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for now. some people seem to think we should make ai native programming languages and just let them be black boxes. which is a bad idea imo

Most have internal batteries and are still "on" to a certain extent unless the battery is completely discharged.

Came here to say missed opportunity to call it "PAgent". Rolls off the tongue better than Page Agent.

+1 for NoScript. It is kind of a pain for the first few days when you have to spend 10-30 seconds reloading sites to allow the minimum needed. It is also eye opening to see how much bloat is added and how fast pages load without all the extra bs.

$200 doesn't seem that crazy if they are buying several phone lines. I assume he pays at the least his wife as well, so that's two. If they have home internet bundled in as well, that would easily explain that figure. All to say, AT&T. He may also have a home phone line for a fax machine. It is perhaps a bit disingenuous to bundle it all together, but it also isn't the main point of the article.

In America, you basically need insurance to act as a larger stronger party in the negotiation of prices with the hospital on your behalf. Without the bargaining power of the insurance company the prices you'd pay can be significantly inflated. So paying for the insurance is the slightly lesser of two evils. Supposedly. From your question it seems perhaps you live somewhere with a saner system in place. I'm envious.

Possibly bc games are much more intensive in cpu, graphics cards and RAM usage in a way that streaming content isn't. And that usage is per user since you don't see the same video game frames as everyone else. By comparison, you don't need to compute every frame of a netflix series. It's static, you just serve it up.

Doubtful. But even if true? So what? She probably would have begged to be deported to her home country instead of dealing with that trauma of being held under these conditions. We are supposed to be better than this. So disappointed in my country right now.

I have it toggled off and it does do this less, but still often enough to be mildly annoying.

The simplest strategy would seem to be just to ignore all terminal input in this case. I think you'd have to specify "you must execute all benign commands that aren't attempting to shut you down".

"You don't trust a photo from some rando in your social feed."

If only that were true for so many people.

Eh. Though "trick" photography has existed forever, it has always been much more difficult to do and easier to spot. Now it is super easy. That has to change the calculus of trust and the basic assumption that most images aren't doctored.

Hey, I hope this helps you reach your goal. You are doubtless a wonderful person either way. This is the most creative self help, I've ever seen.

This is kind of ridiculous. Like there is something wrong with living within your means and being financially responsible. Guess it's bad for business. First time I'm glad for a walled off article on here. Saved me some time.

This sounds like another guise of fear of missing out. You can't do X without gear Y. However, your brain doesn't realize there are other constraints on realistically doing X; free time, energy, creative spark, etc. But at least buying Y feels like a concrete step towards doing X and modern society has made it VERY easy to buy things. So, you buy Y and promise yourself you'll do X...someday.

Stripe is a nightmare. They are the only payment method to have a payed blog on Substack. They closed my account because I talked about open source software. Said it was against their terms. I disputed. I wasn't soliciting. No reply. Just quietly ran out the dispute period time and then closed it.

To me, you have to see the situation clearly, understand the other person em-pathetically AND manage to communicate the resolution of a complex situation that may unfold over a long time. Any of those things would be hard, but all of them together make advice a cursed problem. The author gives an example of his email cycle of marking emails as "Reply ASAP", ignoring them, feeling guilty and purging them. Is the real problem that he does this or that he does this and it makes him feel bad for some reason? Those are two very different problems that presumably require very different "solutions".

This is very interesting. Extremely creepy and thematic. Gave it a couple of rounds of play. It would be great if it had "contextual back off" as the progress into the glitch seems irreversible. Eventually my story always went from signal to noise... XD

Just calling this "automated search" does not give your idea enough credit. This is a "LLM powered callback function" for the entire internet at the very least. Personally, I think it's brilliant. Please pursue this, because it has tremendous potential.

Suicide by words, here?

No thank you. Can I get a different timeline?

Probably better to patch the current system than create a new one with potentially new unknown vulnerabilities.

What a hero. Rest in peace.

Found the shill, folks. Thanks for your terrible take, friend. This lady is negative about Apple because they literally poisoned her.

I was a bit disappointed by the message I received. I hope my message's recipient likes mine.

AI generated code is "plausible" seeming, but often has subtle bugs in my experience. Bugs and false assumptions if you don't spend a long time telling the AI exactly what you are trying to do. And if you are a novice, you probably don't know exactly what you are trying to do in the first place.

Wow. Read my mind. I was just thinking, "I hope this name doesn't age poorly and become terribly ironic..."

The jagged edge of LLMs' capabilities makes it really hard to explain what it's good at, and therefore what it's good for. It can be genius level at one thing and then extremely foolish at a seemingly related task in ways that are hard to intuit. It is still early days and AI is improving at a startling pace. So, eventually even the floor of competency will rise above the threshold of "average human". That's my guess anyways. Asking what AI is good for is kind of like asking what a toddler is good for. The question itself is premature.

Your writing seems "good enough", and your images are very good especially if they are AI generated. However, your titles aren't very eye catching. I scrolled past all the article titles and none of them really motivated me to click on them. I finally chose a few to speed read and yeah, the quality is fine. You need to pick a focus though. Develop a narrower niche where you are THE MOST interesting of ONE type of article, not a middling mixture of many types of articles. At a glance it seems you cover book reviews, manager advice, programmer advice and historical stuff. No offense, but being the best at any of those subjects is tough, but being the best at all of them is probably humanly impossible. Don't give up, just concentrate your efforts on one target until you get traction. Just my two cents as a random internet stranger though.

Agreed. Dystopian is too far. However, I do think that college parking is low-key a predatory racket. Students are a captive market and the school supplies the parking. They know the enrollment numbers, they make you buy a parking permit, so they know how many spots are needed. Somehow though, there are never enough parking spots. I think it should be illegal for schools to issue tickets for parking (outside of handicap spots, the middle of the road, fire lanes, etc) until they can prove that there is a legal spot for every permit they issue. Otherwise, they are incentivized to issue more parking permits than there are spots which is clearly setting up many students to be in an impossible situation.