gavinward

I think Hydrofluoric acid is probably the substance you're describing which leaches the calcium out of your bones. It will certainly burn you too though. It's a common byproduct from heating fluorinated gases and is sometimes used in its own right for wet etching.

As an aside, I love it when they tell you in the safety WBT what the highly toxic gas smells like.

The endgame is getting corporate customers hooked on cloud-hosted subscription-model everything, then jacking the prices up.

The same with the AI thing Meta added to Whatsapp. After spending a while trying to search for a message whose exact wording I couldn't remember, but whose content was easily described, I thought I'd give the bot a try. Turns out it doesn't have access to my messages.

I expect MS will get there long before Meta does given they don't have the encryption issue to contend with.

I find it interesting that the Spanish consider the ñ to be a separate letter, in their 27 letter alphabet.

> if you didn't know better

It's funny how The New Yorker clings to this given its readership is mostly people who absolutely do know better.

The author, if I remember correctly from twitter, was a thorn in the side of the people who developed this system for quite some time. Given his profession I expect he made sure he was on the right side of the law before publishing this.

Agreed. I can't think of another area where AI could amplify the effect of my existing level of knowledge as it does with coding. It's far exceeding my expectations.

It must be heartening for a startup trying to build the best general search engine in the world to know that Google has absolutely no interest in competing with you.

I asked it to phrase something in early modern English and then asked it a few unrelated questions without closing the window and it kept up the bit (doth this answer please thee?) and I felt obliged to keep laughing at it just like I would with an actual person.

I do find myself praising it as effusively as I would a human doing my bidding, and being slightly apologetic about asking for revisions.

No point in learning an entire new way of talking.

Ironically I had to open this in a browser to make this comment (since no app supports that advanced feature) but FYI the mobile version of Firefox supports the queueing up of multiple links for later viewing, rather than immediately switching to the firefox app every time you open a link.

It's not perfectly analogous to "open in new tab" on a desktop but you might find it helpful.

I know nobody uses Firefox on mobile but it seems decent enough to me.

Indeed. In Europe Monaco is a popular place for very rich people to (pretend to) live due to the lack of income tax. You are restricted in how long you can spend in other countries before being deemed to be domiciled there for tax purposes. In Ireland and I think the UK also, it's 183 days a year. And they do occasionally check, if you're rich enough.

Place whatever value on this you like but I also had a Samsung 840 500GB SSD fail just last week that was almost exactly three years old. It came with a three year warranty so I guess that's the only upside.

It's maddening that not only can I not get back whatever data wasn't backed up (thankfully not much) but I have no way of wiping it before returning it under warranty.

The people who handle the returns for Samsung say returned drives will be "formatted". Given it's uunresponsive, this seems unlikely

It puzzles me why drive manufacturers don't offer data recovery for their own products as a value add service. Nobody could get the data off this drive as cheaply as Samsung themselves.