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Doesn't YouTube Premium do that? I remember some creators saying they got a lot more money out of Premium views than ad views, but I don't know anything specific.

The internet is terrible and Google is the reason.

I'm wondering if she wore facemasks in grocery stores before the pandemic? Or else they're probably tracking her purchasing behavior anyway by video. Maybe not 9 years ago but surely by now.

Another thing I hated about podcasts when I used spotify: they still have ads. I find it pretty much intolerable to get ads on a paid service. But podcasts weren't near the top of the list of reasons I cut ties with spotify anyway. (Oh wait, actually their endorsement of Joe Rogan was very close to the top.)

Hm, FWIW, I'm more on your side than not - I don't want to be locked out of customizing my devices. That's why I have GrapheneOS on my phone, and I think phone manufacturers may have gone too far in the overprotective side. I was only arguing that the correct path is somewhere in the middle, not a total abdication of responsibility by the manufacturer.

In what way is this development loop:

1. Read technology background thoroughly

2. Read technology documentation thoroughly

3. Practice building technology

4. Ask ChatGPT to create boilerplate for basic implementation

5. Analyze boilerplate for defects

10x fast than this development loop:

1. Read technology background thoroughly

2. Read technology documentation thoroughly

3. Practice building technology

4. Manually create boilerplate for basic implementation

5. Analyze boilerplate for defects

Those behaviors could be better described as "looking" and "facing", couldn't they? Pointing means something pretty specific to humans, especially when we're talking about human-animal interactions.

I don't think you've represented the camps fairly (actually, I don't think there are two camps). Most people (here) are probably not arguing that AGI is impossible, but that current AI is not generally intelligent. The John Carmack quote is exactly in line with this. He says "ride those to [AGI]," meaning they are not AGI. The idea that genuine intelligence and self-awareness could emerge from increasingly powerful statistical models is in no way the kind of counter-cultural idea you seem to be presenting it as. I think almost all of us believe that.

But ChatGPT is not it.

> your question is pretty confusing

That's exactly the point, isn't it? If the AI had some model of reality, it would probably be confused by the question. But it doesn't express confusion, it confidently answers the question in a way that doesn't make sense.

It acts like everything it is reading and saying is completely coherent because it doesn't have the ability to distinguish coherent ideas from nonsense.

> buttons in such an awkward position that I get cramps in my hand after half an hour of playing

That is a downside of every console/controller, though, because people have different hands. For me, the Switch is painful to hold for more than a half-hour or so because the joycons are so small. So personally I enjoy the Deck, even though it's heavy, but I recognize that it was clearly made for someone with my body type.

> All those AAA titles run like ass and/or look like ass on the deck.

Second this, though. I thought I'd finally finish Sekiro on the train when I got the deck, but the screen is too small for my old man eyes; it was not a good experience.

You misunderstand. I said target, meaning their goal would be the slowest time they could get away with. That is not an acceptable goal; an app should be faster than that.

The rule that existed from Windows 7 all the way to Windows 8?

> In what way and why are you (well, actually a corporation with monetary interest) making a decision to lockout users because of those industries?

Did you forget that the conversation was about phones being locked down to protect against these kinds of malware?

First of all, no, they're not adults. Kids can have phones, too.

Second, that's an extremely weak argument and I question if it's being made in good faith. But in case you are: the responsibility is on the manufacturer to make a safe product. That's why we have regulations on consumer product safety. You can't sell certain dangerous chemicals. You can't sell plastics with BPAs in them. Et cetera.

The consumer, when they have the product, also has their own responsibility to look out for their own safety. But that doesn't make it ok to give them something dangerous, especially if it's something that contains dangers most people don't even understand or know about, like malware. (Most people are "aware" of malware, but they have no idea how it works or how to protect themselves from it.)

Ok, maybe I misrepresented what a good threshold is. I certainly don't expect developers anywhere to target "minimum viable load time". But the comment I was responding to was totally off the mark, so I was explaining that.

Yes I was referring to internal APIs. Thanks

For all its faults, we can thank Subway for partially solving this problem.

Not something I had considered. So for example a UI component that might load 3 different versions based on a string identifier, should instead use an enum which maps to integers? I say an enum because this would preserve readability of the code.

But that's exactly the poster's point. You don't get headshot in doordash. Slightly slower performance doesn't actually change anything about your use of the app, until it becomes slow enough to make you stop using it (thus, the threshold).

Because those things you listed are (potential) answers to my first question, not the one you quoted.

A search engine should not see a site written in Arial and derank it for that reason. Blink tags, sure, they're obviously wrong for accessibility reasons, but there's a huge gap between those two things - and even so, how badly should they affect ranking?

I'm saying "garbage" can be subjective, and when there are objective "garbage" indicators, it's not obvious how to deal with them. What you've listed is only a small set of indicators from a small niche of so-called "garbage" sites. And personally, I don't even want to see old or old-styled sites dismissed from the web if they have good content.

That's just applying a completely different and irrelevant metric to dismiss the point of the previous poster.

The arms race of "fast trash" websites vs quality search results is not being won by Google or anyone else as of today. Google having a business model that doesn't even incentivize them to win that race =/= Google not losing that race. It's closer to them giving up in defeat, which is a loss for all of us (many times over).

Not a harmless technique. Similar to the assholes we all know who say "Can't you take a joke?" after saying some really mean shit and then laughing at the victim.

I mean, what exactly makes the first page garbage? I'm not disagreeing, but "is this site garbage" is not a question that a search engine can ask.

I'm not the OP, but for #2, it's almost all about the latter. Occasionally I go check on random or specific days.

What have I learned or gained? It definitely helps ground me in the flow of time. It's so easy to lose weeks or months or years if you're never reflecting. Journaling helps me be more aware day to day.

I've been doing it only for 3 or 4 years, and this 100% lines up with my experience. There are times when I haven't been consistent, and it always comes down to feeling that "I can't do a good job of it right now, maybe later..." and then I miss that day, and miss that week, etc.

I use the mobile app Pixels for journaling though. It lets the user define custom tags (I track emotions, activities, wake up time, body pains...), which for me is pretty useful, but I would say it also raises the floor on the effort it takes to make an entry, because I don't like to miss data points on those tags. So to the reader: start small, be forgiving, and don't worry about getting good data. 99% of the value of journaling is the practice.

I already hated cars, but since I began WFH I've become really averse to driving unnecessarily. Getting killed by a car is one of the absolute stupidest ways to go. My dad smoked all his life and still made it past 60; my brain could hit pavement tonight if I run out of milk.

And the worst part is that it wouldn't have to be my fault at all, and it wouldn't even require somebody to do something extraordinarily reckless. Driving too fast through my neighborhood is typical, because it happens to offer the shortest path from A to B for many people, and the road is wide thanks to bike lanes that I have never seen bikes in (because: cars drive too fast). I'll cut myself off here before this becomes an overly long screed.

I would argue that an extra day off is effectively much more than 50% more "days off" for someone who typically only gets weekends off. Weekends are a miserable day to be off if you need to run errands, or just want to go anywhere in public where crowds can diminish your enjoyment or even keep you out entirely.

I take time off during the week for "appointments" at the park for precisely that reason - it's almost impossible to get a relaxing hike at some of my favorite trails on a saturday or sunday.

The flipside is that it's much easier to hang out with your friends on weekends, because most of them are also probably off. So having a little of both is best.

> This sounds good if family relationships are priority. I think networking and building professional relationships are often improved over in-person interactions.

This is overlooked so often by (I am assuming) experienced, older engineers. And it's really a one-two punch for younger professionals.

One, they may not have the family at home to spend that time with. Of course, it's also wonderful to spend time alone, but if a person doesn't have a partner and wants a partner, they're going to get more value out of going to the office for several hours than reading a book for 15 minutes at home. It may be they don't/can't/won't date anyone at work directly, but at the very least they're building their social network - which, before dating apps, was THE best source of dating partners.

And punch number two is that networking is so, so important early to one's career. Sure, you can still reach out for references to people you worked with even if you never saw their face, but the connection is almost never as strong as with someone you meet day-to-day. Plus, social events mean you may meet people in their networks, etc.

I am not fighting for return-to-office. Work from home should always be an option for anyone who wants it, and should be the default for many jobs/companies.

However, it's a tricky situation, because if you're young and want to get the value of going in to the office, but 75% of your peers are WFH, well you're not actually getting much of that networking bonus. Then it becomes an issue of finding the right workplace - but again, that's so much harder for younger people or those earlier in their career (those overlap but are not 1:1).

Same problem with categorizing star luminosity... I wish we could make a shift to these cumbersome categories, but cultural inertia is tough to overcome