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How can you boast that this is the most advanced AGI interface when AGI isn’t real?

That time would be better spent just learning YAML, since you’ll encounter it in a hell of a lot more places than Nix

First of all fuck google, not just for this but for all the dumb crap they pull. They don’t get a pass out of some nonsensical appeal to authority. Second, If “large gamble” involves killing things then they shouldn’t be gambling. It doesn’t matter if it was a cat, bird, person, whatever. If autonomous cars are supposed to be so much better than human drivers then they need to figure this out. Most people never kill anything while driving.

This is what I do, except into the UK so I can watch geo-blocked sports. Pure wireguard, nothing fancy. But that also means if anything were to go wrong or stop working I can just tear it down and set it up somewhere else.

Paramount/NBC/Peacock/Fox/ESPN have live sports, which are the only thing left worth paying for, everything else can be skipped or pirated.

> * Alert others that there’s secondhand smoke in the area.

They will smell it in a moment too. They might even be able to smell it before they see the glasses.

> * Show smokers how far their smoke travels, making the invisible visible.

They don’t care about this, especially in a place where smoking is allowed. And if it isn’t allowed then the solution is to kick them out, and therefore there will be no more smoke soon and the glasses won’t be doing much.

What video?

As good as the image tracing has gotten over the years, using the stock image trace function is never going to be as good as re-tracing the image yourself with the pen tool to get the exact curves and lines correct. Do it once (or twice or three times if you want a couple slightly different wreath shapes), then either make the shape a brush or use the blend/steps tool to create as many repeats as you want. Or option/alt drag to make a copy and build it yourself.

That will cut down on the finicky stuff and give you a better result in the end.

I think the idea of this is intriguing. Unfortunately the track record for my major midwest US city indicates that if they tried this the contract would be awarded entirely based on nepotism and political favors, the app itself would never actually be finished, and would be rolled out in such a half-assed way that 80% of the actually useful portions would never work. It would never be good enough to make it a worthwhile expense and would just serve as another way to siphon tax dollars that would be better spent elsewhere.

I wish it weren’t like that but nobody around here seems to know how to make and deliver something like this. The one exception is a single already existing service that was so bad that any improvement whatsoever is seen as a huge achievement.

I can’t help but feel some sort of disconnect between “here are all of the additional considerations and tweaks you should make to make your site more accessible” and the fact that everyone talking about it can’t be assed to write “accessibility” instead of using the numeronym.

Privacy and Chrome are incompatible with one another.

> You have to assume it is helping at least to some degree... since cops are generally in favor of them. No, I assume the exact opposite. Cops and people who are law enforcement adjacent lie and obfuscate all the time. They have no real reason to need it but they know they can get their hands on it, so they do. Any justification happens after the fact, when it will be harder to take away.

Report to whom? Github, who allows the behavior and therefore doesn’t see anything wrong with it, or the repo admins who have proven they they couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the very thing you’re reporting? The well is already poisoned, there is no reason to think that they’d suddenly change their stance and cooperate.

VS Code is fine.

It is absolutely not socially acceptable, and people like yourself blithely declaring that it is is getting tiring. Maybe it’s socially acceptable in your particular circles to not give a single shit, take no pride in the slop you throw at people, and expect them to wade through it no questions asked? But not for the rest of us.

A “jacket” for -30C/-22F. Asking 99.9% of people to ride their bike in those temps is a complete non-starter.

Why not add it to your favorites list instead?

> I fear soon the only way is to just avoid playing competitive games with strangers.

This has been the winning move for about a decade now.

Why is it automatically assumed that just because you post a video on youtube that you deserve to be paid? None of my videos made me any money and I’m fine with that.

AI-generated docs, charts, READMEs, TOE diagrams. My company’s Confluence is flooded with half assed documentation from several different dev teams that either loosely matches or doesn’t match at all the behavior or configuration of their apps.

For example they ask to have networking configs put into place and point us at these docs that are not accurate and then they expect that we’ll troubleshoot and figure out what exactly they need. It’s a complete waste of time and insulting to shove off that work onto another team because they couldn’t be fucked to read their own code and write down their requirements accurately.

> I hope to learn what can be done do to improve typing on iOS and maybe get rid of the autocorrect in Apple apps on macOS.

Settings > General > Keyboard > turn off autocorrect

As usual it’s the end users and customers who have to do the testing.

I’m still annoyed that they fucked around with the webhooks by trying to force everyone to configure them through whatever “Power Automate” is, which introduced a whole bunch of permissions and ownership issues, not to mention the absolute dross of a UI. They kept sending emails and putting notices like “we hear that you despise this but stay tuned for updates!”, not to mention the hilariously short deadline.

Then they finally caved and said “oh, sorry. you can keep your old webhooks but you still have to go regenerate them”. And still today I get random emails saying “your power automate flow has a new URL”. It does? Why? I thought I threw that thing in the trash.

This matches my experience pretty well. My high school was using it 15 years ago and it was a spotty, inconsistent morass even back then. Our papers were turned in over the course of the semester, and late into the year you’d get flagged for “plagiarizing” your own earlier paper.

Yeah, walk around any popular shopping area in Japan and you’ll see box after box of items marked “Made in China”

I think it’s bs that spotify premium still allows ads to be played during podcasts. It’s similar to youtube premium. I’m paying to not have ads, and you still serve me ads. I don’t care that they’re “in roll” or from the creator instead of the platform. That’s a distinction without a difference. Figure it out or I stop paying. And yes, I stopped paying.

> I mean they have to know that's repulsive to a large segment of the population, right?

They’re trying to cram AI into everywhere they possibly can, so even if they do know that people don’t like it, that doesn’t help the almighty bottom line, and so not using AI is never considered.

Steam definitely has a ton of garbage, half-assed, slop games on it. They definitely were not made with time and love.

Wait for 2 sunders before DPS

I stayed at a ryokan in Japan recently, and of course the baths and pools are 100% nude, and people strip down naked in the changing rooms to enter them. Men and women separate at all times.

It was a new experience for me but it also felt 100% natural and by the second night it was totally normal and I didn’t feel modest or anything. There was an unspoken understanding that we’re all there to just relax and recover and help our bodies feel good. Nobody made me feel weird or self conscious, nobody stared, no one made comments or really even said much of anything outside of a few funny jokes that we all laughed at that had nothing to do with the setting.

Those people are intelligent, they’re just selfish and have no qualms over making money off the repugnant crap they’re doing.