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The market should decide. That’s commerce.

From what I understand, it’s not that simple. Sellers need the sheer volume of Amazon to compete. There is also the risk of Amazon duplicating their product and continuing to sell it on their platform… or their competitors filling the void.

I've successfully installed Ventura on a 2013 iMac 21.5", and I must say, the patcher has performed remarkably well. This post has prompted me to consider updating to Sonoma.

On another note, I'm contemplating upgrading the storage to an SSD from its existing HDD. A local tech service offers a 1TB SSD upgrade for AUD$400, which is quite cost-effective given the specs - a quad-core i5 processor with 8GB RAM. This upgrade promises to significantly extend the useful life of an already solid little machine.

Me too, Covid is a vascular disease and if garlic has the effect on the vascular system that I’m hoping for then I hope to live a longer life.

I should also mention, and I hope others notice this thread too, that I have fermented about 5 bulbs of garlic into 1kg of raw organic honey. It takes about 10 days or so to ferment into a pleasant sweet smelling garlic odour. The garlic is much easier to eat and I don’t effect the typical garlic odour. I like to crush each clove with the heel of my palm using a knife to open it up a bit and release its juices. Then place the few dozen bulbs into a large mason jar and cover with raw unpasteurised honey. It will ferment for a few weeks, so release the pressure each day. I suggest turning the jar over and sitting it on its lid then base each morning and evening because the garlic on top tends to float up. The result is a sweet and subtle garlic smell that arises from the jar when opened. Apparently a little garlic honey drizzled on ricotta cheese smeared on sourdough toast is amazing… I’ve yet to try it but will soon!

A friend of mine recommended it over a month ago, and I marked him down as “the garlic crowd”. But after some careful reflection I decided to give it try. Glad I did!

Yeah I’m an Aussie and we have fairly robust workplace laws here. For a long time I thought of life as “before chicken pox” and “after chicken pox”. Pretty huge effect on my life particularly the CFS.

I know what you mean, I was frustrated by all the pseudo crap out there...

But I did find this article that helped a bit:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4103721/

Does it have a positive effect on the vascular system? Crumbs IDK, not a clinician but I sure do feel a lot better.

The answer is yes, I think it is better. Personally I’m just not prepared to take Aspirin for more than a few days. So garlic for me. Also I think that anyone who is already on blood thinning medication should consult their doctor.

Look I think so, curious to know if the blood thinning properties of alician would enable to body to better repair itself, improve important metabolic processes?

I feel clear headed, no longer require naps in the day time and just seem to have higher energy levels. I got out this weekend and completed some long overdue garden maintenance.

Honestly, it was the worst 6 weeks of my life. I would not wish it on my worst enemy. Three weeks of incubation, two weeks of breakouts and a week of recovery. My employer terminated my employment two weeks after that. In retrospect, I should have pursued legal action.

I forgot to add a potentially relevant detail: garlic contains a compound called allicin, which has blood-thinning properties akin to aspirin. Intrigued by this similarity, I decided to run an N=1 experiment. I bought some aspirin from the pharmacy and tried it out. The results were astonishing — almost euphoric — and I felt like a new person.

I've battled with CFS/ME multiple times in my life, each triggered by different ailments. First, it was Epstein-Barr at the end of my tenth grade, leading to two solid years of chronic CFS. Then, at 31, Chicken Pox knocked me out for roughly 18 to 24 months. More recently, from January to August 2021, I experienced "Long Covid," and this July, a bout with RSV left me grappling with CFS once again.

My symptoms include daytime fatigue, necessitating frequent 40 to 120 minute naps. The brain fog is especially frustrating, causing confusion and lack of focus.

This recurring condition has undoubtedly impacted my professional trajectory. Interestingly, the only regimen offering relief has been consuming two crushed garlic cloves daily, which I started two weeks ago. I have hypotheses about why this is effective — possibly related to garlic's blood-thinning properties, but no concrete clinical evidence to back it up.

I just went into beta features, enabled it and then immediately started writing my custom instruction. A few minutes later I tried to save the instruction and I received an error. I then refreshed the page, and discovered neither the beta option toggle nor the custom instructions panel were available. I live in Australia (I noticed it's not available in the EU or UK) and I wonder if we can't get it here in Australia or they have pulled the feature for now?

Also, I just noticed that my chats are following my custom instructions, even though the settings panel is no longer there.

No kidding, I’m from Australia and my first guess was 155 miles from the location. My closest ended up being 140. I basically thought, “that looks like the mid west… Alabama” and had a stab!

Edit: sorry I meant Nashville

I was thinking that you could pin timers above each pot as well as other timers around the kitchen.

Just wondering, any chance that Vision Pro will support flash content?

*DESKTOP is somewhat in the middle between MS-Windows and Norton Commander...*

Does anyone here recall the intuitive nature of Norton Commander, especially in terms of file operations? This may be reaching back about three decades, so my recollection might be a bit hazy. As I recall, it was a viable alternative to Windows Explorer even during the era of Windows 3.1.

One particular aspect that stands out to me was the dual-pane interface. This allowed for seamless navigation within the directory hierarchy - you could tag files in the pane on one side, then initiate a move or copy operation to the directory in the other pane, and vice versa.

Given the complexity of today's file operations and UIs, Norton Commander's straightforward approach feels refreshingly simple and efficient in hindsight. I'd be interested to hear other users' reminiscences and thoughts.

I possess a 2016 13-inch MacBook Pro, which I handed down to my son for his use. Regrettably, he is unable to participate in the shared photo library, as it is exclusively supported by the Ventura version of Photos. The laptop presently operates on Monterey, its final supported version. Consequently, we plan to upgrade later today with the assistance of OpenCore.

This is a fantastic project that will allow us to maintain the use of shared features in macOS across all our family's devices, regardless of the age of the machines and Apple support for them.

My Mrs is an Astrophysicist and she is exactly the same. In her case she is terrified that Apple will move stuff around and break her paths rendering her EMacs setup unusable. Curious to know how to manage all her pipelines, iraf, python, R, Fortran and general fits processing and sundry as well without it breaking every. Single. MacOS. Upgrade. She only upgrades OS’s every time her funding gets her a new machine. Which is infrequently. Like every three years or so. She uses MacPorts.

My wife is an astrophysics lecturer at UQ. Whenever I take the kids around to visit her in her office, we often stop by to look at the pitch drop.

I can't quite explain the experience of standing there for a few minutes willing the damn thing to drop. It's a quaint feeling of expectation, wilful wanting and wistful disappointment as you draw yourself away from the experiment... usually by a child pulling you by the hand to do more interesting things.

While I'm standing here... is it going to drop? Strange feeling.

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I was just talking to a colleague last week about how my use of grokking stack exchange with Google for anything relating to hanging code together has been utterly disrupted by ChatPGT.

I haven't used Google as much since it launched...

Two days after ChatGPT launched I asked it to create a bash script that updates my active registered domain names in AWS with new domain, admin and tech contacts... a task I have been putting off for years and keep getting reminders each year to update contacts. I have too many domains to be bothered with AWS's regressive UX.

It made a script for me (after a few prompts) that used aws-cli (version two, you have to tell it that) to pull a list of active domains (using Jq no less) and update the contact details listed in variables in the bash file.

Look, I know sometimes versions of software with ChatGPT can be in conflict, but it just worked... first time???

I was done in 30 minutes, as opposed to hours of code pasting, rumination and iterating over and over (I'm a code paster, not a code cutter) with stack exchange and other sites like it.

It also explained how to do everything with extremely lucid instructions!

Look guys, I'm not a coder, I sort don't know how to do things in terms of for loops and navigating data structures, but I definitely know what to do and why I need to do it, which probably makes me an architect and not an engineer.

ChatGPT has reduced my Google usage for this range of use cases down to near zero.

It's a "game changer" and I hate that term.

For me, this is why Google has called a "Code Red".

Thank about all the other use cases that regular folks have?

It's no wonder they called a code red.

That's how I did the last one hundred or so in the end too. Someone also said shift click works to select everything as well, I tried it but it didn't work for me in Safari.

I just went into my old lastpass account to try and wind down the account, delete everything, and then close the account.

No option to "select all" in the list so I resorted to clicking the check box on by one down the page. I accidentally slightly clicked outside a check box... guess what? Everything gets deselected.

Start over.

Ok start again, maybe I want to list in alphabetical order rather than group by category to minimise mistakes. Whoops, selecting that option deselects everything in the list.

300 odd deleted in batches of 30-40.

When a company's whole application is covered in anti-patterns and dark UX to make it as hard as possible to leave then companies like this deserve to die.

Deleting the account is a bit tricky too.

1. Go into account settings in the top right drop down 2. In the Links area click on "My Account" which spawns a new browser window 3. Click the red "Delete or Reset Account", you can't miss all the red buttons 4. You can either reset your account or delete, choose delete 5. A modal will appear telling you stuff, enter your master pw, a reason why your leaving and then click delete 6. You will be asked twice if you really really want to do this 7. Press ok

I have found the same. I was asking it yesterday about calculating rental yields for our rental property. Usually it understands the context from the whole thread, but I found myself repeating myself a lot when asking new questions about possible scenarios. This is at odds with how well it knows the aws-cli, ffmpeg and yt-dlp… and bash. My productivity at the command prompt has skyrocketed… but it really flounders with doing financial calculations.

I know what you are saying, I have an M1 Pro MBP, and the thing is as quiet as a church mouse.

It just seems to me like Apple (with the trashcan) painted themselves into a corner with thermals. Then Intel did the same by missing node generations and are just pumping more current (or voltage, heck I don't get electricity). Now Nvidia is doing the same now with an aging reference platform that needs an overhaul.

I feel that it's simplistic to say that Apple has the right strategy with APU's, because gamers want faster and faster gaming performance whereas Apple are making custom silicon for very narrow use cases (namely video editing) and consumers perusing the internet and organising photos.

Funnily enough, I do think that Apple have the right formula longer term for general purpose computing with APU's.

It just that if Nvidia want to keep pumping out bigger and bigger GPU's while upping the voltage and heat then things need to change.

The x86 platform needs a page one rewrite.

EVGA opted out.

Please shoot me down in flames if needed, but maybe the CPU should be on a riser board and the GPU on the mainboard? Look, it seems to me that Nvidia needs to come up with its own x86 reference platform that revolves around supplying enough resources to the GPU rather than relying on adding layer upon layer of bandaid solutions. Listen, I'm not an engineer, and I don't claim to understand voltage, amps and watts, but it seems plainly obvious that if Nvidia wants to keep pushing discreet components that need a lot of juice (as opposed to Apples SoC strategy), then they need to come up with their own robust reference platform.

On another note, did EVGA see all this coming?

Essentially yes, they also get efficiencies from heat exchangers too on the way in and out:

“The new Zhangjiakou plant does away with fossil fuels, using advances in supercritical thermal storage, supercritical heat exchange, high-load compression and expansion technologies to boost system efficiency.”

I'm getting 403 errors on a range [1] of CSS and Js files:

Can someone elaborate as to why this would be a 403 [2] error as opposed to maybe a 401?

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/nWteVUn

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/403