SYAC: In the article, Altman doesn’t explain anything regarding what led to the board doing what they did, and asserts that he will wait for the new board to conduct an investigation.
This is difficult to explain. I can’t figure out a rule of thumb for spending, the prices of things fluctuate so quickly it’s confusing. Here are some examples...
Put the cost of things into terms of hours you would need to work to cover its cost. On an individual basis, you know very well how to gauge an hour of your working time, and inflationary effects will become apparent when there is something you used to buy routinely and suddenly find you have to work two or three hours to cover its cost.
4; microecon. Often when asked to solve cost minimization problems with supplied info, it states the problem can’t be solved, and that there might be a problem with the questions.
If they do see it, they won’t see it that way. It will be reinterpreted by state media as something along the lines of “the evil enemy attacking our boys unprovoked” or something to rile up the base.
I used to run a small business, and we did a great number of things (relative to our business size and industry) in order to facilitate sales. Every touch point was designed to minimize the friction between the guest and them spending money. Both subtle things and obvious things.
The marketing started as soon as one visited the website (tracking pixels and FB for re-marketing ads) or called for info (we would try to capture at least name and email for additional marketing—always with explicit permission: “May we have your email address so we can send you additional periodic information?”). We had phone call flows and maximum hold times (3 mins).
We retained detailed guest notes and information which we would use to tailor their following visits (manually; any kind of automation was beyond our technical ability at the time).
I’d have to spend some time thinking of all the other ways we did things. Most of which we implemented in a Disney Magic sort of way, in the sense that things are just sort of magically happening without the guest being concerned about it.
The salient argument was that the source location from the animal is not the wing (it’s the tender) and it already does not contain a bone, he continues: “we don’t ask for boneless tacos, or boneless cars.”
According to Space.com in July 2023, there were 4,487 active Starlink satellites. 26 represents just over 0.5% of the total constellation. Considering it seems like a swarm-type system, 0.5% strikes me as simply the cost of doing business.
“It lets R2D2 talk to C3P0," Keven Gambold, Droidish’s mastermind and the CEO of government contractor Unmanned Experts, explained to Forbes, recalling the iconic robot duo from Star Wars....
I prompted ChatGPT to write and adjust a linear Python script for a repetitive task I needed to automate. It took 30 minutes versus the 6-12 hours I would have consumed if I had coded it myself.
With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can’t understand why does anyone still write notes with pen and paper. You need to bring the notepad, book or that paper to retrieve that information, and most of the time you don’t have it in hand. While my phone almost always reachable and you carry when you go out. For those still...
I do both, and it’s heavily dependent on what the purpose of the note is for.
I keep a yellow legal pad and mechanical pen. Stuff that goes on the pad are usually the ultimate in throwaway notes. Scribbles that are wholly transitory.
Then I have a digital note management system (Obsidian.md) and use it to maintain a personal journal and Zettelkasten.
Some yellow pad notes might flow into Obsidian, but not always.
Reddit quietly changed the /r/redditrequest process a while ago. It used to be if you had no activity on your account for a year, then they would consider handing it over. In this case, if the admins don't take it outright, then any user can make an /r/redditrequest for the sub. Admins will send a modmail to the sub, but not a message to your account. If you don't reply within seven days they will hand over your account and you'll only find out if you have your email set to send notifications when you get the "you've been removed as moderator". I lost modship of a sub I had setup years ago because I didn't receive any other notification.
I’ve installed arch Linux and liked it, but lfs and Gentoo would be too time consuming compiling everything and not doing anything during and after install. Are there any distros like arch that don’t have me compiling everything?
Ok, I have no idea why this bothers me and I don’t even know what to call it. My husband is a “come here” guy. Something he thinks is interesting and wants to show me - hey, come here! Nuclear apocalypse - hey, come here! Why the hell wont he just tell me why he wants me to get up, trudge to wherever he is, so that he can...
When this happens to me, I pick out the most obvious thing in the general direction my partner has pointed and say something about it, like “wow, that is a lot of trees!”
Makes my partner immediately explain what they saw, and I remind them that they’ve got to be specific. It’s gotten better.
I can fall asleep almost anywhere. I routinely fall asleep in the break room at work. Once, I was helping a friend fix his car, and I fell asleep on his garage floor when he went inside to get water....
You may (or may not) be surprised to learn that modern jet liners have much higher glide ratios than small planes (like a Cessna 172), though even the glide ratio of a Cessna is pretty damn good at about 9:1, getting 9,000 feet horizontally for every 1,000 feet of altitude.
All pilots are trained in engine-out procedures as part of their license training and, while unequivocally an emergency condition, is fairly benign until it’s time to land—preferably on a suitable landing surface.
Face your fear and go on a discovery flight with a flight instructor at your local municipal airport.
I gather some server is for some arcane reason censoring naughty words to protect our delicate sensibilities. Is it on my end, on lemmy.ml? Is it the server people are posting from? Is it something happening in the federation? Is it the Romulans?
We all know Twitter is being rebranded as X, so we presumably should no longer be calling Tweets “Tweets”, so what are they called now? The best answer gets 10 karma and a verified checkmark*
Liquid glass is poured over a bath of liquid tin where it floats on top, gradually cooling until it can be lifted off, annealed to prevent cracking, cut and packaged....
On Wednesday, researchers announced the discovery of a new astronomical enigma. The new object, GPM J1839–10, behaves a bit like a pulsar, sending out regular bursts of radio energy. But the physics that drives pulsars means that they’d stop emitting if they slowed down too much, and almost every pulsar we know of blinks at...
Conceptually I mean some structure large enough to do something with respect to a star. Yes, it is different literally, but not in the sense I was trying to refer.
Budgeting is a very crucial part of your finances that will either break you or make you survive into another month. I have a very unpopular belief that says, if we take away the inflation issue, take away the wage issue and wage theft problem in America. I do believe that a lot of people are just simply bad with money....
To this end, for some it might be helpful to start with tracking spending (speaking from personal experience). I couldn’t determine what was a reasonable amount for a given category for a budget because I didn’t see my current circumstance.
I spent several years categorizing my expenses into two broad categories: fixed vs variable.
Fixed costs are utilities, mortgages, grocery, and insurance etc, variable costs were anything else (more or less).
By doing it this way I could see the minimum I needed to live—and also how much I was spending on frivolous shit.
Use Google Docs, and make a simple spreadsheet to track numbers. It doesn’t have to be a beautiful sheet, just functional. It will grow with you over time as you add and remove functionally to track different aspects of your finances that are important to you. If you don’t know how to use spreadsheets, online MOOCs have courses for a tiny amount of dollars relative to what you learn.
I have run my own PiHole previously. Then I wanted Ad blocking on my phone, so I also setup OpenVPN that ran alongside my PiHole so I could get ad blocking anywhere. I travel often, and then we moved, so I never got it set up again, at the same time I discovered AdGuard could be configured on both home networks for network-level blocking, but they also have device profiles for iOS.
I haven’t had to fuss with PiHole now in years.
If you are happy to do the administration of a PiHole, and the scope it provides, it’s good. I didn’t want to have to fuss with it anymore.
An increase in surface activity is expected because our Sun is approaching solar maximum in 2025. However, last month our Sun sprouted more sunspots than in any month during the entire previous 11-year solar cycle – and even dating back to 2002. The featured picture is a composite of images taken every day from January to June...
Yes! I didn’t know it was possible. I was on a sunrise walk a few days ago and the sun was coming through a thick haze and I could make out an object in the way of the sun. I thought it might be an airplane or a satellite, but it never moved. Then I thought it might be the planet Mercury, but when I looked it up, it was in the wrong place. Then I found a NASA sunspot tracker, and there it was.
I mean, there might be a secret AI technology that is so advanced to the point that it can mimic a real human, make posts and comments that looks like its written by a human and even intentionally doing speling mistakes to simulate human errors. How do we know that such AI hasn’t already infiltrated the internet and everything...
I want to try the digital #Zettelkasten method to organize my #thoughts. It's not so much to enhance #productivity but to gain a deeper understanding and organic growth over time. I have heard people using #Obsidian#NoteTakingApp for it. Are there any tips or other apps to check out?
I’ve been using OneNote academically for a couple of years until recently. I am currently in the process of transcribing (some of) them into a Zettelkasten because I discovered once the class is over, the OneNote files are archived, and then the ideas and insights begin to die and rot.
Consider it a personal Wikipedia, where all the info bits are related much more reliably (and simply) than OneNote.
Softwarewise I’m using Obsidian, it’s quite a nice Markdown editor which “future proofs” your Zettelkasten which @ctietze frequently recommends (they maintain a great primary resource for learning to use Zettelkasten: zettelkasten.de). The files are generated in a simple text file, and are human readable, which means you can always simply copy paste them for use in a different editor which supports Markdown.
Half a year ago I stumbled upon two notetaking tools of which one improved my life’s quality, so I thought I share my experience with the community. I’m not sponsored by either of these projects....
It so happens that I’m now elbows deep in Obsidian and Zettelkasten. I’ve long mulled setting up a personal wiki site so I can take my notes, but didn’t like how accessible to the world they would be. I had no idea a markdown editor like Obsidian existed.
The big hurdle I’m personally facing is the mental shift of going from linear notes (Cornell NTS in OneNote) to Zettels.
I’m so acquainted to having my notes lay before me on a single page that I’m not quite sure yet how to use the Zettelkasten for my academic studies. I’m test driving it right now with a couple of books I’m reading.
Definitely in love with wiki-style linking and tags. So much easier to find info I’ve designated as related.
Sam Altman explains being fired and rehired by OpenAI - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Why does the value of things in dollars not make sense?
This is difficult to explain. I can’t figure out a rule of thumb for spending, the prices of things fluctuate so quickly it’s confusing. Here are some examples...
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iOS 17.2 Beta 1: Journal App, Translate Action, iMessage Sticker Reactions and More (www.macrumors.com)
Are there any features in iOS 17.2 that you’re looking forward to?
18+ [NSFL] Russian invader reaches the end of his tour in Ukraine with help from above. (files.catbox.moe)
Mirror:...
how prevalent are psychological warfare tactics in everyday life?
Whether consciously or subconsciously instigated. By ordinary citizens, authority figures, shop workers, bus drivers, or really anyone for that matter
lincoln man goes viral with city council speech (youtu.be)
September 21st, Starlink loses another 26 Satellites in one day. NOAA data from Goes Satellite missing (tiblur.com)
What is going on guys?
What abstract names do you have for God?
Jocular ones are welcome too (and no doubt inevitable), but I’m looking more for “sensible” ones. Some examples:...
Do You Speak Droidish? The Pentagon Is Spending Millions On A Language For Drones (www.forbes.com)
“It lets R2D2 talk to C3P0," Keven Gambold, Droidish’s mastermind and the CEO of government contractor Unmanned Experts, explained to Forbes, recalling the iconic robot duo from Star Wars....
Buyer must bring (1) Fiddle. (beehaw.org)
terriblerealestateagentphotos.com/…/149094345786
'We Have to Act Fast': 2 Degrees of Warming Could Cause 1 Billion Deaths Over Next Century (www.ecowatch.com)
We Analyzed Millions of ChatGPT User Sessions: Visits are Down 29% since May, Programming Assistance is 30% of Use - SparkToro (sparktoro.com)
Do you still write notes with pen and paper?
With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can’t understand why does anyone still write notes with pen and paper. You need to bring the notepad, book or that paper to retrieve that information, and most of the time you don’t have it in hand. While my phone almost always reachable and you carry when you go out. For those still...
AI is being used to give dead, missing kids a voice they didn’t ask for (www.washingtonpost.com)
What stance are you entrenched in today that might be a social issue in the future?
In the past, we’ve had issues with women suffrage, slavery, and sanitation, among many other things....
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what are some advanced linux distros that don't have me compiling everything?
I’ve installed arch Linux and liked it, but lfs and Gentoo would be too time consuming compiling everything and not doing anything during and after install. Are there any distros like arch that don’t have me compiling everything?
Why does “come here” bother me so much?
Ok, I have no idea why this bothers me and I don’t even know what to call it. My husband is a “come here” guy. Something he thinks is interesting and wants to show me - hey, come here! Nuclear apocalypse - hey, come here! Why the hell wont he just tell me why he wants me to get up, trudge to wherever he is, so that he can...
World's First Tooth Regrowth Medicine Enters Clinical Trials (finance.yahoo.com)
How do people sleep on planes?
I can fall asleep almost anywhere. I routinely fall asleep in the break room at work. Once, I was helping a friend fix his car, and I fell asleep on his garage floor when he went inside to get water....
How come I'm seeing "removed" all over the place?
I gather some server is for some arcane reason censoring naughty words to protect our delicate sensibilities. Is it on my end, on lemmy.ml? Is it the server people are posting from? Is it something happening in the federation? Is it the Romulans?
What is the X equivalent of "Tweet"?
We all know Twitter is being rebranded as X, so we presumably should no longer be calling Tweets “Tweets”, so what are they called now? The best answer gets 10 karma and a verified checkmark*
Niger coup: General Tchiani declares himself leader (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/805753...
TIL: Most glass used today is float glass (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Liquid glass is poured over a bath of liquid tin where it floats on top, gradually cooling until it can be lifted off, annealed to prevent cracking, cut and packaged....
Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
On Wednesday, researchers announced the discovery of a new astronomical enigma. The new object, GPM J1839–10, behaves a bit like a pulsar, sending out regular bursts of radio energy. But the physics that drives pulsars means that they’d stop emitting if they slowed down too much, and almost every pulsar we know of blinks at...
What would happen if we put a giant glass tinted dome over each city?
In this scenario, we aren’t trapped in the dome. There are openings and doors, so we can get out, cycle in fresh air, etc....
YSK: How to Budget
Budgeting is a very crucial part of your finances that will either break you or make you survive into another month. I have a very unpopular belief that says, if we take away the inflation issue, take away the wage issue and wage theft problem in America. I do believe that a lot of people are just simply bad with money....
Pihole vs AdGuard Home
Hey, not sure if this is the right community, but looking for some information....
Sun Spots on Our Active Sun - July 2023 (apod.nasa.gov)
An increase in surface activity is expected because our Sun is approaching solar maximum in 2025. However, last month our Sun sprouted more sunspots than in any month during the entire previous 11-year solar cycle – and even dating back to 2002. The featured picture is a composite of images taken every day from January to June...
YSK: there's a type of common hallucination (often scary) that happens shortly after waking up. You can move and talk while seeing it and it can last between a few seconds up to a minute
It’s called hypnopompic hallucination....
What's your real-life superpower?
What special ability do you posess that most people don’t have?
How do we know that everyone on the internet isn't just a bot?
I mean, there might be a secret AI technology that is so advanced to the point that it can mimic a real human, make posts and comments that looks like its written by a human and even intentionally doing speling mistakes to simulate human errors. How do we know that such AI hasn’t already infiltrated the internet and everything...
Is there a way to deal with crap like this yet? (media.kbin.social)
Suggest me a distro
I have already tried out Linux Mint. But I want to try out other distros....
What are your Background Music when Reading a Book?
What are your Background Music when Reading a Book?...
Aaron Swartz recieved a penalty of Five decades in prison while Jeffrey Epstein recieved 18 months (kbin.social)
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Organize your life with a daily journal and a knowledge base (lemmy.world)
Half a year ago I stumbled upon two notetaking tools of which one improved my life’s quality, so I thought I share my experience with the community. I’m not sponsored by either of these projects....