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> I mean there are downsides, like anything, but it’s hard for me to see smartphones as anything but a net godsend.

That smartphones involve tradeoffs means that some people will find the downsides worth it, and others won't.

I used to find them worth it, but starting a couple of years ago, I realized that they aren't for me. This is why my current one will be my last one.

> Do people really think they’re in the same category of bad as Google Glasses?

In the sense of there being tradeoffs, yes, I do. The eyewear form factor has much larger downsides, though. The primary reason why I don't like them is the same reason why I hate using my smartphone in public: it seems very rude. But with the eyeglass form factor, it's harder to slip them into my pocket.
That acid rain certainly had an effect in some regions, but people at that time were very fast to attribute every single dying tree to that cause, just like today they do it with climate change. However, Bark Beetles don't need any helpers like acid rain or climate change, they can destroy a forest perfectly by themselves if they are in the right mood.
Apparently parts of Ruegen island are "old forest" and some patches here in there in nature reserves, but I guess one could argue that even the old Slavic and Germanic tribes already "cultivated" their forests.
These entrenched groups can only win by stopping the municipal options from starting. Once they've started using it they'll never go back (willingly) to these big corporate messes.
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> Work has always been work for me and nothing more, not really looking for socialising.

But work is 40-50 hours of my week. That's a HUGE portion of my life. Almost half my waking hours are at work. (7x16=112 waking hours a week. 35-45% of it at work).

Not taking time to socialize during that period is draining as hell for me. I guess what I'm trying to say is you're way overestimating the percentage of people who can go to work and just... work. Most people need the socialization.
They're also rampant around the SF bay area; they mostly leave the native trees alone, but I'm staring at a massive dead pine tree that was healthy a few years ago.

The damage in the article looks different though. Our beetles seem to focus on a ring of bark near the ground, so they don't have to eat nearly as much to kill the tree.
There are "base urges" that are beneficial to suppress, and others not; this is the criterion. You would not suppress the base urge to eat (ironically, fasting for no reason is another prominent feature of many religions) just for its sake, why would you do the same with sex?

I will not respond to the Christian stability claim because that would require more paragraphs than I care to write right now. Suffice to say a cursory look at worldwide religious demographics shows that many of the countries with a higher standard of living are the least religious, and many of the most religious countries are the poorest and most underdeveloped.
The academic casualties are the whole point. First you pass the silly laws, then you drive away the kinds of high-profile experts who might say something to embarrass or oppose you politically. Then you guarantee that most in-state students get a systematically worse and propaganda-filled education, while the smart and creative kids go to other states (where they likely stay.) Eventually you've driven away the experts, voters and activists who might otherwise oppose you politically.

It's too bad that everyone in Florida has to suffer a worse economy and educational system so a few politicians can enshrine themselves for life, but many of those Floridians are voting for it.
> Does a library have no duty of preservation or archival? Surely "what the public wants" cannot be the only driving factor, right?

Yes, it is the only driving factor for a public library.

It turns out people do want to preserve stuff, so we keep an archive of local interest items that the public wants (microfilm, city directories, notable local authors and artists), but we don't view ourselves as an archive. That's not our mission nor are we equipped to do that work beyond the limited capacity we already have.

The same goes for materials in the collection. If they do not check out, we remove them and replace them with things that hopefully will. Years of experience has taught me that people do not want an old collection, no matter what its value. They want current items that are clean and relevant to them and that's what we're here for. We're a government institution and are ultimately answerable to what the public wants.

But here's the thing, like with our local archive, the desires of the public and preservation do often align. That's why libraries look the way they do. People do check out great works of literary art and we often replace those as they wear out. People do want some archival materials and ask for them when doing research. The situation you describe doesn't happen because it turns out most people don't want all gardening books or adult magazines. But we don't keep anything that doesn't get used just for the sake of it, all of it serves the mission.
I was referring to the weather extremes. The point is that you don’t need the Hunga Tonga eruption to explain those. Moreover, at this point it's pure conjecture that the eruption would constitute a major factor here.
Fraud is misrepresenting the object for sale.
the winning 48-byte entry isn't really snake (nibbles), as the length of the snake grows with every move, rather than with every bit of food consumed. looks more like tron.
... can't you make stainless steel rebar?
Please, let's be honest about this discussion.

These books were not banned.

They were removed from libraries.

You can still legally get copies of them from any number of booksellers.

Making something harder to get doesn't make it illegal. It doesn't mean it is banned. It doesn't mean you can incur legal problems for owning it.
The author is a venture capitalist. This may explain why he feels qualified to offer advice on anything and everything to people who are actually doing the thing he's not.
Indeed, and the only one of the “example” photos he provided that looks like they’ve ever touched a weight in their life is the one that he claims is only possible with steroids. The rest of them just look like regular skinny guys.
these demo charts look very good! and it seems like ImGui makes animation and effects easy to integrate. styling and theming charts are always a pain.
As someone currently using bleeding edge Blazor at work, and Phoenix on my own time, this is wromg to the point of comedy.

The big thing that LiveView has going for it is that it transforms the client session into just another process to communicate with, using the same message passing tools as the rest of the language, with very little headache because concurrency is already an expectation.

Blazor can never achieve this, because C# is not a concurrency focused language.
Why ChatGPT Is Getting Dumber at Basic Math
It's not just your imagination:

"The research from the Stanford-Berkeley team shows empirically that it isn’t just an anecdotal impression. The chatbot has become empirically worse at certain functions, including calculating math questions, answering medical questions and generating code."
MSI is one of the best museums - you can often find free or heavily discounted tickets as well. Most employers in Chicago have access to a benefit program where you can get free tickets by scheduling in advance online.

If you haven't been, highly recommend a visit. Especially if you're brining kids - hard not to have a good time when you can walk into a water vapor tornado.
Yeah, their successors saw the "an update is required for your constitution, would you like to apply it?" pop-up and they keep clicking "remind me later" button for the last ~100 years.
It is almost certainly handled by whatever library they are using to interface. And if they didn't pick one that is targeting linux, then that would be more work for them.

That is, this is likely easily solvable, but it is most easily solvable at the beginning of a project by choice of base libraries. I can understand not wanting to change things after the fact for a presumably small user base.
> precise neural firings and chemical pathways

That’s not how science operates, it accepts best fits for existing data even in the absence of absolute knowledge.

We didn’t need the DNA of every creature to have ever lived to construct the tree of life. It’s a model initially created from examining the structure of organisms both living and dead, which has been refined over time as we slightly alter things based on new evidence such as DNA.

As a consequence things aren’t static, astronomers etc constantly refine existing models to fit new data. Thus the conclusion about what happens after death is subject to change in response to new data, but what we have today is still the current explanation based on existing evidence.

What makes science useful isn’t exact answers it’s being generally close enough to correct as to be useful. Is Quantum mechanics a full explanation for every physical phenomenon? No, but it’s really difficult to notice the edge cases in your daily life.
You didn't finish reading the article. The feature change was paired with a change to OverDrive's pricing structure in which access to reader data (i.e. who wants what books) now costs additional money.
Your comment isn't sharing anything I didn't already know.

The author is asking me to trust them about their research they did about some pricing change related to moving towards the Libby platform. They mention new subscriptions for libraries without actually sharing any of the actual pricing. Overdrive is going away, so whatever they were paying for Overdrive will go to $0.

These numbers are entirely made up and not in line with whatever they were paying, just showing an example of how this whole argument of a new subscription doesn't necessarily mean things are radically more expensive. So say Overdrive cost the library $100. Now there's this new platform Libby, which while in development and not feature-complete with Overdrive was just tacked on free or whatever. Now the Overdrive platform is being deprecated and will cease soon, so they announce the pricing structures for Libby, $75. Oh no, what used to be $100 is now $175, what an increase! Oh wait, we forgot, Overdrive is going away, so in the end the costs are actually only $75.

When the author can't track down the full story that Libby is available as a website it really reduces the trust I have that they actually figured out what the pricing models are as Overdrive goes away and Libby replaces it. I question if the author and their sources were even fully aware that Overdrive is fully going away soon, as that was only announced a few months ago. They never once actually shared "This was what the costs were with Overdrive, here is what the costs will be when its just Libby."

Maybe the overall costs are going up! I don't know either way. I definitely don't have deep insights on exactly how the pricing models worked in the past nor in the future as I have never worked for a library. It wouldn't surprise me that costs would go up in a period with somewhat high inflation. It would almost be news if the price didn't go up. In the end though, I can't really trust someone who didn't bother researching the first basic and easily verifiable facts they bring up in their writing.

Once again, if someone writes a post talking about specifics about NASA but starts off talking about how the moon landing was faked, would you trust the rest of their "trust me" writing?
>most of us

Speak for yourself, I'll have me rather than let a clone live in some undetermined time
That's why one should hire juniors based on how well they communicate and less based on their skills to invert a binary tree or design a URL shortener service.
You can run all sorts of things on all sorts of things, but the Steam Deck clearly isn't a desktop machine, and isn't intended or widely used for desktop type stuff. This seems so obvious I don't even know how to explain it. "Yes, but technically ..." isn't meaningful.
> Your experiences are valid, and a 50% divorce rate does mean a 50% success rate too.

No, it doesn’t.

As an extreme counterexample, a marriage that avoids divorce because it ends in intramarital homicide is not a success.
> I'm surprised this has not already appeared in the US!

It has, but on touchscreen displays instead of the windows. It's exceedingly terrible.
Trade was heavily restricted, governed, and controlled in the ancient world. Empires were built on collecting transit fees, cities often restricted the entry of sailors aboard merchant ships, and control of rivers and who could use them were dearly held by rulers the world over. There are a number of cities around the world today that started as trading cities, specifically designated places where merchants were allowed to visit to trade but restricted from going anywhere else.

The Roman Empire was a unique example among the thousands of years of history because along with their transportation network of roads they did actually have a couple of passport-like systems in place. Now a third of the people were literally slaves, so they definitely weren't going anywhere without permission, so maybe Rome is not a great starting point for what I presume to be the argument against passports. But the Romans and other Mediterranean civilizations did check your identity when you travelled. Romans had documents they called diplomas for people on official business and several civilizations used clay tablets called tesserae as a sort of ID card, but by far the most common method was simply having known people vouch for you.

Basically nowhere in the ancient world from the Middle East to the pre-colonial Americas could you just show up in a foreign village without people asking questions that you ought better have good answers for. There are a handful of exceptions, but this has never been the norm, and even with passports and visa restrictions it is definitely far easier today than it ever was in the past. I expect it will get easier and easier into the future. Perhaps quite soon in fact as the global population begins to decline and people become more and more valuable.
My main phone is a (non-smart) VOIP phone. It gets zero spam.

I have a mobile, but it's old, and the battery no longer holds much charge, so despite being mobile, it never moves; it sits on my desk plugged into power. I only have it so I can receive and respond to SMS challenges.
> it requires special personality types to handle it.

I agree, and I don't see a problem with it.

> [...], but aren’t useful for general policies.

offices are just optimizing for the loudest and more social people, this is a consequence of managers tending to be like that, I don't think that approach is useful for general policies neither.
Publishers have historically viewed a library copy as a threat of patrons who would have otherwise purchased their product. The economics of publishing itself are transformed with digital formats. There is (virtually) no material cost. Replication is immediate and easy. Transportation is (again, virtually) free.

Book Publishers largely are the ones to lose out in digital publishing. The only thing they have left to offer is connections for distribution. And since most of their costs were associated with the production and distribution of a material book, most of those costs disappear too. Cory Doctorow has asserted in the past that the biggest issue any author has is discovery - do people actually know the work I wrote exists?

Once you've crossed that barrier, if you ask people to pay for your work many of them will. Even if you don't prevent them from freely replicating your work.
I'm not sure I'm supporting the way things are, so I don't know exactly what is confusing.

The comment I responded to has a fairly big assumption: that divorce is always a bad thing. I don't think that is a given.

People used to be quite stuck in the family or marriage system. Even when faced with violence and sexual abuse, there was often no way out. I've seen heartbreaking examples of this.

Though the tightness of past bonds may feel attractive in this era of fleeting connections, it was often not quite as cosy as what we long for. The freedom to move out of these traps was and is liberating for many. And yes, there is a cost to that freedom as well of course. I don't want to support anything, I just put a nuance here against a naive kind of nostalgia.
There is an objective truth to things. Wrapping those things in “political policy recommendations” doesn’t detract from that objective truth.

Now you can discuss that objective truth but dismissing it as politically motivated, saying, without any cause, that the people who left those positions “
bias their research and teaching away from truth, and finishing with stating that a (objectively politically motivated) purge is a “major win” is the height of lazy, brain-dead thinking that might benefit from a little bit more education and a little bit less red-meat politics.
Yes that is true, but that is a scientific fact and is not an appropriate comparison when talking about human populations and their approach to pair bonding, which is driven mostly by culture.

So no, it’s not antiquated and your response requires looking at humanity through a very narrow and biased lens.

Westerners can still appreciate our values while being in the minority. I do.
Here's a summary by chatGPT:

The article on The Ethical Skeptic presents an alternative theory on climate change, called the "Exothermic (Cyclic) Core Theory of Climate Change". According to this theory, recent climate change may stem from structural and exothermic phase changes in the Earth's nickel-iron core, rather than primarily from human activity. The author suggests that changes in the core's structure release latent kinetic energy (heat), which flows to the Earth's asthenosphere and deep ocean depths, becoming the genesis of most observed climate change and its long-associated geomagnetic dipole phenomena.

The theory proposes that the Earth's core undergoes extreme exothermic change, releasing heat that eventually reaches the Earth's asthenosphere. This heat accelerates the release of volatile organic compounds and methane into the atmosphere. Additionally, deep ocean currents transport this heat to the ocean surface, leading to rapid melting of polar ice caps.

The author criticizes current climate models, arguing that they fail to accurately predict temperature and CO2 increases. He suggests that his theory offers a more comprehensive explanation of global observations.

It's important to note that the author does not deny anthropogenic climate change but proposes an additional theory that could help explain observed climate changes
My team is incredibly quiet on slack and I find it pretty frustrating. We're under 10 people so I don't expect constant chat but it's not uncommon for our guild channel to have a day go by with no messages.

I try to keep it alive by posting interesting articles, updates and tools and things like that and that sometimes drums up some conversation but it's rare that my teammates do the same thing.

I'm not sure if I'm more passionate about tech, more extroverted, more obsessed with improving processes or just less busy than them. It's been like this at multiple companies I've been at so it's not unique to my current team. And I'm clearly the outlier.

I just try to not take it personally and keep going. I feel like I post really cool things, especially new tools/repos/projects that benefit everyone to the void sometimes.
> I have trouble with working memory, so I need more stuff on the screen, not less!

I have the same problem. Roughly saying, my memory clears every time I hide a window to view another one. That's why I bought a 49″ 4K display and put it right to my desk (it won't stand reliably on it so I use a floor-based monitor stand) to use it without any scaling. This way I always have plenty of room to tile my windows alongside each other. Multi-monitor set-up I used in the past is something in between (but it works better when the secondary monitor is above the primary rather than to the left/right of it).
Can I configure this to only return code based on my current codebase, or any codebase I choose?
Out of curiosity, how do they sync through Twitter's now-very-closed API?
Mom, there's a Russian under my bed!

Lol, the article you just posted is literally an example of bribing someone without using cash. Did you even read it? Do you get your information from just reading headlines without any critical thought? Was this post generated by ChatGPT?

Using a very basic and simple understanding of how votee politics and Austria works it's pretty obvious what the simplest reason this policy is being proposed: Cash is popular in Austria and this guy wants to get votes.
Not all Ivy leagues are on the same pedestal: H(Harvard), Y(Yale), P(Princeton) are seen as elite. Demographics just masquerade the real composition of students: kids of elite (billionaires and presidents of countries that matter to the national interests of the states) across the world are admitted. One has to dig into the pedigree of these students to get a real handle: otherwise, admitting a kid of a black billionaire is sold as doing 'justice' to past injustices of Slavery.
It’s going to be great the first time an European sends you a message and nothing displays because your system can’t render the diacritic in their name.
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What is going to cause everyone reading this to die decades earlier?
Another (unrelated) problem with Remote work is how harder is to lose weight when you stop moving throughout the day.

Before the pandemic, I usually got up to make coffee, to ask for help or to make consensus with my fellow coworkers (other devs or even UX people, a few stairs away). I usually walked from work from time to time to clear up my mind.
Now I barely move. I live in a small apartment. The fridge is 3 meters away from me.

Back then, I could somehow manage my weight by applying some casual restrictions, like eating fewer carbs and eat mostly lean cuts of meat.
Now I need to apply some zen monk level of self control if I want to not gain more weight. And losing it is terribly hard.
You are right. The links in the top TOC seem to be broken. The links in the bottom sticky menu work though.

I think this is the correct link for the supplements page: https://www.julian.com/guide/muscle/workout-supplements
If he thinks that's bad, he should try earning the same wage as his drivers and try paying that taxi fare.
I never said the Chinese is an exception.

I was only following the logic of the original question and your initial reply.
> We already can’t get gas without being bombarded with ads.

Thank goodness this hasn't become common in my part of the country yet. The only gas stations that do this are the ones near the major hotels that out-of-towners stay at (where the gas is also more expensive), so they're easily avoided.
The National Labs have to be a lot more careful with putting out potentially incorrect results due to their notoriety, being public funded and the public's lack of respect for the trial and error involved in the scientific process.

So they'll quietly slog away trying and retrying experiments, checking and rechecking their data before finally saying anything.

As we saw with other previous big things, like the first gravitational wave detection, they took some time to make sure that they were right.

I think that if it turns out to be real and national lab experiments prove that out, we'll be hearing rumors circulating within the field some time before an official announcement, just like how there were rumors about LIGO's detection circulating for a month before the announcement.