mathiaspoint

You can put the toothbrush in your laptop bag. Although I don't know why you're buying toothbrushes with lithium batteries in them. Even if electric toothbrushes made sense that's still a waste of money compared to the disposable ones.

Carry on luggage should just be banned. If it can't fit in your lap the whole flight it's not a valid carry on.

This is really a safety issue. And tbf, you don't need more. I've traveled internationally with just a laptop bag.

Ironically it's easier to run a compiler and do whatever you like on Microsoft's OSes these days.

The secondary market drives the primary market.

The majority of the electorate voted for it and based on the polling data Americans don't think it's being taken far enough.

If you can find a pool of people who don't support it and you truly believe it violates the constitution you should campaign for secession. That is ultimately where the power for the constitution comes from after al.

Oh cool you've nominally gone after the rich and then pointed at the middle class again. I'm sure this will make you and your ideas popular.

Almost no one under 40 cares. In fact for most of us we'll net a profit (not expected, straight up in most cases including one or two events) just self insuring.

The economy isn't doing bad, it's just not there and everyone is still pretending.

Cookies themselves don't even need JavaScript.

Like all other public institutions these things only matter insofar as they have buy-in from the public.

Lyme disease is no joke man. You don't mess around with ticks.

We have democratically rejected democracy. That's what most people mean when they say "<x> electorate are not good stewards of democracy."

Maybe you're new here or spent most of your life in the city but at least in the mid Atlantic ticks have always been a problem.

I don't like pesticide but the ticks mean it isn't optional.

GP claimed Americans (that is "we") are "not good stewards of democracy." I agreed and offered an explanation as to why.

The main public reasons for preventing expansion of power infrastructure were environmental. That's at least nominally very forward looking. Ironically if we had taken China's "burn everything today and figure tomorrow out when it comes" approach we'd actually be better prepared for this.

I feel like tools like screentime would fit that description better than adblockers.

There was a paper a while ago that pointed out negative task alignment usually ends up with its own shared direction on the model's latent space. So it's actually totally unsurprising.

The page down key? I think I get 2-3 hundred emails a day in addition to all my texts and voicemail (which all also goes to my email so I can read it in mutt) and it's just not a problem. I did have to switch to digests for a few super high traffic lists like BusyBox.

We're talking about "having society protect them." They're the same thing. Only you can really judge if engaging in some dangerous activity is a gain for you.

If you make having neighbors painful don't be surprised when "the rich" stop collaborating and instead work to eliminate them like you're seeing everywhere in the post millennial US now.

They despise users becoming developers. Apple's entire model depends on these being separate groups of people (as opposed to GNU/Linux OSes where they're assumed to be exactly the same.)

Keeping development tools away from users gives Apple a substantial amount of power over them that they can rent out to approved software development organizations.

I often say if I'm diagnosed with some serious cancer I'd probably try to sail the northwest passage rather than seeking treatment. I'm sure some people want absolute maximum raw time but plenty of us would prefer adventure right up to the end and I don't think denying us that is appropriate either.

Clear examples can make communication easier. Being clinical and implicit can technically capture the entire space of ideas you want but if your goal is to prevent surprises (read lawsuits) then including an extreme example might be helpful.

AFAIK China is democratic and has elections.

Admittedly I haven't touched go in around ten years so I'm sure things have changed but I remember being really surprised by how readible it was and how I could jump straight into codebases I had never seen before.

So you've never written a rust program then. Or you don't know how to write C well.

If you've ever messed with early GPTs you'll remember how the attention will pick up on patterns early in the context and change the entire personality of the model even if those patterns aren't instructional. It's a useful effect that made it possible to do zero shot prompts without training but it means stuff like what you experienced is inevitable.

It was an attempt at compromise that the left entirely rejected and stomped all over.

It definitely isn't. LLMs often end up stuck in weird corners they just don't get and need someone familiar with the theory of what they're working on to unstick them. If the agent is the same model as the code generator it won't be able to on its own.

My parent's hometown blocked data center construction because of concerns about traffic and water consumption.

This is the mid Atlantic where the wet bulb and dry bulb temperature are always very close so the water would be useless for cooling. And of course there are few things that add less traffic than empty buildings full of computers.

Also a lot of the non-AI stuff is still air cooled. In fact I know people at a couple large public tech companies spinning up AI hardware and even for that they're going with air cooling because it's all their OPs people are familiar with.

I wish people were more precise with communicating the actual problem.