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If you read the news, it is libeling people.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/australian-mayor-readies-...

EDIT: I commented that is often wrong when talking about RF analog circuits or motor control, but this is a rabbit hole. It's like a bad textbook.

Garriott explains all of this in the documentary "Get Lamp".

As long as we keep having to ask, "ChatGPT answered this questions but was it right?" it is a nonstarter. It is currently a novelty, not a tool. To be a tool it needs to be reliable.

I would argue that the aspects of culture that shape the culture are inherently recorded by the culture. The loss of one specific work known by very few can hardly be reason to panic, because there are petabytes of this content which I'm pretty sure no one will remember ever existed in the future, except the AIs that are trained on them. Now if the work that was lost was something of value, like a mathematical paper that wasn't realized for its benefit, that would be a counter argument, but those are stored in other vaults of provenance. I'm in the camp that the internet archive is for nostalgia and curiosity enthusiasts.

I disagree with your premise so your question has no meaning.

Anecdote is on your side.

Facts are on my side: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/10/31/violent-cri...

2:35 AM is now broad daylight?

Literally every generation of suburbanites and ruralites think cities are big scary places with violence and drugs on every corner. It's just being amplified in this thread because that's what social media does.

Thank you for kindly explaining that I missed something obvious. :)

> An ideal transistor does the following:

That's odd. From my perspective, an ideal transistor has zero temperature sensitivity across the linear range, zero voltage drop across the PN junctions, a beta cutoff frequency of infinity Hz, 0 ohm stray base resistance. Oh, and doesn't overheat.

I think OP meant "An ideal MOSFET". :)

GE is a multibillion dollar company. Something doesn't seem right if they are claiming they can deliver radically cheap energy. I mean, what shareholder or board member in the right mind is going to say, "Sure, let's kill our profits!" Or did I miss something obvious?

How will anybody be able to make emergency calls from anywhere if it is super expensive?

And weight lifters are well-known for reacting calmly to anyone who challenges their regimen.

Since this thread is chock full of anecdotes, here's mine that is the exact opposite.

I was completely healthy into my late 20's. I started a new job at 30. I got health insurance and figured for my 30th I'd get a checkup ... my first exam since I was 18 under my parent's plan. My blood pressure was high, so they did some tests which uncovered portal hypertension, and found I may eventually need a liver transplant. Zero history of it in the family. Good thing I had a checkup because I thought I was the model of health.

Again, since these are all anecdotes, I'm sharing. Yes be alert and ask questions but don't just blow it off. Maybe not yearly, but at least twice a decade maybe?

But this thought process begs the question: what if this person is the one who STARTS the history of high cholesterol, and subsequent increased heart-related mortality. Or following it the other way, only people with a history of this are at risk? It is statistical: there could be a person with no history who is at risk, the probability is lower, but nonzero.

Did you go back to working out and protein shakes? Because if you did, you still don't know why you are reacting that way which could be masking a problem elsewhere, and are exposing yourself to risk. There is a reason why metabolic values have "normal" ranges. Heck, if this were a JIRA ticket, I'd want a code review!

> Macs are not intended for power users,

The fact that you can make that claim with a straight face in the context of Windows, with zero examples, tells me you have little experience with both.

Not really subjective, as there are demonstrable instances where windows just falls over.

One easy example:

Bash/sh works the same on Linux and Mac. Nowhere on windows is that true: cygwin mangles paths in a demonstrable script-braking way.

WSL is not windows. It is literally linux running on windows. Which is even more complicated than running a half-baked shell. You're basically using a different OS which is an admission that windows is so awful. Might as well run VNC on a Linux box.

If you want to objectively compare WSL and macOS, you need to run Linux in a virtual machine on mac, that would be the correct comparison.

'ere ya go, mate:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0874HWG4Z

I think I'm the FA. And I don't mean F**ing article.

Um, no. I'm not saying that at all. In your case: if all you know is web, then that is all you'll see. I've used *nix for: all things cloud, distributed computing, scientific computing, machine learning, any kind of research, embedded, automotive, aeronautical, (oddly not CNC), CAD, physics simulation, circuit simulation, CPU design, etc...

> But at least “yes, it can do that”

That's a good point. Hardware failures are far more costly on a Mac that on a windows machine. I'm so far removed from that being an issue (because I'm old) that it is a privilege I forget I have. Duly noted.

Cygwin/MSYS/Mingw are really sad reflections of their source material. Not to take a big crap on the millions of man hours the developers have put into them, but they are not drop in replacements which is what I need. And in multiple cases over the years, they always fail to reproduce what is expected. These tools end up requiring their own special care in scripting, which is what I need them to avoid.

I didn't rant further, but Linux really is the best universal dev platform. I mean this in terms of examples, support, and tendency for developers to create tools, toolchains, and ecosystems from the commandline. This is because serious developers need CI/CD flows, and that is something that can only be done efficiently from the commandline, and the Mac POSIX system (with brew and macports) can emulate Linux almost sufficiently as a replacement, but not quite. There's a reason why everything in the backend ultimately lives on a Linux variant. It's just that powerful. Of course, if you're an iOS, Android, or Windows dev exclusively, my words mean nothing. :) There are plenty of CI/CD pipelines for those platforms, but they often tend toward ... Linux-like flows.

I wish more people could have the experience of using Mac and Win11 on a daily basis for real work. I've been developing on Mac/Win11/Linux for 8 years. Win11 vs Mac/Linux is night-vs-day. But you really can't get a sense of how awful windows is without spending serious work time on both Mac & Win. It's not an exaggeration. The simplest things, like remembering settings, switching displays, or setting up hardware, Windows is just garbage. There is such a cumulative cognitive load to using windows vs mac, that it is exhausting. And don't even get me started on developing in windows: the command line always has been and always will be shyte. WSL is a facade.

TL;DR: without actually committing to using both OSes for a solid period, I don't think developers have a clue about how bad Windows is compared to MacOS.

What on earth are you smoking, that is NOT the actual link. That is some woo-woo garbage page. Please check this thread again.

The actual FA:

https://www.ehn.org/pfas-floss-2658203711.html

And the OP:

https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/Fast-f...

wait what? what article are you reading? DR Tungs site says "All our floss is free of PTFE and PFAS (polyfluoroalkyl substances)."

I first read this article in the book "Commodify Your Dissent", which is a collection of phenomenally accurate critiques of post-80's culture

https://store.thebaffler.com/products/commodify-your-dissent

That second link is a perfect example.

I was introduced to Javanese Gamelan before I ever heard Glass, and when I finally did it felt like someone had pushed it to the limits of speed and precision.

Those should be fine since they don't have teflon and teflon-related materials: they are non-BPA plastics with silicon seals. Just don't microwave plastic (There are a lot of "ifs" and "buts" around that, but it is better just to not microwave plastic and be safe.) Granted, you are still throwing away plastic once the snaps break. They also make similar types with bamboo lids and a silicone seal.

(Hopefully if I'm wrong someone will shout me down with the correct answer :)

One reason I've heard over and over to support teflon cookware:

"I don't want to use oil when frying eggs."

I know all the arguments that follow, I'm just sayin'.

Dr Tung FTW!

https://drtungs.com/products/92-smart-floss.html