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Ironically, your entire post can be read as such, almost perfectly!

Labeling each sentence (J)ab and (T)hrust, and using colon ":" to indicate arguments, one gets:

```

J: J. J. T.

J: "J. J. T".

T: T.

T: J. J. T.

```

I think y'all are on something.

Question - How does this capture the entire screen, except its own window?

I've tried making similar functionality in Python to add visual effects to the screen, but the only way I found is to use one of the packages which leverage the Screenshot functionality.

But this causes recursion since my app's window will be in the screenshot (unless I put my app on a different monitor or a different area of the monitor). How do they avoid that?

I remember his show was abruptly interrupted as he was detained by the Federal Police for working in Brazil without the appropriate visa.

https://www.folhadelondrina.com.br/geral/pf-multa-e-da-oito-...

Yes, they felt very pushy with this & other tactics to get me to use new features.

That creates distrust in me, so I swapped to BitWarden and haven't looked back.

Specifically, the ones rich in descriptions of scenery. (...) skimming to find where the descriptions end so I can resume reading from there.

I've always been good at conjuring images in my mind, but I also skip the drawn out visual descriptions.

I could never enjoy Lord of the Rings due to Tolkien's love of describing trees (of the wooden and familial kinds)

Prediction: CEO salaries increase to account for hazard pay.

The person giving the tour knows security by obscurity is weak for actual security, but strong for marketing.

How are the cluster label strings generated?

These are submarines*

* https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Ceci n'est pas un submarine.

Adding iodine to salt has greatly increased the population's IQ in countries that have adopted it.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15734706/

MacBook

Do you mean the American Electric "Suicide" Computer?

Yes I've been zapped by it numerous times.

Zapped by shower heads? Don't know anyone.

Almost died from a gas heated shower because of a leak? I know one person.

Yes, this is anecdata.

Digital distribution and cloud apps lowered the cost to correct mistakes and therefore lowered the barrier to release.

No longer are developers bound by physical media, or have to force clients to troubleshoot, manually download updates on their website and install them.

... and as others said, LLMs impact is greater on junior developers, and at that, more on speed than quality. For experienced developers, the impact is greater on speed.

I have no data, only sense to make.

The platform has been blocked in the country of 220 million since the end of last month.

Actually, 203 million. The 2018 estimate was 214 million, which was corrected in the 2022 census. Kinda crazy that it was overestimated by 11M.

"Don't even talk to me if your computer doesn't have homemade transistors".

While I get the difference between creators vs users, in the end we're all users in someone else's perspective.

Maybe you've built your own tools, but that's just applying someone else's library.

Maybe you've built your own library, but that's just using someone else's OS and IDE.

Maybe you've built your own OS, but you're still just applying a language that an actually smart person developed.

Maybe you've developed your own language, but that's just an abstraction of actual hardware activity, which the actual geniuses who tamed silicon built.

Maybe you've built your own hardware, but you're really just applying physical and chemical discoveries that actual smart humans made.

Maybe you've even discovered physical and chemical discoveries yourself! But that's nothing, you're just observing the laws of nature.

Maybe you've created laws of nature yourself, but you're nothing next to your mother, who gave birth to a god.

"Privacy Sandbox" by Google.

See also:

1. Exxon's "Advanced Recycling"

2. Phillip Morris' "Smoke Free"

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.

Fizz Mobile

Telecom service is actually getting cheaper.

There are some new entrants.

Just got a plan with 10GB data for CAD$29/month with US+Canada coverage.

$2 more adds another 10GB

I've been in Toronto for a decade and the only enforcements I've seen are transit related.

People do whatever they want here.

I lived in South America in the 1990s, but every now and then Toronto manages to shock me in worse ways.

This reminds me of the time XBox 360s were hacked by drilling the processor at a precise location, at a precise depth [1].

At some point, a tool was made to signal if you drilled far enough.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/live/RyW0lXnoFOA

Unfortunately gaming the system is still a temptation.

By rewarding growth, schools are incentivized to prevent earlier grades from doing too well.

One student with potential pushing the overall performance higher than that school might like for that year might be purposefully stunted in order to allow room for growth in later years, robbing them of getting as far in life as they would have.

Linux keeps improving. But I can tell you the following from a Lenovo Certified Ubuntu laptop last year:

- Hibernate/suspend issues, Graphics/Wifi dies on wakeup.

- Still needed to fiddle with SecureBoot to install.

- Setting up TPM was an involved process using the CLI. Couldn't get the fingerprint scanner to run either.

- Some from older generations require familiarity. I used to get yelled at because I "moved the Internet icon".

- So much of the world requires Windows/Mac: banking apps, taxes and government apps, anti-cheat and student software. Yes they're all terrible software, but you're crippling yourself socially by avoiding them. It's sad but real. Maybe not in your country, good for you, but that's not the case everywhere.

100 put in jail after scamming? Pff that's nothing.

Brazilian police are so effective that thousands of scammers are already in jail when they call!

Why do we care if something is Turing complete? In other words, what are applications of Turing completeness?

Technology amplifies intent.

LLMs are as friendly to society as nuts and bolts. It's up to those who wield it to be moral.

Betteridge's corollary:

As an online discussion about a headline that ends in a question mark grows longer, the probability of a citation of Betteridges's law approaches 1.

GP likely lives in the UK where households are subject to a mandatory TV Licence, which fees are used to fund the BBC.

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

On the ethics ...

Kentaro Toyama talks about technology as an amplifier for human intent.

Just as you could tighten a nut with your hands, you can tighten it so much more with a wrench.

Whether that nut is employed in a machine that will bring bounty for a village, or it's employed in a machine whose output by law belongs to its private owners is entirely up to the inhabitants.

Will the villagers band together and build their own machine?

Or will the authorities give the private creator of the machine exclusivity of the land the machine runs on and its output, leaving the villagers bereft?

Whatever state our world is in is a result of our peers decision, not "good" or "bad" technology. Humans will legislate: "good" and "bad" uses are up to them, and later on up to the executive and judicial system.

Pro-social (*not the same as socialist) cultures will share the wealth, others will hoard it, and you get the effects you dread: unemployment, poverty, etc.

Now, a better question is: is a technology too powerful or misunderstood that it might be misused, regardless of the creator's intent?

Retailers are the tip of the iceberg.

These companies would want to sell your info to any group who see you as a liability, not just law enforcement:

- Insurance companies want an excuse deny payment

- Potential employers want an excuse to not hire you

- Landlords, neighbors, social clubs benefit from an excuse to deny you

- People who despise you for any reason may use this to hurt you.

Any of these uses today might be seen as extreme, but these things have a way of normalizing themselves over time.