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There was a Romanian economist who was able to exploit several lotteries around the world. He essentially bought every combination to lotteries where the payout was higher than the cost. Logistical nightmare.

https://thehustle.co/the-man-who-won-the-lottery-14-times

I had no idea this was possible, but yeah, going to “battery health” in my Settings shows battery health is degraded, and provides a link to schedule a replacement.

No country is blameless in war and the United States is no exception, but there is no reasonable comparison between the evil Japan committed in Asia and what the United States did to Japanese Americans.

“Unproven”, I don’t get how anyone can use LLMs and come away with this opinion. There is simply no better way to do a fuzzy search than by typing a vague prompt into an LLM.

I was trying to find a movie title the other day, only remembered it had Lime in the title and had a Jack-the-Ripper setting. ChatGPT found it easily. Sure you have to fact check the results, but there’s undeniable value there.

Canceling Google Inbox was when I started to move off their platform, it was their best product in years and finally got a handle on email chaos, and then they just killed it with no follow up, insane.

I set timers for 49 minutes frequently because Siri will hear 15 instead of 50

Calgary too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_15

I recently went through a large video editing project on Ubuntu. Really wanted to use DaVinci resolve but it had multiple hard crashes and just wouldn’t open for some reason, doesn’t seem like they support Linux as well as Mac and windows.

I ended up using Blender, and while it’s powerful and super useful to be able to link scenes from other files, one huge missing feature is support for videos of varying frame rates. If your videos don’t match, the audio will be either much longer or much shorter than the video clips.

Had a few hard crashes too and lots of bugs, but definitely usable.

Exploring a topic and then asking for specific book recommendations, getting it to argue both sides of an issue to see weak points, giving quizzes on topics. Also love using it to keep asking for practical examples of abstract ideas.

Unrelated modules often superficially look like each other at a point in time, I think that’s what the parent is referring to. An inexperienced developer will see this and think “I need to remove this duplication”. But then as the modules diverge from each other over time you end up with a giant complex interface that would be better off as 2 separate modules.

So deduplicating unnecessarily compresses the code without adding anything to code quality.

It’s a nice computer but calling it “repairable” is a farce, and System76’s customer support is unfortunately woefully inadequate.

I have one of these and spilled a drink on my keyboard, getting it replaced was $300 of parts and labor, but the worst thing was it took almost 2 months pressuring their support reps to actually complete the process and they would frequently just not respond to messages, or ignore information I provided or clarified.

Pop_OS! is really nice to be fair. I’ve also had issues with build quality. My Gazelle’s screen stopped working when the computer ran out of power and had a bent wire when I opened it up. Again they wanted hundreds of dollars to fix it, even though it was clearly a manufacturing defect. When they sent the computer back the chassis was cracked.

Our prod app and staging just completely died. Bad day for somebody at Cloudflare

This killed our app immediately. Looks like auth0 and a lot of other sites are down.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231023120923/https://www.nytim...

It’s also why cults are so seductive to so many, turning over control and decision making does wonders for peace of mind, until the false basis for that confidence gets exposed.

There already are several wireless car play adapters for under $100, I have one and it works perfectly

In my comment I said there’s a chance it’s just a bug. But there’s nothing wrong with speculating from past data, and throttling certain sites would fit the pattern of past behavior.

Because that would be impossible to prove, and Twitter’s owner has burned any expectation of good faith by lying, repeatedly, about the smallest issues. He said he wouldn’t ban the ElonJet account, and then he did: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/dec/19/elon-musk/...

He banned journalists who reported on it, banned links to Mastodon, Substack, and Threads, changed the algorithm to boost his own content, slapped a warning label on NPR implying it was government funded and no more independent than the Global Times or Russia Today.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/journalists-who-wrote-ab...

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blockin...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674427/substack-twitter-...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets...

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twit...

So you could be right and this might be a bug, but your implication that we should give Twitter the benefit of the doubt doesn’t hold up.

Maybe 2% of my Twitter follows moved to Mastodon. I’ve seen about 50% on Threads.

It’s one of the fastest growing apps in history and already a significant percentage of Twitter’s total user base. It’s surged past Mastodon in total user count. I hope ActivityPub becomes the standard, but pretending like Threads isn’t a massive hit ignores reality.

In fact there’s a giant list of reasons to assume bad faith with anything Musk says. https://elonmusk.today/

More recently he banned Aaron Greenspan, founder of Plainsite, and prominent Elon Musk critic. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/15/elon-musk-led-twitter-suspen...

Bookwyrm is a great alternative I’ve been using. It’s built on activitypub so you can follow accounts from Mastodon or kbin or whatever, and can even spin up your own server if you want.

https://joinbookwyrm.com/

On the flip side the code bases I’ve worked with that were built with exploratory coding, instead of deeply understanding the problem and designing a solution, tend to be buggy, slow, and stressful to work on. I think it’s a balance like anything else.

Short Circuit adds ChatGPT to Siri, really shows what Siri could be. https://shortcircuit.chat/

Using jargon to mask a lack of understanding is also key. It’s hard to push back on a bad idea when you need a full day just to understand whatever buzzwords are being used to describe it.

I asked ChatGPT to describe a bad idea in technical jargon, storing all data in a single node in memory, and the result mirrors real descriptions of systems I’ve had to try to refute.

“We centralize all data in-memory on a singular node to alleviate the pitfalls of distributed storage systems, by employing a single node design pattern alongside cutting-edge memory caching algorithms to ameliorate performance, scalability, and operational efficiency. This transformative approach has the potential to streamline the data retrieval process while concurrently reducing hardware requirements, and augmenting compatibility with existing infrastructures.”

Yeah I don’t agree with never making the same mistake twice, especially for lower level employees. Deming in The New Economics points out that all processes in an organization have natural variation, so mistakes only have meaning if they go beyond that variation in their impact.

So if your code is so fragile that it requires manual testing of every feature before deploying, it’s very likely that a junior employee will forget that testing step more than once, because the system has set them up to fail. Deming would suggest never blaming individuals, and instead measuring the process’s variation and working to reduce it, in this case by reducing code fragility or finding ways to automate or enforce the manual testing.

He connected the civilizations

We’re living in the dark ages of copyright policy.

Operation Snow White, run by Scientology, was one of the largest government infiltrations in US History. I don’t see any evidence that the same thing is happening with the Mormon church though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White