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I try and start using it for basic tasks, like note taking, to get used to its interface and basic commands like :w and :q, as well as switching between insert and cmd mode.

Once you are familiar with switching between modes, copying, pasting, etc, then you probably will wanna Starr learning it's lua api and how to load in some QoL plugins. Basic stuff like treesitter, telescope, and nvim-tree are good places to start.

Once you feel comfortable with swapping between files with telescope and configuring plugins, I'd deep dive into getting an LSP up and running for your language of choice so you can actually code.

In the interim I'd recommend getting comfy with using tmux in your terminal, try and open new tmux tabs to do units of work instead of constantly cding around.

I like to keep 4 tmux tabs open for a project:

• nvim
• lazygit
• secrets file open in nvim (usually my secrets file is in another dir so it doesn't check into git)
• a general terminal tab for running commands

From my experience the only big changes I'd say I made overtime are:

1. Font size bumped up
2. Switched to neovim from visual studio, which took like a year to relearn my entire workflow (100% worth it though)
3. Switched from multiscreen setup to one single big screen (largely due to #2 above no longer needing a second screen, tmux+harpoon+telescope+fzf goes brrrr)
4. Switched to a standing desk with a treadmill, because I became able to afford a larger living space where I can fit such a setup.

If I were to do this meme though it'd mostly be #1, there just came a day when I had to pop open my settings and ++ the font size a couple times, that's how I knew I was getting old.

This is already to some degree an existing dilemma. There are already individuals out there who, due to genetic lottery, happen to have an adult body that through some efforts of clothing, makeup, hairstyle, etc, can very much present themselves as substantially younger looking than their actual age.

Lord knows certain popular niches in the porn industry make this apparant... >_>;

And from what I have heard on social media, sometimes these individuals couple up with another person who... doesnt look substantially younger.

And often, these couples face quite a bit of controversy and social stigma, despite everything they are doing and into being 100% legal and, from am objective standpoint, ethically fine (they are two consenting adults after all)

But I agree that future tech with things like gene editing and whatnot this dilemma will certainly become substantially more pronounced and I think it will likely be yet another group being attacked for daring to live their lives.

Apples and oranges.

Itd only be comparable if everyone had an equal chance of becoming the sole owner of a company via random lottery, simply by joining the company.

In which case, yes, most people would congregate to the largest companies to min max their odds.

You can't really compare anything else to a lottery because a lottery is truly a level playing field, it's pyre chance.

Any other comparison introduces tonnes of variables like status, gender, orientation, religion, wealth, etc etc.

It isn't a literal dice roll if your company you start succeeds or not, you can't just go pay a fee to start a company, kick your feet up and there's a pure 1 in x chance it makes it without you doing anything.

But that is how a lottery works. You buy the ticket, you wait, and you either win or lose by chance.

And most importantly your success scales by how many others participated.

So you end up with the majority of people congregating to a select few lotteries because they all want to win The Big One TM.

The thing is, the reason it gets so high is because it has the potential to get so high. It's the powerballs selling point.

I'd suspect if someone made a lottery using your system, it would be less popular and wouldn't actually have the situation occur since less people would fund it.

The powerballs bananas numbers it can scale up to us exactly what makes it so popular and able to scale so high. Everyone collectively has agreed that poeerball is the primary lottery to pitch into with everyone else.

I think if you set up a theoretical test where you have a bunch of people together, and a bunch of lotteries they can gamble on each week, you'd quickly find after a few weeks everyone would be gambling at the same lottery, give or take.

Lasse is the original maintainer of XZ, they have been placed back in their position as sole maintainer.

"Jia Tan" was the person who slipped the backdoor into XZ and is now banned.

Lasse has already fixed abd removed the backdoor.

XZ itself is critical software everyone uses (its one of the main compression/decompression programs used on linux)

I mean, if you clown around in front of the judge you are trying to get on your side, losing the verdict is a pretty ShockedPikachu.jpeg moment.

Like what'd they think was gonna happen? The judge was gonna be super duper impressed by their antics and weigh on their favor?

I can see how the ruling makes sense tbh, an art gallery isn't really a space of societal advantage for viewers.

Or: this was the goal all along, as it sets some interesting legal precedents

but the best way to avoid getting them is still to just avoiding stupid shit.

This is fine and dandy on a personal pc, but in a work environment you are now being actively targeted by malicious actors if your company is a good target.

Constantly.

So once you are in that zone you do need some fast acting reactive tools that keep watch for viruses.

The rabies vaccine seems to have an actually higher negative reaction rate in some pets.

We have had 2 of 4 of our ferrets react severely to it on the second shot, of the "emergency midnight trip to the vet" variety.

Here's key reasons why you can't compare this to human vaccines:

1. It's not covered by health insurance. You too would balk at a covid vaccine if it ran you a $600 or so.
2. Pets are way more likely to get injured. Even a small child knows not to flip out and bite a doctor, or jump off the table when getting a needle. Your little dumb fuzzbutt on the other hand very well may attempt this...
3. From what I've been told by my vet and some others in the community, the rabies vaccine has an actually higher than usual allergic reaction rate compared to what you are used to seeing. I've heard numbers along the lines of 5% to 10%, compared to something like less than 1% of humans reacting to most vaccines.
4. Emergency midnight hospital trips also aren't covered, and will run you easily another $1000+, whereas if your kid has an emergency at night you still are covered
5. Dosing benadryl for a tiny pet is way harder, it's way riskier and easier to fuck it up and potentially cause harm. As opposed to how a small child can be given a tsp of children's benadryl, your looking at like 1/10th of a pill for your pet. Better not have shaky hands or your pet is dead... (or be like me and happen to own a jewelery scale so I can precisely get the dose right)
6. Have you ever even tried to administer benadryl to a pet before? If you haven't, you have no idea how hard it is. Normally my ferrets are good with meds but benadryl tastes vile to them and they make it very known.
7. Finally, it's pretty normal for exotic pets to just... never go outside anyways, my ferrets have the run of the house but they've only been outside (not in a kennel) a couple times, and they didn't really like it much. Spent pretty much the entire time climbing up me to get away from scary noises and hiding in my jacket to get away from the wind. When I opened the door to the house they bolted back inside. We don't do outside time with em anymore, they just don't super like it as indoor pets. Too loud, too scary, too cold.

So yeah, all the above combined perhaps makes it a bit more understandable why people are leaning away from these shots.

Larger pets like dogs and cats though are much lower risk. They can handle larger doses, aren't exotic so can be covered by insurance, normally spend lots of time outside, etc etc.

But rabbits? Ferret? Hedgehogs? Etc etc... naaah not honestly terribly worth it. Huge risk for basically zero reward.

Your ferret/rabbit that never steps outside isn't gonna get rabies.

I primarily use a couple locally hosted LLMs for searching for info now.

Larger LLMs are trained on so much info that they get the answer right surprisingly often.

Only thing they of course struggle with are recent events.

If a website has literally no login system, there's nothing to phish.

There is honestly no reason to use SSL on a static website that has no login system and just displays some content.

IE a static blog or etc, where the only content on the website is just "look at this stuff, okay thank you!"

Others have covered the fact it's because of air pressure but haven't fully answered why that is the way it is.

It's simple really.

The force of gravity is also at play. As you go higher up, gravity gets weaker as you get farther from the earth's centre.

And it is that gravitational force that increases the air's density, same reason why if you keep going down in the water, the water gets denser.

For the heat to move around you need to be in a sort of goldilocks zone of density.

It needs to be dense enough that the fluid molecules can move around and spread the convection energy around... but not so dense they can't move much either.

Furthermore there's actually a couple different layers of our atmosphere.

First at our level is the troposphere, where heat is absorbed into the ground itself and radiated back out, as well as the perpetual heat from the earth's core, and reflected off the ground too (visible light).

The troposphere is warm and gets colder as you get farther away from the earth's surface, naturally. That heat is absorbed by the air itself so, as you get farther away it gets colder as it has more air to travel through.

Up higher is the Stratosphere, where it's ice cold and the air thins out.

However we get a sudden uptick in temp as we go even higher into what is called the Stratopause, back to briefly warm temperatures between the Stratosphere and the Mesosohere. Why? How?

Simple, this is the little sweet spot Ozone molecules hang out, forming a protective convenient bubble around the earth. Ozone absorbs Ultraviolet light from the sun and turns out that stuff is HOT, so there's a band of a hot zone right above and below the Ozone layer. Think of it as a toasty little bubble around us.

Above is the mesosphere which cools off again and gets back to being really frosty quickly, for the same reason the Stratosphere did, distance.

Then we hit the mesosphere, which is effectively the point when the atmosphere is so thin it stops protecting and is the "outside" of our protective blanket.

You can imagine this like earth being wrapped in a blanket, and the mesosphere is everything outside the blanket. Without any protection you are subject to the unbridled radiation of the sun which means you go back to being really toasty, as you get a bit higher you are effectively in space now and will soon enough hit temps that just cook you alive in a minute or two. Really bad sunburn zone.

So to answer the question overall:

Hot air rises... but only when there is air to rise.

Top of the mountains just don't have enough air anymore for it to really rise much more. It still does but the hot air rising effect just gets weaker and weaker as the air gets thinner due to less gravity.

Odd, I'm in Edmonton and never got the emergency broadcast all day and night yesterday.

Never heard anything about brown outs, maybe my specific area didn't get included in the rollouts?

Alberta still primarily uses gas for heating so unlike our southern friends, brown outs impact us a lot less.

Oh, Jesus, this is from January.

Yeah, we got issued an emergency alert to drop unnecessary power usage in Edmonton and there was a cool graph that epcor I believe posted later showing how edmontons power usage dropped a shit tonne as people got the alert.

I think only a couple specific areas had brown outs, we definitely didn't get them in my area.

Nowadays it's less of an issue with docker and whatnot.

Just set the image to refresh every night at midnight and if they tried to make manual changes it'll just revert back to its original state at midnight.

Customers don't really get direct access to deployed code now, it's buried under like 4 layers of abstraction on most CDNs now.

Simply deploying to azure already smears multiple layers of access control and RBAC overtop that it's hard enough for me, the dev, to answer the question if "what is actually deployed atm?", let alone for the customer to get in their and meddle.

There aren't standardized screens for smartphones, as the inside of the screens typically has a bespoke aluminum chassis they are adhered to as part of their construction.

And since every single phone model has different insides, every screen is bespoke to its model.

You have to look on ebay for your phones screen model.

If you look for ones with a couple dead pixels they are pretty affordable though.

Also people are glossing over the capability for it to improve sexual drive.

The "my wife read a slightly spicy book today and now she wants to get it on" trope is well known on social media, AI's ability to just generate whatever you want likely will boost that.

However, at this time AI is unable to really handle pacing well.

It's pretty well known that most attempts with current uncensored LLMs tends to produce saucy encounters are... poorly paced.

Good spicy novels have a lot of build up and slow pace, which requires remembering facts from many chapters ago.

Even the top end of massive LLMs lack the memory capacity to last more than a handful of pages before they completely lose the thread.

But hopefully this gets remedied eventually.

For casual users I typically recommend using Cinnamon Desktop, it's the most Windows-esque UI and will be the easiest for them to pick up and use.

I roll with Cinnamon on Ubuntu and it's been extremely painless, very simple to get stuff do and shit just works.

I've been calling this for awhile now.

I've been calling it the Ouroboros effect.

There's even bigger parts at play the paper didn't even dig into, and that's selective bias dye to human intervention.

See at first let's say an AI has 100 unique outputs for a given prompt.

However, humans will favor let's say half of em. Humans will naturally regenerate a couple times and pick their preferred "cream of the crop" result.

This will then ouroboros for an iteration.

Now the next iteration only has say 50 unique responses, as half of them have been ouroboros'd away by humans picking the one they like more.

Repeat, each time "half-lifing" the originality.

Over time, everything will get more abd more sameish. Models will degrade on originality as everything muddles into corporate speak.

You know how every corporate website uses the same useless "doesn't mean anything" jargon string of words, to say a lot without actually saying anything?

That's how AI is going to local minima to, as it keeps getting selectively "bred" to speak in an appealing and nonspecific way for the majority of online content.