I'm fairly certain it's highly related to our health and diet. Anecdotally, I've noticed a huge difference both with myself and others.

I've made a number of observations on this, personally, and over the years have figured out some things that help them avoid me (or prefer others):

* High vitamin D. You're either getting this from sunlight secondarily or foods (eggs, fish, etc.)
* Garlic. Lots of garlic. This one's the biggest, and for me one of the easiest to address since it tastes good with food.
* No perfumes or scented deodorants. They love that shit. Avoid it like the plague.
* Generally low-carb diet (no crap starches).
* Sulfur. This one surprised me, but it's something we naturally need and don't usually get enough of in our diets. I found it out on a lark during a particularly buggy camping trip when a woman I was with (who wasn't being bothered as much, contrary to my experience that women are bothered more often) swore by it.

My wife also noticed a marked decrease in skeeter interest in her when she stopped being vegan.

Also anecdotally and related, because i know this comes up a lot in outdoor talks lately: ticks. They hate oregano and garlic oil. And neem oil, topically, mixed with lotion. I've had them climb up my sock and then fall off (seemingly intentionally) repeatedly when trying to get onto my skin after a diet heavy in garlic and oregano. It's at least as effective as DEET and sticks around longer.

Sweat also seems to attract them, perhaps due to it causing the odors to be more airborne.

Musk apparently created Grok as an "anti-woke" alternative to OpenAI. And that might indirectly include supporting porn. But you're not going to convince me that he did this to make Altman and himself co-stars in one of its salacious outputs.

[*blinking*] Okay...

So you're saying OpenAI would not create an AI video of Altman and Musk in a dalliance, so Musk left and created Grok so he could do it himself?

Yeah, alright.

Grades are usually ranked certification systems. Grading gemstones, surface plates, instruments, whatever, aren't just a ranking system. They're a certification of belonging to a particular quality class. The ones from accredited educational institutions awarding certifications are certainly not meant to be just a blocky ordering of students in a class.

Steppers skip steps without damage.

Anyway, this software does not replace the firmware.

You may not "give a shit" over who wins in the billionaire-vs.-billionaire fight. I don't.

But you should care about what they're fighting over, because AI is a major transformative technology for humanity. Possibly even a threat to humanity, if mishandled.

Stay connected with the issue. Don't just swipe left.

It's French. The French guy who created it calls it key-cad because, in French, it is indeed written that way:

https://youtu.be/V9y8H2JMRow?s...

If you're American it's not terribly surprising you've never heard it pronounced that way. You may have never heard croissant, champagne, or St. Louis pronounced or seen connaisseur spelled correctly either. The single syllable "ki" is even more subject to anglicisation, especially if even a few popularisers pronounce it that way.

KiCad seems to support both pronunciations. The creator has said he doesn't care which you use.

Everybody uses the public's tax money. You do, your employer does. That by itself isn't much of an argument.

Is there something specific you think CERN should open source that they haven't?

It may be unpleasant, but we can't just ignore what these guys are doing. Or the others who are building AI systems.

If it's allowed to flourish without supervision, AI could be an existential threat to humanity. We need to stay involved with how it will integrate into our lives. And it will, like it or not.

Fascism, command economics or capitalism... choices, choices. Apparently #3 is the anti-American one. Huh.

1997 called. They want their Clippy back.

Maybe should have called it "Alphabook."

I saw the headline and thought "why not Metabook?" and then realized: wrong company.

Tech people love to classify things, including companies, as hardware or software. The really successful companies recongize that neither works without the other, there are a lot of opportunities that come with making both, and customers value not having to chase down various suppliers when they have a problem.

Do you really mean that if your git repo were corrupted, restoring a snapshot of the repo from backups wouldn't work? If that's true, then it sounds like your backup system is broken. The hashes after restoring ought to be identical to what they were before the backup.

If git used the files' iNode numbers for its hashes, then I could understand how a filesystem-based backup/restore might not really work; you'd have to backup at the block level instead. But git doesn't use the iNode numbers.

git isn't magical. It only knows files. It doesn't know if you moved the repo, copied the the repo, or restored the repo from a ten year old backup. I have moved git repos around plenty of times, `cp -a`ed directories with repos, tared and un-tared directories that contain repos, and the copies have always Just Worked without any hash mismatches.

mkdir ~/test. cd ~/test. git init, touch test.txt, git add test.txt and git commit. cp -a ~/test ~/test2. cd ~/test2 and check out the backup repo. The backup is valid. Then simulate a disaster with rm -rf ~/test. Then recover from the disaster with cp -a ~/test2 ~/test and you've just restored a repo from filesystem-level backup. The resulting repo works perfectly and its hashes aren't off. git has no idea you deleted and restored under its nose. Try it yourself.

What am I missing? I'm not surprised to be called idiotic, and the shoe often fits. But I'm surprised to be called that over this.