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I’m in a similar situation. I’m just saying that I know a lot of people who work much harder than me, without anywhere near the same financial freedom. I think it’s good to meditate on that fact regularly.
I’m making no comment about how things _should_ broadly be. Only that we should consciously appreciate how rare it is for quitting to be a practical, and non-ruinous, option.
What an utterly privileged life we lead when we can just decide to quit our jobs because things are getting too “absurd”.
I, like most people, always just click whatever option is larger and easier to click (or closest to my cursor at the time). It never seems to matter to my experience which I pick. Sometimes it’s the “all” option, sometimes it’s the “none” option, etc.
I feel bad about doing this, because surely someone somewhere is doing analytics on click data and saying: “See! There is a lot of variation in responses to this cookie choice, people are really taking them seriously, we should keep them!”
It’s true. AI slop is not what will kill the fun Internet. It’s just the mechanisation of the forces that already killed it.
Is there anything out there that is the opposite of this? Like a directory of old things that are, against all odds, still alive
There is no realistic scenario where, no matter your extractions or bean selections, 6-10 shots of espresso a day is not an enormous amount of caffeine
Right there with you. Everyone else on HN is a genius so will love it, but for me this is just incoherent words.
Why not both! Delicious caffeinated in the morning, less-delicious-but-still-quite-nice decaf after 12:00. You don’t need to go entirely caffeine-free to enjoy most of the benefits.
The Purrrr app (which shows feeders like this) is really quite an experience. It’s just as hyperactive as a Temu or AliExpress, with as much dopamine hacking as a TikTok, but… for good? I think?
stop putting them in control of aircraft then
We have a TonieBox that has been much loved by one kid, and now another. And even though everything in my being is telling me to hack it to make it do cool things (mostly because of all the “you just own a _license_ to content” stuff rubs me the wrong way), I wouldn’t dare. It’s a product so simply designed, a 1-year-old can use it. It’s not for me to mess with. This particular thing does not need hacking.
My brittle smart home setup is hanging on by a thread in the spousal approval department. I can’t handle the fury that will befall me if I fuck with the TonieBox.
I also use a notebook and pen constantly as a software engineer - but never when I need any of the properties you just mentioned.
It is absolutely the wrong tool for any long-term information store. Ephemeral think-it-through process notes only. Obsidian for anything that should live longer than the current problem I’m trying to solve.
Sure, "toxic" is word that means bad things. But I don't think you read the article.
It only talks about the levels in the soil. It says nothing about what impact this has on the food we eat from that soil (in fact it explicitly states that the level in food was not measured).
It also doesn't quite agree with your use of the word "we". The article does not conclude whether the elevated levels of metals were down to natural processes or humans (e.g. it suggests that weathering could be at least a contributing factor).
I get what you're saying, if someone says something is "toxic", it means something somewhere is at a level which is dangerous in some context. But the original comment on what the article itself is saying is not wrong. There is no information on real-world implications.
Oh I was just talking about the “transmitting to the server _at all_” part, but yeah some end-to-end encryption would be nice.
It has to, how would it deliver the password to the URL’s recipient otherwise?
I suppose to keep it fully stateless you could encode the password in the URL itself somehow, but then that would defeat the purpose of not having the secret hang around in perpetuity.
When my career was just beginning (maybe choosing to freelance on day 1 was the mistake), if a client was even a couple of grand behind on invoices then I would have been toast financially.
Early in your career, with no savings, working for free is just not an option.
“Paper Apps” seems like an overly snobby and infantilizing term for something we already had a term for: Puzzle Books / Notebooks.
How many early adopters of _any_ novel technology are male? Is it roughly 85% perhaps?
Isn’t this technically the original _Steam_ UI, not just Counter Strike?
This reminded me of a game but I couldn’t remember which one. I opened this comment thread hoping someone would know, and you delivered. Thank you!
To be clear, this is not Google getting it wrong. This is the AI-generated slop website getting it wrong, Google is just pulling an extract.
I have somewhere between 0 and ~60 years left to live. I don’t trust this service (or any service!) to remain active and live for even 5 of those years.
You're absolutely right, but the article we're talking about misses the point.
It focusses on the sensational-sounding part of this, the implication that people will blindly take these recipes and make them and eat them and then die. Clearly that is not going to be the outcome here.
But if you peel away the (false) angle that exists just for clicks on the article, there is a real story here. One that we all already know and understand, especially as technologists, but is worth talking about anyway because it's interesting:
It's that these "AI" products (the LLMs they're based on) _cannot reason like a human with common sense can_. They're not even close. That doesn't mean they're not amazing technology, but now that the technology has been applied to products, that limitation becomes more obvious.
It's kind of a boring aspect of AI to talk about, particularly compared to "AI creates recipes that will kill you!!!". But it's really the root of this story, and it's not nothing.
Something I've wondered: how much has AI/ML _helped_ actors' careers by providing effective content recommendation algorithms, drawing more engaged eyeballs to their work?
I don't think serf is calling anyone wrong. Just that there is more to the arts than financial success.
It's ok to let people like the Marvel stuff, _and_ lament the fact that there is less effort going into making more interesting (from one perspective) movies.
I did this a few years ago during taxi before take-off, in a business class seat on a flight to Tokyo (I’m not bragging, it’s literally the only time in my life I’ve ever not flown economy)
I had to move to another seat when I wanted to recline it for sleeping, because the crew (quite rightly) didn’t want my iPhone getting chewed up in the mechanism.
Despite me using my Apple Watch to make the “find me!” ping sound, nobody could find it during the flight, so they had to partly dismantle the seat when we landed. It was all very embarrassing, I had to stand there for 20 minutes watching ground crew take it apart.
I didn’t dare tell anyone that I didn’t turn it onto airplane mode before I dropped it.
The “correlation is not causation” people were right all along!
I wonder if there are some issuers out there who still have some active legacy backoffice process for processing transactions with carbon copies from imprinter machines
Right there with you. I simultaneously love my smartphone and everything it has enabled for me and billions of fellow humans, _and_ frequently advocate for taking breaks from it to interact with real people for a change.
A (clearly hypothetical in this case) cafe where screens are banned seems like a perfect place to do that. But I would hate for it to be at a place that is this aggressive.