What about that 3.5 sq mil fungi

yes indeed, fungi are under-represented here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria_ostoyae

We don't how

I guarantee that once we do know people will start appending the word “just” to the explanation. Complex behaviors emerge from simple components. Knowing that doesn’t make the emergence any more incredible.

One thing I've noticed is that Claude is so good at doing things that I've asked for, that later on I realise that I shouldn't have even been doing them because they're stupid or unnecessary but Claude was just cheerleading me on and emoji spamming tick marks so that I didn't realise there was very little purpose to the feature.

Yeah once you start working at the feature level, you’re into product design, and that’s an entirely different realm of working that, IMO, shouldn’t even involve code. Even higher-level software design —e.g. broad stroke architecture like figuring out your data model and how it will be accessed— is better off being done before any significant amount of code gets written. Claude, et al will happily walk you straight off a cliff if you ask it to, and not having that stuff sketched out ahead of time is a most efficient way of accidentally doing that.

Then just put the button on the watch? In fact, why isn't this just a button on the watch?

Because you need to use your other hand to press that button, instead of the adjacent finger.

> Because you need to use your other hand to press that button, instead of the adjacent finger.

Funnily enough, I've used my nose to tap my watch when my hands are full

Yes, I've gotten some strange looks

I do this all the time in the winter as well when I'm wearing gloves that aren't really "touch screen" friendly

I thought I was the only one on Earth to do that (but surely I'm the only boomer doing it).

If you had read the post you would know the answer.

"This was tough to use while bicycling or carrying stuff."

That seems an incredibly limited set of use cases for the complication of adding another device to one's life.

But you don't have to charge this one! (because you can't) :D

The Western Front has a different context in Europe, the trenches of WW1. I'm not sure what it means in the American context but maybe it's referring to the westward expansion and colonisation?

As someone born and raised in the western US, I think of "western front" as WWI, not the westward expansion of the US. There are different terms for that.

The famous book refers to WWI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front

it means the WW1 front in the US as well. I've never heard it used to refer to the western frontier/American frontier/wild west

And in any event, to be extra nitpicky, the mountain climber guy depicted is representative of neither the western frontier, nor the western front.

Snowflake article from 2018, I wonder if it's still true

The article is pretty vague, but nothing in it expired until at least 2023 :V

Yes. They hire engineers specifically to work on it.

But the water on the left is being pulled by everything to the right of it, moon, earth, other water. Why is it left behind? Every single thing is being attracted by the same centre of gravity on the right of the earth

A hallucination is something that is experienced internally. Confabulation is better because it's the act of telling a porkie externally.

I think Google is the much bigger threat. I've more or elss stopped using ChatGPT now, it's easier to just type the question directly into Google and get the response from their AI rather than navigating to chatgpt first. Anecdotal but I don't see anything long term keeping people on that site.

It's not even that, it's just the heaviest rainfall recorded in 300 years