I love this approach, but a few years ago I tried it very unsuccessfully with my Xiaomi Mi 34" ultrawide.
By very unsuccessfully, I mean that the commands to change input didn't work. I can't remember if they did nothing or crashed the monitor, but subsequent investigation led me to realise I was lucky not to brick it, as some people found certain commands cause non-recoverable issues on that monitor!
So, I suggest caution in the form of maybe checking that others have successfully used DDC commands on your particular model.
That writing isn't the only "thinking" though. Some thinking can happen in the course of generating a single token, as shown by the ability to answer a question without any intermediate reasoning tokens. But as we've all learnt this is a less powerful and more error-prone mode of thinking.
So that is to say I think a small amount of secret reasoning would be possible, e.g. if the location is known or guessed from the beginning by another means and the reasoning steps are made up to justify the conclusion.
The more clearly sound the reasoning steps are, the less plausible that scenario is.
This has really made insurance click for me because while I understand it intuitively, I wanted a more scientific foundation to understand its value.
I think a great illustration is an extreme case. If I have a house and just enough income to cover all my needs and wants (including retirement savings), then depending on my attitude an extra $1000 per year might have no effect at all - I have nothing I want to spend it on and nothing to save for.
But losing my home would still be devastating. So the utility value of the $1000 per year for the rest of my life is low or none, but the utility value of the previously earned money I would lose from losing my house is high.
The lane keep assist in my 2017 Leaf is awful. If I used it, anyone would take me for a drunk driver as it drifts to the edge of the lane and then corrects endlessly.
Thankfully it can be turned off, and it stays off.
One could get into a long debate about whether "most" is literally true or not, but I think most of us should be able to agree that at least a significant proportion of people - enough to matter - either won't or can't think of this without some prompting.
I've watched many of the videos on their YouTube channel and have been blown away by all the cool stuff in that museum, and the talented people that keep it going!
It's high on my list of things to see in the US when I next get a chance to spend some time there (which could be several years away so I hope it keeps going strong).
I think for many, perhaps even most people, you're right and friendship happens organically without deliberate intent.
Some people just do not work this way - maybe it's being somewhere on the autism spectrum, but whatever the cause, some people need to take a more methodical approach to do this.
I think what this blog post shows is that such an approach really can result in true friendships.
It's a bit like online dating I suppose. That idea is abhorrent to some (or used to be - the stigma has reduced considerably over time), but when it works, there's nothing preventing the resulting relationship from being as genuine as one that started any other way.
Very true. I usually ask "is or was it ever alive", and if yes I'll then ask if it's alive today.
Edit: don't know how the similar sibling comment didn't appear to me when I was writing this, since it's from 4 hours ago and I loaded the page less than one hour ago...
Two transactions are happening at the same time. Your "sales" revenue account is going up (Credit) by $2 and your cash asset account is going up (Debit) by the same $2. That is the first balanced transaction.
The second transaction is that your inventory asset account is going down (Credit) by $0.50 as you have less inventory now, and an expense account called "Cost of Goods Sold" is Debited by the same $0.50.
Your profit gets calculated on demand. There are two ways to do it, both yielding the same result. You can look at revenue minus expenses over a period, giving $2 sales minus $0.50 cost of goods sold = $1.50 profit for the period. Or, you can look at how your equity (assets minus liabilities) has changed over that period. In this example, no liabilities have changed and your assets (bank account) have increased by $1.50 because bank has gone up by $2 while inventory has gone down by $0.50.
If you are in the hole where you really cannot add load to your database server but want to log the queries, there is a technique called zero impact monitoring where you literally mirror the network traffic going to your database server, and use a separate server to reconstruct it into query logs. These logs identify the queries that are being run, and critically, who/what is running them.
In the same vain, as a child of about 10 I used to use a CD-ROM drive hooked up to a PSU and headphones to listen to music in bed. It was lovely as a portable CD player would have been totally unaffordable to my family at the time.
New Zealand too, and it really is as good as it sounds. Transacting property can be done very quickly, safely and cheaply, and no title insurance is required.
The register is of course just a normal relational database.
One key to the success, though, is a large and mature body of legislation and processes to ensure that the register really is always correct.
This is very sad news indeed. For years I have longed to visit this museum.
I hope that they choose to reopen or that it can be purchased and turned into a more sustainable operation. I would gladly donate at least $1000 to such a cause if a viable proposal could be formed...
In fact, such material is already illegal to possess or trade. The official classification just clarifies that after the fact.
The law that makes this material objectionable is the same one that makes child pornography illegal, and it should be obvious that it wouldn't work very well if each video involving sex with children had to be classified as objectionable before it became illegal.
I think a lot of people actually depend on the contents of their hard drive a lot less these days than, say, ten years ago, because so much is stored in the cloud - photos in particular.
By very unsuccessfully, I mean that the commands to change input didn't work. I can't remember if they did nothing or crashed the monitor, but subsequent investigation led me to realise I was lucky not to brick it, as some people found certain commands cause non-recoverable issues on that monitor!
So, I suggest caution in the form of maybe checking that others have successfully used DDC commands on your particular model.
https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/issues/153