pavel_lishin

This is just an ad.

Only an own-goal if it negatively impacts them, right?

How many 1Password users will even know about this, and of those, how many will care?

> The ability to upload photos from your device automatically

I don't think the article actually covers this; they mention installing the immich app on your device and uploading a photo, but it's not at all clear that this will automatically back up all photos taken on your phone.

This comment feels like an ad for SnapClaim.

I've filled out one ad with an email (a one-off), and it's remembered that email and has been prefilling it every time.

(I assume you mean the weird thing where it does a poll, and then pulls up a contact form.)

Were they ever well run?

I got incredibly lucky at my first job. The first office we had was a five minute walk from my apartment. I could literally walk home to grab lunch, or to enjoy a private bathroom break. The second office moved to a 10 minute bike-ride away (5 minutes by car, 20 walking - which wasn't pleasant in the Texas heat), and was on the top floor of an office building, and I got my very own office with a door.

That was nice.

Sitting at a shared desk, one row away from twenty sales people who were on their phone all day, that wasn't.

I like that this tends to generate occasional enclaves/exclaves.

Fans of this series - and folks who are generally in this post's comments - are likely to enjoy Larry Niven's short story "A Tall Tail": https://reactormag.com/a-tall-tail/

> The point of DF, to a large extent, is precise control and detail.

I don't know, it's basically Minecraft with Lemmings. You control a lot, but at the end, the AI comparison might be somewhat apt - you tell the dwarves what to do, and they mostly do it. When they're not struck by a strange mood, or when they're not too depressed to work, or when they're not being eaten by a Forgotten Beast (beware its deadly dust!)

It also has effectively zero physics. I still remember being annoyed at how water worked in Minecraft when playing with my kid, and the fact that trees don't collapse if you cut 'em down.

(Yes, yes, mods exist.)

You're not wrong!

I used to play it, and for me, I think it scratched the same creative itch that Minecraft does in other folks. Building grand designs, etc. But in Minecraft, I'd have to place it block by block, and the physics... well, they're just absent. DF is like Minecraft, but with Lemmings, and a full physics system.

I still remember some of those designs, and I can see them clearly in my mind - not as the game represented them, but as the dwarves would have seen them. A grand underground bridge, with water flowing alongside it, before spiraling down into the main hall - where the wagons would enter the marketplace, and the dwarves would pass through the mist generated by the waterfall (forgotten beast got 'em all.) A giant vertical chain, build out of stone, standing as a monument to the grand fortress that sprawls underneath it (half-completed, as the fortress succumbed to madness.) A fortress built into a volcano, underneath the open sky, with the forges powered by magma, and a small river diversion creating endless obsidian (fucking birds kept swooping down and either eating my dwarves, or knocking them into the volcano, because I couldn't build the roof fast enough.)

I keep wanting to go back in, and I should - but I'd literally have to dig out the `cheatsheet.txt` file I had to keep on my desktop while playing, PLUS I'd have to figure out if I still needed the third party app that makes managing dwarven jobs reasonable, because in-game it's a fucking nightmare - and whether that app even exists for OS X, because I think it was a Windows-only thing that would interact with the game by directly reading RAM.

It sucks, but it's so good.

They didn't, they asked an LLM to create a webpage, and it did, and they didn't notice that particular bit of sloppery, any more than people who post AI-generated memes on Facebook don't notice that their niece has six fingers now.

Well, I'm glad they're getting warrants to do this, instead of just emailing Tesla's PR to get it.

The article is not about using Claude to hack into a website.

I like the idea of there being a place on land where a Muslim can look anywhere, and be looking toward Mecca.

But apparently, it's the middle of the ocean, although there does appear to be an atoll very close by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tematagi

Can you give us a few pointers or links?

... what is this?

That would have been fine.

I have been watching a Youtuber play this, and you know what, maybe it wouldn't be any fun at all.

Perhaps more teachers should punch students in the face.

Oh, it would certainly have to be simplified to the level of Factorio. Not a thousand kinds of steel tube, but just one kind.

I wonder if one could make a fun and entertaining game that's inspired by Soviet central planning and Factorio alike - so much of Factorio is balancing raw inputs, intermediate products, and the need for "final" products (e.g., ammunition, rocket fuel, etc.).

I guess I can't lump every English teacher into the same bucket, but in my experience, they aren't particularly skilled at explaining the context behind a lot of the stuff being taught.

No, the very first meeting with the Emergents, where ... I forget the character's name (Trixia?), but she's a linguist and she figures out that there's something odd about the painting-carvings in the Emergent habitat. She can't put her finger on it until she spends more time studying their language, and figures out that they... well, we're getting into spoiler territory, so rot13: Fur svtherf bhg gung gurl gnyx nobhg crbcyr nf bowrpgf gb or bjarq.

> The Met Cloisters has these wooden altarpieces from the 1400s that draw your attention immediately, I think because the mind can subconsciously calculate the time it must have taken to carve them, and it sends a signal back to the eyes: important. You know that you are not just seeing a work of art, but the expenditure of a life.

Reminds me of one part of Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky".

It felt even worse when reading Shakespeare, which is nominally the same language you and I speak, but just barely. Add the fact that it's a play, where the performance carries a lot of the meaning.

The end result was that I - and as far as I could tell, 99% of my classmates - got basically negative value out of sitting in class and reading lines we didn't understand out loud, without even time to try and parse it out because we were too busy just scanning the lines to see when it was our turn to speak.

I'm not familiar with the internals of how tar and gzip work, but I would have expected the exact opposite result if I had to guess.

People still are.

I wish Android had this as well. There are apps where it's difficult-to-impossible to turn all sound off, and I wish I could just tell my phone that this app is just never allowed to use the speakers.