> There's also some suggestions out there that leaving a lithium ion battery fully charged will degrade its max capacity over time; I haven't seen any evidence of that in practice,

I did. Several old devices of mine died like that.

At higher voltages the passivation layer at the cathode, necessary for the battery to function, becomes unstable and decomposes.

Codex overuses the word "quickly". I'm tempted to check what happens if I tell him to do it slowly.

Crazy theory: Maybe Codex watched too many YouTube videos. I have noticed on YouTube that many younger narrators say, "I quickly did X," when "I did X" would have been more just as well and usually more truthful. Why did you have to _quickly_ cut that piece of wood when the video clearly shows cutting it at a perfectly normal speed?

Also, please try not to anthropomorphize LLMs, they hate it when you do that.

There's a qualifier there and I think it's important.

> haven't heard Russians deliberately sniping kids on a daily basis

Sniping - no, but mostly because they can't aim and resort to shelling/bombing the genera area, even if it's far from the frontlines.

Plenty of children died like that already, but you don't hear about this because they don't have a PR machine behind them.

> I suspect if I was a kid that used a deep voice to say that I was an adult it would also fool it.

There should exist frequencies impossible to reach for anyone but post-pubescent men.

Of course that would make it teen-age verification at best.

> There should exist frequencies impossible to reach for anyone but post-pubescent men.... Of course that would make it teen-age verification at best.

Yes and no. Like geology, the more you dig into audio, the more is uncovered and available.

A child/teen with a deep voice has very unique perturbations that don't exist in other cohorts across feature sets. Adults may share some characteristics, but not at the levels found in specific age groups.

What about women, though? Do they not get to age verify themselves? :P

Women also undergo voice change, just less pronounced.

Now the problem turns into being able to tell men from women.

EDIT: this of course isn't a serious proposition.

Then again I wonder what effect this would have implemented on e.g. a porn site. Women also watch porn, but with enough tuning I think it shouldn't produce too many false positives - if only due to the demographic of the users.

Surely the vocal cords and larynx of an adult woman are on average larger than those of a 10yo boy?

The AGEWARDEN system is ^^ agnostic and answers a simple question only: Is this human over or under 18?

From my research, each person is incredibly unique :)

Presumably because "money".

Or they just don't know tech outside of SV, which is understandable, considering the rest doesn't do nearly the same amount of self-promotion and, well, they're not from SV anyway so why should SV care?

The other day there was this article: something something nerds, which assumed (almost) everyone in tech was looking up to Jobs and Wozniak.

I think I saw my first Mac in 2006 or so and only for a brief moment - it belonged to an artist the parents of my high school friend employed. The next time it was a musician. That was really the stereotype in my corner of the world at the time and using Apple devices for programming seemed like a weird idea.

I worked for a company which emulated this style.

In fairness the exposed brick was already there when they rented the place.

There definitely is/was a nerd subculture in Europe, it's just that those who represent it were always only vaguely aware of the existence of Jobs and Wozniak.

Linus Torvalds on the other hand - that is a household name.

Jobs is not the one to think of when relating to nerds, Wozniak is. Jobs is the one who comes in and takes most of the money as well as the limelight when some nerds have done something interesting but then act like the dog who has caught the car. European nerd culture is more Fabrice Bellard and Linus Torvalds, less Steve Jobs.

null is of type 'object' though, while undefined is undefined - way better to have a separate type.

Peer groups sort themselves to an extent. It's never everyone that does X or is into Y.

I recall being immediately out when one of the boys asked which football team I support, to which I replied "none". So I got sorted to the much smaller group of kids who are not into that and we had our own common interests to bond over.

Looking at my daughter's social circle it starts as early as in preschool.