A lot of people use ads as another way to connect with a new person; meeting a other local to your area means you can mention a particularly overplayed ad from childhood and likely be able to find another person who saw it growing up too.

Do you think this is true for younger generations than millennials? Obviously ads with high production value like matt damon’s fortune favors the brave gets talked about, but I don’t know anyone who makes cultural references to a generic ad on TV or YouTube with average production value. I think for the average advertisement nowadays, there’s too much saturation of content and not everyone watching ads, that you couldn’t have a normal ad like this mundane Sears Air Conditioner commercial be ingrained in kids memories.

see: FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition

3,000 people over the Brooklyn Bridge before the dedicated bike lane was installed in 2021 is higher than I would have thought. It was basically impossible to bike over the bridge on the shared pedestrian path. This was how it used to be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehh8ZdIMMj4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkDaG9B-R0E

This is exactly how George Bernard Dantzig proved two previously unproven statistical theorems, when he thought they were homework assignments.

This seems flipped, there’s no way a majority of people like ads.

Maybe it should be Low IQ are people who don’t know what an ad blocker is, and High IQ are people who say ad blocking is unethical.

Also the documentary 13th which is directed by the same director, Ava DuVernay.

Maybe the tablet is a physical representation of “AI”, and the plot is Artificial Toy Intelligence vs Artificial Machine Intelligence.

How are they going to have Woody back with the gang after Toy Story 4 when he stayed behind at the carnival while they were on the road trip? Seemed like a fitting ending for the character or to have new adventures with him being kid free.

If I were to use an LLM, it would not be to actually upload the PDF and generate the excel document, you’re guaranteed to have made up data if you ask it to do this. What I would do is ask an LLM to write a python script which uses OCR or some other programmatic way to extract the data from the PDF and put it into a CSV to be imported by Excel.

If the PDF has some sort of data aggregation, like a column for a sum of the data in a row, then do not include that in the CSV output, and have excel do the calculation based on the data the script imported. Then you just have to manually check that the values of that column match the PDF to know if there is any wrong data. Obviously if multiple fields are adjusted by bad OCR but negate each other, the sum column would look accurate while the bad data persists, so some more spot checking or additional aggregation would be needed to ensure confidence with the numbers.

This is the archive link for the Microsoft guide: https://archive.is/D9vEN

Yes, unless you’re in the UK. Before Advanced data protection was available, Apple was still advertising iMessage as E2EE

You know with Trump, the more i read about that guy, the less i like him

Probably yes. General rule of thumb is if you don’t control the keys, it doesn’t matter if it’s E2EE, your communications could be intercepted. Famously iMessage is E2EE but your keys are uploaded to iCloud under standard data protection. They say “Your iCloud data is encrypted, the encryption keys are secured in Apple data centers so we can help you with data recovery, and only certain data is end-to-end encrypted.” ^[1]. The encryption key is included in iCloud backups which is provided to law enforcement with a subpoena. ^[2]

Even if a service claims it is E2EE, it’s still important to understand where that those encryption keys are stored, how they’re managed, and if security researchers have raised concerns about the E2EE claim.

This is the Edge of Forrest Park, it’s a park twice the size of Central Park. This road cuts through the path for kids to get to the soccer field from the playground

Any school shooting is tragic, but incessant back to back coverage outside of the immediate affected area is not very helpful to anyone, and has been shown ^[1] to cause copy cats ^[2]. The impact to the community shouldn’t be glossed over, but especially for this particular incident, there seems to be a lot of focus on the identity of the shooter (and why it has been a topic of discussion), and that’s what especially results in copy cats. If the goal is to minimize mass shootings, not sensationalizing them is the key.

They made it easier to blackhole DNS lookups: *.microsoft is way easier than enumerating azure.com, msdn.com , live.net, etc

Brian May, the guitarist for Queen has a PhD degree in astrophysics. He might not be able to help fix the issue in the spaceship, but I assume would be able to explain why the issue is happening and I hope could also do the guitar solo to brighton rock to distract from the problem.

When I was in IT, had someone who couldn’t get their USB printer to be detected by their laptop. They turned everything on/off and it never would show up. Even I was a little confused, so I unplugged it from the laptop, and then went to go plug it back in, but couldn’t feel the port. I go to take a look, and find there’s no USB ports on that entire side of the laptop. somehow they plugged the USB cable into the Ethernet port.

If you take a look at the map, Freedom Drive is not even that useful. At best it is a minor shortcut if you’re coming from Myrtle Ave and need to go south, but don’t want to take Woodhaven Blvd. i guess?

Björk talking about a disassembled TV is one of the best videos out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bR6KJhJ8iM