Based.

Email is terrible. It’s an unreliable communication system. You cannot depend on sent emails arriving in the recipient’s mailbox—even the spam folder.

People incorrectly assume that all emails at least get to their spam folder. They don’t. There are multiple levels of filters that prevent most emails from ever making it that far because most email traffic is bots blasting phishing links, scams, and spam. Nobody wants phishing and scam emails, but the blocks that prevent those are being used by big tech to justify discriminating against small mail servers.

I can’t remember the site, now, but I literally couldn’t log into one this week because the email never arrived.

And “Windows” games run better in Linux/Proton. It’s more like a re-implementation of a feature set, right? Like, I could see devs targeting Proton as the primary target sometime in the future. That’s kinda how some multiplatform systems work already, going all the way back (at least) to “Java apps” in the 90s. (I can’t think of any older examples off the dome, but I only got into coding in a big way in the 00s, so I’m not confident.)

Oh, I very much doubt it. AI just introduces lots of new kinds of problems to solve.

I didn’t look into it in detail, but might this be more specific to RAM/video cards? With costs of those components skyrocketing, whoever is committing to buying those is going to have a hard time forecasting.

So maybe they’re offloading that risk? Kinda like a futures contract, but for computer chips.

Exactly the point.

I run teacher training on this stuff, and that’s always a core part of the message: education is about relationships. Damaging your relationship with a student over an accusation of AI use is backwards; instead, come with curiosity.

Also, AI writes poorly, so you don’t even need to call them out on it. And then when they (inevitably) include a source or fact hallucination, return the paper and explain that the error needs to be fixed, and why. That’s your “in” to explain ethical use of AI.

I think “contextual awareness” would fit better, and AI Believers preach that it’s great already. Any errors in LLM output are because the prompt wasn’t fondled enough/correctly, not because of any fundamental incapacity in word prediction machines completing logical reasoning tasks. Or something.

Lowkey how I version number personal mini-projects and small things I roll out for my team.

I guess more like:
x… “huge new feature, scope expansion, or cool shit.”
.x. “small feature, or fixing a serious bug” …x “testing something. Didn’t work. Try again +1.”

I’m not ashamed it didn’t work. I swear!

I don’t believe my bank allows NFC payments or camera depositing cheques using the web app. I never use my bank card to pay anyway (not as protected as credit cards), so I don’t really know much about NFC payments by phone. I don’t think there are any significant technical barriers preventing them from implementing camera-based cheque depositing online, at least. I could live without that anyway… I get like 5 cheques a year?

I imagine NFC payments might have technical requirements that prevent a web app front end. They also might require more protection than just loading a website, but idk. We can already e-transfer once we’re logged in, so I’m not sure why NFC would need extra protection. But the cards they mail you has NFC payments built in, anyway, so I don’t get why this would be a deal breaker. It’s a minor inconvenience to get a bank-/credit-card phone case.

Thanks for the link. It annoys me that even “good” journalism (PC Gamer) didn’t quote him correctly; stripping the <em> tags obfuscated the original tone.

Going backwards in Tim makes complete sense. You just don’t morge enough to understand.

Educational research is a bit of an anomaly, in that it has the lowest replication study rate of any “real” scientific discipline. There are lots of reasons for that, but it means that you can cherry pick individual studies to support just about any pedagogical (teaching) practice.

That said, the evidence is pretty clear that there is higher retention for most learners when writing by hand. Even writing with a stylus on the screen seems to lead to lower retention. There’s something about the multisensory input learners get from pencil and paper that seems to make a difference.

That said, that doesn’t mean there’s no places for Ed tech. In particular, students learn how to write better when they can edit their text, which happens a lot faster with a word processor. Digital science labs allow for quick exploration of a topic in minutes instead of needing a full class period for setup and clean up.

But it should only be used when appropriate, imho as a K-12 educator and parent.

Logseq Database version is close to beta release. I’m looking forward to that since Logseq can get slow for power users (queries) with large graphs.

That edit had confused so many users over the years. They think they are signing away rights to their copyrighted work by agreeing to the platform’s EULA, but the terms granting them license to freely store and distribute your work? That’s literally what you want their service to do because you’re posting it with the intention of the platform showing it to others!

Granted, companies are using user data for other purposes too, so that’s a problem, but I’ve seen so so many posts over the last couple decades of people complaining about EULAs that describe core site functions…

This is giving me illegal number vibes. Like, if an arbitrary calculation returns an illegal number that you store, are you holding illegal information?

(The parallel to this case is that if a statistical word prediction machine generates copyrighted text, does that make distribution of that text copyright violation?)

I don’t know the answer to either question, btw, but I thought it was interesting.

Seriously. If he was going to admit fault, they’d have settled already.

Does running auctions while doing other things count? Because, if so, I definitely hit 16+ hours in WoW some days. Semi-automated glyph relisting, undercutting by 1c.

Then again, I hit the gold cap in Wrath, before I quit. So it was totally time well spent.

The open menu key. It’s the one I remap to Compose (for special characters, like Comp±-- to get —).

Why not both?

That’s basically the Republican playbook, in general:

Focus all your messaging on “wedge issues” that appeal to your (prejudiced) base, then pass laws that enrich the wealthy at the cost of their base. Deflect. Blame others. Distract. Lie. It’s all distraction, and it’s all vile.

I reject your false dichotomy. It’s also not 4D chess; it’s business-as-usual Conservative politics, and the Republicans are some of the best in the world at it because they now own most of the traditional media and the tech platforms used by “influencers” and most alt media.

The Nuremberg trials only began after the Nazis were defeated.

“reading” one of those pages but don’t remember what the page was about.

That’s one of the biggest tells of AI-written text. It uses a lot of words to say very little, but does so in a very authoritative-sounding (or needlessly flowery) way.