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One of those things is not like the others?

Gar son, jay nay pal a crooton pan? Smoosh?

"Size" might be as simple as radar cross section. Not necessarily a good thing for us squishy blobs.

You brought your own croutons and pan to a fancy restaurant?? Bold.

That's not ideal, but.... If you want more safety, you should want ford to do stuff like this. From the way it was phrased, I was imagining they added extra bars only to the actual cars sent for testing. This is them following the incentives and making their customers safer as a result; a win for safety testing.

Obviously it would be better if they had a deep commitment to safety and made every variation of every model maximally safe. But I'll take it. No such thing as absolute safety, so moves in a better direction are good.

The alchemists are still with us, more powerful then they ever could have imagined.

Something something a different enough value function is indistinguishable from malice.

More seriously, like the old adage about everyone being the hero of their own story, all parents think they have their children's best interests at heart. There's probably no such thing as universal best interests. Gets at some of the thorny problems - personhood, adulthood, cultural values.

Games/graphics are one of those domains with a lot of jargon for sure. If you don't want to be a wizard you can just mess with it and see what happens. I like how dolphin approaches this with extensive tooltips in the settings, but there's always going to be some implicit knowledge.

On a meta level - I feel like I've seen anti-acronym sentiment a lot recently. I feel like it's never been easier to look these things up. There's definitely levels of acronyms which are anti-learning or a kind of protectionism, but to my mind there are appropriate levels of it to use because you have to label concepts at a useful level to accomplish things, and graphics settings of a game definitely are on the reasonable side.

That's an aesthetic / scene preference (that I happen to agree with). The content is the most important part -- you can find this kind of curiosity and knowledge seeking all over the place. It'll probably even stay readable on stackexchange longer than the average handmade site from the 90s.

I was nodding along with your post until you brought out your numbers (I agree fully with the broader point). For me, any car above 15k or so is very expensive - I've always bought used and drove them into the ground. I'd love an electric car but it's not in the cards for my family until the total cost of ownership gets down to 2-3k a year or so.

This is something I've always found fascinating about materialism (I can only speak to the US). The messaging and feelings are incredibly similar whether your budget is 10k or 100k. Very easy to slide up the scale slowly and feel like you're still living small with a bulging budget, or to choose options that are beyond your means and so stunt financial growth.

I am going to say something straightforward and possibly hurtful. I mean it seriously and respectfully.

Just because you have been damaged emotionally, does not invalidate other people's emotions. They are quite possibly feeling the lowest lows of their lives -- even if that low is a mountain pass versus your death valley. They still deserve respect in grief, even if overall they have had a wonderful life.

I don't think this would be a successful product in that space. Professional and many dedicated amateur mechanics have lifts, they're not lying on their backs. Even if they were, space is at a premium and this is a really fun and goofy solution in search of a problem.

I think reasonable people can disagree on this. Fruit of the poisoned tree doctrines eliminate bad incentives for law enforcement to commit crimes in their investigations. But when doctrines such as this cause the guilty to go free, it erodes public confidence in the rule of law. Like many things, its a tradeoff - and the legal system is a process of discovery and adaptation, not some simplistic set of unchangeable rules. Justice for one must always be upheld. I think this ruling is pretty good at threading the line here.

You're right about the linearity being flawed, but I think there's an important and rescuable construct there. Humans do have ranges of illumination where we can easily accomplish certain classes of tasks - very few want to tat lace or operate heavy machinery by starlight, for example.

Yes, definitely. This case seems like it really hinges on the particular officer who should lose his commission and be individually held liable.

In the general case however, I'm not sure they should have the powers that the statute implies without proportionate limits.

I'm genuinely curious what you meant! I can totally understand those who say schools are like prisons. I've never encountered the inversion of that idea.

This is an interesting tidbit about llms, and I think it's widely applicable to knowledge search whether it's llm driven or not. The more you know, the faster you can tell if a source has anything new to tell you, etc.

But I was imagining creating a new work using a llm, then billing it as a never-before-seen work from a famous author, raking in the clicks and money thereby.

I don't mean to disparage this particular instance at all, as it seems pretty great. But I wonder if the rise of llms is going to make scams that sounds a lot like this much easier in the future. I think at the moment it's hard to make something really sound like a particular author without a lot of work, but that will probably change in the future.

They're designed to isolate and control everyone outside of them in order to keep the children inside safe? That is certainly an opinion.

I wouldn't state that unequivocally. I think for many people, homelessness (really, the pain, shame, and indignity associated with it) is worse than a "glorious" or meaningful death. Certainly, many people's actions show this to be true, if you believe to the idea of revealed preferences.

you can pack your mouth with cotton balls before going to sleep! very effective at producing a dry mouth.

You say used like it's a slur. There are many fairly high quality bikes to be had used for a reasonable price in most areas of the us. With a few tools and a can-do attitude, you can make almost any bike fit for use. My current daily bike cost about $50. I replaced maybe $100 of bearings and other wear parts. Going on year 4 of medium use now; still works great.

Obviously not everyone wants a new hobby of fixing bikes. But its a great time for almost any hacker or maker.

personally I prefer wheat.

Have you considered not living in such an environment of fear? I have no idea of your circumstances, but this is something I see in my local relatives all the time. They buy ring cams and security systems, scrutinize nextdoor, etc. In reality, they are incomparably rich and safe compared to most. Personally I refuse to buy into this nonsense and just go about my life, despite living in a place that's far more dangerous by the numbers.

Lots of people already do, in essence.

In that case (fascinating reading!), the person used far too cold of a solution, applied it for too long, and in consequence suffered a really bad injury, possibly compounded because she didn't seek treatment for 2 and a half weeks. Also, it was on a forearm, not the head or other hairy areas, so the mechanism of marking was more "kill the whole skin" than "kill pigment cells" specifically.

It could be done in a much safer manner - I don't think it really proves much about effectiveness overall.

On first read, I was wondering why on earth did they not use a train? I looked it up and found this from a primary source:

> The principal objectives of the expedition were to servicetest the special-purpose vehicles developed for use in the first World War, not all gf which were available in time for §uch U§e; and to determine by actual experience the possibility and the problems involved in moving an army across the continent, assuming that railroad facilities, bridges, tunnels, etc. had been damaged or destroyed by agents of an Asiatic enemy.

which makes a lot of sense. great reading: https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/resear...