That's incredibly cool actually, what was the book? Could you share anything he wrote which you found especially interesting?
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At $200/gallon, the cost of the paint would also be a major consideration.
If your coworker keeps asking you to review merge requests filled with garbage code they copy/pasted from an LLM, sure, shaming them might be part of the solution. But if people are turning to AI because it's too difficult for them to get certain types of emotional validation in the physical world, making them feel bad about it probably isn't going to help.
I've heard this argument before and I find it insulting, as though it's somehow a moral wrongdoing to prefer children without birth defects. If I could spare my future children from MS, schizophrenia, Downs, Huntington's, Alzheimer's, etc., I'd do it in a heartbeat. Framed differently, who would deliberately inflict a healthy newborn with any of those congenital disorders? That they might live a fulfilling life in spite of their disorder wouldn't make it any less cruel.
The sun on Pluto is only slightly dimmer than the sun on a very strongly overcast midday on Earth (about half as bright), but still much brighter (almost 200x) than a full moon.
If you choose a generic word for your brand name, don't be surprised when a bigger company chooses the same generic word and ruins your SEO. This has happened before. Maybe it's not fair, but it's extremely foreseeable. It seems much easier to me to choose a creative name in the first place than to risk a legal battle wherein you have to prove that really you should be able to use that dictionary word because you thought of it first. As other commenters have pointed out, since Threads (Meta) and Threads (software) operate in different spaces, Threads's (software) claim for exclusivity is tenuous anyway.
I wonder how many of the 351 emergency calls and how many of the 135 erroneous calls were made by a phone's automatic crash detection system. It's obviously not great that the automatic system is placing so many erroneous calls, but it may be worth the burden on Japan's (or any other country's) emergency services if such calls aren't an overwhelming majority.
And Duda Diesel sells a liter of 67.2% nitric acid for $60.43, or $101.69 for 2.5 (plus shipping ofc).
No doubt they're letting me through because some security heuristic says I'm a real human, and I'm sure they'd eventually make me provide a number if I continued using the account (this happened to me with my university G Suite account a couple years ago and I needed to contact my IT department to manually disable the phone challenge), but so far I can't see any evidence that they're doing anything unreasonable.
Perhaps they're requiring you to use a number because you've tested it a lot.
If an airline cancels my boarding pass because they don't like my email address (?), too bad for them, they just lost a sale.
If someone keeps missing important emails because their provider's spam checker isn't very good, that's not my problem.
Although I have to say that I don't run into these situations very frequently, and I use a basic postfix/dovecot setup on a VPS for my mail.