Climate is something people already understand to some extent. If you start talking about different climate models and their assumptions, you should get those confused looks straight away.

Oh, but you gotta drop a chmod nuke at least once to feel the terror having done something irreversible. As a bonus, you’ll also gain a brand new appreciation for snapshots.

Spend the euro on NFTs, sell them for cryptos, spend them on upvotes, likes and reviews. Alternatively, you could buy lootboxes and skins instead.

See also: stoicism

Since it runs Android, you should be able to use any app in the store, right? So, let’s say you need to buy train tickets, take care of banking, track package deliveries, check your PUK code, troubleshoot a wifi router, control smart lights, book a time for the dentist etc. There are a variety of random things where the modern world expects you to have either Android or iOS with you, so can this phone handle those situations too?

About 10 years ago, you didn’t really bump into situations like that very often, so you could get stuff done by making a phone call, using a browser etc, but the 2020s are getting increasingly app dependent. It’s just wild how many things you can’t do these days unless you have a reasonably modern smart phone with you.

That’s why fractions suck. The difference between 1/2 and 1/3 looks small, but it’s way bigger than the difference between 1/202 and 1/203. Same goes for coffee recipes expressed using rations like that.

When it comes to tiny fractions, just go with 1E-6 style instead. So much easier to compare numbers.

Same goes for medicine in general. You take a pill, and headache goes away. How did that happen? Ask a pharmacist/biochemist/etc. Everyone else might just intuitively think of it as magic.

What about phone calls then? How does your voice travel so far? Feels pretty magical, doesn’t it?

If you count only 100% vibed code, it’s probably a 20 lines long script.

Usually, I tweak the code to fit my needs, so it’s not 100% vibes at that point. This way, I have built a bunch of scripts, each about 200 lines long, but that arbitrary limit is just my personal preference. I could put them all together into a single horribly unreadable file, which could be like 1000 lines per project. However, vast majority of them were modified by me, so that doesn’t count.

If you ask something longer than 20 lines, there’s a very high probability that it won’t work on the 15th round of corrections. Either GPT just can’t handle things that complicated, or maybe my needs are so obscure and bizarre that the training data just didn’t cover those cases.

You’ve never seen what’s at the bottom of a lake? Could be dinosaurs. You’ve never seen what’s on the other side of the moon. Could be space nazis.

See also: chart of nuclides

It contains the periodic table and all the unstable isotopes of every element. The island of stability would be somewhere in the top right corner, outside the chart.

When you look at the half-life data, it’s pretty clear that lead is the last fully stable element. Anything past that line (126 neutrons) is more or less unstable, but not necessarily useless. For example, uranium and thorium are pretty far away, but they can still have practical applications.

Between hydrogen and lead, stable isotopes are abundant, but after lead, finding anything you can reasonably do chemistry with gets a bit scarce. When you go past plutonium 244, you’ll find even less chemistry there.

You’re talking about equality, which is a very different type of measure of urgency. Obviously, that is not being prioritized as all, because that’s how capitalism works. Quite the opposite actually. When it comes to matters related to equality, the rich people prioritize themselves over everyone else.

However, I was referring to a completely different type of urgency based prioritization that can be seen pretty much everywhere in society. We build machines that are just barely good enough for the job instead of being actually great for the job, good for the people who use them and good for the environment. That sort of long term thinking just doesn’t have a place in our current system, because making machines just barely good enough is hard enough as it is. If we could do all the basic things with zero effort, we would have left over resources that could be directed towards making everything actually better in a variety of ways. Currently, those left over resources don’t exist, because they’re tied up in making all the basic stuff happen in the society. That’s why we aren’t focusing on making things actually good.

Individual people and some companies are actually trying to make sustainable and humane decisions, but the society isn’t.

Well, there’s a bit of that in there as well. Maybe that example was too specific to serve its purpose.

The idea is that urgent tasks get prioritized, while everything else gets ignored. Currently, we are ignoring a variety of important tasks, because they aren’t important enough.

Once automation fixes all the urgent stuff, we’ll tackle all the less essential ones, and oh boy are there a lot of them. Some of them trivial, and some quite useful.

Never. There’s always more to do. Once you can produce food, shelter and entertainment with zero effort, people will start working on less urgent stuff that got ignored because we were busy working on the essentials.

Currently, we’re ignoring preventative medical and psychological care, because we’re busy fixing everything that is broken. Well, not even all of it. Just some parts get fixed. Maybe, in the future fixing stuff is so cheap and easy, that we can shift our focus to prevention.

Once we’re there, we can start focusing on the next big thing, like building a Dyson sphere or whatever.

Exactly. if you’re worried about random hackers getting their hands on your emails, gmail is totally good enough. If you’re worried about something else, it might not be. Depends on what exactly “keeps you awake at night”.

The real question is, where do you draw the line. You can even make a convincing case that gmail can be trusted with your data. Actually, many people feel that way, so it’s not a bizarre or rare stance. Alternatively, you can also say that self hosting everything is the only way to be sure.

IMO gaming is in the same category with art, music, racing, football, photography etc—fun things to do, only very few can make a living out of them.

Myke Hurley said in some episode of Cortex podcast, that he doesn’t want to turn his new mechanical keyboard hobby into a jobby. He wants to keep some things as just hobbies. He has enough jobbies as it is, and he doesn’t want to ruin something he enjoys.

Although, it sounds more like OP has no jobs or jobbies, so having at least one should be ok.

Do you just straight up ask for meth or is there a code word?

Can confirm. Just lie down, and let the boredom soak in for a while. Won’t take long til you remember five things I was supposed to do several weeks ago. Your subconscious mind really hates boredom, and will do anything to keep you busy.

If your to-do list is somehow completely empty, your mind will just come up with random new ideas, like what would happen if you put little wheels on a tomato, can you build a “house of cards” out of eggs, what if there was a set of suitcases exactly the size and shape of the trunk of your car, what if CO2 could be sucked from the air and pushed back underground somehow, what if cryptos are a scam… You know bizarre stuff like that.

Yeah, that’s a classic. If it ain’t broken but just barely limps along, infuriating everyone who uses it, and while a new system would actually work properly but costs money and effort that no one wants to spend, don’t fix it.