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I think I’m being misinterpreted, which is on me for being unclear.

To address a sibling commenter first: no, I don’t think any mention of covid is a political statement, that’d be absurd. We all experienced the mayhem, fear, and uncertainty together, and most of us, though sadly not all of us, made it out alive. It itself is not political.

But it is often made to be. I find the articles opening sentence is phrased in a way as to be invoking a boogeyman, not least to which is because covid restrictions in japan were relaxed two years ago. The phrasing implies a strongly direct correlation, rather than a more nebulous one where all diseases would increase by the same reduction in measures. The overt entanglement in the opening sentence feels like baiting a response by disingenuous or superfluous association. The article would have stood stronger on its own legs, I feel.

please don’t mistake me for some kind of anti-vaccine anti-mask zealot. Having diligently participated in all the responsible social and personal anti-covid measures, my take on the article remains that it was a bizarre choice for the author to so directly entangle the two things together. CDC comments not withstanding, the flesh eating bacteria is enough of an eye catching story on its own, it doesn’t need to be attached to another horrible disease to be an interesting article.

Just so we’re clear and you can be on record with it: you support fascism?

A looming Christofascist dictatorship is not what I’d consider a minor political realignment, but potato potato, I guess

Would you accept a denial? Seems like you’re just spoiling for a fight.

No comment re: recommendations on building, but if you're interested, alternative terminology often includes corporate intel / intelligence.

The dual posting it’s important but does not mark Nakasone as uniquely talented — the post is always served by the current director of the NSA.

For the interested, Tetlock wrote a book called 'Superforecasting', and also set up a company using his research to utilize the prowess of those forecasters (https://goodjudgment.com/about/). I don't know how good the company is at what it does, but the book was very good.

Sometimes I feel like I'm being caught in a pincer maneuver by contemporary US society where the far right is wielding increasingly concerning amounts of governmental power to force conservative changes, and the far left is wielding social power to force overly liberal changes. Not only is this very difficult to navigate at an emotional level, it's also just generally concerning that both legally and socially, radicalism is taking a stronger and stronger hold.

I understand that the team at BlueSky is tiny and that they were firstly prioritizing getting a stable, core featureset out, but I firmly believe that keeping posts private to non account holders followed by the iron grip on signups during Twitter's implosion era last year was an enormous strategic blunder that they'll never recover from.

Which is a shame, because I really want them to succeed. But the amount of dead accounts I see made by people with followings on twitter, who were lucky enough to get an invite is telling. A total collapse of momentum.

In my understanding feral is a domesticated creature that has found it self adapting back to the wild, while a wild creature was never domesticated at all. How can pigeons be feral?

I had an ATT unlimited data plan, grandfathered from way back in 2004 or something. It was wonderful while cellular data was still only available in limited amounts. I only finally moved off it about 3 years ago. ATT never seemed to care much. The only problems I had were when I had to make certain changes to my account, the staff could never find my plan in the system -- on more than one occasion we had actual ATT database admins on the line to resolve things.

I’d kill for a phone with proper music control hardware buttons. I miss my iPod, and being able to control it, precisely, from my pocket.

Pi Hole is nice, I run it as an add-on in my router's OpenWRT install. But it's not useful for my AppleTV.

Absolutely my experience with Starbucks. Their default Pike Roast drip coffee is black as pitch and tastes like pure carbon. It could very well act as a smelling salt to snap one out of stupor or slumber.

Their lattes are a treat, though. A white mocha, pumpkin spice, or in the winter, a creme brulee latte are all divine. Basically hot milkshakes.

What does it matter what they say. There are no consequences to lying, so the only correct move is to assume they are.

This result exceeds the performance promised by the manufacturers

If only this could be said of more companies products.

A temporary solution lasting until the AI fits in our AI-glasses or stealth headphones.

fwiw I like the windows key. Win-e for explorer

Win-x for system commands

Win-r for run

Win-v for advanced paste and emoji search

Win-tab is trash though, I autohotkey it away on every new computer.

The correct solution here is to give credit for the problem to acknowledge genuine clever problem solving, and then offer extra credit for doing it the pedagogical way.

Never would I ever have come up with using logarithms. But I am also a math idiot. My solution used recursion.

The panel did not identify evidence related to individuals younger than age 50 years.

For anyone else who was wondering why they don't recommend it to healthy people below 50.

Maps, Android, Earth, Translate, I guess?

This is fair, I shouldn't have omitted them. They do level the ratio of launches to shutdowns a bit. They slipped my mind because I personally never use of think of them, but they're definitely there.

I'm of two minds on Google's MO on products.

On one hand, I appreciate that they try all sorts of things and seem to have almost no hesitation with launching some things which are quirky or of niche usefulness.

On the other hand, the only things that have ever survived are Docs, GCP, and tenuously, Voice. I don't mind them launching and shutting down a lot of products, but it's really stunning just how few things actually make it.

I didn’t mean to imply that it needed to be useful. I just hear about the hypothesis a lot and I wonder what the immediate knock-on effects would be. Does it unlock other theoretical work, are there other proofs that work or don’t work depending on it, etc. And if it has an effect on something real or tangible that’s even better.

What are the practical implications of a conclusion of the hypothesis, in either direction?

Now embed that tool in all my other tools so I can human-read the binary format without thinking twice and then we can chat.

In fruit flies, the approach notably extended lifespan, improved motor functions and protected nerve cells from degeneration. Similarly, in mouse models, the approach led to enhanced lifespan and mobility, along with a reduction in neuroinflammation markers.

So, in fruit flies and not-even-real mice. I assume like most pharmaceutical experiments this will flame out in the human trials, but one can hope.

Honestly, why not. That would allow them to get more aggressive with enforcement for untagged streams, allow them to keep the obviously impression generating engine of the "Just Chatting" OnlyFans crowd, and maybe even with the weight of Amazon behind them, force the credit processors to lighten up a bit.

Or it would be nice if they could, anyway. In reality with the age verification laws popping up in more places, they probably want to stay far away from the impending bureaucratic and legal nightmare.

That explains a lot. Fair enough, then.

They should probably look into getting an English copywriter though.