the good of humanity as a whole

My headcanon is that the Borg in Star Trek began with an AGI with that exact main goal.

Realign monetary incentives by making users pay for the quality of the match. If you want more of the good, pay for what you rate as good in the previous matches. Pay more the longer you stay together with a match.

The matching system was already almost perfect at OkCupid around ten years ago - copy that, and the well-aligned incentive should keep it developing instead of degrading, which is what Match Group did to it with their monthly subscription that incentivizes preventing long-term relationships.

…with AR making inedible foods invisible in the store.

Cryptic mess, needs a redesign.

linked word scrolls under the cursor and the popover appears

Nobody wants that. It’s bug report worthy.

Big money / venture capitalists prefer to fund people of their kind: the ruthless. They also accept the spineless they can boss around. That’s gone on for centuries, so the good funders have been trampled and gone extinct.

The whole CLI. Linux should automatically generate default GUIs from manpages and code, to be developed further by the crowd of users on the desktop. It’s pointless to handcraft both interfaces one app at a time.

I like Linux Mint (compared to Ubuntu, Debian, and Windows) because usually right-clicking takes me closer to the solution I’m looking for, but it doesn’t allow me to dig deep enough. It should be discoverable all the way from the desktop to what makes it tick. Think of Smalltalk by Alan Kay in Xerox PARC in the 1970s, or what it would be now had it been mainstream all this time. #discoverability #explorability

Have you prepared for downvote manipulation by bots? Quora incentivizes it by treating downvoted answers differently, so now the site may have as many bots as people.

No, can’t be lack of anything, it was the regular Mint 21.3 installer image overwriting Debian on a normal ext4 formatted partition. Nothing should have gone wrong. Reinstalled with formatting on, and it started working.

“Hadn’t” means “had not” (not done in the past), not “had not” (lacked possession). I’m Finnish and might be wrong.

Mine did that when I chose not to format the “/” partition when installing.

It’s a GIF: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/32218427-589f-4acf-9b0e-eee5cf4b66d3.gif

Can’t plug it in with one hand. The cover needs an opening mechanism.

What we really need is a USB-C-style reversible plug with data and variable voltage where neutral and phase never reverse and earth is always there.

Lacking that, I vote for Type N because it’s small, polarised, and the pins are halfway-insulated. I don’t like that the frame is symmetrical, so in the dark, the only way to tell which way to plug in is to feel the pins and the holes, same as USB-A. I reject all that hurt to step on.

It’s different: radiation of long-wave infrared balanced against absorption of ambient light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissivity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_surface

Look at the sun through a white shirt, then black. Which is brighter?

“The amount of heat gained by a Bedouin exposed to the hot desert is the same whether he wears a black or a white robe. The additional heat absorbed by the black robe was lost before it reached the skin.”

Bedouin robes, the scientists noted, are worn loose. Inside, the cooling happens by convection - either through a bellows action, as the robes flow in the wind, or by a chimney sort of effect, as air rises between robe and skin.

Thus it was conclusively demonstrated that, at least for Bedouin robes, black is as cool as any other colour.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/aug/15/research.highereducation

A cool guide would have explained the underlying rule that helps you remember these.