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At the risk of my recommendation itself being a spoiler, I can recommend the movie “Fallen” with Denzel Washington.

Did chatgpt post the reference as a footnote (or parenthetical)?

At least for now,I was thinking it didn’t do that, and maybe the lack of references would be an indicator of unedited gpt output.

“It’s just a prototype,” can be bad if you are doing half baked things to get them done quickly, telling yourself you will rewrite for production.

A pattern I’ve frequently seen is schedule pressure mounts and when you need to scale back on scope to meet a deadline, rewrites are the first to go.

I’d guess a good portion of the garbage people inherit from others fits into this category.

A number have people have replied and I think they are all correct, but I want to be explicit.

Given a function y = mx+b. Graphically, the function is a line on the xy plane, and if you trace your finger along the line toward the y axis, where your finger “intercepts” the y axis is the value of the y intercept.

That’s the idea of the name.

And everyone else is also correct, Its value is f(0) where y = f(x) = mx + b.

While it may be frustrating to see comments from people who haven't read the article being discussed, it's important to recognize that everyone consumes and processes information in different ways. Some people may prefer to skim articles or jump straight to the comments section to get a sense of the wider conversation, rather than reading every detail of the article itself.

Some people may not have the time or the interest to read lengthy articles and may prefer to get the gist of the discussion through comments. It's important to keep an open mind and respect the ways in which others consume and engage with information.

—thus spake chatGPT

> sub rosa

Been reading Gray Man books?

There is a legal difference between a company policy and a contract with a customer.

> Why don't iOS and Android support sending calls from unknown numbers straight to VoiceMail

iOS does. It’s called “Silence unknown callers” in the phone app settings.

I expect android has this as well.

Pretty sure he meant to say “collabUML”

Meh, I’m not concerned.

If something is small and high volume then it’s a fraud risk.

I haven’t done the math but I do nearly all of my shopping on Amazon. I do this because I know I won’t have any problems with returns or refunds with Amazon.

I tend to avoid the random all caps six letter companies when I can though.

I also don’t pay much attention to positive reviews. I’m interested in the people that had bad experiences. So I go to the 1 and 2 star reviews and see if anything looks like a problem I would care about.

> Wouldn't that just be due to the low coefficient of friction?

You mean, its slipperiness?

Probably not to replace excercise, although who can say with gene editing.

Reducing, stopping, counteracting mental decline is a holy grail in medicine. I think there has been some progress here.

And on the general mental acuity note there are things like modafinil.

The best things known work are do what you need to do to get good sleep, and find some way to exercise routinely.

I’ve had a very successful similar experience with regard to excercise.

Merriam-Webster at least gives one of two possible pronunciations for “pa” as identical to “paw.”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pa

Relevant for the US.

We should congratulate Meta on actually not destroying an app by buying it.

It’s a series, not a movie.

From my point of view, “The Matrix” was it.

But a series could get a lot more of the detail and side characters in it.

600W? Is that a typo? That’s less than 1HP.

> None of that justifies claiming the cost is due to gravity.

Where do you suppose the need for so much energy comes from?

There is a cost in mass. Rockets today are essentially a giant fuel tank with a few engines connected to one side and cargo connected to the other side.

Every kg of fuel is a kg of cargo you can’t launch. That’s the cost.

> But occasionally I do use iOS’s built in Translate app and test my pronunciation by speaking Spanish and seeing if it can translate it to English.

That's pretty clever.

What a useless distinction.

of all the demos of ChatGPT I've seen so far, that one really amazes me.

You can see whole credit card number in the iron oxide encoding in the picture of the whole backside of the card with electrical tape covering the signature. The author seems to have wiped away the iron oxide but enough residue is left behind that you can still read it.

That's a load of crap. I use safari for all my browsing with the one exception of using Firefox for read.amazon.com. It's perfectly fine. I'm never working on my computer an thinking, "damnit safari, why can't you just be like chrome/firefox." That never happens. I vastly prefer safari to chrome or Firefox.

At work I'll use chrome because some of our web apps only support chrome for whatever reason. But they're garbage IBM puts out, not something you'd use by choice.

That’s brilliant.

> Mass doth affect the shape of time.

Auto correct and auto suggest are related but different things.

Suggest puts up options for the next word.

I haven’t hit my sixties yet, but it won’t be long now.

Youth is ignorance, and the only cure is getting older. When that happens you will marvel at how much you thought you knew and understood. You will listen or read the next generation making preposterous proclamations about older people and the older generations. Laughable in their certainty. Judging older people and finding them unworthy. Especially family. You may try to convey to the younger generation how you were just like them once, trying to shortcut the wisdom of age for them.

But there are no shortcuts. There is no easy way. So we can watch and reflect, those older than us probably have the same thoughts about us. Those ignorant 60 year olds think they know everything. Wait till they hit 90.

Thank you for posting these!