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One could argue that the ultra processed food industry is doing exactly what the tobacco industry did wrt to making their food addictive.

There is a difference in creating a food that tastes good vs creating a food that tastes good, but instantly wants you to eat the whole bag.


24 EU countries have mandatory dog micro-chipping.

In Belgium there is a centralized database in which the data is maintained.

When I moved to the USA I thought it was very weird that it wasn't done automatically, and that there are many databases out there.

In fact, one went bust a while ago: https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/microchip-company-cl...

Now what? Gotta pay to have 18 digits and an address inserted in a database?

I thought it was very weird in the USA


Like many things in the US, there's no centralized authority that mandates this sort of thing. Some states have laws around this some don't. For those that don't, some counties or cities might have laws around this. Belgium of course has a stronger central government, small land area, and a small population, so I'm not surprised that something like that would be done country-wide.

The shelter in my city chips every animal before anyone can adopt them. It's honestly bonkers to me why anyone who has a pet wouldn't chip them. It's cheap (especially when considering the cost of a regular vet visit), and can save you from lots of heartbreak later on.


Coloradan with all chipped pets for decades. Not sure where you're coming from. Our friend was reunited with a cat with a chip that was lost for a 6 months. Shitting on the US is great for karma these days

Did your state chip your pet or was it a private company? I think they are saying that there are no centralized authorities and you depend on private companies

https://www.petlink.net/microchip-search/

It seems the various chip companies share registry data, doesn't have to be state run.


That is upsetting for what could almost certainly be run from a SQLite database on a garbage-tier host. Presumably 99.9% of all animals are registered one time and never again queried. Could be near zero operational burden, but of course, capitalism.

Yeah, I moved to the US and I also thought it was weird. Same with vaccination stuff for dogs. You need to carry paperwork if you want to cross the Canada border. It's a throwback to the last century I guess.

You can pin a GitHub Action to a SHA, but the GitHub Action can be a Docker one pointing to a mutable Docker image label.

Example:

https://github.com/github-community-projects/issue-metrics/b...

> Why doesn't GitHub just enforce immutable versioning for actions?

You can't. They can execute arbitrary code. They can download another bash file via Curl and execute that.


> You can't. They can execute arbitrary code. They can download another bash file via Curl and execute that.

Presumably you'd check the code of the action before you include it (and then don't use an action with non-pinned versions). This way you know the action won't execute arbitrary code for this version and won't get any other code because of version pinning.

The docker action you linked is ironic in this regard since every other version in the code seems to be pinned except the one you linked to.


Yup. After painstakingly having the AI misunderstand what you're trying to say, you're connected to a human and you need to do your story again.

I don't ever have the AI misunderstand what I mean.

I do get bullshit answers sometimes, but it always understands my intent.


It is absolutely disgusting that even today it is impossible to stop video autoplay on Safari on iOS. I can't image the data wasted.

Settings, Accessibility, Motion, switch off Auto-Play preview videos is supposed to do the trick for System Apps (including messages, safari etc).

Untested since I run my phone via Wireguard to my home network and block everything there.


This is incorrect. The setting does not apply to Safari. It's for App Store, for example.

Now tested - you’re right

I’ve always wondered about this, does it stop downloading the video when it stops playing?

My guess is no.


StopTheMadness will do this pretty well for $15.

The Brussels Effect takes care of a lot of hardware changes for the better, for the world (think USB-C).

But for software, not so much.

Examples:

* Windows N (no media player stuff) and KN (no media player stuff, no messenger)

* Windows installed in the EEA (ability to disable / change start menu search with Bing, ability to remove Edge, ability to add widget providers)

* iOS with only allowing 3rd party app stores and 3rd party browser engines in the EEA.

* Google only allowing certain things when the phone is in the USA.

And it's gonna get worse with age verification. All of the sudden the manufacturers have even more data.


I see BYDs a lot here in Phoenix with MX (Sonora) plates.

And on hiking trails.

I was hiking in Zion. Large sign: be quiet, owls are nesting.

Multiple people with those speakers hanging off of their backpack: we don't care.

And even the rangers don't feel empowered to say anything anymore.


Because PRs with AI need to be reviewed with a lot more scrutiny, simply because AI is good at generating code that looks good, but isn't necessarily correct.

So now you're looking at a PR that at face value looks good, but doesn't reflect the author's skill and understanding of the subject.

Meaning now you shift more work to the owners of the codebase, as they have to go through those verifications steps.


This makes 0 sense. It shouldn't matter if AI wrote the PR or a human.

If a person writes 100 lines of code there’s a (valid) assumption that someone thinks this 100 lines of code is worth writing. With AI it takes no effort to write 10,000 loc. Asking someone else to figure out if that code is worth merging just offloads the effort to someone else who didn’t ask for it.

It makes sense, because humans and AI write code different. Because humans aren't AI. The types of mistakes AI writes into code would never be done by a human.

Just deprioritize it and make the mr openers do more verification

What sort of verification?

Everything that a maintainer would need to prove to themselves to merge it can be codified in a pipeline.

Or some kind of protocol for building those things in the MR so that any new behavior explicitly demonstrates the new states and transitions.

This is hard if the new MR introduces a completely different paradigm outside the mental model of the reviewer and maintainer. Might be better off completely forking the project and running it in parallel aka taking on the maintainer duties if they feel so inclined to completely change things


In Texas where BCBS is based, the city asked them to re-instate in-office policies, as all those people drive a large amount of tax income in the city.

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