Cyberdog

The only Copilot-type system I'd consider using is one that did the opposite - generated comments from my code, so my lazy butt doesn't have to write them manually.

For the same reasons someone would maintain a forum or some other sort of what we call today "social networking service;" to allow people to come together and communicate, sometimes focused around a certain topic.

Few people will make a living from running a fediverse server but if you have enough of a dedicated audience, you can probably at least fundraise enough to help cover costs.

That's a deal-breaker for me, sadly, but at least it means that "Mastodon" actually means "Mastodon" in this case.

Did they fail the polygraph? Or were they told they failed a sham polygraph in the hopes that they would confess their crimes afterwards? The police do this tactic often; if you are suspected of a crime, never consent to a polygraph not done by a neutral party no matter how not guilty you are, or you will probably "fail."

(Polygraphs are pseudoscientific BS in the first place, but I know there are some cases where you must undergo them for whatever reason.)

The US has this question as well, but I've heard that it didn't eliminate people from China who were able to make a "I had to join the party to get a certain job" argument. I presume that as long as you don't voice actual support for the revolutionary aspects of the ideology, the migra won't care.

Interesting, but not at all surprising, to learn how early cops are trained to lie for the "greater good."

I find them quite organic-normative.

Oh, right. My bad.

Very odd take to compare gas stoves to systematic murder, if that’s what you’re doing.

Indeed. I think we can all agree now that humans are a dangerous vector for viruses, filth, and general unpleasantness, and the world would be a safer, more pleasant place if we eradicated them entirely.

Literally 1984, bros.

This is a discussion about zoning and property values.

This page specifically suggests using salmon for sashimi, and doesn't present the idea as particularly novel: https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffi0000mccl/page/26...

It set off nonsense alarms in my head, though I don't have first-hand experience - but I had some ideas on how it could be disproven. I went to archive.org and found a book about fish preparation from 1977. Searching for "sashimi" (raw fish sushi) shows several results, including an entire section about it. This tweeter is full of shit.

https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffi0000mccl/page/28...

> 10 - Fermi problems. Good to get an indication of a candidate's problem solving skills.

Calculating the number of pencils used by Chicago's public school system in one year or whatever is pointless, though. I could "solve" this problem, or at least make a reasonable estimate, I suppose, but I'm a web developer. Wouldn't you get a better indication of my problem solving skills if you asked me about a problem related to web development?

A question like "what are some problems you ran into on previous projects and how did you solve them?" will be one I can answer instantly as well as give you a better indication of the competence I have doing the job you actually want to hire me for.

As with replying "unsubscribe" to spam messages, replying with "stop" to spam texts may just notify the senders that your email account is still active and being read by a human. If it's not from a legit organization which will actually respect your "stop/unsubscribe," just delete the message and don't reply at all.

Consideration needs to be made when thinking that a policy which works in Singapore, one of the smallest countries in the world by area and one with a strong tradition of rather strict governance in the modern era, can be applied to vastly larger ones with some pretense of respect of constitutional civil rights and a history of distrust of strong government.

The answer? A scam call answering AI bot which engages with the scammer (or the scammer AI bot) and wastes as much of their time and international call fees as possible without giving them a valid bank account or gift card number, Kitboga[1]-style. As soon as you detect the call is coming from a scammer, you push a button and your phone takes it over from there.

Eventually we'll just have a network of AI scambots calling up AI scambaiters and having completely useless conversations in synthesized English with each other for hours upon hours and nobody will remember why.

1: https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow

I’m not saying it’s a WebView, but obviously it works extremely similarly. It is not a native app framework.

After the Wii U floundered, Nintendo released the Switch mid-generation, which is generally not the right time to release a new console ID tire assuming for success. But we saw how it turned out.

My perspective is that if an app is not directly using a platform’s APIs, it is not native to that platform. Feel free to explain to me and others how this take is wrong and how something written in XML could be a native app on, say, iOS.

So it’s a web app with new syntax.

People who use the term “native app” incorrectly like this should… face difficult circumstances.

It's fine if the public barely understands web browsers, so long as they are not journalists or other people with a facade of seriousness and stature writing articles explaining how web browsers work and why they're better or worse than gopher browsers or whatever.

Before you write anything, please understand what Mastodon actually is. It is one of many pieces of software which uses the ActivityPub protocol to exchange messages between servers. There is no "Mastodon network" and using that term is like calling the web "the Chrome network" or calling email "the Gmail network." - the commonly-accepted term is "the fediverse" but you can call it "the ActivityPub network" if that sounds too silly. Similarly, trying to explain the experience of "using Mastodon" should be like explaining using a web browser; it's just a piece of software which can show you almost any sort of content, so there's really no singular experience you can have.

In these regards, the OP article is yet another example of journalism from the last few weeks gushing about and/or bashing on "Mastodon" without really understanding what it is and conflating it with the underlying network, which existed before Mastodon and will probably exist after it.

They handle it just fine, of course. I disagree with the statement that Japanese has a relatively high incidence of homophones. It is true that Japanese TV shows, particularly variety shoes and lighter fare like that, have a lot of on-screen captions and I don’t know the reason for that, but I doubt it’s homophones, and at any rates more “serious” shows like dramas as well as all movies are caption-free (but will likely have a subtle track you can enable).

Fair enough I suppose. I guess I've been lucky enough to not encounter any show-stopping problems with MySQL, at least that I can recall. Maybe you started using it well before I did.

For what it's worth, in the cases where you need a client-server database, I know that Postgres is supposed to be "better," but MySQL is everywhere and it's always been up for almost any task I've thrown at it. I've found it to always be sufficiently good enough.

Presuming by “Ruby” you meant Rails, you probably won’t find WordPress a satisfactory replacement for any of them if you’re more of a developer than a site-builder. As a web development framework, WordPress is nearly useless computers to the others.

I’ll bite at the bait: I prefer SQLite in most cases too, but why have you forbidden MySQL?

The qualifications for PreCheck are onerous and expensive. I'd argue that it might be unconstitutional as well since it basically allows you to pay your way into a lower level of harassment by government authorities.

I mean, that's kind of how our system works anyway, but it's not supposed to be codified like that.

Git’s UI is difficult, yes, but I’m sure far more people are familiar with it at this point than Fossil. It would be far more inefficient for me to learn Fossil’s commands for what I need Git to do than just continuing to use Git, at least in the short term (and with no guarantees it’ll improve in the long term). If anything, a tool which goes the other way around - allows me to interact with Fossil using familiar Git commands - seems more useful to me.