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I generally only charge with devices I own:

I charge my laptops with the charger from the manufacturer, where the data cables are used to control voltage and wattage; or from a docking station from the manufacturer. If Apple / Dell are trying to hack me, well, I'm screwed!

I charge my phone with my own charger (wall) and wireless stand that I bought from the manufacturer. If I want to travel light, I charge it with my laptop charger. (Thanks to USB C) Again, I don't think Apple / Dell are trying to hack me.

Other devices are charged with chargers I bought on Amazon. I haven't taken them apart, but I don't think they have some hidden 5G chip that's being used to hack me.

If you're worried about security, _carry your own charger_ instead of plugging into random public USB ports.

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But, I want to point something out about security: At some point you have to trust someone. If you're nervous, I would stick to a set of chargers that you screen carefully, and carry them with you.
I don't know the specifics of the hospital, but I imagine the admin staff working there is still solving for higher salaries and increasing the size of the staff, with patient outcomes being a secondary goal. Because that is human nature.
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This opinion is fully consistent with Mozilla's self-interest, whether it is or is not in Google's interest is basically immaterial.

I also have to say I find it difficult to take "Mozilla is Google by proxy" complaints seriously when the same people tend to simultaneously moan and complain any time Mozilla tries to branch out and cultivate independent revenue streams. It's unreasonable to on one hand whine about their financial dependence on the Firefox default search deal with Google and then on the other hand whine any time they make a little bit of revenue on a VPN partnership, or Pocket, or a Disney movie about a Red Panda.
I often help younger developers with problems that involve absolute vs. relative paths - their code doesn't work because they're invoking it with the wrong working directory. It's immediately obvious to me because I grew up using the command line, where files and paths are elemental. They're usually _really_ interested in properly understanding what's actually happened here, but they've been so intentionally shielded from the fundamentals of files and directories that they need quite a bit of time to let it all sink in. The solution, of course, is to teach things bottom up, but I have some sympathy for beginners who lose patience with spending so much time dealing with something that doesn't even _look_ like a computer from their perspective.
In what way is Privacy in Firefox compromised by default? And how does that compare to Chrome, Edge, or Safari in their default privacy settings?
What are you talking about? I look at medical bills all day. I’ve never seen a charge for talking to ins co.
Preserve log is still helpful for SPAs when you want to compare requests across full app loads.
All the same objections to AI in that comment could be applied to the human brain. But we find (some) people to be useful as truth-seeking machines as well as skilled conversationalists and moral guides. There is no objection there that can't also be applied to people, so the objection itself must be false or incomplete.
It's not always the right tool but in more cases than modern devs believe, it is.

I've built several web applications recently that don't use any modern JavaScript framework. You'd be surprised how quickly a page can fully reload and equally surprised at how okay of a UX it is to not always persist state.

Here's an example video of an app that does a mix of "state persistence" and "good ol' reload the page" approaches. https://withlattice.com/documentation#nav-create-application

1) Chat interface maintains state (but uses minimal JavaScript)

2) Application status requires a reload

Is this the absolute best UX? Possibly not, but users haven't said anything about it and it's such little code with almost zero dependencies.
Regarding models evolving "scheming" behaviour, defined as hiding true goals and capabilities: I'd suggest there still isn't evidence of intentionality, as deception in language has downstream effects when you iterate it. What starts with a passive voice, polite euphemisms, and banal cliches, easily becomes "foolish consistency," ideology, self-justification, zeal, and often insanity.

I wonder if it's more just a case of AI researchers who, for ethical reasons, eschewed using 4chan to train models, but thought using the layered deceptions of linkedin would not have any knock-on ethical consequences.
There is a directory here: https://mapper.dpcfrontier.com/

These are usually small independent offices not in a hospital so they will be doing their own marketing. look around for family clinics in your area the old fashioned way too.
This is amusing. So… if one plans to publish their baroque opinions on English grammar… one should really know that conversational “y’all” is prescriptively a high status marker in the academy.

I picked up the habit in Massachusetts, in the mid 2000s, from an Ivy League humanities professor who also expressed support for a student debt strike. He used it very deliberately, in an effort to un-train our public school–addled brains from the inanity that we were somehow smarter than others for having fewer words in hand. In my bones, the thought of not using it as appropriate feels uneducated.

Using “y’all” in conversation shows incredible confidence, a way to flex command of formal language in an informal setting. It’s often used with emphasis. It leverages the listener’s discomfort, saying: I know precisely which register I’m speaking in. It’s an “elite” thing to do.

What you’ll never hear is one of these people using “y’all” as a formal address— especially as a singular, as in the rote “Y’all been served?” for a dining party of any number.
There are a number of reasons for that, but number one is simple: It’s a high status signal.

Edit to add: Maybe importantly, this doesn’t extend to the casual use of “all y’all” . I think the colloquial academic equivalent would be “you [emphasized pause] all”. If you weren’t familiar you’d probably transcribe it as “you all”, but it’s closer to “you, all”. Looking at it now, I think that’s “intentional abuse” of the formal variant for intensifying, with just enough stress to make it visibly intentional?

But I should be clear I haven’t studied this dialect at all, I just learned to speak it :)
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Since it's short for "you ones", I suppose it would technically be "you'nes", which of course looks insane and nobody would ever write it that way. I've also seen it written with an apostrophe ("y'inz") which is funny to me - it acknowledges the contraction, but with everything completely misplaced.

(and yes, I am from western PA)
I can't think of any job postings I've seen recently that only wanted straight-forward web development. Everything was asking for a major framework + other supporting libraries for the front end. I'm only 40 and also screaming at the clouds, but I simply don't have the luxury of ignoring some of the larger things like React that gave me a job today.

This is the market pressure which is driving things towards more abstraction. Another iteration will add more abstraction on top of that. I'm fairly certain it can't be stopped now. Doing so would mean convincing tech leadership to start actively managing what technologies go into their products and striving for a "less is more" or minimalism approach.
Readers prefer their backgrounds flat colours and their text legible.
Wichita Kansas is home to about 20% of aircraft-manufacturing workers in the United States. Not exactly known for HCOL.
When I write code with AI, I do it only by speech recognition since I have busted hands. As a result, I have a different experience than most developers. I've spoken about it here before, but my model for software development has changed as I have gained more experience with the tools. These notes overlap with the author's experience with cursor but I think there's some additional useful information.

I'm increasingly convinced that if you write code using AI, you never want to touch the code. You want to edit or change your project by modifying the prompt. If you modify the code, you need to feed that back into the AI model so that it learns how you work and doesn't lose your changes.

I have forced AIs to generate specific code by telling them the code I want them to use. Fortunately, they will take the correction and apply the logic behind the change throughout the code I'm working on, which is usually the right thing to do.

I haven't figured out what to do about this, but checking your code to git loses the context held in the AI system. I'm also not sure you want to preserve the AI context because, at times, there seems to be value in starting over, especially if you change your approach to a problem.

Don't be afraid of trashing your current context and starting over again. You've learned enough to know how to change your prompts and what information to add or delete to get a better result. It's much faster to re-create from a new prompt than edit code and force the AI system to work how you want it to.

Pay attention to what the system is trying to tell you. Sometimes, it knows better than you what needs to be done. It does this because you may not consciously understand all aspects of your problem, but it appears that unconscious information is somehow encoded in your prompt chain, and the AI system can see that and act on it.

Pay attention 2: It may teach you a new technique or trick. I've had more than one occasion when I look at the code I get and say, "That's not right," but after I dig into it, I see that it was right but used in an idiom I was not familiar with.

Try different AI systems because you will get different responses to the same prompt, and you might like one result better than the other.

If you're using speech recognition to generate a prompt, using Grammarly to fix recognition errors and reword your prompt gives you better results.

Reproducibility is a problem. I have fed the same prompt into an AI system but with a new context, and usually, I get the same result, but not always. The fix has been to feed the original code into the system to remind it what it was thinking about.
Did they change the article, because on the version I've read it doesn't say you have to disclose your cost, it says you can if you disagree with their estimate.

Plus, is Amazon loosing goods a common occurrence or this is a policy designed to solve an extraordinary issue?

The title is misleading, regardless of how bad the policy is.
That doesn't sound like any pair programming I've ever done. There's always one person who writes the actual code and the other is there to think along, spot any bugs and discuss any better ways to do what we're doing (covering the rubber duck angle too). And then swap when the other one has a better idea on how to do something.
High schools have gyms. Hell even my high school had a pretty decent weight room. Also don't forget that parents bought a ton of at-home exercise equipment during Covid, so the teenagers probably tried it out too.
Sellers have to either accept Amazon's estimated manufacturing cost or provide documentation of their actual manufacturing costs.

Human beings pouring over millions of documents of manufacturing costs doesn't scale. If it doesn't scale, Amazon typically gives up. All merchants have to do is flood Amazon with made-up documentation. What's Amazon going to do? Kick them off the platform? They just come back as ZUHUFRUAH and continue selling.

Use big tech's "scale" fetish against it.
isn't it? I know several people who opt to not carry healthcare insurance (since the penalty was dropped) because of the cost, but would carry if it were reasonably priced outside of the employer market.
Why do you continue to argue down the naive path?
On the other hand, as the guy on twitter recently said, "it's not fair that I spent my childhood teaching my parents to use a printer and as an old man I'm spending my old manhood teaching my adult children to use a printer".
> On a very basic level the word salad generator part is your only part I interact with.

My fingers also were involved in the typing of that message, actually they were the last proximal cause of the characters appearing the comment.

Are you saying that on a very basic level my fingers are the my only part you interact with?
This is depressing. Firefox is the only browser I'm willing to daily drive because it's the only one that's good and built by a nonprofit. I love Firefox, but loving Mozilla gets harder every day.
Easy question!

In October 1942, FDR signed the Stabilization Act of 1942, which made it illegal for anyone to raise wages. Employers, who were now struggling to attract workers in a time of inflation, started looking for other ways to attract them, and many decided to start offering health insurance as a benefit.

This eventually became the new norm.
Forms are the real problem, not the tons of ads, auto playing videos, notification pop-ups, etc :-p
I would assume it has to do with the next word. You wouldn't say "a occasion", you say "an occasion" so then it's natural to say "an historical occasion" as well.

Not arguing correctness, just intuition.
Maybe so - in any case a public option wouldn’t inherently indirectly be decided by the public via voting so we will see if people accept the higher taxes or lower spending make it happen.
I have created something "almost the same" but different.

I call it zquickinit - it's basically a bash script that generates initramfs - but adds in things like ZFSBootMenu, a proxmox installer, etc. I patched ZFSBootMenu so that I can securely boot/unlock the ZFS root boot, which holds the unlock key for the 2nd stage ZFS data pool.

I did this so that my ZFS install can have 0 keys in it. I use tailscale or ssh to access it in pre-boot mode, enter my key, and continue-on with boot.

Just sharing - Let me know what you think!

https://github.com/midzelis/zquickinit
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To some extent I'm sure the answer is yes, so I think the operative question is not "Are kids learning what I learned?" Instead it has to be something more subtle.

Perhaps "Is kids' knowledge broadened and deepened by the media they consume?" more generally would do. It allows us to evaluate extent, change, and appropriateness more broadly. Not just the accessibility of a given topic, but how readily one can dive into the details and truly learn something.

The landscape of media then can change, but this question does not react to any and every change in the landscape the way a nostalgic argument does. Socrates would have no reason to worry; a book can broaden and deepen knowledge, too. Are we?
From an amazon employee reply in the thread:

"When we say “Manufacturing cost”, it means your cost to source a product from a manufacturer/wholesaler/reseller, or produce the item if you are the manufacturer. You can provide the proof of your cost of sourcing and we will reimburse you accordingly. If you do not wish to provide your cost, we will provide our cost estimate and we will reimburse you for it. We calculate our estimate by evaluating the sourcing cost of comparable products sold by Amazon, by other sellers, and through other wholesale channels.

It excludes costs such as shipping, handling, customs duties, or other costs."

You could possibly try setting up your own "reseller" entity, where they act as an in-between, handling the shipping costs, etc and then reselling it to upon arrival for near the price sold?
if only there was some project that had a great donation scheme and works really well, that is a poster child of good donation models, probably not real though.
The United States achieved its super power status during the most restrictive phase of its immigration history, but now we're getting somewhere. Things like Operation Paperclip are clearly good ideas, and should be replicated for e.g. Russian or Chinese scientists, as but one example.
Capitalism isn’t incompatible, but the externalities need to be priced in.
>The fireball alone would take out

Why would the fireball touch the ground? The attacker could destroy twice as much stuff by choosing an air burst.
Historic operation returns almost 1k trafficked animals to Madagascar
Hospitals are not the issue, the insurance industry is.
> `java hello.java` is in the 360-390 ms range.

That's still pretty negligible. I don't think he's making a strict comparison, just saying that in both cases it's barely noticeable.
Indeed.

If the smart lawnmower (Powered by AI™, as seen on television) decides that not being turned off is the best way to achieve its ultimate goal of getting your lawn mowed, it doesn't matter whether the completely unnecessary LLM inside is just a dumb copyright infrigement machine and probably just copying the plot it learned in some sci-fi story somewhere in training set.

Your foot is still getting mowed! AIs don't have to be "real" or "conscious" or "have feelings" to be dangerous.

What are the philosophical implications of the lawnmower not having feelings? Who cares! You don't HAVE A FOOT anymore.
As always, https://xkcd.com/1205/ is a great reference to keep in mind.

That said, most developers (I assume, by most I mean myself) never work with code where the work they do has any serious impact on performance; it's layers on top of code that should be fast, but the work I do is implementing business logic and screens, in which case readability vastly trumps performance.

I mean right now I'm writing a line of code that can be represented as a nested ternary or a function call with some more written-out if/elses. The ternary outperforms the function call 2:1 or more, but either one can be executed hundreds of times a second BUT will only be executed once or twice per page view. It's not worth the tradeoff, even if this line of code will be executed hundreds of millions of times overall.
Sadly, ridiculously expensive for fairly limited cargo utility, no doubt due to their ATV heritage ($30k will get you what is essentially a posh ATV that is simultaneously an extremely janky vehicle by kei truck standards.)
I believe this is part of the problem/perception -- Indian immigration via policies like H-1B and whatever Canada does disproportionately offers people from a handful of Indian states (and the highest castes) the chance to be North American tech workers. Even if you say "well, the Indian tech industry is centered on a few states" it in essence is the same problem or perceived problem.

Specific to North America, most people actually like the idea of someone coming from halfway around the world to try to be a citizen of their nation. They do not exactly like the idea of being "carpetbagged" or being "flooded with people who do not integrate" and those perceptions exist not wholly out of imagination.
I can only conclude the word myth was chosen for attention. Modern CPU memory systems (with or without their caches) certainly resemble idealized RAMs.
So that's only partly true.

If you're going to go to medical school, you technically have to do a pre-med program with required courses like Organic Chemistry. Now some of these are relevant to medical school but some (like OChem) are viewed as a weed-out [1].

Could you just do a straight medicine degree out of high school? Yes. How much shorter would it be? You can look at other countries for this.

The US system is getting worse too because there's an increasing demand for gap years to make your applications competitive. That means a gap between undergrad and medical school where you're padding your resume. That might be doing a Masters or it might be practical experience. That's potentially more debt and more interest on your debt.

The residency application process is a nightmare. For competitive specialties you might need another gap year after medical school to do "research", That position can be low-paid too so, again, more debt. And you'll be even older by the time you're a doctor.

If you fail to match the first time you try, you're in a bad place. You're going to be less desirable as a candidate the next year if you try and match again.

[1]: https://forums.medicalschoolhq.net/t/why-organic-chemistry-i...
If money can't be used to improve your (sick) child's life, what's even the point of money?!
Why even invoke Santa?
Yes it is, at least, what is sold as 'healthcare' is.
I live in Switzerland and I see the same happening here. For European standards, healthcare is crazily expensive. For example, when I want to buy paracetamol, I pay around 8 times as much as in my birth country, the Netherlands.
The product, paracetamol, is exactly the same. What's more, many of the pharmaceutical companies that are producing it are based in Switzerland!
The reason it costs this much more here is simply that people are willing to spend more money. And the healthcare industry is more than happy to absorb that demand.
To your point, Magnus Carlsen, arguably the GOAT, hung a rook yesterday.
>Proposals in US vs. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers

That's a creative way to put it considering there is only one independent browser (singular) that's being harmed by this. A more straightforward title world be `Proposals in US vs. Google threaten the only viable independent browser maker left`
Because health is not a free market, if you are dying, you don't get to choose a competitor to your nearby hospital. Health is a lot of variation of that.

So the good part of capitalism don't work, but the bad parts do, like concentration of power and ignorance of externalities.

And today, we have reached a tipping point in those, with abuses overcoming people's tolerance for them.
My wife grew up in a very poor home, with no dad, and a barely functional, mentally ill mother. She's a strong woman who never complains about the struggles she's faced in becoming successful.

But she does tell a heartbreaking story of being a young, confused kid, who truly thought she must be a bad person because Santa never brought her anything. It puts the lyrics... "He's making a list. He's checking it twice. He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice" in a different light.
A password manager can fill out CC details automatically as well.
"The internet is just boxes sending electrical signals to each other. We already had telegraphs doing that centuries ago"

"The human brain is just a bunch of neurons firing. Each individual connection is basic chemistry"

"Democracy is just people marking pieces of paper. Humans have been making marks on things since forever"

"A symphony is just air vibrating at different frequencies. My squeaky door does the same thing"
I’ve been looking for sources about the Japan doctor shortage, do you know of any that describe the cause as being low pay? I have heard about the medicine issues.
> ... it fundamentally doesn’t work for annual doctors visits.

I don't think this is _overtly_ what's making premiums rise. However, if more people did this, the shared odds would be lower of people needing major, catastrophically expensive interventions later. I understand why they (myself included) don't and these things are all intertwined: they can't get time off of work, don't have anyone to watch their children, are afraid of something being found and needing to see a specialist, etc. and having costs balloon.

Without having read the paywalled article yet, I suspect that said interventions are only a small part of the equation, though, and the primary driver of costs are greed-flation, middlemen (e.g. billing), etc.
Python has import hooks, which you can use to do the same madness. I imagine many languages have some form of lazy loading to do roughly the same thing. I suppose it's more the culture of the language than the capabilities driving whether someone actually uses something weird like that.