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So he was appropriately dressed to be in a snowmachine in the Alaskan outdoors, and could start a fire. Which to me reads that he cleared the absolute minimum essentials to not be a complete idiot. That still doesn't explain how he was so unprepared for anything going wrong that his best recourse was to resort to using a brand new feature which is largely untested in the real world.

So I guess until Apple came up with this, people living in remote parts of Alaska where pretty much screwed unless they had a satellite phone.

I'm no expert in what living efficiently and safely in such a place is, but I know that in places like Svalvard, you are expected to be 100% independent and responsible for yourself because nobody is coming to your rescue. To the point that you shouldn't go out by yourself if you don't have a rifle that you know how to use, because you could run into polar bears or wolves.

So yeah, I think this guy most definitely could have been better prepared, don't ask me how, it's not the point. Clearly if your only means of survival when something goes wrong is your phone, you are unprepared to live in a place like that.

So would I. But if I decided to traverse dangerous largely inhabited terrain and my only means of salvation are my phone with a brand new largely untested feature, then I'd be an idiot who took a big risk.

Sure, there are a plethora of things we don't know. But he was reportedly going from Noorvik to Kotzebue: https://imgur.com/a/GYfKk5w which is one tiny town in the middle of nowhere, to another slightly larger town in the middle of nowhere. The emergency alert was received at around 2AM, so he was doing this in the middle of the night.

It stands to reason that when you are in such conditions, you should be prepared for circumstances such as "what happens if my means of transportation breaks down".

It seems like a risk was taken, and when you take a risk and things go wrong and you need to be rescued, you are putting the lives of other people at risk.

Maybe it was all completely justified, but on paper it doesn't seem that way.

"The man's snow machine became disabled, an ADPS spokesperson confirmed to Insider." https://www.businessinsider.com/stranded-man-alaska-rescued-...

So we know.

So someone did the thing advertised in the thing, and it did the thing as advertised. Sounds like they should have been more careful, maybe have a compass and overall know what they were doing.

> The game was first published in Freude am Schach (The Pleasure of Chess) by Gerhard Henschel in 1959.

That book used the conditional tense, to convey uncertainty about the game’s authenticity (‘la partie suivante qui aurait été gagnée par Einstein contre le grand physicien Robert Oppenheimer’)

source: https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter04.html item: 3533

Einstein is allegedly white. But it's completely unproven whether this game was played by either of them.

The origin of this game and its attribution to Einstein and Oppenheimer is greatly disputed. And yet it has been floating online for more than two decades now without a proper source.

Yes, people are still using Twitter. TikTok is a very different thing, it's not a replacement for Twitter.

It's not the case. And the two different tournaments used very different time controls, which essentially makes a different "kind" of chess. One was rapid (and played online with computers, but sitting across from each other), the second one was classical chess (much longer and considered to be far more serious chess), played over the board the old fashioned way.

> We’re talking about a sport — or game, depending on your point of view — where you or I could beat Magnus Carlsen, probably the best chess player in history, if we simply mimicked the moves of the best chess engine.

Except not at all, or not anymore than anyone could "beat" the world's foremost martial artist, with a gun.

For an absolute novice to mimick 100% or even a large amount of chess engine moves, it would be exceedingly obvious that they are cheating, even by the most cursory and rudimentary of cheating detection measures and mildly versed (in chess) observers.

The serious problem of cheating in chess, is not at all that a John Doe with zero chess knowledge would rise up the ranks and become the world champion cheating. The scary prospect is when cheating is done by strong chess players, because they only need two or three tips from an engine a game, to have a massive advantage over everybody else.

Carlsen himself discussed this topic last year: https://youtu.be/VcbHmHHwlUQ

No GM would be stupid enough to cheat playing 100% engine lines, they of all people know which engine lines would look particularly suspicious. All they need to know is to avoid any serious blunders, and play some important moves here and there, and that's enough to get a serious advantage at this level.

It stands to reason that they don't care for HN referred donations as the hoop seems to be very deliberately put in place for a reason.

And then there is Pom Poko, which is in no small part about the giant and magical testicles of Japanese raccoon dogs.

edit: I think I'm being downvoted because people assume it's a bad joke, but that's really in the movie. And it's a great Ghibli movie by Takahata, but it's on the weirder end of the Ghibli movies about nature.

His background is as a developer himself, and he co-founded x.com which was very much a tech company, which later merged into PayPal. Musk was CEO of PayPal for a few years until the company was bought by eBay.

I think it would be fair to say that "fixing Twitter" would be more in line with Musk's actual experience (ie: running a tech company) than rescuing kids in Thailand or fixing water supplies.

Choice is generally good in my opinion. Considering what the majority of Github is as a community I would very much doubt that the majority is going to be making their profiles private. Making it private makes no sense if you collaborate and contribute with open source projects (or host your own), and it doesn't help with having a public profile that you can potentially show off to companies you want to be hired by.

So who is this feature for? Those who have no interest in the social aspects of Github and want to use it privately. I'm sure that's going to be a minority.

For those too young to remember (or who may have just missed the news when it happened, since it wasn't mentioned yet in this thread), in 2010 the iPhone 4 was leaked before the release, physically, an employee left it in the bathroom of a bar. Someone found it, tried to return it to Apple, they didn't take it seriously and so this person turned to Gizmodo to make a quick buck: https://www.fastcompany.com/1621516/iphone-4-leak-saga-start...

They haven't had a leak that big ever since, but occasionally things have gotten leaked (specs, components being used, etc) from China who does most of the manufacturing.

If you are serious about helping people, you'd encourage anyone who is feeling lost and confused to seek professional help. If you can facilitate that somehow, provide people with free options, social workers, hot lines, etc, you'd have something of value.

I still think that putting yourself out there to lend an ear to strangers is irresponsible. Because this is not about someone who you've come across in your life and you have a talk and maybe give some advice, you'd be actively encouraging people to talk to you and that's the irresponsible part. Your intentions may be good, but this is not the right way to go about it.

According to what do you conclude that the track record for real therapy is pretty poor? Some study or just some subjective perception?

Sorry to have to be that person but I think it's plainly irresponsible to put yourself in a position to want to help people who are troubled, lost and confused and possibly in need of professional help on which you claim to have no training.

If therapy isn't helping it's generally a matter of a specific therapist who may not be working for you, but psychology is something for which people have studied and trained for years at. The human mind is a complex thing, and being professionally unprepared to deal with people's issues you are potentially at risk of causing harm.

There are already online services like betterhelp.com if people need a professional to talk, and it doesn't have to be something heavy, it could be just about the normal hardships of going through life, family, friendships, love, work, etc.

Considering the last PR merge was done by @aaronsw I'd say that it is.

Well, this is not a solution for your situation, but for anyone reading this who doesn't want to be in your situation ENABLE TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION on every account you have anything remotely valuable.

I once got a Hotmail account hacked and Microsoft was very much able to recover my account as long as I was able to provide them with enough information (old passwords, personal information, etc) to prove the account was mine, so I'd really try all Google avenues possible because it's your best bet for recovering your account.

If you can't access your money that's a banking issue, talk to your bank.

You are thinking of personal use cases, but the point of these editors is that they strive to be as light weight as possible and are meant to be part of some online service that for some aspect of their functionality/features includes offering an embedded code editor. VScode has too much stuff for most of those use cases where you'd use something like CodeMirror.