Wolfenstein98k

Says who?

They made great products, fit the market over decades, and we're ruthless.

It seems more likely that Gates couldn't fail, than that if one contract went another way, he must have failed.

Agree at the start and disagree by the end.

People who are rude to service workers can just be arseholes, and don't have to hate themselves to be so.

Disagreeableness is an attribute, so is callousness, and so on.

According to whom?

"Don't fear change" is a religious statement, no different than "never accept change".

Imagine I am 200IQ, and I can solve things you can't comprehend.

You appear to be saying I should this be able to run any system, including the entire United States fed govt, and anyone who even questions if that may have bad effects should "not fear change".

The industrial revolution was Change, but so is cancer.

Given the 100 years of studies across cultures (and now species), it probably made you think of curves shapes before you'd ever seen a boabob tree, let alone knew its name.

Maybe because when you pronounce a B, it's very hard to make it sound sharp. The lips rolling off one another naturally have a gentle ramp-up. It's really hard to have a sudden transient. You can record this in a free DAW and see it in front of you.

By contrast, it's very hard to make a K- sound without a sharp transient.

With B you are adding pressure to two soft tissues in contact.

With K you are adding pressure when one tissue is hard, and saliva is present (causing a relatively sudden production of the sound).

Try making B sound sharp, hard to do while saying Bouba.

Try making K sound soft, basically impossible, especially while saying Kiki.

Definitely. Something more onomatopoeiac like Chinese would be much clearer.

I understand I am breaking the style rules, however...

bro wtf are you talking about

Do they though? Or is that biased by having seen wavelengths?

Sorry to off-topic, but why use a word designed to sound denigrating and like a slur?

I'm 0th percentile on the "AIs can feel/are alive" spectrum, but I still think it's probably bad for your soul to use a word that sounds like a horrid slave owner speaking of their property in the 18th century

Because surely it changes how you feel if the bread was disabling ducks, rather than just innocently feeding them with no downsides.

Probably the numerous people who noted that bread disables ducks and is very bad ecologically.

Wouldn't it be more profitable to have the user pay you for your model, running in your servers, than for a while separate company to try and make a profit out of being the middle-man?

I mean you'd have to crunch the numbers, but Anthropic would need one helluva advantage in efficiency before that would be cheaper to google than the full stack in house

Don't confuse "Ben can answer these emails in 20 minutes" with "anyone could answer these emails in 20 minutes"

Imagine you could get Elon to answer your emails. Is that perfectly interchangeable with any other human?

If that's true, you're claiming that it only accurately measures about 27% of the population yet somehow returns 66% accuracy.

Go for waist-to-hip.

It's actually still useful. It doesn't function as well as a measure of fatness for you as an individual, but that was only ever a proxy anyway.

It still functions well as a measure of load on your circulatory system, joints, you name it.

Your body is working harder than a typical 6'2" person, even if you have a great waist-to-hip ratio.

(But you'd still be better off with a smaller WTH ratio!)

Are they cognitively damaged by ads in ways they don't realise, or are you just uniquely cognitively damaged by them?

Maybe they prompted "make it sound like the guitars have D'addario strings"

I would expect anxious/insecure parents to use placating behaviours (like device use) themselves, and I would expect their children to be anxious/insecure too.

So I would expect the study to find that the children of phone-overusers were more likely to be anxious/insecure.

Still, I would also expect that less phone use (subbed with more attention to kid) would help the kid with this.

I always wonder how much of the West's wealth(- holding capabilities) come from centralising and rationalising our superstitions through central authorities like the church.

Not really, because notes do double duty.

You might play a G# note in the context of an E chord (where it's the third), and then you might play it in the context of a C# (where it's the fifth).

These are discernably different pitches, but the same "note", in the same key, in the same song!

Who didn't allow it to succeed?

Hard to make a school designed for a very small group of students. Who's paying?

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Great way to help nudge people along in musical interest.

I completely agree.

While the other person replying is not technically wrong about why these things are grouped, it is kind of offensive to sufferers of Type 1.

In one case, a 3yo starts randomly getting sick one day, worse by the day, and will be dead if they don't get a diagnosis soon. From that day forth, their parents need to manage EVERY single bite of food they have, stab them with needles multiple times a day no matter what, and inject them with a insulin - where, if you miscalculate, will cause a seizure within an ~hour and death within a few hours. From a single typo.

Nothing will cure them, their life will be much shorter, filled with work and pain and expense with absolutely no relief, and nothing could've avoided it.

Now compare to Type 2, where you basically cannot get it if you maintain a reasonable diet and a reasonable weight.

Once you start showing symptoms, if you listen to your doctor and reform your diet (particularly with the 5% shock weight loss approach), you will almost definitely avoid it.

You will avoid it for the rest of your life just by eating well, which has the added benefit of extending your lifespan and healthspan and saving you money.

These things have nothing in common, for the sufferer or their family.

Type 2, most likely. It changes for people as it progresses.

But even Type 1 people will have a different experience in the early days versus years later - you don't lose all beta cell function in one moment.

But once it matters, you will wish you did!

All the listed countries have low fertility rates, increasing screentime rates, etc.

I suspect if you cornered a parent of a 2yo in any of those countries, they would not say it is meaningfully more social and child-friendly TODAY that the USA is, or Australia (for which I can speak) is.

Last bit is not quite right: a lot of people want to be inside. That contributes strongly to the feedback loop you rightly identify.

(WHY they want to stay inside is another matter, but I suspect a large part is the stereotypical answer: unending seas of digital content highly optimised to hack the consumer's brain.)