memco · HackerTrans

I didn't see it touched on, but I'm hoping improved storage management is included in the update. My system has > 20% storage used by "system storage" and in total nearly half the device storage is used by ios and is outside my control. Supposedly some of this stuff is just cache data and there's no way to adjust what data gets cached or when it gets purged aside from rebooting. Handling for large files is also hit or miss and could use some updates. I didn't even realize some of that was AI stuff I might not even be using.

memco

last monthdiscuss

Oh dear! Medical issues are scary enough without all the red tape (has to be a better word than that) getting in the way of good care. Spreading the word in the hopes that it is more common and fewer people are left out

Thanks for sharing the story so openly! Sorry for everything you went through to get a proper diagnosis and treatment and for everything that the encephalitis itself inflicted on you. Glad you're doing better!

memco

last monthdiscuss

Won't weigh in on psychiatric care, but I will say from experience that everyone should look into both an advanced healthcare directive and an advanced psychiatric care directive: these are documents that authorize someone else to have input into your care if you are unable to do so yourself. Psychiatric care is considered separately so even though a medical health directive was in place we were stuck and could not have input into care even though we tried. Set this up before needed because in an emergency it may be too late and care providers are limited in what they can say and what they will do without that.

Consult a lawyer. Participating locations only. etc. etc.

memco

last monthdiscuss

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym

memco

last monthdiscuss

The product related info feels a bit anemic. Surprised things like "model" aren't in there.

memco

2 months agodiscuss

I think this is a great resource.

However, per item #2:

> Choice Overload

> The tendency for people to get overwhelmed when they are presented with a large number of options, often used interchangeably with the term paradox of choice.

There's 30 "laws" which are all text-based content buried under 30 irrelevant pictures that up half the visual space on the page.

It looks pretty, but it isn't an effective way to study these.

memco

4 months agodiscuss

Not sure if related, but the page loads fine and then after a few seconds refreshes into a 404. I gave up trying to read the article.

memco

4 months agodiscuss

Oh man! I came here to complain about printing! I just discovered yesterday that you can no longer drag and drop print jobs from one printer to another. Apparently you can move a print job via some command line stuff but it just ended up deleting the jobs entirely. The only reasons I found this out is because the printer which had been working fine moments before just stopped working after replacing toner. No amount of deleting and re-padding the printer or power cycling either machine fixed it. One time the whole OS just froze and I had to force reboot. I spent a good chunk of the afternoon trying to get one 3 page document to print. To be fair, I haven’t had problems with this setup for 10+ years but when it went south it also went to the remote frigid corners of Antarctica.

memco

6 months agodiscuss

Even enshitification suffers enshitification.

memco

6 months agodiscuss

This company makes cases with a physical keyboard for iPhone 14+ so if you just want the keyboard you might be able to get one of those instead.

memco

7 months agodiscuss

I think this is a valid question for this specific case, but may not always be possible. That said, I think as a user I would probably prefer it if under the hood the old function called the new so they can deprecate the behavior without breaking the API. In that way you can still emit the deprecation warning while also only having one actual code path to maintain.

memco

7 months agodiscuss

If you'd like you can also use `tip` as the update channel to get the nightly build binary without having to compile it yourself: https://ghostty.org/docs/config/reference#auto-update-channe...

memco

10 months agodiscuss

It’s also worth noting that this was specifically about the effects of ChatGPT on users’s ability to write essays: which means that if you don’t practice your writing skills, then your writing skills decline. This doesn’t seem to show that it is harmful just that it does not induce the same brain activity that is observed in other essay writing methods.

Additionally, the original paper uses the term “cognitive debt“ not cognitive decline, which may have an important ramifications for interpretation and conclusions.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see similar results in other similar types of studies, but it does feel a bit premature to broadly conclude that all LLM/AI use is harmful to your brain. In a less alarmist take: this could also be read to show that AI use effectively simplifies the essay writing process by reducing cognitive load, therefore making essays easier and more accessible to a broader audience but that would require a different study to see how well the participants scored on their work.

memco

5 years agodiscuss

> And they're digital images that won't fade.

They might not fade, but they are augmented by noise filtering algorithms, HDR and other tech that still subtly affects the picture quality and perception.

memco

6 years agodiscuss

A very good point! Presumably the appeal of a system like this is the potential for graceful degradation where if sockets aren’t working or some requests are failing then the default html behavior should still work: links will just take you to the original destination, but there’s no indication that this is actually what happens.

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