warmfuzzykitten

Nice one! (Just as it is.)

Slack threads seem designed to ensure you can't follow a conversation without branching off into numerous sidetracks, which are hard to find when you're directly addressed.

I'm sure this is well-intentioned, but it seems also true that using this tool will give a third party, however benevolent, identification of your vulnerable website.

"Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness." - William L. Watkinson

Computing, much less AI, is not a hard science. Computing is an art that gets practical results in limited domains.

Well, read on a little. The text quoted clearly blames monarchy on the Heathens. Paine then recounts the history of monarchy in the Old Testament, with an example of god Himself speaking against it as a form of idolatry, his point being not that the Jews are the source of monarchy but that scripture is plainly opposed to it. Concluding that section, Paine writes "And a man hath good reason to believe that there is as much of kingcraft as priestcraft in withholding the scripture from the public in popish countries. For monarchy in every instance is the popery of government." As a good 18th-century Protestant, Paine was of course against "popery", yet the historian doesn't claim Paine blamed monarchy on the Catholics.

The book itself was well-reviewed, but the takeaways are a bit disturbing.

To be sure, the Declaration of Independence has a litany of wrongs committed by the English king, but that is hardly what it is remembered for, and "blamed monarchy on the Jews" seems an unfair summary of Common Sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense

How can actual people use Julia symbolics?

If tomatoes come in a plastic box, can I eat the box?

There are other possibilities than "they lied". The most likely explanation is that the branch in India used tactics that were specifically forbidden by corporate policy formulated in the United States, that corporate management was unaware that it took place, and is now plenty embarrassed to hear that it did.

It's not necessarily true, by the way, that they wouldn't have gotten flack from Congress if they'd initially testified that they use sales and product data only they possess to find out which third-party products are both profitable and vulnerable to lower-cost competition, use it again to design competing house brands that are identical to the third party products down to the smallest detail, and follow that up by using their website to promote the knockoff products as preferable to the third party products they've ripped off. This is not a standard industry practice and would likely not be defensible as "It's just a house brand, like Safeway Soup. What's the big deal?"

I have a problem getting to his point when the examples he shows at the start are so unlike what I see when I enter the same search phrases.

"COVID-19 trends in Palm Beach" didn't bring up any hotel listings. Instead I get statistics, cases, and a map of cases from the New York Times, and after that a list of ordinary links.

"the walking dead season 11" showed an ad from AMCPlus.com, which is fairly understandable since it's totally on point, followed by regular links, the first to wikipedia.

I know that what individuals see is customized to some extent, but I can't imagine what sort of search history he has that would get the results he shows.

If his examples are not typical, it seems possible his premise is flawed.

MacOS won't let me run alda by default, and I'm not sure they're wrong. There is an open source alda project, but these are binaries downloaded from alda.io. Who vouches for them?

If he were actually "calling" executives in other companies to get them to agree to lower wages and benefits, that would be illegal activity in the US. Companies are not allowed to conspire to fix wages.

The "path hint" sounds a lot like a cursor. Since a lot of b-tree traversal is ordered, knowing the last position in the tree is often valuable information.

"the courts"? More like "in the state or Federal courts in King County, Washington". This probably isn't the equivalent of a patent troll insisting on a trial in East Texas, but they definitely cherry-picked a friendly jurisdiction.

Someone writes this every six months or so. tldr; Europeans don't wash their eggs; unwashed eggs keep longer. But they would keep even longer if refrigerated.

This seems unworkable. Gaining attention is intrinsically commercial activity. Attention has value; you can't stop it bleeding into the rest of the world. Some examples and questions:

- An "influencer" gets her photo on a Wheaties box. After that, the influencer doesn't have to do overt advertising to promote the cereal, their fortunes are bound together.

- In politics, as the former US president so amply demonstrated, attention is a currency.

- What about the exchange of ideas? Can one talk about the contents of a book without selling (or discouraging the sales of) the book?

- Is any mention of brand names to be prohibited? If you can mention a brand, unless all the brand's marketing has been completely ineffective, you are selling the brand. Don't like it? Pass the Kleenex.

Just got mine. I like it. Short and sweet. No ads. More like that!

I don't understand how Gödel showed limits of AI, or even addressed AI in its modern incarnation, which has little to do with logic. Perhaps some more knowledgeable reader can elucidate?

Backing up just a bit, what right does a state have to declare a web application a public utility? The jibber jabber about how Google might affect Ohio businesses seems just a distraction from the basic issue. A public utility is generally a business within the state that delivers essential services, like water and power, to areas in which there is no reasonable alternative, i.e., as local monopolies. If the internet itself is not considered a public utility - and indeed companies like Comcast and AT&T that deliver the internet as mostly local monopolies are not regulated as public utilities - how can a mere application on the web be considered a public utility? Even if it were, this would seem to be a matter for federal, not state, jurisdiction. The lawsuit seems more a publicity stunt than a serious action.

This is a terrific example of a permission that should be opt in.

I agree. When I buy through Amazon Prime, I can safely buy with one click because I can see the exact price I will be charged and, usually, the exact day it will arrive. For next day delivery, I can't recall they have ever missed the date.

It's logical that they add the cost of shipping to the item price, but their cost must be much lower than alternative sellers, as it is hardly noticeable on low-cost items, and comparable to prices charged by Walmart, etc. who charge extra for shipping.

I think it became the standard because that's the way to cook. No surprises. You don't want to get halfway through mixing up fruitcake dough and discover you need dried fruit.

Sure. Recipe for 2 donuts:

0.39 cups all-purpose flour plus additional as needed for bench flour

0.22 teaspoons baking powder

0.11 teaspoon baking soda

0.11 teaspoon ground lavender

0.11 pinch salt

0.11 cup granulated sugar

0.06 stick butter softened to room temperature

0.11 whole lemon zested

0.03 cup fresh lemon juice

0.06 cup milk

0.22 whole eggs

0.17 cups powdered sugar

0.22 whole lemons juiced

Ridiculously high. Say you have a one-hour commute each way. That would be $170/week for driving. Costs more than leasing the car.

Agree. I bought one in February 2012 on Amazon "Sold by: ThermoWorks, Inc.", apparently before counterfeits became an issue. It's fast and accurate and still working fine.

A helpful link on this subject. Apparently, medical schools in the US are now allowing more graduates. Not sure about profitability of residency programs, but certainly not all hospitals are teaching hospitals and the latter are federally subsidized.

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/us-medical-school-enrollm...

What was the video?

I thought it was a depressing little game because it revealed how stereotyped my thinking is. And, judging from the other readers' scores on the ones I got wrong, I'm not alone. The conclusion I would draw from this is, you can't really tell by looking at a neighborhood. The one from Rochester, NY was particularly frustrating. I kept thinking, I don't believe the people in _those_ houses voted for Trump.

Who downvoted my comment? The guy who didn't get the joke?