davidgro

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davidgro ,

No.

davidgro ,

I suppose kids aren't great at centering a dot. But they could draw a six pointed * as easily as an x, it's one more line.

davidgro ,

I am really surprised at that from Proton. They of all organizations should be better than that.

davidgro ,

Here you go. Choose wisely, or don't. Most of the options are just fine.

davidgro ,

About the only one of those I use (besides the regular ones like 'a flock of birds') is 'a murder of crows'. Usually in a statement like "We just witnessed a murder."

davidgro ,

Most of those are threeks and twoks. Only a few forks.

davidgro ,

I was with my mom as well. Her health was bad, but we thought she had years left. It got much worse much faster than we expected and in the end my wife and I rushed to get to the hospital in time to see her.

davidgro ,

Moss is stuff.

davidgro ,

So... What is it?

(I actually looked it up already, but I want descriptions in posts like this)

davidgro ,

Too new school for me. SimCity 2000 is clearly designed to handle the challenges of running a 21st century city

davidgro ,

That's terrible. I love it.

davidgro ,

Nice. I actually missed a couple of the puns.

davidgro ,

I didn't even notice. Perhaps OP also no longer has living parents.

davidgro ,

Know the monetary value of approximately anything at a glance.

For example, when shopping my dad always knew if a sale was real or if they raised the price first.

Unfortunately he never managed to translate that skill into making money even when he owned a small comic store.

davidgro ,

No, it's like saying that most of them happen up to a year later.

The word "after" in the headline means not during, and that's the surprising part

davidgro ,

SNE AM VD | - 90IBE

davidgro ,

I'd double my gas usage during the week

More likely power bill I'd think - I haven't heard of anyone working on an autonomous gas powered car or even hybrid. Also a few states won't even be allowing sales of gas cars in 11 years

davidgro ,

I stopped waiting a decade ago and just got the snip. Best decision ever.

davidgro ,

It wasn't bad in my case. Much less pain than say a dental appointment. Sore for longer after, but still not high on the list.

davidgro ,

Did the bunny make it?

davidgro ,

It's my little blue scoop, you don't know what I've done!

davidgro ,

Keming.

davidgro ,

I do feel bad for EverydayAstronaut (Tim Dodd) - he really deserved this flight.

Edit: And the other crew as well of course, I just am not as familiar with them.

davidgro ,

Yeah, saw a neat looking cat toy in an ad, and bought it.

It was an ad for a motorized ball about as big as a golf ball, lights up and kinda rolls/jumps around on its own as long as the cats nudge it. Eventually sleeps when they stop playing with it.

It is exactly as advertised, but the cats are only kinda interested in it. We still recharge it and put it out for them occasionally.

davidgro ,

I've seen that happen for open source stuff

davidgro ,

Naturally. They have lots of those

davidgro ,

I was recently on a flight where the first landing attempt was aborted due to low visibility and we looped around (the entire Metro area) to try again. After the second attempt succeeded there was indeed clapping.

davidgro ,

Super Hexagon

davidgro ,

No previous puzzles archive?

davidgro , (edited )

Hmm. Also no hints when I'm truly stuck. ( is beyond my comprehension.)

Edit: Nevermind. Got it.

davidgro ,

They are actually more dangerous when tedious.

davidgro ,

Here you go:

!atbge

It's not busy enough, but exists

davidgro ,

I remember leaded gasoline (and prices under USD$1)

I saw (on TV) the Challenger explosion

On 9/11 I was staying at a friend's house, and that morning basically every news site was brought to its knees. Like serving static text only summaries. I remember going outside and seeing the newspaper on the porch and thinking "This is going to be the last normal one for a very long time". It was of course.

Some friends and I took a long road trip and in person we saw this fly the first of the two flights for the X prize (Note: that one actually had some decent reasons to use the name X)

I caught COVID-19. Twice. So far.

davidgro ,

Neat... What's the catch?

davidgro ,

You're right, I see that in the article now.
Always ruining stuff.

davidgro ,

Ah, was guessing that just meant the employee entrance or walkway or something.

davidgro ,

Seeing his brother vanish just made him fall apart.

davidgro ,

We kinda did that for the genome

davidgro ,

Very true. Even though we have more advanced data tools and everything, it would still be orders of magnitude more difficult

davidgro ,

So you're worried about governments forcing brain surgery on people, and think this one particular technology is going to be the big issue if that happens?

I think at that point 'reading minds' is no longer the major concern. Like the old statement about apocryphal airport security measures after 9/11 - "if you can take over the plane with fingernail clippers, then you don't need the clippers".

(clippers were never actually banned on planes in the USA, but for a short while the metal files on them were and that caused confusion)

This tech seems like a huge waste of money when if they are That authoritarian they could just shove an ice pick up the dissident's eye socket or simply have them jump out a window with bullet holes in their back. Why bother with actually gathering evidence - if you're willing to forcefully open their skull, then clearly it's already beyond that point.

I suppose it could be used to find accomplices and crack passwords and stuff, but still seems like a very roundabout way of going about it and likely can be easily defeated by just thinking "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" in a loop. Or thinking of an earworm song. Or thinking of false statements.

davidgro ,

The article said surgery. Also common sense, they are reading individual neurons. Not feasible from outside.

Best we have is FMRI, and it is an amazing technology, but it absolutely can't do that and never will because of how it works. And besides, it doesn't fit in a doorway either, and would also be incredibly obvious: loud, super magnetic - requiring all metal to be removed for a long distance, requiring the target to sit for a long time and follow instructions, etc.

Surgery is absolutely the only way this is possible.

davidgro ,

Or mesa, plateau, or butte?

davidgro ,

Yes, 'url parameters' start with a question mark and then any after the first are separated with ampersands. Often some of them may be for tracking, but not always.

davidgro ,

I don't know about that... Rebecca Black OS was the first to be Wayland by default, and continues to be a cutting edge test bed for it.

How old is the oldest building in the town you live in?

To those from the Western hemisphere, it's always fascinating to hear that some homes and businesses from the times of the Greek philosophers still have inhabitants, and then you remember that the Western hemisphere is itself not without its own examples, for example some Mexican villages still have temples from the times of the...

davidgro ,

Interesting that it was moved to a different lot in 1986.

And looks like any other house, just with fancy window frames.

davidgro ,

Nanotubes are still a thing, but most of the hype now seems to be around 'buckysheets' (graphene)

davidgro ,

An interesting criteria, why does going back to edit (instead of correcting itself mid-stream)

I suppose those would be equivalent, I just haven't seen it done (at least not properly) - the example you posted earlier with the siblings for example was showing how it could only append more text and not actually produce corrections.

Couldn't you perform this test on any animal with a discrete brain?

Oh, right. Animals do exist. It simply hadn't occurred to me at that moment, even though there is one right next to me taking a nap. However a lot of them are capable of more rational thought than LLMs are. Even bees can count reasonably well. Anyway, defining human level intelligence is a hard problem. Determining it is even harder, but I still say it's feasible to say some things aren't it.

[Garden path sentences]

No good. The difference between a good garden path and simple ambiguity is that the 'most likely' interpretation when the reader is halfway down the sentence turns out to be ungrammatical or nonsense by the end. The way LLMs work, they don't like to put words together in an order that they don't usually occur, even if in the end there's a way to interpret it to make sense.

The example it made with the keys is particularly bad because the two meanings are nearly identical anyway.

Just for fun I'll try to make one here:

"After dealing with the asbestos, I was asked to lead paint removal."

Might not work, the meaningful interpretation could be too obvious compared to the toxic metal, but it has the right structure.

davidgro ,

I gotta go for now, but one quick note:

"While the man hunted the deer ran into the forest"

Actually looked too good to be an original creation from an LLM to me, and sure enough it's not. (About half way down)
I was actually looking up the one about the horse when I found that page.

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