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ChatGPT and Bing do the Alphonse and Gaston routine, nice. Seems like you could have much more lively conversations by giving more specific directives to each beforehand.

Orwell had it all wrong. We would not be surveilled by force, we would be surveilled for our own amusement and convenience.

Well, the distance between human intelligence and dolphin intelligence is less than the distance between dolphin intelligence and fish intelligence. A more appropriate question would be why wouldn't an advanced, space faring civilization distinguish between us and maggots the way we distinguish between maggots and worms?

Completely in agreement with the second paragraph.

Reminds me of the saying "If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together." But an important corollary is that you should be very selective about who you travel with. In some cases, like a corporate setting where you have no control over the randos you are thrown together with, it can indeed be the least painful option to go it alone. The alternative is knowing that if everyone does their best you can all aspire to be ... mediocre.

Any alien civilization capable of posing a physical threat to us probably will not recognize a significant distinction between us and say maggots. Better start worrying about coordinating our response with the maggot response...

"So he mustered the courage to creep into the sleeping bears' dens and stick thermometers in their rectums, a gambit that allowed him to assess just how much their internal temperature declined during their annual torpor."

That sentence right there is worth the read...

Kind of reminds me of the apocryphal Shackleton newspaper ad:

“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success."

Give The Castle a read...

This is prime material for the "HN or satire?" game currently also listed on HN...

"Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead" - Benjamin Franklin

It's generally true even if money is not involved. Another reason I tend to keep my own counsel.

The term does appear to have a long history. This source states that using it as a term for widespread non-infectuous conditions is relatively recent:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3373038/#!po=96...

It may just be a pet peeve, but it rankles me a bit when the term "epidemic" is used to describe widespread conditions that are not communicable/infectuous. Looking at the dictionary it appears the usage here is legitimate, but my guess would be that it is a misuse that has become accepted, like using the term "begging the question" to mean suggesting the question.

Nice!

Software is hard, that's why we make the big bucks :)

Try {2,2,1}

Many would call the headline a tautology...

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" - George Carlin

that are easy to see while still operating the vehicle

"I want to work full-time until my late 70s, and die in my early-to-mid-80s at the latest."

We'll check back in a few decades...

I have used this too and found it to work well. I think they shot themselves in the foot with the name they chose for the program, though.

The default search tool from the Microsoft file explorer is an embarassment. Routinely doesn't find files that are there. No positive indication of when the search is actually finished. Wack advanced search syntax that I can't bother to learn. I could go on, but the things I have already listed are more than enough.

The search tool on Windows XP with the animated dog was 100x better than what they have there now. I usually just go with "dir" redirected to a file when I really need to find something now. Yet another example of "upgrades" being actively worse than what came before it.

I must say that you picked a particularly poor example with which to make your point.

Looks like this guy gets to be the arbiter of what humanness constitutes, and label anything that does not meet up to that standard as 'loser'. Yes, this approach will weed out some people that will consume more than they produce, but at the expense of a lot of false negatives and false positives. For example, it will also weed out the highly competent, highly conscientious, yet also highly private and introverted (a group with high representation in the tech world).

The original author and reposter are (within legal limits) free to hire who they want for at-will employment, shaping whatever culture they desire, but to blanket label everyone who does not meet their criteria as 'losers' is immature.

Send my public domain book to my grandma who doesn't know how to handle an epub? Convert it because it is easier to print as a .pdf with my particular setup?

There are all kinds of potential use cases for users of differing levels of technical sophistication.

Why wouldn't you provide an option to convert to .pdf?

Upcoming events. They are not doing the livestream until then.

The most striking thing to me is the presence of his family (good relationships). Seems like such a contrast with the case of David Goodall, the 104 year old Australian who traveled to Switzerland to kill himself. He lived alone and lost his ability to see others regularly when he lost his office space at the university he was associated with. Says he traveled to see his family before killing himself. I think in general the important thing is to have good relationships on one's own terms, which Mr. Goodall did not seem to have at the end.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-australia-43957874

Calling it disingenuous I would say is inaccurate (which would have been a better word than disingenuous). The post said might. I take that to mean that is the earliest instance the poster knew of personally. If that was disingenuous that would mean they were knowingly giving inaccurate information.

Thanks lgessler, interesting further reading.

"I think online only will become counterculture."

Interesting opinion, would be interested in knowing the rationale. Is it related to either a progression of the technology or a regression (like nuclear war taking out the infrastructure)? I couldn't help but think about the Homer Simpson quote ("The internet? Is that thing still around?")

Why didn't you get a .com address? Reminds me of this oldie:

http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html