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Wikipedia quotes a paper saying people make / recycle around 50 kilograms per day. That would imply that people make around 0.5787 grams per second. But this is in tension with the idea that people use 100 watts at rest. Since that 100 watt number seems to be more strongly established, I think 1 gram per second is a better estimate.

The cited paper in Wikipedia might be accurate and the author is just expecting "at rest" to mean awake but mostly idle. I'd wager that during sleep, we use less than 100W. For the sake of argument if you take out 8 hours (asleep time) from a 24 hour period, you end up with a rate of ~0.8681 grams per second, much closer to 1g/s. Anyway, just a little fun with numbers.

Echoing a sibling: yes, apple seems to "get it" just fine.

In 2021, analysts estimated there were 100 million units in use.[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210212163703/https://www.techr...

Yeah, I'm starting wonder if this is bs. They don't have a twitter account like the pledge form indicates. The youtuber that purportedly started the campaign only has like 36k subscribers, so it's not clear where such a high level of pledges would be coming from and the rpc endpoint response vs page count is pretty suspicious.

To make the analogy proportional (according to the article), the difference would be something like "do they notice the difference between 1h 40m and 5 hours" (i.e. 3x more). My money would be on yes, they'd very much notice.

once you are plant based for 3 or more years, you just don't really crave that anymore except as maybe a guilty pleasure once or twice a year.

This has been the exact opposite of my experience.

source: vegan for 14 years, vegetarian for 2 years prior to that, carnist for the initial 22 years. :)

The most common category is that the models make wrong assumptions on your behalf and just run along with them without checking. They also don't manage their confusion, they don't seek clarifications, they don't surface inconsistencies, they don't present tradeoffs, they don't push back when they should, and they are still a little too sycophantic.

Does this not undercut everything going on here. Like, what?

You might be thinking "just disable updates, man" or "just install LTSC", or "just run some random debloat script off of GitHub". Why? Why would I jump through all these hoops? I'd rather put in the effort for an OS that knows what consent is and respects me as a user.

The absolute choice quote here. Tattoo it on your forehead.

Ah, yeah, I'd suspect they'd only have plugins. Def understand the need for mobility. I never want to miss a chance to share with folks about the existence of EPTL, though. :P

Bingo. Also, it's effectively dead. I live in Multnomah county and since that's gone into effect (in 2023), I have only ever pumped my own gas.

Howdy, fellow east Portlander, you might be interested in this: https://www.eptl.toollibrarian.net/TL/ourtools.php.

They have 5 electric leaf blowers available right now. You mentioned you already bought one, but perhaps you could share this info with some of your friends or neighbors to save them the cost. :)

Price is reasonable, seems less than Uber or a standard taxi.

Me, in 2015: [Uber's price] is reasonable, seems less than a standard taxi.

We already know how this story progresses.

Bingo

Gets me every time.

An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models.

And this is where I stop reading. You cannot make such a descriptive statement without some sort of corroborating evidence other than your intuition/anecdotes.

The author is applying a universal prescription to ALL museums based on a single experience at a single museum.

I'd wager it's the first (51.1%). Mostly because I simply cannot imagine that nearly 70% of kids in 2005 enjoyed reading. That seems too high. Based on..? My vibes.

Steve Jobs didn't make the iPad

Yes, that's correct.

That detail was sufficient to find it. Cheers

I don't want to beat a dead horse, since sibling commenters have covered this, but I'd implore you to imagine the spectrum of reactions which Meta _could_ have had when discovering their research indicated they were having a negative impact on people.

Some of those reactions on that spectrum would lead to greater human flourishing and well-being, others of those reactions would lead to the opposite. Now think about the reaction they actually _did_ have. Where on the aforementioned spectrum would their actual reaction fall?

Zooming out, how have they reacted to similar circumstances in the past when their own internal research or data indicated a negative impact on people?

The continued "outrage" is that they've exhibited a recurrent pattern across myriad occurrences.

Link?

Something that hit me hard about this one is the purported full quote from Alex ends with "See you tomorrow." Given the context of Chiang's story, leaving this off just adds to the gut punch for me.

This should be the main reply to OP's every attempt as well.

Hillsboro is pretty much a company town

No, it's not. Not even close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

It certainly sounds like you've tried a lot. One approach could be to (and I'm not being facetious) cultivate a mindfulness-in-boredom practice. Seriously. I'm not saying you will initially get onto the treadmill thinking "Boy, I can't wait to be bored." However, over time you might start to crave that time in your head. Alternatively (if that sounds absolutely unappealing), you might try another type of exercise. Running definitely isn't the be all, end all. I wish you luck!

If I had to guess, they're probably referring to the way that certain devices broadcast their APIs to external services. A lot of them have no intention of allowing open access to APIs (e.g., my mini-split controller requires a slight hack to get it connected to HA).

That is, the flakiness isn't due to HA updates breaking connections or an unstable server, but rather manufacturers designing closed and/or brittle systems. Try as they might, the HA authors and surrounding community can only do so much for such devices.

Also, I believe the word you're looking for is 'wary' (as in, to be skeptical or suspicious), not 'weary' (as in, to be tired). :)

Answer from Claude 4 Sonnet just now (I copy-pasted your prompt):

This is a variation of the classic river-crossing puzzle, but with an added complexity - the lion that will eat both the wolf and the goat. Let me work through this step by step: The constraints:

Goat + Cabbage alone = Goat eats cabbage Wolf + Goat alone = Wolf eats goat Lion + Wolf alone = Lion eats wolf Lion + Goat alone = Lion eats goat

The solution:

First trip: Man takes the goat across Left behind: Cabbage, Wolf, Lion (safe - wolf won't eat cabbage, lion won't eat wolf if goat isn't there)

Second trip: Man returns alone, then takes the wolf across Brings the goat back to prevent wolf from eating it Left behind: Cabbage, Goat, Lion

Third trip: Man takes the lion across, leaves it with the wolf Left behind: Cabbage, Goat (safe - goat won't eat cabbage if separated properly)

Fourth trip: Man returns alone, takes the cabbage across Left behind: Goat (alone and safe)

Fifth trip: Man returns alone, takes the goat across Wait, let me reconsider this more carefully. Actually, there's a fundamental problem: if the lion will eat either the wolf OR the goat when left alone with them, and we need to get all items across, we can never safely leave the lion with either animal.

The puzzle as stated appears to have no solution, because the lion creates an impossible constraint - it cannot be left alone with either the wolf or the goat on either side of the river, making it impossible to transport all items safely.

It got it right, eventually which is impressive. However, it's ability to retain proper context is still a problem (it took the goat on the first trip, then thinks the goat is still on the same side of the river as the other things.

The canonical advice would be to focus on one thing first and make sure you're doing it well and users want it, then expand.

Ignorant question: why might one need to euthanize a chicken?

Whose actions?

That's ... uh ... not what a rug pull is. They're telling you plainly from the jump that they're going to eventually charge for it. Point taken on your wish to wait, that makes perfect sense.