It’s much more of a poison to some of our primate relatives. iirc the genes that facilitate alcohol metabolism evolved in great apes millions of years before homo sapiens, and we inherited them; we’ve been boozing long before we were even human.

This seems overly pedantic and ripe for a sarcastic retort, which I am struggling mightily to suppress.

This is hacker news, what were you expecting? O:-)

> unlimited IOPS

I think this is marketroid for “we don’t limit them” not a statement about physics

Correct.

Stripe connects directly to Visa/MC, there’s nothing “behind them” in terms of some other card processor API they’re wrapping.

Stripe is a credit and debit card processor (and also a card issuer). They are NOT a bank, but do control some BINs (notably 4242 which is used for the famous test card 4242x4)

please define fully general superintelligence & current state of alignment

is this a tautology?

Not the guy but, alignment seems to be several decades away, while self-improvement seems to be several years away.

(Also you don't even need superintelligence to do a lot of damage. In fact you don't need any intelligence!)

> Yes, but importantly not by Meta themselves.

Don’t they save backups to Meta? Even if not, they can read whatever’s (unencrypted) on your phone if they really want to.

They currently go on iCloud on iOS and Google Drive on Android. There are rumors about a first-party backup service, which would obviously change that calculus, but nothing concrete yet.

Sorry but whenever I hear the name of this tech I visualize the stereotypical “dumb person” saying “hurr, durr” nonsense words

I thought that was the joke? Its both 'herding the agents' and hurrdurr this is so freakin simple

Forgive me, I don’t generally ascribe positive connotations to the phrase. It’s about as funny as wearing an “I’m with Stupid” T-shirt.

blackout shades go a long way, but if you’ve got huge bay windows that’s probably too much.

If it’s close to good, and you need a little more brightness, there are newer screens that reflect much more light. more reflective = pricier, but there’s a decent value/sweet spot.

Huge floor to ceiling windows is exactly what I have. Of course I also don’t want to make my room pitch black just to watch TV.

It’s good to know that there are solutions designed for high-light situations, though.

Factory reset?

And if that doesn't work, RMA and/or small claims because breaking your device through an update shouldn't be legal.

It can be both. Highways didn’t get built for poor folks, but did get built right through many of their neighborhoods.