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“Got it” buttons fill me with rage in a way I can’t really articulate well. It’s probably due to the mental association at this point, but they always come up in ridiculous first-run tutorials that block me from using their product until I read and acknowledge some inane UI feature like “you can drag your finger to swipe!” or something equally obvious.

A “got it!” button (especially with the stupid fucking exclamation point) makes the software feel like the overly enthusiastic waiter from the restaurant in Office Space who is just nauseatingly upbeat. Fuck off and get me my coffee.

I’d love an OS-wide extension that would take replace the text on every “Got It!” button with “Fuck Off”. I know it would accomplish nothing but it would make me feel so much better using my phone.

> which makes the user less engaged

I don’t want to be “engaged” using your software. I want to accomplish my task and move on with my life. Why must every single aspect of software try to be my buddy nowadays? Why do I need to be “engaged” with it?
That sounds very much like the Intuitive dimension (I) on the Meyers Brigs.

I am like that as well but I found it valuable to learn how to unpack and communicate the logic behind my intuition if I want to persuade others. It's also good because sometimes our intuition is wrong and you won't see that until you pick it apart.
Small nitpick, but Livewire is not part of the core Laravel framework; it is a community managed package.
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Then most of us aren't suitable for jobs where this stuff is important. Google does have 'real' problems involving trees.
Well if there is no other source/binary available then you have to uncompress the deb/rpm file (both have some utility for that), look up the dependencies from somewhere,
copy the extracted files over to the nix output dir, and patch-elf all the binaries to link to the nix-version of the dynamic lib.

This sounds more difficult than it is, the result will be a copied over binary file that has its “libc.so” and other dynamic libs replaced in the ELF-header with “/nix/store/hdjdewuieu737-libc/libc.so”. I recommend looking up a package in nixpkgs which has a similar install story, that’s the easiest way to write a new package.

In case you only want to run it locally https://github.com/thiagokokada/nix-alien and similar programs work fine with the binary.
> I never feel like I know anything with 100% certainty. Every piece of knowledge I have is more like a probability in my mind.

This should be the default mindset of every thoughtful person! We are all imperfect. Our vision, hearing, reasoning and perception are all imperfect. Eyewitnesses to a crime routinely describe completely different suspects/activities, despite being completely earnest in their accounts. I believe it it absolutely crucial to maintain a certain level of doubt about everything, at all times, based on the fact that we are imperfect beings that have imperfect knowledge and imperfect reasoning skills. I further believe that the humility that this constant awareness brings is useful and necessary. Beware people who are absolutely certain about things.
And the number of ordinary people that try to gas light me for stating that Google has failed in their most basic mission. It's been years, and unless you work in tech or marketing, you're apparently obvious to the situation, and still think of Google as one may have during the 90's.
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Not to mention all the customers and people who will tell you that you’re a piece of crap because you work such a job. (Part of why I go out of my way to be kind to people (and tip) is my experience working retail right out of college.)
I’ve been playing through my ARPG backlog on Steam Deck. Is there a particular game you’re curious about?
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I am a Sikh, I need to clarify some of my concepts, look for meanings etc and nearly all the search terms are polluted by Hindu Nationalist and Islamist Dawah guys. There were websites started early on, which are now abandoned and hence don't score high. It is such a mess honestly using internet being a minority.
> I want to keep all the usernames and external follow relationships intact

ActivityPub doesnt have the concept of a "username" in the sense that you are thinking. An activitypub "preferredUsername" field is just a preferred display name for that actor. Instead they have actor ids - which are just URIs.

Behind the scenes, mastodon (and similar) simply treat @me@myserver.example.com as a webfinger ref. They do a lookup via webfinger which returns the actor id, and then they connect to that URI to return the respective object(s).

Of course, because your mastodon instance is also likely hosting your actor AND its respective collections AND its activities, then ALL the URIs are ALSO tied to their domain. In order to "migrate" they (probably - im not 100% sure) send updates for your actor object (and your other activity types) to your outbox and distribute to your followers, who will then update their own references to your actor, its aliases (such as the webfinger ref), and other associated collections and activities.

Its 100% possible to have a webfinger alias on your own domain and use separate hosts for your actor, specific collections, and each individual activity, should you wish. Mastodon can reach other activitypub actors and activities configured in this way, but it cant provide a similar service for its own users, due to its current implementation (it expects to be the originator of activities for its associated actors).
Marketing and the ad industry ruin everything they touch.

You throw away most of your mail because of them, both physical and the e variety. You don't answer your phone because of them. They abused popups so badly they were basically removed from the standard. Adblockers are such a necessity for making anything on the web usable that they'd be built in if it weren't for the fact that Chrome is made by a company that sells ad space.

And of course they ruined search too. And it won't be fixed because Google itself is part of the problem, not the solution.

And if you work for them, you're helping make the world a worse place. Please stop. I'm not going to go as far as Hicks and say you should kill yourself, but you should quit your job and try your hand at improving the world instead.
There's nothing that requires the post URLs to even be on the same hostname as the user address. Mine are not. So switching locations for where the content is served up from for a new install is always possible. My Mastodon/Fediverse address is @vidar@galaxybound.com, while my posts are all hosted on m.galaxybound.com, e.g. [1]. In this case this is a result of installing Mastodon on the latter, while the former just redirects the webfinger, but there's AFAIK also nothing preventing you from e.g. the address being @user@domain1, the profile being on domain2, and the canonical URI of the posts being on domain3.

In terms of being wasteful, that might be a consideration for large shared hosts, but in reality media storage will outpace it by a large factor for most users. E.g. when I moved my account from mastodon.social, the export had 9.6MB of media I'd posted, and the uncompressed JSON for all my posts took up just 800K. That's despite being someone who posts relatively few pictures and very rarely any video.

> Additionally, web scraping isn't perfect. It assumes static content, which may not be possible with ACLs or other behaviour. It also assumes that there's a single link entry point to the content, or that all the necessary link entry points are known.

You don't need to scrape, as Mastodon supports export (but that will not be true for every type of fediverse software), but you can scrape as for federation to work your endpoints need to be accessible to all but instances that are defederated. You can also get at every posts trivially by looking up a user in webfinger to find their outbox, retrieve their outbox and retrieve the link to every post. This works for every piece of fediverse software that cares about ensuring federation works.

[1] https://m.galaxybound.com/@vidar/109965336245254807
It is custom made for each spacecraft, since it can only rotate on the planned flight path. I think it's a good guide for the astronaut where they are in the globe and the globe also have markers of communication tower they can contact.
But it's slowly getting there. Researchers will keep trying to infer as much of your cognitive processes as possible. This is a small step towards that, and not even the first one (which is over 10 years old, I think), but should not be dismissed so lightly. It won't go fast, because every step is a small one, but at one point you're going to have to say "Well, it's too late now. There's no going back anymore. Sorry!"
// that there was a word he could've used to describe his style of thinking

I actually think you found those words in this post. He could have just said "I often need a day to digest a conversation. So ideally let me sleep on it after we talk about something"

The desire to articulate something like that is 99% of the task. Words can be found.
I do it (when I’m alone on the road in my own neighborhood) because I like the physical sensation of it.
Google allowing the blacklisting of sites with lots of ads on them and using google analytics?

They have enough information when yiu clock back and select a different result. And this hasnt killed SEO spam.
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We don't have evidence either way. As we are now a single global civilization, we may be more resilient, but imagine what would it take to wipe out the Sumerians or the Egyptians at their peaks and how little of them would be left a million years after.

Imagine then a species of dinosaurs that invented written language, started melting metals and built roads to transport their goods from production centres to specialized high-density habitation complexes, only to be wiped out by a mountain falling from the skies.

If they happened to live near the ocean shores, nothing would be left just a few hours after the impact. We'd be extremely lucky to find a fossil of a dinosaur wearing jewelry or any other indication of cultural development.
I read an interview of a world-class mathematicians who said that she was a "slow thinker". Obviously, as far as maths are concerned, she's faster than almost all humanity. This notion of being a slow thinker is very subjective and relative.
I haven't used Google in ages. Do they convert stupid recipes using volume for flour to use mass?
They also have an okay s:n ratio in my experience, as the mod team can work the experience. Like for example, q&a type threads tend to be useful. There are folks promoting things but it’s obvious when they are.
I use search engines for two reasons:

- to gather compressed information quickly

- to navigate the web

The first point is best served by sources that I like and trust, often authoritative to some degree. If they already have a good search (like MDN or Wikipedia) I will often use that directly or go via DDG: !mdn keyords..., !wiki keywords... If not, I type the name of the website as a keyword in front (like reddit...)

The second is really more about finding specific types of websites. For example John Smith's blog that I don't remember etc.

What I'm saying is that to fix the web, we need more sites that can act as the first point above. Whether they are wikis or not is more of a practical consideration. The point is that they don't suck and that there's not enough of them IMO.
> U.S. being ahead of the curve in dealing with trans issues.

Florida is, but only in the sense Republicans are working on a "final solution to the trans question".
Limit your search to Reddit, HN and/or Stack Exchange!

I really loved the first paragraph of the article about Reddit: "Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit". I want to add this that just happened at my company, that shows really bad execution on the Reddit side. Bad as if the current Reddit management is surfing tiny waves in some paradise.

Our company tried to use Reddit Ads for years. We are not US based and there was problems using every credit or debit card. The ones that work everywhere and. obviously, in Google Adwords.

We retried a few months ago and it worked but our Reddit ads were not approved because they were in the crypto space where indeed we are in the security auditing and research side and also work for Web3 projects.

Then, they assigned a higher level Reddit contact, they gave us several forms to fill to show that we were not in the wrong Web3 side. We completed every form over several weeks, until they say they don't have an account manager for our account. At this point I don't know if the right thing is to talk to the CXO level directly. Yes, Reddit management doesn't understand their own business and most probably loosing a lot of money.

BTW: I specifically ranted about ways of challenging Google back in 2013 in the same vein [1].

[1] http://blog.databigbang.com/letters-from-the-future-challeng...
What do you want? It's a business video, it's focussing on the business side.
Yes! My wife and I encounter this all the time.

I am an eng manager/product manager so usually my stuff is "strategy" - it's worth to keep talking/thinking because if I get an idea 10x better, that's millions of dollars difference over years.

She's an emergency room physician. If she takes too long to think, the patient dies. It's all about quickly executed tactics.

It took us a bit to realize how our preferred ways of thinking connect to our work (cause or effect, not sure)
Cool. Can I ask why does valve/steamdeck use Gamescope and not Wayland?

To my very limited understanding they both target to do more or less the same thing, and I think we have enough fragmentation in the Linux ecosystem as it is, so to my uninitiated brain it would have seemed logical to put al that development effort in improving Wayland for the steamdeck instead of building another compositor.

Thanks in advance.
Whenever you are thinking Google is dying, please instead consider what an ideal page of search results would look like...

When you search for "2012 honda civic brake hose burst pressure psi", which pages exactly would you wish were at the top...?

Typically, I find that when google search fails me, it's because the content I'm looking for actually doesn't exist. I'm seeing SEO spam simply because nobody has written a detailed blog post about the exact topic I'm after.

The problem isn't Google, the problem is the whole internet (or at least the part not behind a login wall)
emacs-lisp is not popular?
autolisp is not popular?

think again
Really underscores the validity of the maxim "pots are not people"; looking back we tend to over-emphasize the centrality of the material artifacts we have. So, ceramics and metalwork, etc. And from that draw outsized conclusions about cultures and their boundaries and patterns and migrations, even assuming languages and polities.

But there's so much complexity to human culture that's simply lost to time and decay, that we will never see.

EDIT: Consider hypothetically, what would happen if far-future archaeologists were to dig up material culture from Quebec, but also hypothetically did not have any language (written, or recorded) or historical knowledge? They'd look at the material culture -- and even maybe genetics -- and be mostly unable to tell the difference between the Quebecois and the surrounding North American cultures. In most respects this is just standard North American material culture. But it's a totally different culture, speaking French etc, with its own distinct history, politics, etc.
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Again, "mass hysteria" is no real phenomenon. Rather, it is a pseudo-scientific "explanation", bereft of logic and factual evidence.

People are confabulating a diagnosis here, based upon next to no information. Would you want them to be your physician?
You'll have to add one reaction to that list: "it didn't generate the game because something like that was in the training data".

Nevermind that this perfectly describes 90% of software development.

I'm actually wondering to what extent these responses are fueled by fear of being replaced by AI.
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That’s a good point, reading Carl Jung is in my todo list. I generated an personality embedding from data and only mapped it to MBTI and the Big 5 out of personal curiosity rather than using it for work. The main surprise I got from that work was just how genetic personalities are.

It would make sense that the E/I axis would be clearer if early childhood experiences were used. That would make me a clear extrovert. I think the questions should be updated for that context or at least have some additional framing around the test.
Yes, and that agenda has severe consequences, like “confabulates constantly”. Just because it’s simple to state doesn’t mean the consequences are simple or innocent.
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Feel free to take a look at the package manager and let me know if there are any libraries that you need that are missing. https://hex.pm/

I can assure you that I'm not spending my time inventing new libraries. In the past 3 or so years of working in Elixir there have been maybe 2 or 3 cases where I was looking for a library and couldn't find a suitable one. Writing my own code to cover those cases took a few hours. This should hardly be a deal breaker for anyone if you take into account dozens, maybe even hundreds of hours the ecosystem could save you in the long run if your project is a good fit for it.

Switching from Node, where a project has a 50/50 chance of not building after you leave it alone for more than a week, this was and continues to be both a time saver and a sigh of relief.
So Facebook is the one most likely to survive. Reddit, Twitter, Hacker News, ... etc. soon to be flooded with LLM generated spam.
In which game? If you’re taking about this game, then yes, that’s the problem.
Good clarification. In all cases the people I worked with were highly paid tech workers facing a great job market. The objective reality was "you'll be fine and you'll find a job quickly"

The amount of anxiety was not proportional to these facts.
If the setter is at compile-time it might still be functional. If it's at run-time, not. A run-time setter must be a binding (as in lambda args), not an assignment.
> I've been trying to get into Elixir and I figured Phoenix was the way to do it, but I have to agree about the resources for Phoenix, learning it has been a nuisance, and sucked all the fun out that I might have been unfairly expecting.

That's what happened to me too, except I started learning it in 2017. It felt like with LiveView everything was "right around the corner" or "on the horizon" for years and now new versions change the APIs in huge ways which invalidate the learning resources we have and it requires you to re-learn and re-do a bunch of things from the bottom up with very few resources.

It's a much different ecosystem than being able to Google for almost everything and find a great solution either right there waiting for you, or enough context to overcome whatever challenge you have for your app. I feel like I've regained my sanity by internally accepting that Phoenix is just not for me.
If it’s not interesting for you, then don’t submit it, upvote it, or comment on it. You can even hide it.

Some do find it interesting, and would rather not have to wade through this swamp to have a conversation about it.
Most hardcore Nix users/developers I have met have been suspicious for Flakes for several years, so your point rings true.

That said, it feels like they are slowly coming to terms with it and just accepting it as default. Here are two examples of maintainers eventually accepting flake support on their repos after initial hesitation [1][2].

[1] https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/pull/47
[2] https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/pull/404
People being unable to find a cause for something does not make that event a diagnosable illness.

Essentially, you are confabulating a cause where there is not enough evidence.
> I hope Valve will release an updated SteamDeck with a new SoC featuring Zen4 instead of Zen2 and RDNA3 vs RDNA2, all on the smaller 4nm process, as the current SoC is kind of holding it back a bit.
>
>That would definitely boost performance and battery life. Wouldn't mind it if came with a price increase, as it would still be cheaper than a single high end GPU alone.

That would be a terribly unwise decision from Valve. If there is one sure thing about video games console systems, is that stability of the product is more important than outright performances. That is what makes them so successful over gaming PCs. If Nintendo or Sony was releasing a new model every 2 years and people couldn't run new games on the old releases, only a fraction of those users, the very hardcore gamers, would follow the upgrade path and most users would just leave the platforms.

The best thing that can happen is the Steamdeck stays the same for 5 to 10 years and video game developers continue making sure their games run well on it.
It's very weird watching believers in the blank slate hypothesis, collide with reality again and again.

In general women are hard wired to being attracted to healthy, high status intelligent men, with access to resources, and good personal hygiene. Fortunately for men, these are all things guys can do a lot to cultivate and build through concerted effort.

It's really no different to the things most men find attractive in a women. We can tell whether a women is "hot" instantly.

This notion of challenging the expectations of society, or redefining gender roles is largely nonsense. You can't redefine the things men are going to find attractive in women, no more than you can redefine the things women are going to find attractive in men.

It's a little odd that anyone is even surprised by this outcome. That's liberalism- I guess
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America is not "the West". Everyone kept their pay check in my country.
Sounds like a storage server (the S3-like part) and an application which pulls required objects from storage, applies the diff, and pushes the changed file to replace the old one.
If there was an area in the solar system beyond earth with either sub-saharic or Antartic conditions we would look there. This is the next best thing. So we look there...
This is a case of people actively building and deciding to use a tool with plausible deniability built-in. How would you regulate people when they shirk any accountability? It is much more reasonable to require that people use a tool that shows its work.
My question is: are these recent hacks purely the result of incompetence, or is it also because LastPass is targeted more often by hackers due its popularity?
Why is it under a paywall? :(
I wish I could repair my welder. It’s like 6 boards all interconnected by wires. No smd, all big stuff, but I’m afraid of the high voltage.
Am I the only one still searching Google primarily though keywords/phrases (and the exclusion of keywords/phrases)? I don't see much degradation in Google's results.
When people perceive you to be a slow thinker when really you are calculating all the odds for your different responses.

https://media.tenor.com/MFE6UiMEpRoAAAAC/math-zack-galifiana...
Landlords maximizing what they can charge is normal behavior in an economy, and when concurrent with a free market, leads to a maximum amount of housing supply being created due to people chasing profits by building homes.

Perhaps counter-intuitively, the markets where normal profit-seeking behavior in the landlord business is prohibited, via rent control, see housing become comparatively extremely unaffordable and/or hard-to-acquire. See San Francisco:

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html