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il y a 10 heuresdiscuss

It goes

> Subject: Information about Your Automatic Renewal

> This is an automatically generated email from Nintendo for customers who have a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack individual 12‑month (365‑day) membership set to renew automatically.

> Dear [user],

> Your Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack individual 12‑month (365‑day) membership will automatically renew soon.

> ...

> Deadline to turn off automatic renewal: [1 month from now]

It also does this right when you first sign up for automatic renewal except the deadline is [1 year from now].

il y a 13 heuresdiscuss

Which algorithm is the hot garbage one to you? SuperMemo 2?

Finding out about this program was such a relief. I haven't worried about the prospect of having to call 911 since signing up.

avant-hierdiscuss

That's not true. We have a lot of generalist bees (and other pollinators too! bees aren't the only ones that pollinate!) that can pollinate the Eurasian crops. This is also true for any other crop on any other continent. And I am dubious as to your claim about major crops. Soybeans, for example, are self-pollinating, so it would seem any generalist bee can pollinate soybean crops for better yields.

This is an issue of biodiversity. If we rely on a mono-species for pollination and that mono-species goes extinct or its population plummets, then our crop yields are down 20% until we can build up other bee populations.

This is about giving back to Nature so that She may continue to cradle us. And She does tend to punish us for "optimizing" toward one specific species.

We do enough already taking crops from one part of the world and putting them elsewhere. In exchange for that, we really ought to be trying to support the native wildlife as much as possible. The Europeans can have their honey, and I will have my maple syrup. On occasion, of course, so as not to upset Nature.

avant-hierdiscuss

> I suppose honey bees are not native in North America pretty much the same way as the human species?

No? Well not in a way that wouldn't be stretching an owl over a globe. But Carolina Jessamine is toxic to honeybees and not natives (or at least there exist native bees who have adapted to not slurp on it if it is toxic to them). That doesn't stop people from spreading the lie that Carolina Jessamine "hurts bees". It hurts some species of bees. To transfer this concept to the human population, you'd have to start arguing that there are different species of humans or, again, construct a stretching-an-owl-over-a-globe argument.

And people can't mention every caveat in every discussion, sorry. You've really just constructed a strawman.

In a 40-minute discussion with someone like Doug Tallamy, both the issue of invasive honeybees and pesticides will come up. The venn diagram of people who care about both things is very close to a circle.

Also, as to your edit - that honeybees rely on humans doesn't change their impact on native bee populations, which is they outcompete native bees.

There's nothing weird about correcting the popular ignorant assumption that the only pollinator that matters is honeybees.

il y a 10 joursdiscuss

Precursor to age verification gateway.

In the future, an AGEnt will attest that you are old enough to access the resource.

il y a 11 joursdiscuss

But that just goes back to the banks again. Why did the Washington politicians encourage easy mortgage lending standards? Lobbying by big banks. https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications/1301/

In a similar vein with CAFE standards: why were those loop holes introduced? Lobbying by the auto industry.

il y a 13 joursdiscuss

Yeah, but I have no idea how good it is or how expensive it is: https://www.dnb.com/en-us/smb.html

il y a 14 joursdiscuss

They are acquaintances and friends, although not close friends. It's also unclear what their biases are since I can't read their minds, so there is no way of knowing if their biases are harmful for their lives. If I knew what their biases were, I would probably have had better understanding of what the output meant to them; hence the conclusion that we do not share the same biases.

I see emotional intelligence as a tool, not some virtue to uphold. Here it is identifying the value of a relationship and avoiding potentially breaking that relationship apart simply because one aspect of it is not optimal. Not every relationship needs to have perfect alignment with my beliefs.

But more importantly, I don't have enough information about them to properly navigate a conversation about their use of the LLM for advice.

> I just really don't like the idea of pretending or lying to people with their whole lives ahead and going counter to what you believe to be the truth for some social comfort or emotional intelligence aspect.

Fine, but you're also doing that for your own comfort, and not necessarily for the benefit of the other person. It can (and often does) cause the friendship to end before you've actually helped them understand what you want them to understand. I've lost friendships this way.

I'd rather keep the relationship intact and revisit the conversation when the time is right than risk abruptly ending the relationship with the same outcome where they go through their whole life with malformed or harmful ideas. You incorrectly assume that they would "know" the alternative views just by communicating, but much like their biases allowed them to "understand" the output of the LLM, their biases may disallow them from understanding the alternate views you are trying to impart.

il y a 14 joursdiscuss

Emotional intelligence. These interactions aren't people sharing points of view, they are sharing something they see as meaningful, and no matter how politely I convey it, it's still going to come off as "that sounds stupid and meaningless". It's not like I have better advice to give. Not worth dying on that hill.

il y a 14 joursdiscuss

This is my read on how people react to LLM responses, especially about personal/social issues too - that many are fooled by the LLM. On occasion, someone has shown me LLM output, believing it to be a profound and illuminating response to their prompt.

Even being able to see the original prompt, the response just seemed kind of empty (blocking out the advertisingesque magnificent language leaves little substance behind), but somehow they were convinced that it was a coherent answer to their prompt and even peeved with me for not sharing their astonishment at how well it addressed their concerns.

It's a kind of symbiosis between the LLM and the prompter, where the prompter's own cognitive biases fill in what the LLM can not. Since I don't share their same biases, the response is nearly meaningless.

Very uncomfortable experience having to pretend to agree with how profound it is to not make their prompter upset.

il y a 15 joursdiscuss

> Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said that the Pentagon had granted exceptions to Hegseth’s optional flu shot policy to the Army, Navy, Air Force, National Security Agency, and the Defense Health Agency.

So which ones are still exempt from the vaccines? Space Force, USMC, Coast Guard, who else?

il y a 17 joursdiscuss

"overengineering"

    UPDATE appointments
    SET starts_at_utc = local_time AT TIME ZONE timezone_name
    WHERE timezone_name = 'America/Vancouver'
      AND starts_at_utc > now();

il y a 18 joursdiscuss

> In all likelihood this will never happen in a particular timezone.

You sure about that?

https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/...

2026b - changes to future timestamps

2026a - changes to past and future timestamps

2025c - changes to past timestamps

2025b - changes to past timestamps

2025a - changes to future timestamps

2024b - changes to past timestamps

2024a - changes to future timestamps

2023d - changes to past and future timestamps

2023c - changes that changed future timestamps reverted

2023b - changes to future timestamps

I definitely prefer the... fragile? approach for this problem

il y a 18 joursdiscuss

It's just a different kind of complexity and one that requires having a library that can arbitrarily load different versions of tzdata.

I've been thinking about it for a while though - a time zone conversion library that also accepts an additional "tzdata_version" argument.

il y a 18 joursdiscuss

Only for server-supplied timestamps.

Like the time clock example: sure what you're describing works if the user is just pressing a button to clock in and the server stores a UTC timestamp in response to a POST request or whatever.

But it's very common to need to backfill time. So the user backfills with their own supplied timestamps, those stamps get converted to UTC, tzdata changes a few months later, and HR is now asking for an explanation as to why they were late for those backfills and how it's possible they were working an hour after the shop closed.

It's never as simple as "just store it in UTC".

Conversion to UTC is lossy, so I prefer to keep up with the user-supplied time where appropriate.

il y a 18 joursdiscuss

For the 2026a release:

    Changes to past and future timestamps

    Since 2022 Moldova has observed EU transition times, that is, it has sprung forward at 03:00, not 02:00, and has fallen back at 04:00, not 03:00.  (Thanks to Heitor David Pinto.)

il y a 18 joursdiscuss

Not always a math bug. Sometimes a human bug. Tzdata can have errors (it's crowdsourced after all) that cause past UTC stamps to be incorrect because that incorrect tzdata was used at conversion time. And since most people aren't storing the tzdata version they're using with the stamp, it would be very difficult to make corrections without also corrupting other stamps.

The bottom line is, if wall time is important, past or present, wall time needs to be stored.

The only thing that can be guaranteed about a UTC timestamp is it's a UTC timestamp.

il y a 23 joursdiscuss

You've done everything but cite the source of your claim that "[by] capacity it's trending from around 60% now to 80% by 2030".

I wasn't born yesterday dude, it's obvious you're deflecting. You cited a sloptistic generated by an LLM. Take the L.

il y a 25 joursdiscuss

An individual report of a data center and no statistics. For the third time - where are you getting that 60-80% number? What is the source of that information?