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3. contain malware which the user has to run 4. AutoRun, baby 1 IMO is the biggest threat, but it has the downside that it's very simple—you only get one shot and you don't know what type of computer you're targeting. 2 is very possibly, you can buy devices that do this, but it's rare because there's no motive. It's not hacking, it's not malware, it's just destruction of property for the fun of it I wish I could rule out 3. Unfortunately it happens. => https://web.archive.org/web/20060618060404/http://www.darkreading.com/boards/message.asp?msg_id=134658 4: Autorun was a feature that was removed from macs in the 90s and windows in 2009 after it was used for this sort of malware. It's no longer a concern.

It just kinda sucks because I can't say, "you should plug in USB devices" because the threats are real—unlike some common cybersecurity advice which is BS. But the threats are uncommon and often targeted, and sneakernet could be so cool. It could be worth it.

community wellbeing under capitalism. Because the anti-capitalist argument, that viewing people from an economic standpoint is fundamentally inadequate, isn't the cause. That is to say, if you value human life purely in its ability to generate money, it still makes sense to invest a pretty significant amount of money into keeping people alive. Because someone being alive has a lot of economic potential. So to some degree it's civil case court cases. I think you could have a decently functioning society with no criminal laws, except required insurance, and civil court cases. That's how amusement parks in the US operate today. There's a requirement for them to have insurance, and upon loss of life, the family can sue in civil court. Obviously the threat of civil court isn't a preventative measure, but insurance should (in theory) increase costs for unsafe attractions in-line with the risk of a civil court payout, leading to the desired effect: the free market determines how to amortize the risk of losing a human life over the relevant time periods. Obviously lots of problems with that in practice, but the one that I want to talk about is that there's not an incentive to solve problems. You can sue the roller coaster operator if you get hurt on their roller coaster. But if you get hurt for some other reason, let's say you catch a disease like tuberculosis, there's no one for you to sue. I guess the capitalistic answer there is that an investor decides to invest in TB treatment, invents a cure, and then charges a lot of money for it. And to solve the problem of the person being sick with TB not having money to pay for it, you allow indentured servitude. (And of course you don't have patents in this libertarian fantasy world, so cheap alternatives pop up very quickly.)

=> https://xkcd.com/1564/

-Holding on You, twenty one pilots

It's not hard to rerun a command. I guess sometimes you want to find the output of a previous command. But that could be a different button or command. It also lets you do both modes as top down.

something similar for the backwards-search menu.

> If you avoid kids being malnourished, you cut childhood death in half by that alone.

> What a strange world that the incentive system doesn’t take these resources and assign them to that human thing. That’s a tragedy and a missed opportunity. When people write about 2025 in history books, they’re going to talk about the greed of the richest technology titans; and they’re going to talk about reducing and eliminating infectious diseases. And the history books aren’t going to make it clear that Bill Gates is leading contributions to eliminate infectious diseases at the exact same time that Elon Musk is working to cut funding for infectious diseases. History books love to talk about the neat chronological progression of ideas, but that’s not what’s happening here. Elon Musk and Bill Gates aren’t following trends created by society. They’re individuals. And you have to say that Elon Musk is evil and Bill Gates is not.

My teeth are.

The promised Amazon delivery drones have not materialized, probably because of low carrying capacity, but I wonder if there's a world where they're used for transferring lightweight items extremely quickly. It's hard to imagine a non-contrived example, but moving maybe a 10TB SD card at 100 miles per hour has to be useful to someone, right?

Been laid naked upon a bed of nails while sitting in dress clothes in an office chair. Have you ever been afraid. Felt the taste of blood, and sweat, and water in your mouth. Been nauseous at the thought of living another day. Have you ever been crushed by the weight of the air. Been rend apart, heart and lungs pulled out. Splayed on the floor with your knees at your chest and your eyes squeezed shut. Your fingers drilling into your temples, your breathing shallow, the thoughts in your head so loud and so silent that you doubt you have a brain at all. Have you ever been killed. Stabbed and cut; heart punctured, chest broken. Have you ever wished you could just cry.

If they had deported her I would be less angry about it. They just locked her up for 6 weeks for no crime.

If not, I think I switch to Zed. My other options are, go back to PC, maintain my own forks with pyproject.tomls, or update WPM with the ability to do the copying and subpath manipulation that pyproject.toml needs. I could definitely do either of the two latter, but it would just make me sad, I think. I suspect it would be more fun to switch to Zed than maintain a house of cards on top of the Sublime community’s inability to innovate.

to be more complicated. Not unprompted obviously, I was talking about bouncing off of Rust.

one of the top 10 mcsr Twitch channels by average viewers and rekrap1 may be the biggest purely-mcsr-speedrun Youtube channel. And the content's fun to watch and he's good at the game (top 50 in the world). And Rekrap's like: 'yeah, this is my side gig.'

doing things that I enjoy because I have too much other stuff to do. And so I end up doing the stuff that I want to do and feeling awful about it. I can't just handle it.

> Sent to disconnect the holy fusion > Of the spirit and the flesh > Every mortal breath's meant to bring forth fire > But only when the fear of death gets consumed on the funeral pyre > So let the flames rise higher > and let every man be considered a liar > If he doubts the goodness and faithfulness of God > Itching ears will compulsively nod in approval > When unbelief is taught in all our temples and schools > But God can restrain the madness of a fool > He can bring His truth through the mouth of a mule > and you can move a mountain without any tools > It just takes the faith of a little seed > to make a way through what might seem to be impossibility, > And the ability will match the occasion > The outcome will defy explanation > The liberation will not be televised > When it arrives like lightning in the skies Pretty smooth, 5.3 words/sec. I’m not a rapper by any means but it’s not nothing. Tripped a couple times. I have another take that’s a little sharper, a little more rap-like, but this take is more flowy and faster because of it.

And there was so much time to think about it. Cub: Jojo's here Feinberg (increasingly panicked): Okay ok. Just run, just run, just run, just run, just run, actually just run, actually run, actually run, no, no, just run, just run, just run, just run, X, X run!, X run! please, please, X run X (jumping at them): Run at them? Feinberg: Nooo, no the other way X: What? => https://www.twitch.tv/feinberg/clip/GoodCallousYamVoHiYo-nQPIonzWFgbelAVY

As far as I can tell, no one's ever done it.

=> https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=48c8aae2-90d7-4815-9ef7-4596add9d261

Felt like longer

I haven't checked out the content yet, this is completely blind, but 95% of the time that someone complains about lack of awareness for their thing, it's because their thing sucks. (I do this too, by the way.) And it's because they hear silence from the 10-100 people that have seen their thing, and they assume that those people haven't seen it or they just got unlucky and those people don't care. But the fact of the matter is that if 100 people see your content or product or piece of art, and it's good, they'll tell you. Instead of hearing silence, you'll hear "this is unrated" or "how is this not more popular" and then you can focus on marketing. But if you're not hearing that, it means your product isn't good.

"Alfa" "Lima"

I'm considering driving to Cincinnati a la XKCD 921 "My laptop is there. It's mine. I'm going to get it." => https://xkcd.com/921/ Also => https://xkcd.com/281/ I feel like Cincinnati would be nice.

out of his pants, but then getting her own sandwich and asking Ify to shove it down her pants for no discernible reason might be the most unhinged thing to happen on Game Changer.

power output the most. It's up there with the 100 meter dash. What Couri recognizes is that there's not a "special sauce", there's not a trick. You just run and jump. And he knows that he can run and jump. But so can everybody else. And so it's not a question of if you can do it, it's a question if you have the genes and the body type and the lifelong training to make you one of the 3 best in the country at the skill. Like he's just not thinking at all. Or he's never seen a serious athlete in his life.

know that the opposite is often true. Even if it's not for the reasons Andrew explains, caching is such a convenient optimization, which does normally work, that it's easy to cache things without checking whether it helps performance. And sometimes it hurts.

Feels good to have that done since it's been on my TODO list for years.

This feels crazy. I'm googling whether I can sue CSV for price-gouging.

I'm worried I'm going to be dehydrated with the amount of liquid I'm losing through my nose. I took a loratadine before bed, I'm wondering if that hurt, though, I'm not a doctor.

impossible to criticize any pursuit as goal-less, and it is reducted to asserting that the higher purpose of humanity is "to be happy" even while accomplishing nothing.

Amount staked (34M ETH) [0] / amount paid in transaction fees (182k ETH) [1]. => https://cryptoquant.com/asset/eth/chart/eth2/total-value-staked [0] => https://etherscan.io/chart/transactionfee [1] Really curious if this analysis is sound. The most obvious flaw is that ~100% of transaction fees are paid out to stakers but e.g. AAPL pays out ~25% of earnings as dividends ($0.25 dividend per share per quarter [2] / $0.97 earnings per share per quarter [3]). Still makes ETH look pretty overpriced considering Apple's P/E of 31. => https://investor.apple.com/dividend-history/default.aspx [2] => https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/ [3] But I haven't ever invested in crypto so I don't know if I'm doing something completely wrong. Edit [Apr 21, 2:36pm]: Apple's P/E ratio is quarterly, but I think the 186 is annual. IIRC I got to 182k by taking one month of transactions and multiplying by 12. So let's ~~divide~~ multiply 186 by 4 to get ~~46.5~~ actually ~750. But that wasn't the issue that's tickling my System 1 into insisting that this is wrong. The outstanding issue is that this is independent of ETH/USD price. I'm going back and forth whether that's relevant. I don't think it is. The logic behind P/E ratio is that earnings are, in some sense, the real value of a business. And so we have to treat ETH transaction fees as representing real value divorced from the USD/ETH rate (which is an interesting assumption, but one I'm comfortable making). So what I'm saying is that since people spent ~72 million USD on transaction fees last quarter, that's a good estimate of what they'll spend in future quarters. So to calculate a price target we can say, given ~34M ETH staked (shares outstanding) and 72M USD paid out, 1 ETH staked should give you 2 USD per quarter. No BS, no ponzi schemes, etc. Assuming a fair 20 p/e ratio per quarter, staking one ETH should then cost $40. Okay, I finally see what my System 1 was getting caught up on. I've been conflating shares outstanding with market cap. Is 34M ETH the number of shares or the market cap? I mean it's clearly both. You should be able to get P/E by dividing market cap by total earnings or price per share by earnings per share. When calculating Eth's PE with market cap by total earnings I get (34,000,000 ETH staked / (182,000 yearly transactions / 4)) = 747. When calculating with EPS I get 1,500 (USD per ETH) / 2 (EPS) = 750. Edit [May 12, 1:03pm]: I begin to suspect the 182k number is wrong. Maybe 182 is one month of transactions? Other sources are saying on the order of $2.5 billion [4] per year in transaction fees. => https://www.coingecko.com/research/publications/blockchain-fee-earnings [4] That's $625 million / quarter which would be 81.6 (34,000,000 * 1,500 / 625,000,000), which is much more reasonable.

allows for less repetition and more compression than macro-less languages. (From On Lisp, likely, but Graham's writing style makes it very difficult to find the section that you're looking for.) => https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015 At a less technical and more colloquial level, this is summed up the idea of "DRY"—don't repeat code. Although it's not immediately obvious (because I didn't do a good job describing it), this is the mentality that my "semantic programming", is an alternative to, summed up by the Pizza example. => https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=d0d9c6b7-dd7a-495f-aa82-6c6ab83f437c Compressing code *for the sake of compressing it* is always a bad move because it makes future edits more difficult. You should only compress code when there is a semantic rule (with a rule of thumb—that a non-programmer could understand) for why the repeated operation is, in reality the same operation in two+ different places.

checks your code for typos automatically and there will be drama.

Results for top LLMs on a test with questions released after the models training cutoff => https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=97e9a794-8fe9-4f41-a9ed-619854b11fe2

says that every fricking time a new president takes office. I remember protesters calling for Obama's impeachment. Like what was Obama doing? Impeachment is the primary check on the president's power and there's a lot of visibility on anything the president does, and so as soon as the president does something unpopular, people start calling for impeachment. That being said, some of the policies that Trump is pursuing are not desired even by the Republicans supporting him. A light example is "Gulf of America"—that's something that came out of Trump's head that no one was asking for. And Trump got it done because he has supporters, he has people who will execute on his vision. And "Gulf of America" isn't a big deal, doesn't matter. A more serious issue though, is annexing Canada. If Trump has surrounded himself with people who will unquestioningly execute his vision, then I predict there will be at least one major issue that has bipartisan disapproval. The odds of impeachment are still at that point small—the timing would have to be just about perfect—but I think it's feasible.

they were not necessarily happy, but Thoughts feels a lot more serious than my Twitter did. It’s also interesting the extent to which I can imagine the collective set of thoughts on here as a weight, because they define the entire website that I have to maintain. It would be very hard to match the levity with which I slung Tweets into the abyss, because now the abyss is an SQLite database on a VPS with 92% disk utilization and I need to figure out how to free up space.

it's interesting because it's possible to have this intelligence without having an ability to understand complex things. And so you end up using MS Paint because it's simple and you can see a solution involving it.

> a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. > Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated => https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025/03/federal-authorities-detain-tufts-student-in-somerville The op-ed co-authored by Ozturk which caused her visa to be revoked and her to be detained and imprisoned: > Credible accusations against Israel include accounts of deliberate starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide. => https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj At this point it is no longer possible to debate or discuss this issue neutrally. From a practical standpoint, it is not possible to have a discussion when expressing a view on one side of the issue leads to arrest and detainment for *any member* of the population—because you've silenced relevant voices on only one side of the issue. Without knowing the immigration or citizenship status of anyone who remains silent on this issue at any time, I must concede that it's possible they share Ozturk's views and Ozturk's immigration status and remain silent because of the threat by the Department of Homeland Security. As soon as you have a view that is illegal to express, it's impossible to have an open conversation because it's possible that your real opinion isn't the one you're expressing. The government is violating Ozturk's freedom of speech, not as given to her by The Constitution but as given to her by God. I will now say what Ozturk was imprisoned for saying: Credible accusations against Israel include accounts of deliberate starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide. Tufts University's response to the resolutions of the Tufts Community Union Senate has been wholly inadequate and dismissive of the Senate, the collective voice of the student body. I, Matthias Portzel (though I have no relation to the university), join Graduate Students for Palestine, Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine, the Tufts Faculty and Staff Coalition for Ceasefire, and Fletcher Students for Palestine in rejecting the Universities response. We reject any attempt by the University or the Office of the President to summarily dismiss the role of the Senate and mischaracterize its resolution as divisive. The open and free debate demonstrated by the Senate process together with the serious organizing efforts of students, warrant credible self-reflection by the Office of the President and the University. We affirm the equal dignity and humanity of all people and reject the University’s mischaracterization of the Senate’s efforts. We urge President Kumar and the Tufts administration to meaningfully engage with and actualize the resolutions passed by the Senate.

I need my apple. But my apples were all rotten

Tray fey lay Every hour I need you every hour I need you every hour. As I sink down in my lonely mind, I think of life far from this time. I need to change my brain or bread. Or I’ll sink down in my own head.

There’s an interesting mathematical paradox. If you have a 60% chance of winning and doubling your money and a 40% chance of losing everything—an odd sort of casino where the odds are in your favor, you should make money, right? Your expected winnings are positive. For any finite amount of time. But if you keep playing until you run out of money, if your only stopping condition is losing, then you’re trapped there until you lose and you’re broke. And sometimes that what I feel like life is like no matter how good you are at making software if you keep making software until you can’t anymore then you’ll stop after something you can’t do and you’ll lose. ggs. RIP.

team. Apple makes proprietary software and hardware. You can't just pass a law that Apple needs to provide a solution that is "equally effective as the solution available to Apple." Apple developed a proprietary *chip* from the ground up for AirPods. And the EU is like, eh, you need to make an "equally effective solution" available to every other headphone manufacturer. And they mean on iOS, and they mean an API that is equivalent. But like. I'm just anti-authority.

a flight on Google it shows you a Google Flights result. "Alphabet was designated as a gatekeeper for the Google search service" yeah. EU making it illegal for Google to decide what shows up in Google search results. It's crazy. It's just raw socialism. Only a very small number of companies (6 I believe) are effected, intentionally, because it's not about protecting consumers. If you wanted to protect consumers, you'd write a law that search engines have to provide a list of links and aren't allows to include "smart" result boxes. But that's not what they did. They said Google isn't allowed to provide "smart" result boxes with information from Google services. Anyone else can do it. It's about hurting and slowing down Google so that European competitors can catch up. It's about saying that Google is big enough that they are no longer legally allowed to pursue their own selfish interests, they have to pursue the interests of the government.

defining themselves and their identity against an unrealistic standard. He leaves because he identifies with a dream that is unrealistic (being a successful stand up comedian even though he doesn’t have talent) and she identifies herself as having an unconditionally loving and faithful husband, even though she doesn’t. And what I’m describing generally is pride, but more specifically I’m connecting it to a feeling I had the other day that I’m attempting to describe. I felt like I couldn’t imagine myself as anyone but someone who did a, b, and c, but I didn’t have enough hours in the day to do all three. (And I don’t even remember what the things were.) “Be perfect [mature, complete], therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect [mature, complete].” “test and approve what God’s will is” “You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.”

“Want?” and ”should?” questions are harder to answer, often, and can give inconsistent answers. But I have a decently strong sense of identity and I can use that carry some of the weight, if you will, of deciding my morality or my opinion. The problem is that when I am trying to be or want to be someone that isn’t realistic it affects not just my instantaneous mood but my identity. I was planning on speaking at an event, 6 years ago now. And if you asked me if I wanted to do it, I would have said “sure.” But I wasn’t going to do it for the fun of it. I felt like I was type of person who should speak at the event. And so when they didn’t include my speech in the final schedule for the event, I felt slighted, sure, and I was bummed, sure, but I’m sad thinking about it now 6 years later because I felt personally attacked. It was a blow to my pride and to my sense of identity.

romantically attracted to). It's interesting to run through the comparisons.

Lewis in The Problem of Pain puts forward the theory that hell will literally, in some sense, burn souls, and that they will be reduced to a sort of soul-ash, which will last eternally but would be distinct from the healthy, eternal souls in heaven. In this sense, hell will be empty in the way that a fireplace with only ash is empty. It provides an interesting pair to the universalist assertion that hell will be empty because God won't send anyone to hell. At some point (after death), people do end up out of God's reach.

unacceptable. And there's no documentation, no instructions, either because it's supposed to just work, or you're supposed to just figure it out. And I can figure it out, but I don't want to.

> Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. > A-men. -Doxology

cw language; it's a Feinberg clip This is how I feel when reading bad takes on the internet every day. Edit 1:53: Another Zig programmer who is like 'why does my loop take a different number of milliseconds in debug mode. [screenshot of assembly]' Like I'm sorry I'll fix that for you. I'll fix LLVM to make sure that the assembly is the same with or without optimizations. Zig has two different features for this. You can `@setRuntimeSafety` or you can use built-in assembly and if that's not enough there is accepted proposal to implement `@optimizeFor` which you can implement in the language because it's open source. Okay. "I'm surprised by how 'lazy' this assembly is for such a simple loop. 😕" If you can write better assembly. Write the better assembly. Put it in an asm block. That's why they exist in the language. If you the LLVM backend is missing an optimization, you can reduce the LLVM IR and file an upstream bug. But they can't do that. They don't want to do that. They haven't included which of Zig's three release modes they're building in. They haven't included their target. They haven't included their backend. They haven't included their whole code. I'm pretty sure this screenshot of assembly that they're complaining about being 13 instructions is being compiled in Debug because when I put it into Godbolt I get 3 instructions. I'm crying. My mental is too fragile to deal with normal people like this. What the hell do you want me to do. Somebody's like "[just] compare to a hardware timer." and they're like "Yeah that's what I'm going to have to end up doing. I guess" How dumb are you. You need something to run in a predicable amount of time. Option 1: hardware timer. Option 2: complain about Zig programs running in different amounts of time with and without optimizations. Oh my word my mental health is so bad.

This is radical for me because for so much of my life I've avoided acting on decisions until the last minute, to give myself time to second guess myself. Which has also been very effective for me, so I don't know.

horrors m The the the clock. I haven’t hung the clock I. Need to hang the clock. But first I have to move the box and the bookshelf and the stoplight and maybe buy a new then I can hang the clock on the correct part of the wall okay okay play

a better programming language.

Someone's mentioned this before, but LLMs solve the X-Y problem by always giving you the solution you ask for. I asked ChatGPT if there was a way to parse JSON with comments in the Ruby standard library, and it spit out some regular expressions. => https://gist.github.com/MatthiasPortzel/4978c1188537d9bf280ad41a30a86b7a#file-working_package_manager-rb-L78 And I audited these. I didn't just blindly copy-paste, I tested them, went through the regular expressions character by character to make sure I understood what they were doing, etc. The regular expressions are not a hallucination. But it doesn't change the fact that Regular Expressions are the wrong approach. It treats `//` in strings as comments. The correct answer to the question is "no, don't do that." And I have a good intuition for this stuff. I never in a million years would have said, "ah yes I am now going to parse this JSON file with regular expressions" because I understand at a deeper level that that's the wrong approach, even if it happened to work.

HermitCraft permit office plot line is influenced by Severance.

It was EOL in 2017. Python 2.7 received updates more recently than Python 3.3. You could run Python 2.7 and it would be an upgrade.

One thing I find helps is (over)estimating how many times you think you're going to fail, and then counting how many times you do. It's useful when you've failed 0 times or you've failed once and you're demotivated—you can look at your prediction and say, hey, failing is expected.

Homebrew so it gets updated with the rest of my system.

something else. I stopped enjoying myself 3 hours ago. But I'm not going to close the computer or go to bed I'm going to write a package control replacement program in Ruby. Woohoo.

Edit (12:28): Removed manifold link; gambling is lame,

I feel so helpless around other people. The feeling of suggesting something or asking for something and being ignored or rejected devastates me. It's absolutely terrifying to remember that I can't control other people and I am completely at their mercy.

> your long lives. Then, using that mental menu, TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT TO ORDER! This has the exact same energy as Fienberg's, 'it looks like I read really fast but actually I just take a screenshot in my mind and then read it while doing the next thing.' The same, "that makes sense, I could do that, but why." => https://youtu.be/k5oL4QKb6Sk?t=98 => https://thoughts.learnerpages.com/?show=a75da268-65cc-4bd7-882a-d42724fe4806

I'm imagining a Zig -> JS compiler. It would be written in JS and would require a complete implementation of Zig's comptime engine. Zig's "comptime engine" roughly speaking, is implemented in the 40,000 line Sema.zig. So there's a small chance that this actually happens. I guess it could be interesting to write a JS backend for the existing Zig compiler, but that's not what I'm imagining. I'm imagining something that would also be useful as an independent implementation of Zig, on the theory that implementation would be possible by deferring much of the complexity in behavior to JS. Also it would be really fricking funny benchmarking it against Zig itself. Like 8,000 times slower or something.

Everything in a single file. Introduce algorithms, introduce most programming concepts, functions, recursion, variables, arrays, etc. I think people scoff at this, and focus on "real code" but I suspect this is actually a great way to learn the programming language concepts. Second half of the class would be "project programming", actually organizing and using the tools to build cool things. Maybe be a mistake.

I had one teacher who would ask, "is anybody lost?" Intro chemistry, 150+ people in the classroom. Someone would nod or raise their hand, and he'd point at them and ask "Where did I lose you?" It was unreasonably effective. You lose people in weird places, and oftentimes going back and connecting topics is more effective and more helpful than re-explaining them.

(Although I don't know if I recommend it. Will take some getting used to.) If you want a license to my content you can

Thoughts refuses to address anything that may or may not be happening regarding any videos that may or may not be about toki pona.

dinner) because iOS has rolled out automated email categories despite the fact that they don't work. And emails like "[Action Required] Mandatory multi-factor authentication" are "Updates" not "Primary" so the categories feature is unusable. Because only the primary inbox can be filtered, so even if I flag an email and mark it as unread, it's gone forever unless the automated magic BS black box has decided that it's "Time Sensitive." I can recategorize the *sender* but that's useless because "Google" sends me both "New sign in from unrecognized device" and "Mandatory 2FA for access to Google Cloud Console." So my only option is turning off the categories feature for all accounts. Anyways this will never get better because there's a super easy way to turn it off in the upper right. This honestly makes me so mad. It's just garbage product design. Why is the button to turn if off in the app? Because you know it sucks balls and everyone will want to turn it off. And no will use it and no one will spend time to make it better because no one's using it. If you didn't ship garbage you wouldn't need 14 settings to "customize the user experience" because it would be good. It would be possible to use the app without having to go through settings. Can someone email this post to Craig.