TL;DR: remove dust from fan,
devices can turn off when they get too hot.

Cookie AutoDelete for Firefox and Chrome.

Source

https://xkcd.com/1289/

A bit too hard for me.

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Just not feeling mentally 100%, decided to go for a walk around some quiet streets. I found a spot in sunlight and decided to pause for a moment to enjoy it.

A driver stopped to check on me and ask if I was OK. It made me realise that most people really do care.

It feels pretty easy when all you have to do is observe and give occasional instructions.

Most people are pretty bad at guessing the amount of effort someone else needs to complete a task.
Most people also have enough empathy to ask how much effort it was instead of telling you what they experienced and assuming it was the same for you.

Unfortunately, some people will still think a headache is painless because they are not the one experiencing it.

His mom must be very unobservant for the amount of time it would take to push all the buttons.

They’ve got 2 extra small ones at the back.

https://xkcd.com/3241/

On desktop, the < and > keys while paused move by individual frames.

Did you know: If all the railway lines in the US were joined end to end

I thought new EVs hit lifetime price parity over 5 years ago.

Any charging can be 5 minute charging if you unplug it soon enough.

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I guessed the purple category title correctly, but didn’t recognise 2 of the items as belonging to it.

I personally think there is a (sometimes subtle) difference between paid software and harmful software.

Meta and X are definitely causing harm, but is something like Synergy? Sure, it costs money, but that money seems to be going to the developers. That would be no worse than paying a street vendor for food.

Likewise, finding an open-source virus and using it to hack people doesn’t absolve you of guilt.

While many large corporations tend toward capitalism, corruption and even fascism, I believe there is a lot more nuance than just paid vs free or closed vs open source.

Still better than burning bunker fuel to carry oil. Every bit helps.

if the AI breaks something it will be apparent.

No, it isn’t usually apparent. Most bugs from AI are subtle edge cases that will only show up later. One of those “later” instances night be when you try to run it on a different computer, or when another user presses buttons in an order you didn’t try, or when you try to add a new feature, or worse, when someone tries to hack your code and finds all the common security vulnerabilities because that’s what the AI has seen most often and copied.

AI can’t think – it can only give results it has seen before or some combination of them. We already know AI can’t produce an image of a full glass of wine, or tell you what year is next year on Jan 1st.

The technology can’t work. No matter the input prompt, it just isn’t capable of producing code with no bugs or edge cases. That requires thinking and logical deductions, both disproven by the examples in the previous paragraph.

I tried it recently, it still doesn’t work.

You will get more logic errors than you could possibly imagine. Even when you’ve fixed the obvious errors and it seems to run, you still have an enormous number of edge cases not handled that make your project a buggy, insecure mess.

It’s the Dunning–Kruger effect again. If you can’t do it yourself, you don’t notice that AI can’t do it either.

I wonder if they’re going to panic when they see those lights now.