While funny, the whole idea of tracking your data enough to give you a wrapped kind of goes completely against everything these extensions are supposed to do.

My suggested alternative is you click the wrapped button and it just says:

"Fucked if I know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

I don't have hard evidence for this (might try and find some at some point though), but I feel like outages have become progressively more common in the last 4-5ish years.

Feels like every time the AI tools "get better" there's an increase and no one gives a shit. Like, what the fuck? When did stability and reliability become so irrelevant to people?

Hell, GitHub might as well just close up shop with the amount of outages it's had recently! I get that the bubble is a bubble but how has AI not cost companies enough in outages to show it's a waste???

To add context for anyone who doesn't know: DB is notorious for being incredibly delayed. Lots of cancellations, 30-40 minutes late is no rarity, and if you have a connection to catch I can guarantee you that it'll be the ONE train running on time.

So you are right to be concerned, but only because you'll never get to start your journey in the first place.

Passwords should be like bad experiences.

The more you remember the worse they were.

I tend to rule that any components are "assumed to be in the materials pouch", unless there is a significant (relative to party wealth) gold price attached, in which case they need to be bought. In practice I found that only really seems to apply to resurrection spells.

From there, the only thing that matters to me is can you reasonably perform or (roll to hide to perform) the semantic and vocal components, as well as get out the materials of your materials pouch in your current state.

In practice this means I can ignore components 85% of the time, but can still temporarily de-power my players if needed for some reason.

5 star reviews (even real ones) are useless. They generally just say: "awesome product, love it"

No feedback or product info and anything. 4 stars and 2 stars are the most interesting to me. People who don't care and like it rate 5, people who don't care but didn't like it rate 1.

2 and 4 star ones thought about the product and found at least one fault normally, and that lets you read about it a bit more. And then you can decide if the issues mentioned by the comments directly are worth it for the price for you.

Plus it's generally easier to tell if the 4 star text review is real.

No. You are explicitly supposed to go to the very end of the closing lane, and then merge, not before it closes.

Oh I've seen some pretty bad interviewing, where HR is sent in with a question sheet and a box to tick for which key words the interviewee mentioned per question.

Obviously a red flag and useless method of interviewing, but it does happen frighteningly often. Especially where the IT team is so understaffed, they can't spare the time to do interviews.

NFTs could have been great, if they had been used FOR the consumer, and not to scam them.

Best thing I can think of is to verify licenses for digital products/games. Buy a game, verify you own it like you would with a CD using an NFT, and then you can sell it again when you're done.

Do this with serious stuff like AAA Games or Professional Software (think like borrowing a copy of Photoshop from an online library for a few days while you work on a project!) instead of monkey pictures and you could have the best of both worlds for buying physical vs buying online.

However, that might make corporations less money and completely upend modern licencing models, so no one was willing to do it.

Bold move claiming a finch can beat an owl on Lemmy...

I never understood this take, or most takes implying that the "take 'em apart and put 'em together" form of teleportation wouldn't be the holy grail of science.

Being able to teleport something is cool and all, but the thing that people should care about much much more is what that actually means: you are disassembling and reassembling a person or object at the atomic level.

This means, you are able to take an arbitrary collection of atoms, and build it into an arbitrary formation.

That's not a teleporter, that's a matter printer. Any and all economic implications of teleportation become mute, as the entire concept of an economy becomes irrelevant with the ability to print anything out of literally dirt and rubbish.

Even the concept of human life becomes practically worthless, since if you can put together a human, what's to stop you from putting together 2? Or 20? Or put together the latest backup of someone who died?

If anyone ever manages to invent this kind of teleportation, it would matter for about 3 seconds before being eclipsed by whatever consequences this has for humanity as a whole - good and bad.

Agreed, I use AI for coding the way I used to use Stack Overflow:

Find me code examples, explain an error or give me some summaries of how something should work but then I go confirm that or test it separately!

I never trusted Stack Overflow for anything more than pointing me in the right direction for what to research. Documentation links, snippets, blogs etc, that sort of stuff. As long as I tell the AI to give me a reference, about 60-70% of the time I'll get something I can actually use to confirm the code it gave me or get an answer for my question. At best what it does is save me googling time.

Yeah, I'd rather be doing a good thing poorly, than a bad thing successfully.

Longer is always better, but a fully random password will always be stronger than a "memorable" password of equal length.

You need exactly one memorable password, and that should be the one to your password manager, maybe two if you need to log into your device first. From there everything else should be long and random. Hell, with most of them you don't ever even need to know your own passwords, the tool just handles them itself.

XKCD has it right that you need length over complexity, but it's also from 2011. Today, we very easily can and should get both.

Several people have answered this with essentially: "No, because terraforming is unfeasible and expensive". I'll try and answer this question under the assumption that terraforming and leaving is feasible to do.

The core argument against billionaires is that they hoard wealth that they didn't produce.

Instead, it's the billions of humans that turn work into value, whether that's by turning a log into planks, planks into chairs, or by managing the sales operations that allow the sale of those chairs to others.

The 3.5k-ish billionaires in the world didn't create a billion euros worth of value themselves, they captured most of it from other people's work, under the justification that they provided the startup capital that allowed the plank maker to buy the log, the chair maker to buy the plank, and the sales managers to buy the chairs to sell. Depending on your ideology this is either justified or not (labour theory of value)

Because of this, getting rid of all the people that generate this wealth inevitably destroys the wealth itself, meaning that: no, they couldn't just abandon earth because we are the ones that actually create the wealth that allows them their lifestyle. No one to cook, no one to clean, no one to build giant yachts means no billionaire lifestyle.

Now, the newest question at hand in a lot of economies is: will AI and robotics essentially allow billionaires to actually produce this wealth without other people?

Even though research suggests that lots of jobs could be lost, "lots" doesn't mean all. However, I assume in part your question is motivated by the thought that billionaires will destroy the planet in an attempt to answer that question.

If they CAN, then this means someone still needs to build those robots. That's probably not going to be the billionaires themselves, so it'll be us the people doing that. In that case, the only thing stopping us from just making more, until none of us need to work anymore, is the billionaires telling us so.

If they CAN'T, they also can't leave us behind without also leaving behind pretty much all of their wealth and us just continuing on our way without them, presumably with less being skimmed off the top.

The last caveat to this is, of course, the ruined planet. This is a tricky one, but comes down to a numbers game. We outnumber billionaires by a lot and can drive the change we want by voting and pushing for regulation that benefits the many, not the few.

So, tl;dr: If they want to leave, they need to bring us along, and then they may as well not move, so we pretty much need earth.

Long ago, the four gulls lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire gulls attacked...

Yeah, this is simply the correct answer. Everything else I've read here ranges from overcomplicated to completely insane.

Why are people so obsessed with digital/internet voting?

Just use normal ballots, with pen and paper, and have a little patience while it gets collected, mailed and counted!

I need a t-shirt that says this.

This is a programmers mic drop.

In my experience Tefal is a good choice. Last long (my pan is at least 6 years old now and working perfectly), stays stable (handle didn't get wobbly much, just had to tighten a screw once), good quality and weight to it.

I'm happy enough to recommend those along!