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A trick I learned in Ireland is to carefully count out your beans and stop when you hit 239. Because 1 more would be too farty.

I smell what you did there.

Bean counters shit on everything they touch.

[2009]

By default, strings needs a run of 4+ (printable|ascii) characters. This sounds like it was 1 ascii character at a time in a sea of random data (with other alpha chars removed).

Ah, right. It would have to be `strings -n 1`, then.

`M-x kill-emacs` low key slaps, no cap.

Wow, I think this is flying under the radar.

I've noticed the orange juice at my grocery store 1. seems kind of expensive and 2. is (almost?) entirely from brazil and from concentrate. My favorite Florida OJ brand is gone. Turns out they went bankrupt and shut down a few months back.

This doesn't look good for orange blossom honey, either.


I know a citrus farming family in the Orlando area. In the past two years they’ve closed most of their facilities and fired most of their staff (with decent severance). They're pivoting to real estate, selling farmland off to developers or figuring out how to redevelop their industrial sites. It was simply uneconomical to try to continue competing in the citrus market with Florida based farms.

If you had a kid, would you tell him not to bother learning to read since he can just listen to audiobooks? Would you tell her not to learn math because she can just use a calculator? Would you tell them not to learn a musical instrument because they can just listen to spotify?

As a former kid, I remember challenging the idea of learning math, due to the calculator existing. The counter argument was always, “you’re not always going to have a calculator in your pocket”. It turns out that was dead wrong.

However, I’m still glad I learned math and wish I had learned even more.

A calculator is useless without knowing what to type in, as well as having a rough idea of what kind of answer to expect incase it’s typed in wrong. The counter argument against, “but I have a calculator”, isn’t, “you won’t always have a calculator”. The real counter argument is that knowing how to do the math enables the use of the calculator, and the more math a person knows, the more useful that calculator becomes. A mathematician or physicist can do things with a calculator that I don’t even know are possible.

When a person doesn’t know what they don’t know, even AI can become nerfed. To get the most out of the AI, they need to know that what is being asked is possible, how to ask it in an intelligent way, and how to understand and make use of the result. All of this requires a base of foundational knowledge. The larger that base, the further the AI can be pushed while also maintaining understanding and control.


Was going to make a reply, but yours was perfect.

I came here to say that. Especially with the .io TLD instead of .ai

8 years ago:

Long Island Iced Tea Soars 500% After Changing Its Name to Long Blockchain

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15979024

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/crypto-cr...


The Sam Altman Molotov guy has been charged with ... attempted murder.

I realize we're living in a day and age when people are put on trial (and acquitted!) for assault with a deadly sandwich but I don't think a reasonable prosecutor would file attempted murder charges for a flaming bag of dog shit.


See the Epistle of James (James 5:3)

"And their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire."


Now you've got me curious about what the Bible has to say about crustaceans, and if anyone's already created a religion around Rust [the programming language].

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