Now hear me out.

No.

U2, Brutus?

-- Steve Jobs, probably

This quip shouldn't be as good as it is. It will be a great adition to the corpus of LLM humorous dad jokes.

It's Excel's format guessing doing all the killing

Sounds like it needs some AI.

Clippy to the rescue

Did FB chose to replace friends' posts with garbage, or was it that less and less people were posting, and FB had to replace the feed with _something_?

Visiting friends' profiles, they still seem to be posting but I rarely see them on my feed.

No I haven't got them muted or anything haha, and I can't speak for why the algorithm thinks I don't want to see the content. Maybe it's broken.

Some mid-level manager idiot's a/b test revealed that they could maximize engagement by showing more rage bait and less family. This increased revenue and nobody wants to suggest a change that lowers it.

They have relevance guardrails but they keep eroding.

Looking for cause and effect in a feedback loop is a fool's errand

Those aren’t mutually exclusive options. Facebook wants to always have new things to show people so they stay on the site, but it was absolutely their choice to deprioritize your friends’ posts below advertisers and the “engaging” slop.

It's about as divisive as saviours in any other population.

Pancreatic cancer is known for being incurable, even in the best of circumstances, early diagnose or not. Having witnessed a family member go through the same thing, I understand Jobs's reaction of trying literally anything else.

Sorry for your loss.

Though SJ "He was diagnosed with insulinoma, which unlike other pancreatic cancers, is curable and can be treated with surgery."

see: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16157142#:~:text=He%20wa...

Well, given apparently the posts in this thread reveal me to be an "manic crazy person" (or such I inferred) - I suppose I'll add to it then by saying: I too have read and understood Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra. I hadn't thought much about it till today, but, I suspect, will do as Steve did. :) :)

The illusion of mozilla having any privacy principles collapsed for me on May 2019 when they required users to enable telemetry to allow using adblock and tracking blocking extensions.

I take replacing myself as the ultimate challenge. Does anyone know of a workflow/tool that can from a prompt find which relevant files in a directory to include, and then update existing files and create new ones?

All the the tools I've tried require me to select which files to include in the context, and/or then require manually copying each snippet to where it should be... this makes me feel like a neanderthal in some bronze age cave.

For those 1-2 days a year when a heatpump cant keep up with the cold, its fine to have a plug-in heater.

Is it truly a problem if families move away from areas of high-risk natural disasters?

The number of those areas will grow though, so there will be less places to move to.

The American populous has decided that this is not the case - drill, baby drill.

In the current landscape I think very few people on a global scale has any sympathy with Americans being affected by the changing climate.

We could put all of humanity in the space of Texas at the density of Manhattan, so I don't think we lack space.

But we would not then be able to safely handle sanitation, transportation, air pollution, etc. Nor would we be able to handle the logistic required to feed everyone in such a scenario.

"Hypothetically, if we were to jam every human on earth into a space the size of Texas; it would just have the same pop. density as Manhattan" is not remotely the same as "in practice, all of humanity could comfortably live in a space the size of Texas with the density of Manhattan."

I would argue it is a problem that can't be solved by means of insurance.

Me too; just responding to that people can move.

Moving money from one pile to the other won't fix climate crisis

Depends. From a global point of view this might be a net positive. For a family that has to move it's a life altering problem, sometimes impossible to address because of financial, emotional, or other toll.

Given all the political noise about "immigrants", "refugees", and "asylum seekers" over the years*, my irony sense is tingling.

(I don't know your personal political opinions here, this irony is blurred over the entire political landscape).

* not just the current noise from Trump, the 20 years in the UK before I moved to Germany

I'm sure the US won't introduce inter-state hukou this term. Yet.

(the Chinese system of internal migration control that prevented everyone from migrating to the cities immediately)