I carry extra batteries all the time. Anker makes them.

Using AI to rate AI isn't new. Look up generative adversarial networks.

The way I see it, Republicans try to minimize the average unhappiness, while Democrats try to minimize the maximum unhappiness. So Republicans focus on majorities and Democrats focus on minorities as a result. To those who only care about themselves, the Democrat approach looks insane. To those who care about the collective good, the Republican approach looks cruel and insensitive.

Oh yeah, I gave it a header where we already had a function pretty similar to the existing one and told it to fork and modify that. Definitely helped.

It's really great so long as you keep the degrees of freedom low. Need a mechanical cha ge across lots of code, like "replace telnet with ssh," it'll usually do well. You have to already have a pretty good idea what you want, so you're just saving time with the actual typing.

Just three ports! Just three! So why do I never have the specific cable I need at the moment when away from home, and have to keep buying new ones?

Oh, you'd realize it. You might not be crushed, but you'd notice that light from the entire sphere of the universe is now coming from a single point behind you.

Do you mean infection rate? The single most useful place a mask can be is on an infected person, and the infected know the role of the mask in protecting those around them. So, of course masks and infections correlate. That's working as intended.

No carbon reduction plan is going to be enough on its own. No aerosol plan is going to be enough on its own. Climate change is a huge problem and there is no huge solution, so lots of little solutions are our best option.

I'm trying to figure out what Instrument Flight Rules has to do with anything and coming up empty.

You usually know a sneeze is coming. You know it's going to spread your germs unless you stop it.

Thats where it's different. When your exhalations are carrying COVID, you usually don't know. That was the whole problem: contagious before symptoms. Without that, no pandemic.

And that's why everyone needed a mask, even though it really only did anything when worn by the sick. Because you never knew if you were the sick one.

Let me make this simple. Do you cover your mouth when you sneeze? Surely you don't expect that to be an airtight seal? No, you just don't want to spray everyone around you. Covering your mouth blocks some of the sneeze and slows down the rest.

Masks were the same. Just...more.

Not entirely. It's pretty good at "I have a bunch of headers for a library I'm not familiar with, do X." I could figure out X but it would take a couple of hours. If you drop those headers into the context, it can usually give you a pretty good first draft.

Google can still pay Mozilla to be on Firefox. It just can't be an exclusive deal. Whatever that means.

It's not a matter of politics. It's a matter of revenge. Trump has made no secret of his intent to use the presidency for personal retribution. He's vindictive. How can you not understand this? It's plainly obvious.

I agree that the mechanisms of government should not be used this way and it needs to end, full stop. But Trump isn't going to be the one to end it. He's hitting the gas.