Correct me if I'm mistaken, but weren't pencils ruled out by NASA because of the dust they create when they write? The toilet engineering could be a similar situation. These people are professionals, we should not assume they built it like this for no reason.

My secondary school physics teacher was somewhat accommodating to "interesting" experiments - those which might look cool to teenagers whilst also providing a lesson in physics.

One of those was attaching electrical probes to each end of a pencil, and applying an electrical current. Graphite conducts extremely well: the pencil "lead" (actually graphite) heats up, glowing a bright orange colour, whilst setting fire to the wooden pencil surrounds. If you snap the graphite "lead", you can touch the two ends together causing a bright electrical arc.

It's a great physics demonstration, and graphite conductivity is the reason pencils aren't used in zero-gravity environments.

The dust while writing doesn't matter. You can still write with a rounded tip. The problem is sharpening the pencil.

This would still benefit from a difficulty rating system or order

Incremental config changes sounds like it could lead to a LOT of bugs

Incremental in terms of 1% of the fleet using it, then 5% etc. this is standard course.

Another option is to make sure that config changes that fail to parse continue using the old config instead of resulting in an unusable service.

This is a well-known effect, it does make a significant difference. People feel safer driving slower when the road has obstacles closeby or when it's curved. You can use this to slow people down with bollards, small curves, or even trees near the road in rural areas.

I get the same feelings when I edit code in different languages.

study_n += 1

I haven't found that to be very accurate. I suspect the internal idiosyncrasies of a company are an issue, as the AI doesn't have the necessary context.

Seems like it would be much easier to solve that problem than it would be to cross the brain barrier and start interfacing with our thoughts, no? Just provide some context on the company etc

“Sounds like it would” yes, but on practice no off the self solution works remotely well enough.

> Just provide some context on the company etc

The necessary “context” includes at least the name and pronunciation of the names of all workers of a company with a non English first name, so it's far from trivial.

> off the self

Was that deliberate, or a typo? I am genuinely wondering!

It's a typo.

No mobile support?

There is mobile support... but it currently loads a 40mb model which doesn't work so great in a lot of places where you will use a phone. I meant to allow you to submit anyway, but I didn't test enough. Sorry...

Didn't work for me either, android/waterfox :(

Some people talk slower than your natural listening speed. It's less like skimming and more like if some books used 36pt font and you normalized the size back down to a comfortable information-dense size.

I did this the other day in an old component that had been refactored several times. It's incredibly satisfying. IMO removing code is often more important than adding it because it helps so much with maintainability and future development speed.

An AI agent has agency-- it can choose when to act.