terrible question and i'm not surprised chatGPT is subtly telling you it can't figure it out.

"The room has 19 chairs" 19 chairs belong to the room or 19 chairs are in the room?

"We are using 10" are "we" in the room too? are we using them for sitting, or does "used" imply consumption e.g. used for firewood? is this statement about the room's chairs? is this statement about chairs at all?

"and then bought 9 more," presumably we left the room to buy the chairs, did we bring them back into the room? if we didn't leave the room to buy, i.e bought them online, have they arrived yet? it's still not clear if we are in or have ever been in the room.

> how many chairs do we have in the room?

how many chairs do _we have_? does the room's initial set of chairs belong to us? if not, do we just count the ones we bought?

No, the answer is that it's impossible to know with the information provided. We don't know if "used" implies removal, nor if "bought" implies addition. You could make reasonable arguments in any direction.

I think this used to be true, but we're not building toys anymore. Whether we like it or not, SaaS products are rapidly becoming transitive dependencies of mission critical, life/death infrastructure.

Last time i had to get roadside assistance, they couldn't use a mile marker / highway location reference. They had to have something to type into google maps in order to dispatch help.

Could they have gotten to me if google maps was down? Probably but i'm not sure. Either way, it wouldn't have been the practiced default and that matters.

To maximize morale pain so more people leave without having to pay them severance. If you knew you were at risk of being laid off sometime in the next few months, wouldn't you start looking now?

> I think the parent comment was talking about a loyalty card discount at a supermarket

They are & so is the parent of your post. In the US, it's common for supermarket cashiers to lookup loyalty cards by the customer's phone number. The comment you replied to is saying that the phone number <area-code>-867-5309 is almost always tied to an existing loyalty card. Lots of people just give that phone number if they want the discounts without signing up.

You and the gp are both 100% right. That is the incentive structure and it is malignant.

Most people don't know what a graphics card is.

This is the same verbal gymnastics confederate sympathizers use when trying to say that the civil war was about "states rights." All you have to do is follow the logic to its conclusion.

What was the civil war about? States rights. What rights, specifically? The right of states to allow their citizens to practice slavery. Therefore, the civil war was about slavery.

What was jan 6 about? It was about an attempt to undermine the government. An attempt to undermine what, specifically? The election process. Why did they seek to undermine the election process? So that the mob could extra-judicially install a leader of their preference. Another word for this is coup d'etat.

It’s around and popular, but it doesn’t have zealots to suck all the oxygen out of the conversation.

Look at the people in this comment section that are emotionally upset that the author didn’t prefer JS over ruby. They’re calling the author stupid, saying the author is bad at bootstrapping or just not using the right frameworks.

People don’t seem to be emotionally connected to Rails in the same way.

Do you have a moderately credible source on this? The linked is pushing a radical right-wing hard-line anti-vaccine agenda too hard to be considered remotely credible or trustworthy. It also does not link to primary sources.

I think you have a misunderstanding of what OpenTelemetry is. It helps you understand what your backend software is doing with insights like how long database queries take to complete.

You are all over this thread claiming that the White House is explicitly pressuring Google to remove this feature of the site. Do you have supporting evidence, or did you just make this up? It seems more like you have a narrative and agenda to push.

Can you not tell the difference between talking to someone and cutting off their head?

Can you provide peer reviewed sources for your claim that critical race theory leads to lack of accountability?

Then it is not the flag of the United States.

Not saying I can make this better for your use case, but I'm curious if you use tap to click? i.e. click with a simple touch. I love the big track pads and also hate the tap to click setting (I want to press to click) and don't have this problem.

You're not wrong on any count, but it's impossible to take your arguments seriously when you say "congresscritters"