I’m in a similar situation. I’m just saying that I know a lot of people who work much harder than me, without anywhere near the same financial freedom. I think it’s good to meditate on that fact regularly.
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I feel bad about doing this, because surely someone somewhere is doing analytics on click data and saying: “See! There is a lot of variation in responses to this cookie choice, people are really taking them seriously, we should keep them!”
My brittle smart home setup is hanging on by a thread in the spousal approval department. I can’t handle the fury that will befall me if I fuck with the TonieBox.
It is absolutely the wrong tool for any long-term information store. Ephemeral think-it-through process notes only. Obsidian for anything that should live longer than the current problem I’m trying to solve.
It only talks about the levels in the soil. It says nothing about what impact this has on the food we eat from that soil (in fact it explicitly states that the level in food was not measured).
It also doesn't quite agree with your use of the word "we". The article does not conclude whether the elevated levels of metals were down to natural processes or humans (e.g. it suggests that weathering could be at least a contributing factor).
I get what you're saying, if someone says something is "toxic", it means something somewhere is at a level which is dangerous in some context. But the original comment on what the article itself is saying is not wrong. There is no information on real-world implications.
I suppose to keep it fully stateless you could encode the password in the URL itself somehow, but then that would defeat the purpose of not having the secret hang around in perpetuity.
Early in your career, with no savings, working for free is just not an option.
It focusses on the sensational-sounding part of this, the implication that people will blindly take these recipes and make them and eat them and then die. Clearly that is not going to be the outcome here.
But if you peel away the (false) angle that exists just for clicks on the article, there is a real story here. One that we all already know and understand, especially as technologists, but is worth talking about anyway because it's interesting:
It's that these "AI" products (the LLMs they're based on) _cannot reason like a human with common sense can_. They're not even close. That doesn't mean they're not amazing technology, but now that the technology has been applied to products, that limitation becomes more obvious.
It's kind of a boring aspect of AI to talk about, particularly compared to "AI creates recipes that will kill you!!!". But it's really the root of this story, and it's not nothing.
It's ok to let people like the Marvel stuff, _and_ lament the fact that there is less effort going into making more interesting (from one perspective) movies.
I had to move to another seat when I wanted to recline it for sleeping, because the crew (quite rightly) didn’t want my iPhone getting chewed up in the mechanism.
Despite me using my Apple Watch to make the “find me!” ping sound, nobody could find it during the flight, so they had to partly dismantle the seat when we landed. It was all very embarrassing, I had to stand there for 20 minutes watching ground crew take it apart.
I didn’t dare tell anyone that I didn’t turn it onto airplane mode before I dropped it.
A (clearly hypothetical in this case) cafe where screens are banned seems like a perfect place to do that. But I would hate for it to be at a place that is this aggressive.