You're not wrong, but you're in the wrong place to talk to people about low-probability events and how they multiply. Most Hacker News can't into elementary-school-level probability equations and will instead take the ostrich approach; there was some behavioral scientist dude from Cambridge Analytica who wrote about this and the TL;DR is that most "adults" have infantile minds that prefer various safety blanket mechanisms that society is more than ready to offer them just to do anything to have an excuse to not face the truth of what basic math reveals to more likely than not be true.
Speaking of Drake equations, you should (1) see the other comment here with this account name (2) check out the top Pirate Bay rip of Dark City (which predated that other movie) and turn on the English subtitles and count the number of times the characters look at or make gestures pointing to certain alignments of the text in the subtitles and, if you're true "hackers", try to figure out the encrypted messages in the text alignments that the characters are looking at/pointing to at key moments – and then when/if you figure out what the encrypted messages mean, try to figure out how the director worked together backwards so that they could have a script that aligns a certain way using subtitles and then make the scenes so that the actors are looking/pointing to key spots at just the right time.
If you appreciate technical things, you'd be in for a treat.
Thank you for you reply, I'll make note of this if I go to a repair shop.
Just not sure how the processor definitely works very smooth, very fast, just like as if I restarted it whenever I take it out of the fridge, but the sensor is somehow reading ~200º.
Thank you for the reply and advice – I will probably pursue this if it keeps up, even though it seems to have happened much more dramatically after the last OS update.
Regardless, I'm still unsure how it can read these temperatures since the "put in freezer for a while" method seems to work when it does this and everything gets "un-sluggish" right away and starts working as well as if I restart it, no matter how many things are open.
So it's like the processor "works as if it wasn't overheating", but for some reason the temperature readings for things like synching sometimes don't work because it reads the temp as approaching ~200º, and even external apps read it as such (though I realize they may just be repeating an internal OS error).
Having said that I've had this model for quite a while now and have been doing this since I can remember and never had this issue until the latest macOS update, which from what I've researched seems to be affecting loads of people with all sorts of newer, much fancier processors than what I have.
While I will definitely keep your advice in mind going forward, it seems that this issue sprung up only after this last update, which is strange because I remember reading something about "improved energy management" or some such.
I see and thank you for your reply; I just have one more question: If you select "desktop interaction", doesn't that by default "unselect" browser ... um ... "selection"?
In other words, when desktop is selected, how does my desktop "know" that of all the other possibly relevant things open (for example, a notes or word processing app), that it's "Oh, you probably wanted to undo what you just typed into your browser while you were on a website in edit mode"??
Is it purely a function of "undo last thing done"?
Having said that, I just noticed that "it's you again".
As a side question, do you have a tab with my submission history perma-opened?
Because I find it odd that you of all people "just happened to stumble across this" 2 minutes after I posted it.
Also I still am not quite clear how "my desktop functioning as the browser" sends the signal to Reddit's servers to "undo" the deletion when the Reddit site itself doesn't have this option (unless you hit "cancel" and revert to the last saved version – which STILL doesn't explain things since new "New Reddit" in browser mode now by default saves last changes made in edit mode once you open it (instead of the reverted to "last version saved" if you hit the cancel button in edit mode).
Sure, I get that parts of Reddit may be localized in my browser until I hit "save" to save edits, but again, I don't get how "my desktop OS" knows to make corrections to the browser instead of, for example, an open word processing document or a notes app when the browser is "unselected" and the OS functions are available.
"If it would help, most sane individuals consider gematria to entail "jumping to conclusions" too." I guess I would agree that 1-2 results may very well be; but 1-2 THOUSAND results, all equaling the same number and pointing to the same message readily lends itself to probability analysis. Which is something YOU obviously never considered while YOU obviously jumped to conclusions about the point I was trying to get across. Having said that, you'd be surprised what sort of people in what sort of places I've managed to convince that "Yes, there definitely seems to be something weird going on with this". So I don't have to "ask anyone" anymore because since some of the older submissions of this account that you seem to be referencing, I've found people in positions of influence that I've been able to influence the thinking of with this vector of analysis answering more of their questions than many other, quite expensive tools at their disposal seem to do. So, "Thanks for the unsolicited and unfounded opinion based on the sheer ignorance displayed by those camped out on the Hill of Stupidity of the Dunning-Krueger curve", but you can go ahead and keep that to yourself because it's not only of no use but not even relevant anymore to where I'm at these days.
"Everything else is delusional and impossible for me to follow". I see. So, again, to illustrate the mentality of those on the left side of the Dunning-Krueger curve (displaying severe Narcissistic personality disorder encompassing both unfounded overconfidence and disdain for making an effort to actually dive in and learn): "*I CAN'T* understand it, therefore *YOU* must be "delusional". Many such cases of sophomoric thinking in the world, you're neither unique nor interesting.
Also, as a thought experiment, imagine if everyone took the same approach to everything as you do, for example: Skip more elementary math courses, then one day burst into the middle of a course on number theory in the middle of a semester, sit there with your arms crossed (no doubt with a sneering, skeptical grin on your face) for a few minutes, then interrupt the class only to imagine you're blessing everyone there with a drop of what you no doubt consider to be your profound personal brand wisdom: "*I CAN'T* understand this, therefore YOU'RE all crazy, take meds, LOL!" while you peace out and do a 360º, walking out with what you assuredly think is a major "Ha-ha – I sure showed them!" victory notch on your belt (while everyone in your wake just looks at each other and slowly shakes their heads, ashamed of your over-the-top ignorance).
I was once like you a long time ago; the difference is I actually found flaws in the logic presented that stumped professors who went on to ask other professors who couldn't come back with a reply to the objections I raised. Or, in one case, a well-known mathematician who wanted to convince a roomful of financial professionals that his contribution to math could easily be extended to financial analysis ... but failed to first come up with an answer addressing a small but important part of the technical transition in doing so (ie, the old "(1) Idea, (2) "Something, something, something which we'll surely figure out later sometime", (3) Huge profits!!" The point being, I actually gave what was being presented some serious thought and found errors in the very logic being used to present the ideas and used their own logic to illustrate flaws in their logic. As in "slightly more effort than, "*I CAN'T* keep up with this, so *YOU* must be crazy, go see a doctor, LOL".
"I also checked out your subreddit yesterday, which is just... more of the same, married with political conspiracy theories."
That's your opinion and you're certainly entitled to it and kudos to you for venturing that far in your quest to stalk me. Having said that, "if you only knew" who reads that subreddit and for what purposes. I'll just say this: Regardless of whether I post once a month or once an hour, no matter what time I post "their time", that sub has reached a level where each and every post gets read IMMEDIATELY no matter what the time is for the people reading it, usually by a small group that slightly exceeds the membership count (a number that in itself has significance to the audience invited) who then go on to pass posts to a readership ranging from several hundred to several thousand. Which may not sound like much in terms of "social media popularity", but, again, "if you only knew" who the intended audience is. People with full-time jobs in serious institutions that have plenty of other important things on their plates. Who have apparently set up a small team dedicated to instantly reading whatever I post, whatever time of weekday/weekend day/holiday or night I post it (let me know when you've managed to do something similar). And since this has been going on for a few years now, it's safe to say it's not a "Take a look at this crazy guy and his weird crap, LOL" sort of thing being passed around as a joke at the office. A few times, perhaps. Over the course of several years? No.
"If I wanted to fuck with you I could still have all sorts of fun, but I'm telling you as a gesture of courtesy that you are unwell." UH-HUH. I came here asking a technical question in good faith on a site most reasonable people would say has a higher than average probability of getting serious responses due to both the nature of its design, the person who came up with its background, and the intended audience he had in mind for it ... meanwhile, despite an infinite amount of options to do something productive and meaning in this world, "you're just here to fuck with people". And I'm the one who's "unwell". "OK".
Do yourself a favor: Bookmark this conversation in your mind and revisit it in 5-10 years to examine your growth from flippant ignorance to where ever it is you may find yourself at such time, which for your sake I truly hope is a better, more mature place than where you are right now. Which, despite your reference to "job security", is basically indistinguishable from a high-school class clown who still gets off on things like old renditions of Jerky-Boys prank phone calls and probably spray-paint tagging racisms on video games "because the LULZ".
I get it and thank you, and maybe it's just me since my time investment in HN was mostly during the period of it's founding until 2015 or so at the latest (this account obviously not withstanding). And perhaps I'm an old fart now an "things have changed, old man" and all that stuff. But honestly the reason I came here in the first place is that during that period, this place would be the LAST place on the internet to expect to encounter such childish behavior and in the past such replies would have been downvoted into oblivion. I guess I made the mistake in assuming that "2025 HN" is the same as it was back then; clearly I was wrong as I'm looking at the feed and seeing tons of quality posts with zero-to-miniscule interactions, which would have been unheard of "back in the day". It would seem this place has fallen off from how I remembered it.
A response from an account created just an hour ago (at the time of this reply) for seemingly no other purpose than to respond to this post with low-effort, ad-hominem crap is definitely something I will be taking very seriously.
Also, just out of curiosity, when you say, "Your submission history suggests that you jump to conclusions as a chronic habit." ... can you clarify how you yourself infer that from a small series of submissions, only 2 of which has anything to do with "drawing conclusions", both of which clearly suggest the establishment of some sort of system to methodically reach conclusions?
Because otherwise you're just debasing yourself by not only engaging in ad-hominem attacks, but making up the basis for doing so.
OK, but consider the long-term: If (especially publicly-traded) companies are driven by the "You must increase profits indefinitely no matter what" ethos of "fiduciary responsibility to stockholders", when you've racked your brain and ran out of ways to increase new markets, by which point you're probably hyper efficient and figured out every cost-saving measure imaginable, then what?
You then are, if you seek continuously-higher-and-higher profit margins, cornered in such a way that you have 1 of 3 options out (see my reply to the first poster above).
The fact that more and more companies (1) are so myopic they can't see this coming and (2) openly embrace 1 of those 3 options when they're eventually forced to is how, for example, we've arrive at a world where formerly "Don't be evil" Google has morphed into "SOMEBODY is going to make some extra money becoming CyberDyne Industries, and so "Why not us?".
Not saying what you said is not part of the consideration, but imagine the world your kids will grow up in if more and more companies behaved this way.
Honestly, the problem being highlighted is similar to what happens in the gaming community. Some people hack, either out of a sense of trolling or "everyone else is probably doing it, too, so I need to do it to keep up". Eventually it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as more and more players see other players hacking and succumb to the pressure to do likewise. Then the game becomes hot garbage and the good players depart, leaving the game to collapse on itself as it becomes a wasteland of cheaters.
In the 1950s to the 1970s (when taking on debt was considered a sign of weakness, not the current "prerequisite for success" Wall St. convinced companies it is these days), there used to be this corporate ethos: "A decent amount of profit, a decent amount of the time."
The basic idea is that if you were making an "indecent" profit too often, you were engaging in 1 of 3 possible activities, each of which, despite seeming like a good idea in the short-term, would lead to ruin in the long-term: (1) You were fleecing your customers, leaving open a space for a less-greedy competitor to snatch your customers by replicating you at a lower price point (2) you were doing something illegal (Google "J.P. Morgan-owned ship caught with over $1 billion in street value worth of cocaine") or, (3) you were doing something that, while not "technically illegal", was probably not in your company's long-term best interest (for example, when it was discovered that Disney bought out companies that ran production studios that made "erotica" for cable TV channels, "because it was profitable, so, "Why not?").
That ethos was healthy and realized that business is NOT a "dog eat dog, law of the jungle" world but rather an ECOSYSTEM that needs to be maintained in balance for the long-term good of everyone involved, INCLUDING "competitors".
Yes it sounds a bit like "collusion" signaling through market-mechanisms, but it was a GOOD collusion that ensured the long-term health of the overall landscape.
At some point in the late 70s and 80s, things like Malthusian-driven "Club of Rome" enclaves and "Peak Oil" scares (nowadays "Won't SOMEBODY think of the environment!?") gave rise to a culture where more and more "Pre-("Terminator") and Post-("The Last Man On Earth") apocalyptic SciFi films flooded the general consciousness, which seems to have affected a lot of things including the psyches of business executives who seemed to have adopted this "Everything is falling apart, so grab what you can, while you can!" attitude (Not necessarily true (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Simon), but highly-profitable for Wall St. and an ever-sprawling cottage industry of NGOs).
Does it "have to be" this way? Obviously not, as at one point it clearly wasn't. But some folks at the top make a lot of money by maintaining the illusion that "Yes this is reality and there's nothing you can do about it ("Hate the game, not the player") except to try to find a knife or club and realize that you're stuck in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_(film)) ... which ironically has come full circle and seems to be the dominant theme in even video games themselves these days, thus subtly subconsciously imprinting this narrative on a whole new generation.