It’s hard for me to know where my pessimism stops and my realism begins with these kinds of experiences lately. The latest iTerm2 update had me subconsciously questioning my own philosophy around whether I ever would want or need an AI agent [that someone else] built in my default terminal application.
That feels like a kind of useless conversation though, there are no facts involved.
Once Google had implemented the change they’ve outlined here someone can plug their phone into Wireshark and see what, if anything, has changed. Then there’s a conversation to be had.
I may be wrong, but I think user 22c may be trying to point out that we put an amount, W, of CO2 into the air by making the collective decision to fly so many planes in the first place.
More specifically I was talking about equating contrail reduction with removing carbon from the atmosphere, which the article does when it says
> Marc Shapiro, the head of contrails at Breakthrough Energy, calls reducing contrails [...] the equivalent of removing carbon from the atmosphere at a cost of 10 dollars per ton or less
Contrail reduction and carbon sequestration aren't the same thing and it's not fair to equate them on cost.
> ...government digital services and apps need to become less bureaucratic and formal.
> Beijing asserted that it wants a "user-centered approach," meaning users don't need multiple logins, and can instead use a one-stop platform. Government apps should use a government cloud and central authentication services hosted there.
So, not just de-uglifying the UI, but also the UX and login capabilities of multiple applications. I wonder what powered the authoring of the central auth services in Beijing.
I was raised in middle-class suburbia, in the North East U.S. My family wasn't wealthy, but wasn't hurting either. I did well in school, but didn't have to try very hard to maintain grades in Advanced Placement classes. Outside of school, I worked easy lawn-care gigs with my neighbor and we made decent cash with 20-30 hours of work per week.
It afforded me a life of coasting, leisure, and throwing away my downtime.
I am nearing 30 years old and just realizing that I'd consider my behavior to be bad habits I need to kick. I want to work harder, and I have to teach myself what that means.
I would hope that there is some optimal balance. A lot of my childhood was spent doing manual labor for money. A lot of that was wasted opportunity to learn more and get experience that would have benefited me financially later on.
Why is this comment getting so much heat for being confirmation bias? If anything, we should all rally around trying to guess the name in question. Did you name your kid Butter? Bananas? Campbell's CHUNKY Savory Pot Roast?
hahah you actually guessed it so I'll tell you - it was "Chunky man", and yes, I was slammed on social media with a relentless stream of inexplicable adds for CHUNKY soup, until I was like "holy shit"
edit: and before anyone asks, this nickname was only said verbally, in my house, among my family members, and never typed into a computer a single time
What if you had it backwards? You named your child "Chunky" after slowly being operantly conditioned to think about the name from the endless ads you were seeing before?
Is it cool? Yeah. Did I ask for it? Ehhh…