Some times people do things a way that takes longer because it avoids having to think. It avoids the effort of using the brain, in favor of spending more time doing something simple and easy.

This is one of the dangers of AI. The mental equivalent of getting out of shape because you drive everywhere and never walk.

Haven’t read either of these two authors, but by “cut away stories” do you mean stories within the story? If so there is a long tradition of that, going back to the 1001 Arabian Nights, post modern authors life John Barth, etc.

I’ll just offer one particular situation. I have a door to my kitchen that is metal and glass like a sliding door but swings on a hinge. More mass than a typical wooden door and it swings on the hinge very freely, no resistance to slow it down. So it swings with pretty much the velocity you give it, and it requires a decent amount to make it latch.

Commonly I go in or out with stuff in my hands so I can rarely close it slowly and carefully. I end up giving it a little shove, often with my foot. If you get the force just right, it will latch with out being loud, but it has to be just right. Any less and it doesn’t latch. Any more and it slams pretty loudly. It’s really hard to get right, an not slam it more loudly than you intend. And I’m sensitive to noise so it’s not like I don’t care. But with this particular door it’s hard to avoid.

A lot of advice is like medicine. Whether it is good or bad for you depends on what you are or aren’t suffering from

The Family Circus cartoon (and probably other old newspaper cartoons that never die). I saw a video analyzing how they reuse the same cartoons over the years with small changes to keep them from looking too out of date, but increasingly lazily.

Weren’t the original Hardy Boys slop from the start? It’s been a while since I read about it, but I think I remember reading that they were kind of cynically churned out by some paid hack, and occasionally revised to keep them from getting too dated. (Human slop generating practices have gotten worse over the years, tho)

Sorry, my bad. Desktop Firefox and spinoffs has this but not Android.

I think they probably all do. But by default they go right to a default profile without prompting you to choose. There is usually a way to create a new profile if your look in the menus.

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Did something in between the minimalism of this and the “gobbler” someone else described. Whole grain toast, mayo, turkey, stuffing, gravy. (Microwaved the last 3 to warm them up.)

I have no idea about Navidrome, but I completely agree with the gist of this article. Actively choose the music you listen to. When the music you’ve chosen has run out, if you’re not motivated to make another choice, let the music stop and enjoy quiet for a while.

It means perform a process. Starting, middle, and completion. “Carry out” may be a better way to put it because it typically is used for the act of making a law or order happen, not for some natural act like giving birth. This is why many governments have an executive branch that carries out the laws made by the legislative branch.

It became used for the act of killing a prisoner because it was executing the legal order for them to receive the death penalty. It became used for running a program because the processor executed the “instructions” which is what they called lines of code.

Tolerance and humanization are not the same thing. Understanding that terrible behaviors are human does not mean we must tolerate them.

There’s been a ton of these posted here. The common pattern is “next time I’m not voting!”

On the one hand them refusing to share this data is very problematic, on the other hand what the most viewed posts are is determined by their algorithm, and so a distortion of what is “popular”. Sharing and giving users control over those algorithms is the more important issue that should be receiving focus.

I want to predict that they end up to acquiescing to the demand for “most viewed” data so they can pretend to be all responsible. Seems like a distraction.

I am totally ignorant about this kind of software, but it seems like the ultimate solution is to extract your data from it. Has anybody done any work around cracking their data format? Or what about Adobe’s? Could their be a path like having Abode import your data from Capture and then use some Abode export crack to get it into some more open format?

The handful of times I can remember seeing someone complaining about a situation being told they were the problem, it seemed to me that they likely really were the problem.

I was expecting this to be a photo of your cat…

No it’s not. It’s just contradiction!