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Don't want to remember how much money I spent on a Copengagen wheel for my wife when she was in school. At least some kind souls published a way to unbrick it.

And worst of all, the momey you pay isn't tied to your license plate. If you overpay, someone else can park for free!!

>Will increase your Linux skills because diversity always helps the human brain

Is this still true, given how much runs through systemd now? I thought about trying out FreeBSD last time I got a new computer, but decided on sticking with Debian to help skill building on other Linux systems

Programs are fundamentally lists of instructions. LLMs are very good at building these lists. That it performs well when you say "Build a list you've seen before, but do it in a slightly different way this time. Here's the exact way I want you to do it." is not surprising. I would honestly be surprised if it couldn't do it.

As the other commenter suggested, a genuinely novel scientific idea would be surprising. A new style of art (think Picasso or Pollack coming along), not just an iteration on Ghibli, would be surprising. That's actual creativity.

But the programming language has explicitly laid out rules. It was not trained on those sets of rules, but it was trained on many trillions of lines of code. It has a map of how programs work, and an explanation of this new language. It's using training data and data it's fed to generate that result.

Iron Dome is a great example of my point. It is a $50k interceptor designed to take out a propane tank with a rocket strapped to it, not a real ballistic missile like a Scud.

Patriot missiles ($7MM) take out Scuds ($3MM).

Ah, just time the collapse perfectly. Wish I'd thought of that ;)

A missile will always be cheaper than a missile interceptor, and the interceptor will never be a 1:1 kill. Building a missile interceptor system ia a good way to get your strategic opponent to build a bigger stockpile.

I care a lot more about my life (or my car's catalytic converter, which was stolen off my car in my work parking lot before they inatalled a gate for the lot) than any of my work-related IT credentials. Health and safety threats are a much bigger deal to people than nebulous, difficult to exploit threats to IP.

I also like AntennaPod for audiobooks--fewer apps that way.

The post's author points that out as well

...am I wrong in thinking that 1(a) is the relevant section here, and shows a lot of red?

I have to use Windows at work and I will never have weird cloud authentication issues because I'm required to use a work-provided MS account on the computer. The author says he's a Windows guy, and always will be. This article, and these types of complaints, are really only relevant if you're using it on your personal PC.

TBF that's a fairly contrarian view from Sheldon. I started favoring the front brake after reading his writing on it, and do find it useful. I do find it easier to go down in the ice that way though, so be careful!

An absolute treasure. R.I.P., Sheldon.

...sounds about right? Is this supposed to be an injustice? You can't unilaterally shut down a public resource like RF sectiona because you've decided to be the Batman clearing the streets of hands-free cellphone users.

In addition to the security issues, they would have to deal with non-negligible transaction costs every time they wanted to convert it to actual money so that they could purchase something. If they were using it as an investment, they had to deal with the opportunity cost of underperforming $SPY.

Sure, but that's kind of like saying meth is a better productivity tool than coffee, it's just a self-discipline issue to use it safely. Phones are inherently designed to be addicting.

I believe that was a forgotten renewal of copyright status.

Well, I've never seen anything written by AI evangelists that doesn't sound like it was written in day three of an adderall binge. This essay is no different.

Also prefer a tiling wm, but xfce is great to keep installed for guest accounts on your PC

...is it normal for Terminal to be using nearly 5GB memory?

>However, there is some light evidence that the variation I see is not just intra-day variation. Specifically, there are several species that stay consistent in frequency across all samples: e.g., Neisseria subflava, Streptococcus viridans, Streptococcus oralis.

Disagree. You can not make that claim without sequencing your mouth's microbiome in the absence of probiotics for a month as well (and, really, many more than one persom's). Was your diet controlled all month? Oral hygiene habits? Any of a million other variables?

Also, it's worth pointing out that the study was designed to test one hypothesis, and you need to be very careful about looking at further claims. This test only really provided evidence that these probiotics don't introduce L. reuterii.

Yes, true! I forgot about ROM sites, they were the worst offenders

>I really hope social media companies plaster a prominent banner over them which screams, "Likely/Made by AI" and give us the option to automatically mute these videos from our timeline.

They should just be deleted. They will not be, because they clearly generate ad revenue.

>I’m still holding hope that slop won’t end up as bad a problem as many people fear.

That's the pure, uncut copium. Meanwhile, in the real world, search on major platforms is so slanted towards slop that people need to specify that they want actual human music:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MusicRecommendations/comments/1pq4f...

>sites spawned a mess of popups that extended out of the browser window and persisted even when the page was navigated away from

I feel like that was mostly porn sites. I find modals far more intrusive on mainstream sites.

Interesting, thanks

Shouldn't it be the same thing? You either have the DAC on your phone convert the digital music file to an analog signal and send it over the aux cord to the speakers in the headphones, or have the digital file sent over Bluetooth and converted by a DAC in the headphones, right? It's not like you're plugging your headphones into a record player.

Agree with step 1 here but steps 2 and 4 are a total pipe dream