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> After all, [engagement rings] only need to last a few months, or maybe 1-2 years, until the wedding.

I think this is the cultural distinction you're missing -- married American women typically wear both their engagement and wedding ring their entire lives, and the engagement ring is usually the more ornate/expensive one (which might be due to the De Beers marketing throughout the 20th century this article discusses).

Apparently (according to a 2023 survey [1]) the median is more like mid-August (14-18) and a couple even start in July :o

(Your point is still right though, <5% had started school when the ChatGPT data was collected)

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/25/back-to-s...

public != free

Even assuming it's impossible for a single person to produce something as good as a large team, why would this be "something to be really afraid of"? There will still be demand for high-quality films -- why wouldn't that demand continue to be met? It's been the status quo for at least a decade that one "normal person" can make and publish a "movie" (e.g. filming something on their phone and posting it on YouTube), and yet Hollywood somehow hasn't been upended.

As a Python enjoyer, why do we want to shove so much into lambdas rather than just doing an inline function `def`?

Is it the fact that you have to give it a name? If so I'd say just using some generic name like `{f,fn,func(tion),callback,etc}` is fine (at least as much as an anonymous function is), and to me would usually be more readable than an inline definition of a multi-statement lambda would be.

Or maybe it's the fact that lambdas are allowed in the first place, so people are going to use them, and then when you want to debug a lambda you'll probably have to go to the trouble of changing it to a function? That is a fair complaint if so.

In any case I can see how it could be annoying if you're more used to a language full of complex inline lambdas.

Lol, damn. Didn't know that but somehow I'm not shocked.

My favorite thing about Apple subscriptions is free trials. You can sign up for a trial and then immediately cancel it and still use your full trial period. No nags. No more need to make a calendar reminder "CANCEL X" on the day before (and inevitably ignore it when the day comes if you're me).

It would be even better if they added a prompt on the free trial signup "Become a paid subscriber after free trial ends?" so you could just click "No" and not have to go through the few extra clicks to cancel (I sometimes have trouble finding the subscription list where you cancel tbh), but it's still infinitely better than signing up for a free trial with the subscription company directly.

The FDA still allows methamphetamine (under the name “Desoxyn”) to be prescribed for ADHD and obesity.

I absolutely loathe those setups in some tiny restaurants where they line up 2 person tables in a row with 6-12" between tables so you can hear the stranger next to you talking more clearly than your partner across the table. Nothing else triggers my unbearable social anxiety like it. I've gotten seated at those when there's, like, an entire half of the restaurant empty.

Thanks for the response! Sorry for underestimating your background based on what little I had read/heard about you. I appreciate and respect what you're doing.

AFAIK Emad Mostaque is not (yet) an AI expert at all, he's a rich guy (former hedge fund manager) building a business that provides the funding for AI experts to do their thing. Stable diffusion itself was built by a team of academics [1], Emad is not a coauthor. Not to take away anything from what he's accomplished -- it's quite incredible -- but it doesn't mean he knows how to (learn to) build AI systems or do AI research himself.

[1] https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion

I’m responding to this part of the parent’s post: On all fretless instruments, including most bowed strings and the human voice, enharmonic equivalent notes still have different pitches. The subtle differences in intonation is incredibly important and noticeable on the violin, for example.

Huh…can I get a source on this that delves into it more? I played the cello in an orchestra, solos, and chamber music for about 10 years growing up and I’ve literally never heard anyone mention I or anyone else should’ve been putting my finger in a slightly different place for C# and Db. I suspect this is for all intents and purposes not true in the 21st century.

Yes. I've totally bought into the smash burgers meme and they've never let me down once. I'm also a pretty terrible cook and don't follow the instructions too closely (e.g. I smash them before putting them into the frying pan since I don't have a big/flat enough pan). Delicious every time.

Might be wrong but I thought GP meant "It becomes difficult for the employer to trust the whistleblowing employee when...", not that the public couldn't trust the whistleblower. You can think Edward Snowden did something good+heroic while also thinking the NSA couldn't reasonably have kept him on their payroll.

> it doesn't cost mullvad very much to not autorenew subscriptions. People dont forget to renew their subscriptions to a service that breaks your connection to youtube when you forget to pay. It's closer to the world of warcraft model.

I might be in a tiny minority of users (genuinely not sure) but I only enable my VPN when I want to get around IP geolocation (e.g. to stream something only available in another country) and otherwise turn it off when I'm done to minimize latency. I sometimes go a week or two without using it so I could easily not notice at least for days if my subscription didn't autorenew.

Yeah it was more theoretical speculation, probably not doable on Mac (and I don't see Apple adding this feature tbh). I wouldn't be surprised if someone's implemented something like that in Linux though.

I suppose if you value your privacy over your well-being/existence you can perhaps resist giving up your password (not so with a fingerprint). Or maybe you could set up a "suicide pill" alternate password that wipes/bricks the machine when entered if you wanted to deprive your future self of the opportunity to relent as the torture escalates...

(Edit: I guess the latter is also doable via fingerprint if a different finger is used as the suicide pill, seems a bit risky for normal use though!)

Have you tried the "ultrafast" ones? I tried it for the first time a couple months ago and it's pretty mind-blowing. An order of 15 different items reaches my door literally 11 minutes after I press the "submit order" button. I'm in the UK and I have a supermarket a ~5 minute walk away but picking up the same items myself from there would take me at least twice as long (not including the time to get ready/dressed etc). I don't use it for all my shopping (it's a bit more expensive, but it's mostly because I like to get out of the house) but the convenience and speed of the ultrafast app delivery is really something. I hope they don't all crash and burn.

Right, it’s definitely still a voluntary feature. What I meant is if you opt in and make it part of your project’s standard build procedure for python code, you effectively get the behavior and benefits of “compile-time type checking” (to the extent that you actually use type annotations in your code).

> This is definitely not what Python is doing.

Maybe not by default but there is tooling that makes it work that way — that’s exactly how the python build system works at my company. I don’t know the details but when I “build” python code (creating bytecode pyc files) it produces compiler errors and fails to build if I e.g. try to pass an int to an f(x: str). This has usefully caught bugs before I ran some expensive/time-consuming scripts.

I guess you could say this doesn’t count as it’s a separate program doing the type checking but IMO there’s not a clear distinction between that and e.g. having a first type checking pass in the “same” compiler program.

Huh, interesting -- why doesn't California have school buses? I could imagine it might be hard/unsafe in dense urban areas like SF, but otherwise, why?

That's a fair point for kindergarteners, but by 1st or 2nd grade kids in my district walked to the bus stop on the corner all by themselves just fine. Also, my district had elementary school start the earliest (and middle/high school would start later) which for some reason is uncommon but makes a lot of sense for a whole bunch of reasons and would seem to mostly solve this problem for parents who need to walk their kindergartener to the bus stop before work.

> Parents need to drop kids off before they start work.

I see a comment like this in all of these discussions and I'm always confused: did something change in the past ~15 years since I graduated from high school and school buses stopped being a thing? Where I grew up (Texas, which is generally not the most politically enthusiastic place when it comes to school funding) it was required that a school bus be available within a few minutes' walk of every student's home in the school zone. I thought this was a pretty universal part of American life based on every movie/TV show ever.

It's not only psychological -- for example, a lot of brokerages don't offer fractional shares, so a split allows some retail investors to invest who couldn't afford to before. (Although that almost certainly has a smaller effect than the options contracts etc mentioned in sibling threads.)

If you're within the warranty period (or have AppleCare) you should definitely bring them into an Apple store. It might be a hardware issue. If you describe the problem to them they will almost certainly take your word for it and give you a free replacement left AirPod. Even if it's not a hardware issue you'll get a fresh new battery for one ear :) I've done this several times between my two pairs of airpods.

> Big difference with poker is that its all about money, the game doesnt work if people arent risking something.

I don't see this, I used to really enjoy online poker tournaments for play-money. It's a fun and strategic game in and of itself with nothing more than minor bragging rights on the line, to me at least. I honestly don't see why it should be any different from chess in terms of purely recreational play. (You could say chess is a deeper game, and that's probably true in some ways, but that's not a positive feature for casuals like me with no desire to invest many hours/years into mastering the game.)

Whoa, TIL. This feature seems to be hidden away in MacOS under Accessibility settings -- it's not available in the regular trackpad gestures settings menu. So for some reason Apple seems to not want to show it very prominently. But I just enabled it and at least initially it seems really useful, so I wonder why.

> I have a credit card but I very very very rarely use it for anything.

But why? The credit card is strictly better isn't it? I thought the main reason people used debit cards was that they got one automatically with their checking account and just never bothered to apply for a CC, but that's not the issue for you.

> You know, I'm always astonished to which length people go to defend Apple!

The reason this is a serious problem and not equivalent to any other situation where you can get people to click an arbitrary link wasn't immediately obvious to me either. I'm glad the question was asked and answered. I'm not a diehard Apple defender, just someone who's not immersed in this phishing stuff on a daily basis. shrug