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five random letters. short enough to be easily memorizable & easily communicated by voice. no homophones, even in other languages. no one going to try to buy the domain out from under you. You could try four random letters, but that runs more risk of colliding with acronyms.

As my Silent Generation relatives have been dying off, each of them has had boxes of family history - photos, sometimes dating back to early 1900s, diaries/journals, kids' school art, yearbooks... None of it organized, few of the photos with any indication of who's in them, where or when they were taken, even who did the art. Shoebox after shoebox of Christmas pictures. Sometimes, one of the survivors will recognize photos, but no one has ever made the effort to record the oral histories, so they will soon be just photos of strangers in mystery locations.

Organize that stuff. Curate it. Make it possible for kids to care.

I've always used heat-only, cool-only, and off modes on the thermostat, but I set them manually. Actually, I think it's only a relatively recent firmware update that the thermostat even got dual-mode. In my climate, there's probably not much risk of triggering both heating and cooling on the same day, anyway.

My comfort range is 68-78°F/20-26°C, though, and in I'm generally in heat mode Oct-Mar & cool mode Jun-Sep. The transition months I generally manage by manually opening windows at the appropriate time. It'd be nice to get some window servos, because sometimes it's not cool enough to open the windows until well after I'm asleep. Or I just forget. Window program would definitely need an outdoor humidity condition - don't want to open summer windows, even if the temp is down to 72, when the dewpoint is also 72.

For example, in the question about homosexuality, one can think that being homosexual is a choice, which is morally wrong; a choice which is not wrong; or an innate thing and not a moral issue. Few people would would consider being black or left-handed a moral issue, but society is clearly undecided where homosexuality fits.

It's kind of shocking to me how many people do not consider beating their children to be a moral question, and suggests to me that a lot of respondents don't actually understand what morality is.

I mean, I think we all recognize that these are gambling sites trying to skirt gambling regulations, so all of their arguments are going to seem ridiculous. "We're a prediction market, and individuals with specialized knowledge improve our accuracy." "We allow people to hedge against adverse events, like Elon Musk tweeting over 300 times this week." "These are financial contracts, not wagers."

The interviews I've seen with "prediction market" CEOs, they're openly begging for people to trade on confidential, privileged, or classified information, because that's the source of their markets' supposed predictive power.

From the point of view being near the distant supernova, we are moving away from them at relativistic speed, so as much slower as they appear to us, we should appear that much slower to them.

Most of us lived through 2020: saw cities shut down; hospitals using refrigerated trucks as morgues; literally millions of dead. Most of us then saw the vaccine roll out and all of that just went away.

US's writers have gotten really lazy since season 240 or so. It's like they turned the whole show over to a Poe's Law bot. I keep hoping for something good...there's interesting fan fic, but they never seem to follow up.

Don't even get me started on the 1990s. Every new processor generation actually felt faster. Web pages had blinking banners because the creator thought it looked cool, not to advertise a personal information vacuum. There was no better introduction to the public's absolutely awful sense of style. But I went from talking to international friends for $0.50/minute to free, and it was amazing.

This is the best option. Don't look at "free" solar power as an excuse to be wasteful - put it back in the grid and reduce your neighbors' CO2 production.

To me, that's the 'fancy search engine' mode of AI where it works well and basically focuses the human effort. A needle-in-haystack problem. It might still be missing things, but they're things you've already missed yourself, so no loss.

It's different from asking Claude, for example, to create a new guest VLAN with limited internet access and access to only a specific service on the private network. For that, you have to 1) trust Claude because you lack the expertise to review, 2) spend time learning the config system well enough to review, or 3) already know the system well enough to check it. 1) just sounds bad. 2) sounds like Claude isn't saving much time, but maybe helps focus the human where to study, and 3) seems like the human might have been able to just do the job in similar or less time than writing the prompt + reviewing the result.