If you floss regularly your gums won’t bleed, source: me. My gums never bleed at the dentist, but they used to when I sucked more at dental self-care.

For the X-ray example, think about it this way: the doctor is like a bartender. One drink isn’t going to hurt you. The bartender can definitely serve you one drink. But if the bartender had to drink a part of a drink every time they served someone, that would become pretty dangerous for them indeed.

Describing a phenomenon is different from endorsing it.

Mamdani signed an executive order (printed in comic sans) eliminating bed time for New Yorkers so that they can watch the Knicks in the playoffs.

Not to be contrarian, just running a Matrix server is awful, and Matrix has been plagued with security issues in the past, including basic crypto gaps due to lack of domain understanding in the implementation, which is shocking for what is touted as a security first project.

Moreover, I don’t know of any acceptable alternatives.

I’m generally one of the first people on any FOSS bandwagon. I’ve been using Linux as my daily driver since 1999. Matrix is not simply “not as good” or “not up to feature parity” as alternatives. It is in my opinion unacceptably bad and the project leads seem to be actively hostile to efforts to make it better.

Every simple numeric metric you use to measure a programmers productivity will be gamed and defeated. This was a lesson learned in the fucking 90s. Amazon should know better.

I miss Mitch Hedberg

In English? Seems a little bit sus.

Ask for more injera. It’s cheap, they have a lot of it, and they’ll probably be happy to provide you with more gratis.

That being said, sure you can just eat it with your hands if it isn’t too hot.

Not sure I care overly much about the fate of the amoral corporation getting fucked over by the fascist regime. They’re both juggernauts, and I would love to see them damage each other.

Remember, the falling out wasn’t about the morality of the unsupervised spicy autocomplete killing people, it was about who had the liability when the AI went inevitably wrong. Had the DoD accepted the liability, I’m certain Anthropic would have sold the the stupidest version of skynet imaginable.

https://jmail.world/thread/0f7fac62a94c1d9a989c769d770dbb1a?view=inbox

Smh Tom. You should have known better.

My understanding is that the Gobi Desert has historically been expanding due to desertification of the surrounding grasslands, and the project to plant trees in this area was to halt or reverse this process. In other words, the ecological destruction was already occurring.

But double check me.

It turns out, that for the values we are talking about here, it actually more or less does! A lemon has a pH of around 2.5, while “Flow” has an advertised pH of 8.1. This means roughly that to neutralize 1L of this water you need approximately 0.4mL of lemon juice or about 8 drops/half a gram. It’s hard to tell how much a “spritz” is intended to be, but a single lemon contains about 60mL of juice, so this represents about 0.67% of the total juice inside.

It’s a surprising consequence of using a logarithmic scale for pH.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BKJ90uXkGdE

Is… that a reference to Frankie and Johnny’s???

Um… Hello, fellow person who grew up in or around New Orleans in the 1990s. How are things? Where did you wind up after Katrina? I have no idea how to handle someone just randomly referencing commercials I had completely forgotten about.

Am I going crazy? One toothbrush for every person. I’m a monogamuggle, and I don’t even share a toothbrush regularly with my wife. If you insist on the counter being tidy, put them in a drawer. Also prevents aerosolized fecal matter from getting on the toothbrush head.

My brother is a crank because ChatGPT enables him.

I have a framework. I’m not aware of any others though. But I do remember that physical wifi switches were common on HPs back about 15-20 years ago.

Get a laptop with hardware switches for the camera and microphone, tbh

Anyway, to prove this is a metric we must prove that it satisfies the 4 laws of metrics.

1. The distance from a point to itself is zero. 🍊 (🍎, 🍎) = 0

This can be accomplished by simply observing that |🍎 (x) - 🍎 (x)| = 0 ∀x ∈ [a,b], so its sup = 0.

2. The distance between any two distinct points is non-negative.

If 🍎 ≠ 🍌, then ∃x ∈ [a,b] such that 🍎 (x) ≠ 🍌 (x). Thus for this point |🍎 (x) - 🍌 (x)| > 0 and the sup > 0.

3. 🍊 (🍎, 🍌) = 🍊 (🍌, 🍎) ∀(🍎, 🍌) in our space of functions.

Again, we must simply apply the definition of 🍊 observing that ∀x ∈ [a,b] |🍎 (x) - 🍌 (x)| = |🍌 (x) - 🍎 (x)|, and the sup of two equal sets is equal.

4. Triangle inequality, for any triple of functions (🍎, 🍌, 🍇), 🍊 (🍎, 🍌) + 🍊 (🍌, 🍇) ≥ 🍊 (🍎, 🍇)

For any (🐁, 🐈, 🐕) ∈ ℝ³ it is well known that |🐁 - 🐕| ≤ |🐁 - 🐈| + |🐈 - 🐕|, (triangle inequality of absolute values).

Further, for any two nonnegative functions 🍍, 🍑 we have sup({🍍 (x) : x ∈ [a, b]}) + sup({🍑 (x) : x ∈ [a, b]}) ≥ sup({🍍 (x) + 🍑 (x) : x ∈ [a, b]})

Letting 🍍 (x) = |🍎 (x) - 🍌 (x)|, and 🍑 (x) = |🍌 (x) - 🍇 (x)|, we have the following chain of implications:

🍊 (🍎, 🍌) + 🍊 (🍌, 🍇) = sup(🍍 (x) : x ∈ [a, b]}) + sup({🍑 (x) : x ∈ [a, b]}) ≥ sup({🍍 (x) + 🍑 (x) : x ∈ [a, b]}) ≥ sup({🍎 (x) - 🍇 (x)| : x ∈ [a, b]) = 🍊 (🍎, 🍇)

Taking the far left and far right side of this chain we have our triangles inequality that we seek.

Because 🍊 satisfies all four requirements it is a metric. QED.

QED stands for 👸⚡💎, naturally

What happened to 🍇 and 🍍?