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I have never had a cheap phone where OS updates did not make the category in storage swell to take up most of the phone's space.

Hardware may be cheap enough now that budget phones are more useable--32 GB for <$100 is a major improvement.

I bought an 8a new when it launched for the express purpose of installing GOS. It cost like $450, and will last me most of a decade. If you are using a phone that costs significantly less than that (and I am speaking from personal experience! I had an Obamaphone that I got at a foodbank for many years, as well as a number of crappy used Androids!) your phone storage is so limiting that you are struggling to install more than a few apps.

It is incredible how willing and eager AI boosters are to denigrate the incredible miracle of human consciousness to make their chatbots seem so special.

No, we are not born with all the pre-training we need. That is rather the point of education, teaching people's brains how to process information in new, maybe unintuitive ways.

But the database company (that he was trusting his customers' data with) hid how the database works in their docs! How could he have known!

I do not use claude and will use agents only when I am forced to, so I'm genuinely asking here:

Can claude or other models not be run as a user or program with limited permissions? Do people just not bother to set it up? Why on earth would anyone run an RNG that can access $HOME/.ssh?

Oh fair enough, that is a nightmare.

HF is routinely used in analytical labs; it's standard to microwave HF solutions for ICP digestions. It's not even the most hazardous reagent in my lab right now.

Now, perhaps this chemist meant that no chemist in their right mind would physically touch HF--in that case, I agree completely!

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Mendeleev's periodic table was organized by periods of chemical properties...

Yes, I am, but I guess I don't assume anything like a blog or infographic online is accurate unless it's from a "good" source (news organization, citing a reputable book, etc.), just as a starting point to find something legitimate to read if it piques my interest in the topic. The writing didn't throw any particular red flags, so I didn't really care if the backend was AI constructed.

That's totally fair, I guess my defenses aren't that high because most of what I view online comes from HN or a few small reddit communities, so I'm not exposed to much slop.

Had never heard of domesticated deer, interesting. I guess there must be no milk production using them.

The proletariat, of course.

It's limited to domesticized animals.

I dunno, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool, certified AI hater, and even I don't really care if this is AI or not. The cheeses I am aware of match their descriptions well, and if AI let some guy make this in like fifteen minutes so I can read this silly, fun site on the toilet at work, that's fine to me.

Not very! This is on the "line of purples".

Here's a nice visualization of color perception (there are more modern ones, but we used the 1931 color space when I was working in the field). The horseshoe shape on the outside is the single wavelength colors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space

I call it a pro-human bias, personally.

I would consider myself an M365 power user and I was not aware of this. It is not well promoted--and after all the Copilot crap, I would be annoyed even if it was.

Regardless, I just tried to log in with my work MS account, and I can't do so.

Don't forget Tay!

‾\(o O)/‾ maybe, IANAL

I dunno, the same way they did for decades with public libraries?

It's not a communication with a lawyer, though. Asking a guy on the street if it's illegal to sell the meth you have in your pocket is not privileged communication, and he could definitely testify about that after you got arrested!

This is directly addressed by the author and part of the post? Tools were very expensive until gcc etc., and the internet made excellent free guides available.

No one is "forcing" you to drive a car to get to work, either. You could walk 20 miles if you live somewhere without decent public transit.

My view is that the author is talking about having a knowledge of career-relevant skills, developed for free.

If you can't develop the skills to be competitive in an interview without using LLMs, then you are forced by societal factors to use the LLMs.

Aluminum should oxidize essentially instantly.

We still expect high school students to learn to use graph paper before they use their TI-83, grade school students to do arithmetic by hand before using a calculator. This is essentially the post's point, that LLMs are a useful tool only after you have learned to do the work without them.

New England

A Musk joint immediately after an IPO. ATM puts will be trading at what, 250% IV?

The market can stay irrational...

I used Dogpile "because it searches all of them at once!" until I realized that only Google's results were worth anything.

I feel like supermarkets more or less do tell you this--I get expired crap all the time if I don't check myself.