Had they been real at the time they would have shipped with a 30-lb NiCad battery that provided 10 minutes of power and set your pants on fire.

I think we’re all a little better off for Sabine being on YouTube.

Cat software running on dog hardware.

(As opposed to a cheetah, which is dog software running on cat hardware)

https://archive.ph/4FoJs

The reason is that the cost of living in the US has been decoupled from wage inflation for a long time.

These days the government’s inability to regulate industry (due to partisan gridlock) combined with the fact that corporations used the period of high inflation to also hike prices has made it even worse for those who were already living on or close to the margin.

I heard someone won an award for the fjords...

I’m interested, but not $105 interested unfortunately.

This is so terrible it physically pains me.

They’re dinosaurs.

"Aerospace chocolatiers" would be a great name for an experimental, new-age music troupe.

From the slide deck (which is well worth a read IMO), "The Trust Index is the average percent trust in NGOs, business, government and media. ". The same deck indicates that government is seen as, "as Far Less Competent and Ethical than Business." So what this really tells me is that business (as a whole) is doing a FAR better job of marketing/PR than governments are, which is to be expected I suppose.

Wow. How do they fit so much smart into such a tiny space?

I honestly think the tiny fraction of MAU might be the reason. Something like once you exceed a Dunbar Number of contacts in a community it starts to go downhill.

I like big butts and I cannot lie

Or

when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face you get sprung

Really that whole song is a masterpiece.

In UNIX-y systems ./ is your current local directory, so if I was in /usr/home/will and I extracted your file I would expect any file that was like ./foo.txt to be extracted to /usr/home/will/foo.txt, and if there were files like ./testar/bar.txt, they would be extracted to a new directory /usr/home/will/testar/bar.txt -- or is that not what you're talking about?

Used dryer sheets work well too. Wet, scrub, rinse. Takes off hard water stains and soap scum as well or better than vinegar in my experience.

Weird, I was referring to this pretty well-known paper on LLMs. I haven't been to Reddit in many years.

I can't tell if this is upsetting or not. I'm still mostly in the camp of "stochastic parrots" when it comes to LLMs, but this just feels like the AI is intentionally being a dick... and the intent part is concerning.

I read the article yesterday and have been exposed to it a dozen times since, but I still laugh every time I see the phrase “racially diverse nazis”

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

You can kinda do it with Google Customizabe Search Engine, which is basically a thin wrapper around Google. In a regular Google search you can use syntax like -site:ignorethisdomain.com to exclude specific domains (i do this with Pinterest whenever searching for images, for example). But manually typing in a large list of black listed domains would be tedious so instead you can set up a CSE with everybody you want to ignore and then just use the special URL as your search engine.