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Since everything is a car analogy...

A driverless vehicle doesn't require me to add a driver to reach a destination. A serverless solution doesn't require me to add a server to achieve the goal. Something is still driving the car, something is still serving the data. But it's out of my hands.

I disagree. I think that what college offers is more than an increase in salary. For hyperbole’s sake, you could use the argument of ‘my trust fund is already paying me more than your median graduate’s full-time job’ and most would roll their eyes at such a statement.

The friction coefficients in rain aren’t bad if you’re riding at posted speeds, outside of solid metal and painted lines. It’s riding right after it starts raining that you want to avoid - all of the oils which drip from vehicles get displaced by the initial deluge, and that is slippery stuff.

Why is this? Camcorders in the 80s weren’t weird. Home movies weren’t weird. Is it solely because the device has other primary functions? Because it’s not clear that if you’re pointing at something you’re likely recording?

Hearthstone has two main game ‘modes’. The constructed Magic: The Gathering is card packs, the battlegrounds auto-chess team building auto-battler is subscription (although arguably that doesn’t affect much). The other incentives are cosmetic, and there are other game modes which are more niche. The problem with Hearthstone is that because it has a swath of modes, and all those modes price differently, it looks like you have this perverse overlap when in reality it’s pretty disparate.

The engine and rules are the same, but the track is different. You change enough things you get a different game - you don’t change enough, and people get bored. I’d compare F1 to NASCAR. Building a new track isn’t cheap. The rules change every season making the cars require redesigns and try to use the available rules to eke out their own advantages. Part of the fun of hearthstone is its deck building, and if the available card pool never changes or updates in large ways, that aspect of the game dies.

My spouse and I regularly do a Wednesday night dinner. One person cooks, everyone eats, and the cook rotates. People get a small break from the weekly grind while leaving early enough to work the next day. People get a nice social conversation, and most of them get a night off of cooking. It works quite well if you can get your friends to commit to it.

You’re conflating human work and machine work. I think that’s the real argument here - it’s fine to study someone’s work and learn from it as a human, because that takes impossibly more time and produces impossibly less total works than chatGPT doing the same thing.

I’m not arguing for either side, just pointing out that we need to carefully consider what rights AI should share with humans.

I would imagine sonar coupled with water pressure could measure thickness (or however a sub measures its current depth).

Surface temp is done via IR satellite imagery, although clouds will muck the readings.

It’s odd. I could argue it’s to keep eggs in stock, considering what happened with cream cheese and bsby formula recently. Small drop in supply, media scarcity coverage, many people buy 5x their normal and suddenly the prophecy has self-fulfilled. But, who knows.

Is it? I would argue if you have live data in some large amount, you’re not going to be keeping that in sync with your dev environment (and it should be sanitized, which has its own fun oddities at times). I would also argue that your staging environment probably isn’t running the same hardware specs as live. Inevitably you’ll find race conditions, odd data structures and other fun things which simply aren’t apparent on systems prior to live.

I think the goal is more ‘always have an exit strategy’ but for small children they can’t be expected to maintain a self awareness at all times. So the idea is to just remove the possibility entirely. Perhaps a statement of ‘don’t spend more than a few minutes talking to strangers’ or ‘don’t follow a stranger to a second location’ would be better as kids grow older.

What color is it? 4 years ago

It seems disingenuous to fade from one color to the next while displaying only two hexes for color. Either that or it’s not fading and my eyes are deceiving me, but as I’m on mobile I’ve not the time to look at the source code.

I will say my sole frustration thus far with Vite has been the inability to turn off caching in a meaningful way. This is especially important when you are developing a plug-in for a larger project installed into your node_modules - the Vite cache won’t update changes unless it thinks it should, usually via version number change.