I used to use Shreddit and other tools and the same thing has happened. Even worse, they give me notifications if someone replies in a sub that didn't opt-in to archive mode (another dumb decision; should've been opt-out), but I can delete them.

>Even worse, they give me notifications if someone replies in a sub that didn't opt-in to archive mode (another dumb decision; should've been opt-out),

God, that is just the WORST concept especially nowadays. I was looking for info on water filtes and found a bunch of ChatGPT comments from 3 months ago on an 8 year old thread shilling for some company. Of course, they were all upvoted to the top of the thread.

I even had a notification of someone just commenting "lol" on an offhand comment I made about Firefly in 2011. As if that needed to be said.

They're quite regular - look at the Wikipedia page for Irish orthography to get a good set of rules.

Right, I once took time to learn most of the IPA but some of those I couldn't pronounce if my life depended on it, Caoilfhionn for instance.

Perhaps, I should now take the time to reverse engineer it.

I worry it's going soon after the IPO.

I'm leaning more and more towards this myself, except for the fact I hate the look of most of them, and love my traditional watches. Maybe I could just keep it in my pocket. But it's ideal for what I want - GPS, WhatsApp, telegram, Spotify.

Yeah. Something like https://a.co/d/a7wV4U7 instead of wearing it on your wrist.

I’m waiting for the day I can have an Apple Watch without ever needing an iPhone to manage it, and an iPad to do real dev work (ie, Xcode for iPad) without ever having to fall back on a Mac/Book. I’ve been waiting for years already so now I’m not sure those days will ever actually arrive.

Depends on your particular flavor of 'real' dev. https://vscode.dev/ and an SSH app and a web browser.

My bar is being able to execute a compiled binary produced with clang/gcc.

Locally? Despite how powerful an iPad is I have no expectation you’re going to be able to do it anytime soon.

Termux + Android gets you here.

This sounds so tempting. I really wish I could have a phone that does a few simple things: Maps, Spotify, WhatsApp, Telegram, GPS tracker for running. That's really all I want on my phone. Does the Nokia allow for all of those? If so, sounds like it might be time to ditch the iPhone. Doubly so if there's a dual sim model, though I can get by with just one and using my iPhone when visiting America.

Edit: Just checked, can't add WhatsApp, etc to it. sigh another potential option gone

That's not how I interpreted it at all. I interpreted him as basically saying meaningless pub banter is now killed entirely. Because someone is going to pull out their phone and check, and that ruins the train of thought and the conversation. It pulls everyone out of it. Not that he can't confidently bullshit.

The thing is, if you are not bullshitting too much, people will stop fact checking you. Because most of their searches will check out and that is boring. However, if people fact check you constantly and find you are saying bs, they are doing it on purpose - because they do not like that you bs so often.

Exactly. The instant someone turns to their phone to check something, it ruins the conversation completely. The whole point is the conversation, the banter, the talking; not on the factual accuracy of some trivial thing.

From what I understand, it's not passed yet. They've just reached a deal on the amendments that need to be added so it will be passed.

We do not know what amendments have been passed, as Germany and other countries were lobbying for more relaxed regulation after every AI company in the EU called them and told them the regulation was going to make them uncompetitive.

This is honestly what scares me the most. Our biases are built in to AI, but we pretend they're not. People will say "Well, it was the algorithm/AI, so we can't change it". Which is just awful and should scare the shit out of everyone. There was a book [0] written almost fifty years ago that predicted this. I still haven't read it, but really need to. The author claims it made him a pariah among other AI researchers at the time.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reaso...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue while not about AI directly and supposedly satirical really captures how the system works.

We're getting there already. I taught for years in a poorer, rural district in a southern State. It was quite bad about many couldn't perform outside a very basic level in those skills.