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That’s one of the reasons COVID got to spread. People in the West saw it as “a Chinese issue”. Me included. And I work with Chinese people every day. I would see them in lockdown and still think it couldn’t possibly affect me.

And then… well.

Attention is indeed weird.

I would expect Californian wine to be overpriced, as most things are there. That could also be a factor. If your local wine costs as much as a nice imported Spanish Rioja, why would anyone pick the local wine?

> Everyone feels like they're just trying to punch the drywall and grab as much copper wire out of the walls as they can until they're finally let go and/or the whole company fails

That’s very graphic.

The thing is, I already felt a bit like that before AI. It’s just money. This quarter’s. The rest doesn’t exist. Make flashy features faster and you’ll be promoted. Make things carefully so that they last and can be maintained easily, and you are be ignored.

I say this not as an engineer that tried to write maintainable software and now is butthurt, but as an (ex)manager who tried to promote such people. And now is butthurt. I found myself telling my engineers that if they wanted to get promotions they had to prioritize the shiny and skip the rest.

I hated it.

Now I am back to Engineering. I do use AI heavily at work because no one cares but if my output is “too slow” I will look bad. I at least try to raise concerns when I see them. The answer tends to be “yeah, we can’t afford to do that properly now”.

I use AI way more sparingly for my personal open source stuff. Because I care.

You could tell them: “ChatGPT found 3 minor issues with this paper, that I have since addressed: issue a, b and c.

well, if you let the quality of your search results go down, people will look for alternative.s

You can change some words in this article and conclude that Hell is just suburbia.

Yep, another happy Altra user here. I basically wear nothing else these days. Will never go back to a non-wide toebox shoe.

Well that is how Airtags work.

Any iphone/ipad/mac nearby will act as a router for them[1]

Given that we have already established that LG is a shady company, I wouldn't put it beyond them to try to use the same trick.

[1]https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-apple-airtags-actually-work

It’s aliens

If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing

I am going to boot it up and play today just to spite you lol

Depends on what the other choice is. If living on the streets without even being able to afford a pair of shoes, people will take that.

Ugh. Dislike.

“What schools need is more of their budget spent on student surveillance”

Nice try, Casio. However the Amazfit Neo does the same, and more features (like heart rate and sleep measuring) for a similar price. I like mine quite a lot.

Functions are free. Create new ones. Sin1 instead of Sin, Cos1 instead of Cos.

Indeed, this is what Pico-8 uses for its trigonometric functions[1] (angles go from 0 to 1, instead of from 0 to 2*Pi). I was surprised by this at first, but then I found it is very convenient and simplifies a bunch of stuff.

http://pico8wiki.com/index.php?title=Sin

I was thinking more along the lines of using text search [1] [2]

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch-intro.htm...

[2] https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/query-filter

I don't know the exact syntax any more, but I expect this could be solved by a single sql query that uses "inexact but close" queries and a bunch of indexes (and perhaps tags) on each category.

I read about ancient greek mithology

You underestimate the amount of time I spend pooping.

Wow. Well those people are going to be scammed. A LOT

My country, Spain, is famous for its beaches. Everyone native leaves the beach in the middle of the day and returns after lunch/siesta, when the rays are less intense.

Tourists stay and get burn to a crisp

The turntables do their thing.

But all of the other words begin with the letter they represent. Plex ends with it. It sticks out quite a lot.

One could make "Pit" be "t", with that logic.

Wasn't the point of the Ship of Theseus precisely that establishing wether something is or isn't something else is at least complicated? Using it right after saying "X is still Y" kind of seems to make the opposite point.

Ah! Like Pgp

Stop buying LG

“Plex” ?

> which hobbies do you pursue in the best case it frees you and everyone around to pursuit nothing but hobbies?

I could absolutely fill my days with stuff, no problem

If you wish to make a button from scratch