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There was a Romanian economist who was able to exploit several lotteries around the world. He essentially bought every combination to lotteries where the payout was higher than the cost. Logistical nightmare.

https://thehustle.co/the-man-who-won-the-lottery-14-times

I had no idea this was possible, but yeah, going to “battery health” in my Settings shows battery health is degraded, and provides a link to schedule a replacement.

No country is blameless in war and the United States is no exception, but there is no reasonable comparison between the evil Japan committed in Asia and what the United States did to Japanese Americans.

“Unproven”, I don’t get how anyone can use LLMs and come away with this opinion. There is simply no better way to do a fuzzy search than by typing a vague prompt into an LLM.

I was trying to find a movie title the other day, only remembered it had Lime in the title and had a Jack-the-Ripper setting. ChatGPT found it easily. Sure you have to fact check the results, but there’s undeniable value there.

On a legal basis I’m not sure, but on a theological basis many people find it very important to separate patriotism and allegiance to a particular government from theological beliefs, which is why many saw Trump’s Bible as heretical.

It’s also worth pointing out that rejecting state influence over religion is the original reason for the concept of separation of church and state, at least in America. It was was far from the norm at the time.

[1] https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/establishment-clause...

[2] https://goodfaithmedia.org/heresy-of-the-trump-bible/

Many of the people pushing for these new rules are Christian Nationalists, and explicitly reject the separation of church and state. Some pastors are getting in trouble with their congregation if they try to remove an American flag from the podium, for example. It also fits in neatly with the Trump Bible that he released recently, which included a copy of the constitution, pretty explicitly rejecting the Christian belief of not adding or removing anything to the Word of God.

But this hypocrisy has been a core part of American culture since its founding, check out the book Money Cult to trace the origins and see more about how church is essentially big business in many of these states.

[1] The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream

[2] https://www.threads.net/@revjsreeder/post/C8W9cR8O1sg/?xmt=A...

Canceling Google Inbox was when I started to move off their platform, it was their best product in years and finally got a handle on email chaos, and then they just killed it with no follow up, insane.

I set timers for 49 minutes frequently because Siri will hear 15 instead of 50

Calgary too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_15

I recently went through a large video editing project on Ubuntu. Really wanted to use DaVinci resolve but it had multiple hard crashes and just wouldn’t open for some reason, doesn’t seem like they support Linux as well as Mac and windows.

I ended up using Blender, and while it’s powerful and super useful to be able to link scenes from other files, one huge missing feature is support for videos of varying frame rates. If your videos don’t match, the audio will be either much longer or much shorter than the video clips.

Had a few hard crashes too and lots of bugs, but definitely usable.

Exploring a topic and then asking for specific book recommendations, getting it to argue both sides of an issue to see weak points, giving quizzes on topics. Also love using it to keep asking for practical examples of abstract ideas.

Unrelated modules often superficially look like each other at a point in time, I think that’s what the parent is referring to. An inexperienced developer will see this and think “I need to remove this duplication”. But then as the modules diverge from each other over time you end up with a giant complex interface that would be better off as 2 separate modules.

So deduplicating unnecessarily compresses the code without adding anything to code quality.

It’s a nice computer but calling it “repairable” is a farce, and System76’s customer support is unfortunately woefully inadequate.

I have one of these and spilled a drink on my keyboard, getting it replaced was $300 of parts and labor, but the worst thing was it took almost 2 months pressuring their support reps to actually complete the process and they would frequently just not respond to messages, or ignore information I provided or clarified.

Pop_OS! is really nice to be fair. I’ve also had issues with build quality. My Gazelle’s screen stopped working when the computer ran out of power and had a bent wire when I opened it up. Again they wanted hundreds of dollars to fix it, even though it was clearly a manufacturing defect. When they sent the computer back the chassis was cracked.

Our prod app and staging just completely died. Bad day for somebody at Cloudflare

This killed our app immediately. Looks like auth0 and a lot of other sites are down.