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Video with further detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndftcft6XhU

If you enjoy that, allow me to introduce you to the displeasure of WORST and Malbolge.

https://esolangs.org/wiki/WORST https://esolangs.org/wiki/Malbolge

They’re both a truly bottomless pit of malaise.

That absurdity doesn’t need modern AI. All it takes is any statistical system that automates human interaction.

See Robodebt (Australia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme), which lead a number of people to suicide, as an example.

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Or more generally: it’s perhaps not the best idea to make the entirety of your reasoning ability dependant on something external to you. Doubly so if that’s a tool with a subscription model.

What a jerk.

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a god is a good guy with a god.

You just need to partake in some strong psychedelics with them first.

The similar comparison I enjoy is “a golden retriever on LSD”.

If you apply the dogs on acid mental model it helps establish appropriate levels of trust.

For context: personally strongly in favour of legislation that will kneecap algorithmic feeds in almost any way.

A big concern with these (and other associated laws) being pushed through is it grants the eSafety Commissioner powers to edict what’s allowed.

That position is appointed, not elected.

Direct link to the analysis report: https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/dynamic-media-pr...

Similar environment, identical experience.

Fixing something that’s visibly and publicly broken (or able to be sold) gets immediate praise. Preventing that issue before it occurs is thankless and invisible.

There are people doing that invisible work in every org. They normally become visible around a week after they quit.

This is like vim pedal (https://github.com/foxweb/vim-pedal) on steroids. I love it.

Nand2Tetris is great. Definitely one of, if not the, most impactful bit of education I’ve ever done it terms of knowledge imparted.

I've spent a fair chunk of career designing/building installed audiovisual systems. Displays devices are what terrify me most from a security perspective (and it's a low bar in that world).

They should never be network connected. Ever.

It doesn't matter if they are a domestic or commercial device.

Consider their usage in emergency response centres, situation rooms, infrastructure monitoring, meeting rooms in government offices, boardrooms at publicly listed companies, trading desks, or peoples homes as their source of news.

They have access to every pixel shown. They'll also likely have a full audio feed even if audio is passing through another system. You can have all the security control that you like on upstream systems, strong integrity guarantees, and comprehensive validation of that. This is the device where you are most open to exfil or tampering before it's shown to someone.

Even if the vendor isn't the one trying to actively exploit you they're almost universally running some form on incredibly dated, unpatched, and unhardened OS that is riddled with nightmare material vulnerabilities. Don't even put them on your IoT/untrusted network. If you need to control them, use CEC/DDC or a serial connection. Preferably unidirectional.

That depends entirely on where you are. This is explicitly not allowed within Australian Consumer Law, for example. Impeding resale is an entirely legal and effective dark pattern this provides though.

See: philosophy ~> determinism.

Math from Three to Seven by Alexander Zvonkin is a great read and example of this. It recounts experiences running a math circle for preschoolers and really highlights the value of play, curiosity, and open exploration.

From personal experience, and as noted here, this approach is valuable for everyone regardless of age. In the short term it's far more efficient to learn by having the right way 'pushed' to you. However, by taking the time to fail, repeatedly, and eventually 'pulling' that knowledge the tacit understanding you build has a depth that's hard to shortcut.

If this is the sort of thing that interests you, I highly recommend setting aside 90 minutes and strapping yourself in for a listen to https://malwebb.com/notnoi.html.

That format is considered harmful.

> Time, quiet mind, slow mornings, rest without guilt, calm and boring days.

Ah, I remember pre-parent life too.

Since the ANT+ protocol implementation seems to already be there, it seems a likely/sensible future path is to implement wheel sensor support. It provides much higher accuracy of speed/distance than GPS and lower power draw.

On that note, this is a world I've recently taken a dive in to. I was about to roll a Pi Zero / ESP data logger to track distance travelled on my commuter bike for planning service intervals. Was keen on a solution that didn't involve draining a phone battery and remembering to start trips, a full bike computer, or smartwatch. After a bit of research I picked up a Garmin Speed Sensor 2 - highly recommend as a bit of stupidly effective tech.

The device straps around your hub and is essentially a coin battery and mems rotation sensor. In addition to running as an ANT+ peripheral it will operate standalone and log the last 300 hours of ride time then sync next time you open the app. Speed and distance is then inferred based on wheel circumference.

AU$140 (~US$100) per 4mg, which is approx one month, here.

AU$25 (~US$18), or AU$7.70 (~US$5.50) with a concession card if you qualify for subsidy.

If you're in Australia it's worth a chat with your GP rather than less regulated channels.

If you get a high frame rate video of a space, there's plenty of other objects that can act as visual transducers: https://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/VisualMic/.

Within built environment and industrial design that's termed universal design.

The canonical example is ramps on footpaths providing equivalent benefit to people in wheelchairs, parents with strollers, and commuters on bikes, scooters or skateboards. The door width example you provide is another perfect case.

There are many aspects of things we design and build where a small focus of accessibility for one group brings benefits to many.

Particularly here where the context is ephemeral.

Any usage of short links can (and sometimes should) link to a canonical source with an immutable URI. This is just a foreign key for humans.