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It also has some unfortunate OS / glibc minimums which means that it's growing less useful as time goes on. I work on a lot of machines that are from centos 7 era (including amazon linux 2, which doesn't have an upgrade path: you just have to build a whole new instance and migrate). I have had to pin my vscode + extensions to old versions because it works on older machines. They just stopped supporting platforms (with lots of notice; to be fair). I would love if they had a binary tool that could be built which was much more agnostic to the vscode / extension version so that I could just keep using it everywhere I've been using it, while allowing me to keep current with the latest and greatest.

At least when Python minimum version changed there was a separate extension forked from the original that I can use when I need to work on old code alongside the new extension for more modern code bases. Sadly, no such thing exists for remote editing that I know of.

Agreed.

There's this line:

> Wouldn’t it be cool if we could just use standard OS threads, blocking APIs, avoid new shinies like io_uring, but still get to cancel any work reliably?

Wish more was said about this: why would that be cool? I get that having robust cancellation in standard threads is cool, but why do we want to avoid io_uring?

I didn't see it touched on, but I'm hoping improved storage management is included in the update. My system has > 20% storage used by "system storage" and in total nearly half the device storage is used by ios and is outside my control. Supposedly some of this stuff is just cache data and there's no way to adjust what data gets cached or when it gets purged aside from rebooting. Handling for large files is also hit or miss and could use some updates. I didn't even realize some of that was AI stuff I might not even be using.

Oh dear! Medical issues are scary enough without all the red tape (has to be a better word than that) getting in the way of good care. Spreading the word in the hopes that it is more common and fewer people are left out

Thanks for sharing the story so openly! Sorry for everything you went through to get a proper diagnosis and treatment and for everything that the encephalitis itself inflicted on you. Glad you're doing better!

Won't weigh in on psychiatric care, but I will say from experience that everyone should look into both an advanced healthcare directive and an advanced psychiatric care directive: these are documents that authorize someone else to have input into your care if you are unable to do so yourself. Psychiatric care is considered separately so even though a medical health directive was in place we were stuck and could not have input into care even though we tried. Set this up before needed because in an emergency it may be too late and care providers are limited in what they can say and what they will do without that.

Consult a lawyer. Participating locations only. etc. etc.

The product related info feels a bit anemic. Surprised things like "model" aren't in there.

I think this is a great resource.

However, per item #2:

> Choice Overload

> The tendency for people to get overwhelmed when they are presented with a large number of options, often used interchangeably with the term paradox of choice.

There's 30 "laws" which are all text-based content buried under 30 irrelevant pictures that up half the visual space on the page.

It looks pretty, but it isn't an effective way to study these.

Not sure if related, but the page loads fine and then after a few seconds refreshes into a 404. I gave up trying to read the article.

Oh man! I came here to complain about printing! I just discovered yesterday that you can no longer drag and drop print jobs from one printer to another. Apparently you can move a print job via some command line stuff but it just ended up deleting the jobs entirely. The only reasons I found this out is because the printer which had been working fine moments before just stopped working after replacing toner. No amount of deleting and re-padding the printer or power cycling either machine fixed it. One time the whole OS just froze and I had to force reboot. I spent a good chunk of the afternoon trying to get one 3 page document to print. To be fair, I haven’t had problems with this setup for 10+ years but when it went south it also went to the remote frigid corners of Antarctica.

Even enshitification suffers enshitification.

This company makes cases with a physical keyboard for iPhone 14+ so if you just want the keyboard you might be able to get one of those instead.

I think this is a valid question for this specific case, but may not always be possible. That said, I think as a user I would probably prefer it if under the hood the old function called the new so they can deprecate the behavior without breaking the API. In that way you can still emit the deprecation warning while also only having one actual code path to maintain.

It’s also worth noting that this was specifically about the effects of ChatGPT on users’s ability to write essays: which means that if you don’t practice your writing skills, then your writing skills decline. This doesn’t seem to show that it is harmful just that it does not induce the same brain activity that is observed in other essay writing methods.

Additionally, the original paper uses the term “cognitive debt“ not cognitive decline, which may have an important ramifications for interpretation and conclusions.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see similar results in other similar types of studies, but it does feel a bit premature to broadly conclude that all LLM/AI use is harmful to your brain. In a less alarmist take: this could also be read to show that AI use effectively simplifies the essay writing process by reducing cognitive load, therefore making essays easier and more accessible to a broader audience but that would require a different study to see how well the participants scored on their work.