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I noticed that in some of those situations people forget that they also googled the topic they just discussed. So e.g. two friends were having a conversation about camping and googled specific camping items or locations. Then (seemingly suspiciously) relevant ads show up in places they would not expect. This is indeed happening very often as search/ads companies harvest enormous amounts of data and feed it into targeting almost immediately. And since there are only a few big ads networks, these interest-based ads then show up everywhere.

I am highlighting the problem with relying on lists, rather than making an informed decision individually. Of course, there is convenience in that, and everyone should do whatever they want. However, BS is very quickly becoming an echo-chamber worse than Reddit.

I have been called a nazi for stating that Ukraine has the right to defend itself. So I am probably on one of your lists.

Just double checking - there is an opt-out feature that cross-posts all IG posts to Threads?

True. But you don't become an active monthly user. Unless there are some shenanigans happening, which is highly likely. I think I visited Threads by accident several times by clicking posts in IG, that were apparently Threads posts embedded directly into IG as a growth hack (my speculation).

The problem with codifying hate speech (and, eventually, punishing for it) is that even today the existing definitions are extremely broad and subjective. UN's own definition includes the use of pejorative language, i.e. "disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect" towards something. This is clearly illiberal, anti free-speech, and extremely dangerous (society-ending dangerous).

Reminds me of the joke from Peep show about naming their band "Various Artists".

There is a huge number of TV shows (e.g. old British comedy shows) and movies (e.g. big releases from Trier) that are not available to stream on any streaming service in the US. There is no other option than to pirate. An astoundingly ridiculous situation.

Hope you get well soon!

I'd like to see this death rate for the subset of the SA population that matches migrant demographics, ex: age and gender. Then we can see what the comparable death rates are for healthy young men.

I don't disagree with your first point. Yes, I would like to see these breakdowns. However, OP's point was that other factors like natural death can account for some of these numbers. This point is reasonable and data seems to suggest that it is statistically probable.

educate yourself about the Kafala[0] system

Is this an abusive system? Yes. Does it create opportunities for slavery? Yes. Can 21K deaths be attributed so slavery? No evidence. This is not splitting hairs, this is a reasonable approach to digging into details when dealing with complex issues.

None of that is factual. If it is - present evidence that:

1. all workers involved in this project are slaves, i.e. trafficked and sold into slavery and are owned as property.

2. OP justifies the deaths and not merely tries to add context and find a reasonable explanation for some of the deaths (which does not exclude possible human rights violations).

It's a fact that strong emotions can cloud judgment and result in cognitive biases.

See my comment above in the same thread, the data suggests that OP's view is not unreasonable. Your comment uses charged language like "asshole", "literal slaves", "justify/intellectualize the deaths", etc and you are not providing data to support your claims (only an appeal to emotions).

Because jumping to emotionally driven conclusions is not a healthy reaction and usually leads to bad outcomes.

Looking purely at data (eg https://data.who.int/countries/682) your point is not unreasonable.

Saudi Arabia population is ~35M with ~120K deaths per year.

10M immigrants is ~32K deaths per year.

Interesting, that's a very cool idea! I tried Reaper when it was released but didn't find a good reason to move away from Pro Tools. That was a very long time ago though. What's the best community for sharing ReaScripts? Also, is your script available anywhere?

Logic falls into a weird space between pro (studio) software and home studio software. Professional studios mostly use Pro Tools and Cubase (Europe). Home users mostly migrated to Live. It's obviously an oversimplification but it does reflect the problem Logic is facing.

Live is far ahead of Logic in the electronic music space. With a streamlined UI and M4L it dominated the market for the new(ish) generation of musicians. Every single musician I know (100s) moved from Logic to Live within the last two decades. The only people I know who still use Logic are composers (Live lacks music notation) using laptops at home.

Not to say that Logic is not a great piece of software. Drummer tracks were revolutionary, built in plugins are solid.

Me too! If anything, iPhone photos became more over-processed over the last decade.

It's very similar in regards to treating the increase in compute power consumption as a signal of "growth".

Even camera improvements are overblown. My usage and photo quality did not improve much since ~iPhone 6. Taking decent travel photos, selfies, etc - I was happy with the results 10 years ago.

Technically, I understand the difference in the technology, I just don't know who needs that vs who gets excited about new features for a brief moment.

How would an additional tax address this? Paying more would hardly reduce usage, and definitely won't incentivize users to dispose of vape pens more responsibly.

That's an overly pessimistic view. Both professional and personal growth depend on effectiveness. Even conformity doesn't exclude it. You can conform better by being more effective.

The least effective FE engineers I worked with (big tech) are people who learned client-side tech by learning React. They have a very limited understanding of UI concepts and an insufficient attention to detail.

React is arguably more about encapsulation, data flow, and state than about the fundamentals of UI and UX.

I highly recommend to start by building a very simple website from scratch using HTML and CSS.

It's very common today for FE engineers to have a very limited understanding of the basics because they picked up client-side tech by following React tutorials (or any other highly abstracted framework).

It's a very incremental learning process, so expect your brain to take some time to learn to identify small details that make great UI/UX. It takes practice!

Once you feel comfortable building a simple page, explore various techniques to make it feel more professional (i.e. identify why your page doesn't look as good as some other references, and start copying their ideas).

It took me a while to understand that the second picture is actually a muted video with hidden controls.

Kagi has bangs. This is different. It's a shortcut for "site: somesite.com", while a bang just redirects to the somesite.com search results page.

I mean... even if you do have the source code it will eventually stop working if you try to use it on newer stacks. The question is who is updating the software, not necessarily who owns it.

My only criticism of this approach is that it asks highly sensitive users to learn a critical keyboard shortcut that will not work anywhere else. What will happen if users attempt to triple press "shift" on any other surface that doesn't support this? Because that's highly likely.

Instead of introducing a new (hidden) shortcut, I would rely on clear visual cues and intuitive (meaning, already common) interactions. E.g. opening the form in a modal; clicking anywhere outside of this modal closes the modal and loads the weather page. The clickable background should be clearly identified as a special feature, e.g. tiled text "exit page" all over it.

Oh this is great! Currently I don't incorporate web search into the UI I use, will give OpenWebUI a try.

I use Llama 3.1 8B Instruct 128k at home and that pretty much covers all my LLM needs. Don't see a reason to pay for GPT-4.

It is cringe as a vision, but I still think it's a more positive investment than coming up with new ways to evade data privacy laws. While the animated "metaverse" is unlikely to succeed, maybe the hardware itself will push the industry in the right direction.