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This is all correct. To add some additional colour, the “slap save” is a form of tilting a beginner player can learn easily. If the ball is coming almost down the middle (but not exactly so), slap the flipper button of the closest flipper when the ball gets close. Slap it quickly with your flat hand. Slap it HARD.

The sharp impulse won’t trigger the tilt mechanism, but it may displace the playfield just enough for the flipper to touch the ball when it otherwise wouldn’t. If all goes well the ball will deflect to the other (lowered) flipper, bounce off it, and allow you to continue play in front of your amazed friends.

There’s not a lot of overlap between prime citrus and prime olive farmland.

Ever wondered why there are few merlot vineyards in Napa these days? Dozens of vineyards are uprooted and replanted each year in that tiny valley alone in response to market demand.

And this, right here, is why none of us can have nice, cheap things.

I'd be interested to learn where those words exist in Cursor's context. My assumption was that it was part of the Cursor agent harness, but it's just as likely it was in the user instructions.

My husband and I play Wingspan together when I’m traveling for work. He likes board games in general, so it’s something familiar for both of us. And Wingspan is complex enough to reward skill, but also random enough that the outcome isn’t guaranteed when players are of different levels.

How would an architecture with a highly-optimized hardware implementation of EML compare with a traditional math coprocessor?

As pointed out in the sibling thread, this isn’t DDG’s fault. Reddit has an exclusive agreement with Google [1] to index Reddit content, and other web search sites are blocked.

[1] https://redditinc.com/news/reddit-and-google-expand-partners...

Direct link to the report that includes the case studies: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/df438d70-e3fe-4a6c-a403-ff632def8...

Kaggle is part of Google.

The system prompt is there if you use a chat app like ChatGTP. The system prompt is one of the things that controls the behavior of the app.

If you use an LLM endpoint in Azure OpenAI, no system prompt is in effect unless you provide one.

Veeery interesting. I have a personal domain that forwards to a @gmail.com account. There are several companies I interact with, from banks to retail to just about anything, that send mail to my personal domain that never arrives in my Gmail account, but I can see on the hosted mailserver. For those companies I have to use my @gmail.com address instead for the mail to get through.

Maybe there are more companies than we think that send malformed emails?

A lot of it gets converted to water vapor in the evaporative coolers, so it doesn't flow out -- it becomes humidity or clouds. The coolers do also produce waste water, but with all the minerals left behind after evaporation it's not suitable for drinking.

That’s how it works for us here in Australia. We have 16Wh of solar and 40KWh of battery, and pay (and receive) wholesale rates for electricity. During the say electricity prices are very low or negative, and we run off the solar and charge the car then. In the evenings when demand is high electricity prices can spike, and our system will automatically sell to the grid then. Sometimes we may need to draw from the grid in the early morning to make up for that, but the price we pay then is insignificant compared to what we make selling the day before.

In the US, all persons under 21 are banned from purchasing cigarettes.

Typing hyphen-hyphen-space is hardly exotic — I've been doing that since well beyond the advent of generative AI.

I noticed the other day that ChatGPT will now cite Grokipedia as a source (and presumably uses search there to ground results). That makes me trust ChatGPT even less than before.

Part of that cost is decommissioning and removing the existing tower-based system. But PG&E made the call years ago to use that fire-prone implementation to boost profits, and now we are paying for that short-sighted decision.

There are plenty of other countries with car accidents, homicide and cardiovascular disease. They also do worse than the US in life expectancy.

>>> And for most people, the healthcare system works fairly great. There are exceptions, like the denial described in this thread, and they usually get lots of attention because holy hell is that a messed up situation. But the everyday care that most people get is better than adequate.

As an individual who has lived in multiple countries in three continents, I dispute that “the care most people get is better than adequate”. Perhaps better than the world average, but certainly not better than in most first-world countries. And that’s not even counting the impact of delayed decisions and denied care, and the stress of dealing with the system overall.

And if you’re looking for more than anecdotes, there are plenty of studies that show that Americans have lower expected lifetimes than citizens of peer countries, despite much higher per-capita health care costs.

One thing that's hard to understand from the outside is that almost nobody actually pays those mind-blowing $200K hospital bills. US hospitals charge on a sliding scale based on the applicants' families' ability to pay.

(I don’t mean to belittle your comment about universities which is factual and helpful. I’m just pointing out that US education system is just as fucked up as the US healthcare system the OP is talking about.)

Airline safety is a special case I think — THE NTSB does incredible work, and their recommendations are always designed to improve total safety, not just reduce the likelihood of a specific failure.

But I can think of lots of examples where the response to an unfortunate, but very rare, incident can make us less safe overall. The response to rare vaccine side effects comes immediately to mind.

Great link, thanks for sharing. This point below stood out to me — put another way, “fixing” a system in response to an incident to make it safer might actually be making it less safe.

>>> Views of ‘cause’ limit the effectiveness of defenses against future events.

>>> Post-accident remedies for “human error” are usually predicated on obstructing activities that can “cause” accidents. These end-of-the-chain measures do little to reduce the likelihood of further accidents. In fact that likelihood of an identical accident is already extraordinarily low because the pattern of latent failures changes constantly. Instead of increasing safety, post-accident remedies usually increase the coupling and complexity of the system. This increases the potential number of latent failures and also makes the detection and blocking of accident trajectories more difficult.

iPad OS 26 is just as bad, if not worse. It's the Windows ME of tablet OS's: ugly, near-unusable, and riddled with bugs.

Just one example: I was excited by the idea of having two apps on screen at the same time: there are two I like to look at side-by-side all the time. But one of them (an iPhone app) randomly decides to switch to landscape mode, making the layout unusable. More generally, the window controls keep getting activated unexpectedly by taps when I use full-screen apps like games, resulting in the window reverting to not-full-screen. So I guess I'll just have to turn that feature off until it's actually usable.

If this weather balloon company is providing tracking data to the FAA, why wasn’t the pilot aware of the danger?

Cassandra, a short series on Netflix, follows similar themes and is quite good (as long as you speak German or don’t mind subtitles).

Thanks for the anecdote, but everyone’s advertising experience is different — that’s the whole point of targeted advertising. It doesn’t invalidate the OP’s point, though.

FWIW, I just used the Google app on iOS and got one ad (for artlist.io) before the midjourney.com link. A lot of people use Google this way to get to a named website, btw.

And yet somehow this article fails to mention that with the budget cuts to LIGO one of its two antennas is likely to shut down soon. Without two antennas this research is impossible.

I’m affected by this, and as pissed at Google about it as anyone, but the headline is overblown. The old Nest devices continue to function as thermostats, and the on-device features like scheduling still work. But I need the cloud-based features (particularly remote control via the app), so I went ahead and paid the upgrade tax.