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This can be very useful.

Indeed my Android phone sees my Linux PC. And the PC can send a file to the phone. At first the file transfer to the PC didn't work and the icons just twitched. After 5 minutes it works now strangely enough.

In the past it was "The Usual Suspects", now it is "Model Citizens". Back then smoking indoors at conferences was a topic hackers would discuss. Now I'm sure it will be a very serious conference full of grown-ups.

Will not be able to attend this year :'-) Have to ask friends to get me a "Model Citizen" shirt!

Choice quote from the article:

    Three days later, Pucci, now 50, followed her in a car and started to yell at her about a man she was dating.

    “You thought you’d get away with this. I am in your car. I am in your maps,” he shouted at her, according to the police records.

    [...]

    “The victim has not been able to drive certain speeds and on most recent occasions throughout this period, [the accused] has turned on ‘Valet Mode’ which immediately reduces the speed to 40km per hour causing significant safety issues for the victim on the road”, the police documents stated.

Of course this incident shows why I wouldn't want a car with this capability. Because when an asshole like Pucci can do it, the operator of the remote services can do it too!

I tend to agree that making the sugar measurements more robust is worth more than measuring the ketones at all. However, low sugar and high ketones can happen. And just getting notified when ketones pick up can be worth something too. The additional measurement is not useless seen from my perspective.

As an example: I was on a study that gave T1D patients Dapagliflozin (Farxiga). During the study, while on a long hike, I was hovering at low sugar and consequently insulin supply was mostly cut off for an extended period. As I started to to feel unwell, I measured ketones. I was briefed as preparation for the study to measure ketones when something seems wrong. Otherwise I wouldn't have thought of measuring ketones. Might not even have carried the kit.

On that occasion, the ketones were way above 1 mmol/l: a very high value. Protocol would have required me to call the study doctor due to the high level. Since it was a Sunday, I spared her, shot some insulin, ate a sandwich, and continued my hike. I could do that because I was not alone on that hike. I knew that if my situation deteriorated, somebody would be around to call rescue.

At the study debriefing I mentioned the incident and they said that adding to the effect of the Dapa, I was probably dehydrated, which led to the rare situation of both low sugar and high ketones.

All in all I think that if the sensor makers exhaust possible improvements for the glucose, it can make sense to add the ketone measurement as a safeguard. Having high sugar can have many reasons, and it often takes me a while to get to measuring ketones. Getting the signal of rising ketones, I would react faster a few times a year in situations where my insulin supply is broken.

Turkey has a warrant out for a housemate. I appreciate the gesture that they also target real criminals.

More companies should do this kind of advertisement.

I'd rather read the prompt.

I used Ansel for a while, and I agree that Darktable is suffering from feature creep. Ansel right away had some usability improvements. But the amount of regressions introduced was wild. The anger you can read in the messaging was apparently also employed to cut code, and things got flaky. In the end some features I used stopped working in all releases I tried, and I went back to Darktable. Maybe Ansel is stabilizing now, and I should try again.

I recently re-read Starfish by Peter Watts and man that book rhymes a lot with current events.

Yeah why is 10% success bad? What is the tradeoff between spent effort and missed cures if we try to tweak the success rate by killing prototypes earlier in the pipeline? While reading I was expecting a reasoned argument... that was stubbornly not coming around.

You can say you don't want the bad guys to get the capability until and after the reality hits you. But this arrogant hope stands in the way of developing an effective response. The handlers of closed models would like you to be dependent on them for protection, this much is clear.

To native me, Alman sounds like an US American talking German. Unsurprising, if we look at the originator of the proposal.

I've been repeating this to anybody unwilling to listen: What appears like needless complexity in a language may improve the latency and stability in understanding a message. Redundancies are a feature of language, not just baggage.

Certainly, whether the German declination of articles and pronouns is worth it is very much up for debate. But looking at this example, Alman drops a lot of flexibility in how sentences can be arranged, and where nouns may be omitted. Imagine losing relative pronouns in English. That would slow down native speakers but make learning English easier. Good tradeoff? Of course not!

They must think they have some secret sauce they don't want others to learn. How to optimally instruct sub agents for example. If they hide the sub agent prompts, other models cannot be trained to emulate.

Oh and you can't even use local models or other providers for the sub-agents. You're locked-in.

Great hack, thanks! And yea I was missing some native string api when I abandoned Elm at 0.19.

Haha, yeah I didn't realize there would be a monkey patch route to FFI in Elm. Can't control the runtime. Is there a good read up on this technique?

> The whole point of HTML's design is that it's incredibly easy for a human to write correctly.

A lot of people (me included) used text editors to write HTML. The process was not easy, and the results mostly not correct.

HTML at the time was intended as an application of SGML. This is the first example of HTML from RFC 1866 that laid out HTML 2.0 in 1995:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
    <title>Parsing Example</title>
    <p>Some text. <em>&#42;wow&#42;</em></p>

Using an HTML editor was required if you wanted to get anywhere near that standard.

Yes that's where the word comes from. I was describing how the word was used here. You quibble with established usage. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analogue#h1

Analogue means having the same function. It does not say which came first.

I was lucky my pharmacist didn't listen to my doctor when I showed up with a prescription for a misdiagnosed disease. Would have delayed getting effective treatment for a life threatening disease. If I'd read forums I could've spotted it too. Don't just listen to your doctor.

> ... which has adversely affected public health or safety.

Why would they tack that on at the end of a very long sentence? Because they don't want to talk about the loss of USS Scorpion. They mention the sub once on the whole page and even misspell it as "Scorpian". Would not trust them as a source.

I'm under the assumption that Starlink will never provide more than one percent of the mobile bandwidth in a developed country. Because they can't match dense antenna webs in cities. Am I wrong?

From my reading the German court's ruling is that Google are responsible both for claims they made up and claims they rephrase from somewhere else. Because the claims appear as a statement of fact made by Google. If they showed it as "User X on site Y claims Z" they would not be held responsible. Because that's how search engines are understood to work. If they make a wrong quote, they would be responsible for that though.

So my understanding is their unreliable AI summaries are a legal liability for Google in Germany and people can request corrections through the courts.

The flag is not plastic.

https://1worldflag.com/flag/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organza

Wait do I have to choose what search provider I use for every search? They don't get merged by Uruky?

> Agents are fixing bugs so quickly and at a scale humans can't do already.

The metric is how many defects are introduced per defect fixed. Being fast is bad if this ratio is above one.

Start each meeting with a prayer to thank the transcription gremlins for their accurate work.

> Notice: I love the new AI accurate transcription feature in this meeting!

Weird article because it offhandedly mentions the term "healthy vaccinee effect[0]" but does not explain it. So while I was reading and wondering whether all these studies they mention were observational, they drop the term somewhere in the middle and then just continue their breathless listing of vaccines' inverse correlation to dementia.

The word interventional is not found anywhere in the article and it is hard for me to believe there are no interventional studies in this field.

> Multiple large observational studies have found that routine adult vaccines are associated with a reduced risk of dementia, with some showing risk reductions of 25% to 40%.

The observed difference is most likely caused by people with declining health being less likely to vaccinate. My assumption is that the article was compiled to show a conclusion that is not supported if one looks only a little bit further.

[0] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/healthy-vaccinee-e...

As a diabetic I have done this exact exercise: Look at photos and guess carbs. Two slices of bread is easy mode.

Why assume trick ingredients?