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FWIW, I enabled that feature now, and it still answer based on discussions in other projects. (It’s pretty obvious given the very different contents of each project.) Perhaps it might be a caching issue, that it somehow doesn’t rebuild its memory just because you flip a switch, but just stops learning new things from other projects?

TIL. There is indeed a switch in the settings, which for me is set to "default memory".

Not sure if it always asked for this and I just forgot, I made all my current projects back when the feature was new.

Not sure how it works in Claude, but ChatGPT projects certainly leak memories between each other.

Regarding lazy mode, I recall ChatGPT sometimes almost refusing to do a web search despite me asking explicitly for it, instead replying with speculation about what the search results likely would tell us. If I pretend to be angry that it didn’t search the web it would however do it. Haven’t noticed this in a while either.

Good examples.

When I switched to Mac in ~2020, the Mac users I knew all told me to avoid Time Machine – at least two had issues where they needed their backups, only to find that the entirety of their backups had been silently corrupted. (I used Arq then based on online recommendations, now I use Vorta on my Mac just because that’s what I use on Linux.)

Spotlight was near-unusable when I switched as well. Often 5+ sec delays from pressing Cmd-Space to the thing actually popping up, and it would sometimes reorder entries right before I clicked Enter, causing me to open the wrong thing. Alfred uses the same Spotlight index AFAIK, but lightning fast.

Those are both things that I agree should… Just work.

To be a bit critical, haven’t Apple software and hardware quality been getting worse for years even before the new CEO?

Apple Silicon was the exception, that was truly transformative. But other things, like how polished and snappy the OS feels, seems to have been getting steadily worse.

I’m not convinced that was the issue in this case, as the battery still lasted all day with my normal usage, and the phone became slow overnight after a major OS upgrade.

I had my iPhone XR (bought 2019) until last year. At that point an upgrade made it so slow it was barely usable, while the lack of further updates made it impossible to install or upgrade apps after the device and OS went EOL.

Shouldn’t the difference be like manslaughter vs murder, in that intent matters? Accidental hacking on this scale is a somewhat new problem, no?

There is also incentives to adapt the message to the outlet. If you send that data to peer review and say we found 40% increase, the reviewers would reject it, so they have to moderate themselves. But if you send a summary to the university’s outreach outlet saying that we found something or nothing we don’t know, then they would also reject putting it out. So even for the authors, the incentive is to send a careful conclusion to peer review and an overblown one to popsci.

Btw, I also think a 95% confidence interval is just the wrong statistic to look at given that data, and that they could probably have analyzed it better.

Another one can be iron, depending on your genes. There’s plenty of iron-rich vegetarian options, but heme iron in animal sources typically is absorbed at rates of ~40% while non-heme iron in plant sources is absorbed at 1-10% depending on the specific source. Non-heme iron absorption is also blocked by calcium and magnesium that compete for the same receptors. It’s not impossible to get enough iron in a vegan diet without supplementation, but it requires some careful planning of what sources you eat and how you cook it, and if you’re genetically predisposed to anemia it can be risky without monitoring your bloodwork.

> how do they, for example, have a tool call that gives the customer a discount, without it getting used when it shouldn’t?

One possibility is that the company and the user both have AI agents, and that these are able to negotiate with each other. Then I talk to my local customized agent, which knows my preferences, and it explains the required context if the company’s agent does something that won’t make sense to me. But the company’s agent is still privy to the details required to offer discounts, say.

Interesting, thanks for the explanation. Especially the China argument is promising.

Based on what? At that price tag, I doubt it will be mass market, but perhaps I’m wrong.

JOSS is great, I’ve both published with and reviewed for them, and enjoyed it more than traditional journals. The process felt more constructive than destructive, in a sense.

I believe they’re always looking for new volunteers to review papers, so please do volunteer if you are able.

> EMPs are not "alien technology"

Yup, you don’t even need nukes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compre...

> I do think genetics are modified by culture in the long term.

For example, "self-domestication" by executing or ostracizing individuals that don’t fit into the culture.

"Conflict" is maybe a strong word? Homebrew installs stuff into its own directory tree so it should in theory not have issues coexisting with native packages.

Thanks for the input!

> I never initiate updates of the system, my Flatpaks or Homebrew. That happens in the background and whenever i restart (without me noticing).

Two follow-up questions on this:

- How does Homebrew auto-update on Linux? Do you have a daemon, cron job, or similar? Or a plugin for GNOME Software, Discover, or similar? (I’ve used Homebrew on Mac and Linux, but not with auto-updates.)

- Does Aurora sometimes reboot multiple times when doing updates? On normal Fedora I usually end up running dnf update manually to avoid doing updates in batches; when it updates on reboot, it can reboot 2-4 times… I have full-disk encryption on my laptop and it’s painful to have to wait for all the password prompts during updates. If this could happen be done in one reboot on atomic distros that would certainly be a benefit.

> I've found that this way you can get many of the stability pros of using an atomic distro even on a non-atomic one.

Digression, but I’m curious since you brought it up: Are you saying that Silverblue-based distros are noticeably more stable than Fedora? Or is it more a theoretical benefit, that you believe more in the long-term stability of that architecture?

Very interesting link. I am now confused and intrigued that the trademark for "heroin" is listed as being revoked as part of the Treaty of Versailles after WWI.

IANAL either, but could this be a trademark issue? My understanding is that if you don’t defend your trademarks you risk legally losing them.

Not really. It's not peer reviewed, but it's also not a free-for-all repository.

If you make a new account, you either have to get someone to vouch for you, or you have to wait arXiv mods to look carefully through your first few preprints. If you are found to post pseudoscience, overly fringe theories, etc., you'll get banned from arXiv; that's why alternative repositories like vixRa.org popped up.

But I know why you think this; when I first joined arXiv many years, there were no such checks in place, at least not that I can remember.

Do you have a source for that? My experience has been that people with ADHD are rather underrepresented, the ones who are overrepresented are rather hyper-extroverts that sometimes present similarly, but that do not have the same impulse control challenges (impossible to focus on boring tasks, hyperfocus on fun tasks) as someone with true ADHD.

Taken literally, you’re claiming that only 80 people on Earth would notice. Maybe a tenth of that if we narrow down what is meant by «consumer». I assume you don’t really believe that?

> Hence the name (Eugene‘s Macros)

Interesting, do you have a source for this? I’ve always read that it stood for Editor MACros, are you saying this is a backronym?

> For a start it's either spelled "Emacs" or "EMACS", and definitely not "eMacs".

Everyone knows that, but iOS autocorrects Emacs -> eMacs because Apple used to sell a product called "eMac".

> and you understand the implications thereof

Isn’t lexical binding the default in more or less all other programming languages?

So for people who don’t understand the implications, and wrote their .el files recently, lexical binding is likely less surprising behavior than the alternative?

Probably no, because according to quantum mechanics, photons are indistinguishable in a way that affects experiments.

Sounds wonderful. I remove my shoes in the office as well, since not doing so has led to health issues in the past, but it’s not so hygienic when everyone from colleagues to cleaning staff visit your office with their shoes on.

(Where I live, this is the norm at home, but not at office or public places.)