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A gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is made into helium At a temperature of hundreds of degrees

  1. > if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't).

    Most kids did't read the manual? I would rtfm for every game I got my hands on during the car ride home from toysrus or blockbuster. If Mom had several errands to run, I may rtfm a dozen times before I finally got home with the game.

  2. Identifying the 1% of ai use cases that are useful and refusing to have your attention stolen by the 99% that is mild melting garbage will be the key ai skill for the ai future
  3. I just got an invoice from ups to pay a $16 brokerage fee to jpmorgan for collecting a $0.60 tariff on a sticker included in a box with a custom keyboard shipped from Taiwan. Seems like wall street is making out better than the US on this arrangement
  4. Would you consider renaming the note to contain a reference to the generated code? Such as "Thoughts on Hedgehogs.md" becomes "Thoughts on Hedgehogs [AB-99].md"

    This preserves your goal of having the system rightfully not need another source of truth outside the markdown files, but also lets the markdown file carry the identifier across renames without adding a YAML block.

    And it lets you find the note in the "open note" dialog box by typing the code, so no other kind of search interface is needed. Or even to find the note with any other filesystem utility if you have your reference code.

    Were you inspired by the Zettelkasten Method for your plugin?

  5. The payment processors have been held criminally and civilly liable in court for processing payments for pornhub. I don't see how we can expect Visa/MC to not censor their customers, if we also intend to hold them criminally liable for the actions of their customers in such cases.

    If Visa spends years in criminal court because a book store accepted a credit card payment for an illegal book, then yes, expect Visa to start placing limits on card processing for bookstores.

  6. RIP mst and thanks for all the fish. DBIx::Class and Catalyst are still a core part of how I pay the bills.
  7. Since the top comment seems to be judging the worthiness of this individual to work with databases after prison, for those considering working with or hiring someone with a criminal record, I'd beg you to consider:

    You're hiring the person as they are today, long after any punishment, rehabilitation, parold, probation, and personal growth. Not who they were at the time of past actions.

    Having your own mini trial, where you sit in judgement over the candidate, from your ignorant position of privilege, using whatever details you can dig up with google may be entertaining for you, but is tells you nothing of what kind of employee they might be. Your mock trial may be especially traumatic to endure for the candidate, because their side of the story is rarely included in any reporting you can dig up. Especially for those unfairly convicted.

    With everything going on today, do you really trust our justice system to be fair, especially to someone who is not a wealthy and connected straight white male?

    If you're only willing to give people a chance when you judge their offence to be trivial by your own ethics, you're not actually providing second chances for those that need it.

  8. Yes. You can restore your icloud backup to another target iphone without wiping the source iphone, as long as the target iphone has enough storage capacity.
  9. Right! Backup planning is not black magic. And neither is testing icloud backups.

    It's quite easy to restore an icloud backup to a different phone or even ipad for testing purposes, if one were reliant on icloud to hold their data.

  10. Your phone could become damaged and inoperable every day. From dropping it in the toilet, being stolen, a house fire, etc. If you're "petrified" of losing your data, it's worth the work to ensure your data backup procedures are adequate.
  11. =~ s/server/serve/ :D
  12. > I think everybody can agree that improving efficiency is a good thing

    At what point does demanding top efficiency from a human every minute of every work shift cross the line into abuse? I would argue this tool is miles over that that line.

    Workplaces should server the workers too, not just the capital interests of the owners.

  13. Would you arrest a road worker because the highway onramp they just repaved was used by bank robbers to flee the scene of the crime?
  14. Learned regex in the 90's from the Perl documentation, or possibly one of the oreilly perl references. That was a time where printed language references were more convenient than searching the internet. Perl still includes a shell component for accessing it's documentation, that was invaluable in those ancient times. Perl's regex documentation is rather fantastic.

    `perldoc perlre` from your terminal.

    or https://perldoc.perl.org/perlre

    A simple way to test a regex you're building is this website, which offers immediate parsing and documentation of your regex, lets you test it against various inputs, and lets you choose which language's regex parser you are targeting.

    https://regexr.com/

  15. This is very problematic when monopolies are involved. “You are banned from Taco Bell for the rest of your life” is very different from “You are banned from all restaurants anywhere for the rest of your life.”

    If all restaurants are Taco Bell, is it reasonable to allow such bans by taco bell?

  16. We already have purjury law, which are so routinely broken by the police there's a common term for it. Testilying.

    Purjury is supposed to be serious. But it's not enforced against police officers. Other misconduct like prosecutors hiding exculpatory evidence is also rarely if ever punished even when blatently proven and widely publicided.

    So why should I believe, if this law passes, anybody in the justice system will enforce it?

    What happened to Ted Bradford is awful. The fact he actually eventually was exenorated was like winning the lottery. For most falsely convicted, a statistical impossibility.

  17. Hey didn't get special treatment. They got the published rules changed in regards to ALL E-Mail apps. Not just theirs. And they clearly show the resulting policy update in this post. That's not special treatment. That's progress.
  18. They must know this right? It seems the "Be helpful and engaging" is a bit of self delusion to pretend they aren't having such a wide negative impact on all of humanity with this kind of research.

    If the premise is to determine how many alerts the user will tolerate before taking action to silence them, it's known up front the alerts are unwanted and harm the user. The alerts are intended to drive product addiction. By definition, that's unhelpful to the user.

    The user is tricked by their phone, using the same noise and vibrations a direct message from friends or family that requires immediate attention causes, to force the offending product's brand into the forefront of their mind and make them decide to ignore the notification, investigate the notification, or silence the app's notifications.

    They want to maximize the number they can send, because they are studying the individual recipient to learn what they're more likely to respond to. Once they know that, they can barrage the person with those things they can't resist until product addiction is achieved, and yet another smartphone zombie is created. Yet another person who will not put down their phone to drive their car, have dinner with their families or tend to their own needs.

    The author must know the damage their work has done to people's lives, and this "be helpful and engaging" nonsense must be how they rationalize it.

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