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I hate to tell you, but Siri and other voice assistance are not good at controlling music playback. I have been waiting for that specific feature to get “good” for over a decade now.

The closest one came to handling controlling music playback well in anyway was Cortana but even Cortana didn’t do the things that I needed to do with my voice while controlling music play.

The biggest Used case for me was always hey Cortana hey Siri add a specific song to now playing and play it next. No matter what on any operating system. The voice assistant delete the entire queue and then probably plays the wrong song. Not only will they play the wrong song, but they will play the entire album from the wrong song if it is available so now I’ve gone from a playlist that I was building and listening to on loop for potentially days to some album that I don’t wanna listen to because it could not just add a song next.


Oh cool, physical spyware so children can tell you directly what toy companies to invest in and what ad spots to buy.

How many marketing companies and toy manufacturers are you sending all these children’s data to?


The term for the sort in the article is called lexical, but the problem is the people are stupid.

The average user does not know the difference between lexical and alphabetic sort


this is an ID-10T PEBKAC ERR.

Not this keyboard not this chair, but the problem is with idiots between keyboards and chairs.

The author is not the ID10T it’s the other general users.

The author is intelligent enough to recognize that this is not alphabetical sort, but the term that they are looking for to describe the sort that they see in dolphin windows, google etc. is *lexical* sort, not alphabetical.

The engineering problem is ID10Tic not technical. How do you educate an illiterate public on what the difference between alphabetical and lexical sort is in practice?

You can’t, so you engineer around it and call lexical sort alphabetical.


Yeah, half of what you’ve put here isn’t in the article. As a deep fan of Rick and Morty these are the very base level gags.

This is why we call this shit slop. Sure you’ve written an article but it’s missing half of the information that you claim is in the article, and it’s information that you’re not even familiar with anyway.

Anyone who actually knows what’s up looks at this and can tell.

I hope this article ends up being a black stain on your career.


You don’t know that because the regulations have never existed. Please try to refrain from unscientific thinking such that there are things you think you can know without experimental verification. This is the thinking of a technological dark age.


>You don’t know that because the regulations have never existed. Please try to refrain from unscientific thinking

You're accusing me of "unscientific thinking", but you're basically making an argument from ignorance? You haven't provided any rebuttals to my argument, and you're basically arguing "we haven't tried so if you try to argue against it you're WRONG".


I've been messing with this and you can get a very detailed view of another highly self-similar structure by changing the packsize to 1, the cellsize to 2, and then adding packSize++; to the end of the drawRow function.


Can we all stop making the football field/alligator/sedan/truck measure of length joke?

If you want to clown on Americans, quit using the imperial units at all! Be better than us, don’t stoop to our level and spit in our hair.

Coming from an American who switched to metric a decade ago to lead by example in my friend group.

You may see it has a clever, pithy joke but it is feeding American anti-intellectualism due to the pygmalion effect. Treat someone like they’re going to be stupid, and they’re going to be stupid.


> Coming from an American who switched to metric a decade ago to lead by example in my friend group.

I agree with your overall comment. I’m interested what value you’ve found in actually switching to metric day to day?


I can drink from a marked 1L water bottle in the morning before I've weighed myself for the day and subtract the volume of water I drank so I don't have to weigh immediately when it's cold and I'd rather not be nude, which means I can take my ADHD meds without getting out of bed, letting me take them earlier which sets me up for success.

Calorie counts become more precise as well, when you measure in grams.

50kg and 100kg are intuitive bounds for healthy weight.

I don't know how to put into words how much more sense celsius makes than fahrenheit other than to say you intutively know that 0 is freezing and 30 is fuck me.

A kilometer is 1000 steps with an average adult stride length of ~1 meter. How many steps is a mile with an average stride length of 2.5ft-3ft?

There's some other stuff around cooking and sous vide.

it makes dealing with weights of liquids very intuitive.


I got taught about lying to children at the same time that I learned about the orbitals of the electron and that Neil Bohr model of the atom wasn’t totally correct, by the least woke chemistry teacher I’ve probably ever known.

Even he would read this and think That you were suffering from a semi lucid state of psychosis and he would begin seeking an annihilation after reading this.

While yes, lying to children does induce some cognitive overhead cost—and I personally believe that the act of learning and the act of changing one’s mind from something already learned is in a way painful (in so much as the brain can feel pain since it doesn’t really have any nerve endings) because of the forming of new connections and the breaking of old—I fail to see how that has anything to do with wokeism, other than being “woke” inherently requiring the critical thinking capacity to make those changes in things that you’ve learned.

My pet theory is that conservatives are conservatives because that pain is unbearable for them and they just hate learning or relearning or changing their mind at all.

Which leads me to ask after this ramble of yours: do you suffer from this pain?


I'd like to note that nerve endings just send signal to the brain, where the experience of pain results from the processing of that signal. A nerve is neither necessary nor sufficient, e.g. phantom limb pain or heartbreak.


The willfully blind by themselves are helpless, hopeless people who are incapable of perceiving things which they have at one point chosen not to see.

The lack of reasoning faculties is self-inflicted, as are the consequences that eventually pile up (without them noticing).

This makes them particularly weak people who bring misfortune on others, who are especially prone to delusion, as well as other forms of mental illness (psychopath/schizophrenia-like tendencies).

When they gaslight strangers, because they disagree with what that person is saying, they demonstrate their lack of inherent moral character. Good people don't do this.

There is an old saying, that's understood by many as extremely accurate wisdom: "What a person does in the small things that do not matter is what that person will do every time, in big things that do matter, when everything is on the line."

You communicated far more than you meant to say for the people who can read between the lines.

One can hardly call the circular subjective abuse of the contrast principle, requiring any form of critical thinking capacity (its fallacy). Critical theory while resembling critical thinking are two very different (mutually exclusive) things.


Oh I was bawling during the Pa Kent scene in the theater yesterday, it was so good. I also cried at the way Superman was distraught over the treatment of the monster, and then also the scene with the kid and the flag.


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