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Not that I’ve seen really, but I haven’t looked much outside the mainstream as my 12 mini is still going strong.

But seems I’m either in a real minority with regards to phone size preference, or at least the manufacturers believe I am.

I keep waiting but the phones only get bigger. Seems I’ll have to eventually replace my iPhone 12 mini with a 13 mini, or ditch Apple entirely.

The Google Nexus 4 was my all time favorite smart phone in terms of overall size. But I suppose it’s unlikely Apple will ever make a phone anywhere close to that size ever again.

But consumers still pay it. No one has to play video games.

I am in no way defending Sony here but I think it’s beside to the point to chastise them for selling a worse product (I mean revocable license) for the same price because consumers continue to choose to pay that price. And this is not a purchase made out of necessity or duress such as food or housing.

So users Adam, Anne and Archie all have the same profile image?

Cold hard cash. If they want my input, they can pay me for my time.

If it’s a small or local business that I like patronizing then I might do something small for them out of generosity and a desire to see them succeed in place of some large chain or corpo.

Procedural generation is not gameplay. Procedural generation makes your already fun game more interesting via more variety.

If you don’t already have a fun game, then pro gen won’t make it any more fun than it already is. It turns a fun 1-hour game into a much longer fun game.

If every single Minecraft player loaded into only a single Minecraft world, it would still be as fun as it is. Would No Man’s Sky really be that much different if it just shipped with a handful of pre-defined planets? It might have less replay value but the gameplay wouldn’t be any different.

Good proc gen changes things in your game such that the player is given interesting reasons to make different choices each time they play.

Some kind of infant and toddler childcare is necessary, whether it’s daycare, friends, family, or neighbors.

Trying to raise an infant or toddler without other people caring for them at least some of the time will make most people slowly go insane.

Yes, kids pass germ to each other. This will happen any time lots of kids are in one place.

Your phrasing betrays your bias.

Having kids in childcare is not the downfall of society, and in some ways is similar to The Way Things Used To Be. My youngest goes to pre-school childcare where he gets to interact with kids and parents from his local community whom we see outside of childcare as well. He sees his “teacher” when he walks with me and his older brother to his school because her daughter goes to the same school as his brother. The people who work there are part of the community as well.

Childcare can be the modern form of the village collectively caring for the children so that not every parent is busy with child-rearing all the time.

It’s also good for kids to spend time interacting with people who aren’t part of their immediate family.

Not every childcare program is created equal, but there is a place and need for good ones.

Not once has it ever felt like “dumping him in an institution”. Your kids do not need you 100% of the time, and usually it’s better they’re not with you 100% of the time.

The lesson here is: don’t do free work for corporations.

Given that these ad networks have actually served real malware on normally trustworthy sites (even nytimes was affected) the meme is essentially true even today.

Ad blockers are malware protection.

Sure, it’s nice, but it’s not necessary. Pushing a button when you get in to adjust everything is fine.

There’s an easy solution that I’ve taken: just stop watching stuff. Choose not to participate in the bullshit.

I have a 2019 Forester so I think I just missed that.

There’s a panel where the preset buttons for seat position profiles would be if I had paid for that feature.

Seat position profiles is a great feature, making it automatic is completely unnecessary.

This idea has been proposed as far back as 1729 by Jonathan Swift but it hasn't seem to caught on at all in the intervening years.

That’s also a good question, but ultimately a separate one. My point is that replacing people with robots before answering your question is irresponsible.

So a robot takes his job: who feeds and houses him? Or is he supposed to just go down a few rungs on the job ladder and take a worse job robots can’t currently do?

Truthfully, it’s very hard to find them these days, in my experience. Around 2005-2015 they seemed to be everywhere and were tasty options on their own merits. Every once in a while I’ll still find them in the grocery store but it’s hard.

These days all I can find in groceries stores is various “plant protein” meat-wannabes.

I do make tempeh from time to time, but the flavor just isn’t quite right for me. It’s good, but not my preferred option.

Fortunately a black bean burger is not hard to make at home.

Even though I do eat meat I still enjoy black bean burger patties far more than Impossible because a black bean patty is tasty in its own way and not trying to replicate meat.

A black bean patty or similar is a tasty bit of food that works well in a burger form.

I like meat but not every meal I eat needs to have meat in it. Give me tasty (and cheaper) alternatives to meat and I’ll eat them in place of meat sometimes.

It lived ~400 million years ago.

If a bad actor’s actions appear good, skepticism is warranted.

The alternative is we drive ourselves ever closer to the brink.

It is entirely possible that our current way of living, including the idea of “private land” as it exists today, may not be conducive to our long-term survival.

The forces of nature care not for our political and philosophical debates.

Perhaps the rate of occurrence changes, but everybody does this at every age. When even our experience is an interpretation of the real world, our memories are even less accurate.

> Neither does a radiologist but yet we trust them to read a CT scan.

I also don’t really have any other options in that regard, so there’s no real choice to make, other than getting a second opinion. I may not have a chance for a second opinion if I fully trust an AI on mushroom ID.

> Most of us get in an elevator, or drive in a car, or even just buy food from a store.

Of course, and I do too. Mostly because I have to and because there are many aspects of those risks that remain under my direct control. At times I have decided to take the stairs instead of the elevator.

Of course, but there’s a wide gulf between slamming into a wall at 80mph and gently rolling to a stop. The latter requires foresight and action, however.

It’s going to need to be strong “encouragement”, either monetary or regulatory.

Because it is advantageous to be the only one who doesn’t invest in it while reaping the benefits from those who do. So very few do.

> If the only reason you give advice is predicated on the transactional value of that action, I think you've given up on acting ethically.

I said nothing of the sort.

Let me give a different example: I would not ride on a plane being flown remotely by a pilot on the ground. But I will ride on a plane with the pilots aboard. I do not necessarily believe the remote pilot would intentionally endanger me, but at the same time they are not facing mortal peril if they screw up. So I would need some other reason to trust them (maybe the remote pilot is a family member).

An AI has nothing to lose for misidentifying a mushroom, and I have my life to lose by trusting it. It can’t even fear for my life on my behalf.

Around the same time the LLM also faces an existential risk when its advice is wrong.

Not trusting my life to an “intelligence” that has nothing to lose.

The difference is you’re a human with the right to self.

You can adjust the pedals while standing, it’s just awkward.

Take your weight off the seat, grab the back of the seat behind you and lift enough so the rear wheel loses traction and then you can push the pedals forward a bit.

Not ideal, but possible.