Regarding rigging voting machines, that’s conspiracy theory territory, however you did miss that Democrats are more likely to be working jobs where you can’t easily take time off to vote, or it’s that or lunch, or the time they give you isn’t enough, so doing it in advance by post is pretty much the only way you can vote.
Good, if it’s as good or better than we have currently then that’s great, if it’s not then oh well.
There hasn’t been an insignificant number of times I’ve found out about a new product or event I’m interested in, a sale for something I already want, or something like that through advertising.
It’s rare as a proportion, but it definitely does happen.
I believe that ads are just yet another tragedy of the commons type of thing, where bad actors not only ruin it for everyone, but also convert good actors to being bad actors.
I’d say there’s three tiers:
It’s kind of sad that it’s going this way (and has been for a while) but I guess it’s going to end up with just a return to paying for media with money rather than ads.
I suspect it was intentional - afaik at least in English speaking countries, live event subtitles for a foreign language are either just in that language, or []. It’s more for pre-recorded shows, and even then baked into the video feed rather than the subtitle track, that you get subtitles.
Why do you think I said "thinking"/planning instead of just calling it thinking…
The “thinking” stage is actually just planning so that it can list out the facts and then try and find inconsistencies, patterns, solutions etc. I think planning is a perfectly reasonable thing to call it, as it matches the distinct between planning and execution in other algorithms like navigation.
That kind of matches my experience, but some of the negatives they bring up can be fixed with monitoring thinking mode. If they start to make assumptions on your behalf, or go down the wrong path, you can interrupt it and tell it to persue the correct line without polluting the context.
I’ve started using AI pretty heavily for writing code in languages I’m not as confident in (especially JS and SQL) after being skeptical for a while, as well as code which can be described briefly but is tedious to write, and I think the problem here is “by” - it would be better to say “with”
You don’t say that 90% of code was written by code completion plugins, because it takes someone to pick the right thing from the list, check the docs to see it’s right, etc.
It’s the same for AI, I check the “thinking”/planning logs to make sure the logic is right, and sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t, at which point you can write a brief psudocode brief of what you want to do, sometimes it starts on the right path then goes off, at which point you can say “no, go back to this point” and generally it works well.
I’d say this kind of code is maybe 30-50% of what I write, the other 50-70% being more technically complex and in a language I’m more experienced in, so I can’t fully believe the 30% figure when you’re going to be having some people wasting time by not using it when they could use it for speedup, and others using it too much and wasting time trying to implement more complex things than it’s capable of - this one irks me especially after having to spend 3½ hours yesterday reviewing a new hire’s MR that they could’ve spent actually learning the libraries, or I could’ve spent implementing the whole ticket with some time left over to teach them.
The surge starts around 2016, could be political instability following David Cameron leaving/Brexit, smartphones being common enough that muggings increase, changes in policies due to Sadiq Khan being elected, children who grew up during the recession growing old enough to join gangs, or a number of other things
I think the drop is 2020 and then it never recovered actually?
I feel like this is a labels issue though… Lots of people don’t want to go “vegan” or “vegetarian” because of a small group of vegans, but if you were to give them a meal without announcing it was vegan they’d probably enjoy it.
Same to an extent for me: I could never give up dairy because I love milk, cheese and butter too much, but I do eat (asian style) vegetarian meals multiple times a week and have at most one meat meal per day, instead of at every meal, and I have a mindset that meat is nice but not that you can’t make other nice dishes with mushrooms, tofu, cheese, etc. - you just have to make different things.
Reframing it as “look at these nice things you can have” seems a lot more accessible than telling people they shouldn’t eat meat, or they should eat less meat, or that the other proteins are just a substitute for meat, which makes it seem like you’re missing out on something.
Ah yeah, I was looking at the mail/password manager/docs side instead… They’ve also got Proton Drive on there as well though
It’s interesting they haven’t recommended anything proton here when proton as a whole works very well in a bunch of these categories… I imagine it could be because they’re a competitor to Tuta
Politics in the US used to be divided along a lot more lines than just socially progressive vs socially conservative. You had a lot of people voting in ways that would surprise people these days, which was totally normal and reasonable, as the reaction to hearing people voted differently to you wasn’t outrage like it is now. It’s really hard to go back to that though, as now it’s been sorted down pretty much exclusively one very emotional axis being the whole identity of the parties, everyone infers a lot more about people based on who they vote for.
Probably Switzerland.
All AI is good for is giving instructions on how to make bombs, and generating images of tits, but they caught on so now we just end up with search summaries saying it’s not physically possible to [xyz].
Flags on lampposts isn’t seen to be an issue anywhere else. There’s also (as far as I’m aware) no reported issues of flags flying down, regardless of whether it causes accidents. Even then, if it’s not well secured, remove it or tie it properly, otherwise leave it, it’s the same amount of effort if not less than removing it.
Also telling people to keep it to their garden isn’t going to help. The problem the right have is that they feel that patriotism is being suppressed. Telling them they can be patriotic, but only in private (or something that “feels” like that), isn’t going to help that.
In almost every other country other than Germany it’s very normal to see national flags flying everywhere. People on the right are starting to realise that and use it to say “they’re trying to stop us being patriotic.”
Taking flags down is only going to make that worse and create an “us vs them” mentality. What would help, is flying more flags. Fly a pride flag next to a St George’s Cross. Fly a Union Jack with a dragon in the middle. Fly the same flag as the far right, but see it to represent all the people who work to make the country what it is, no matter who they are. That’s far better than creating unnecessary divisions over something that really isn’t an issue.
Isn’t that pretty much all bees and ants do though?
Also most of them just live alone until it’s time to fuck, which is often an ambush, then maybe look after the baby for a bit.
Twitch is more of a parasocial website in most cases though, unless you’re watching exceptionally small streamers