If it were actually AI I might have some faith.

This isn’t a neural net processor, not a learning computer. It’s a fucking mechanical Turk. A bad one.

What he’s talking about isn’t capable of deriving new ideas. It’s just going to spit out shit it’s seen already.

The library of Babel is just as likely to give us the answers he’s talking about. More likely maybe because it’s at least already written down.

Bacon and ice cream go great together and I refuse to pretend they don’t.

I still miss midnight snack ice cream. Potato chips covered in chocolate. Delicious

I love how this image is a pun

This idiotic bullshit happens all over, it’s just more concentrated in the South.

This happened to a friend of mine from the UK in fixing Minnesota. He had NO context for what was happening and almost shit his pants.

I want to see someone try.

Not because it’s practical, or because it makes sense. But because it sounds like it makes sense but I’m practice would be so impractical and hard that the solution would be absolutely hilarious.

You’re driving along the freeway at 70 miles an hour, and a jet powered super drone rockets along side the car carrying a 2000 pound brick of lithium and drops it on top of you like a fucking dump truck. The shock crushes the cheap Chinese car like a can of soda and the sudden change in weight sends the drone careening off in to the air at a reasonable percentage of mach 1. The last thing you see on this earth as your brain matter is squeezed out of your eye sockets like toothpaste is a wide eyed driver in the car next to you.

The resulting pile up kills 4 people immediately, and several more later as they get caught in an expanding wave of lithium battery fires that either burn them to death or suck all of the oxygen out of the air.

Cixin Liu imagines exactly that towards the end of the Three Body series. Among other things, which make the series worth absolutely slogging through at points.

Here’s a fun fact that I think of every time I read about light delay.

We assume the speed of light is the same in all directions but there’s no way to prove that it is.

It could be light speed is instantaneous in one direction, and half the speed we think it is in the reverse. Any test we could devise depends on information traveling in two directions, nullifying any discrepancies in light speed.

I’m learning about it as a result of this thread. I’m still on 10, but I know what to look for when I inevitably am forced to switch to 11.

A number of things I use still aren’t supported on Linux

Oh it could be better for sure. But he’s got access to all the messages and data, getting a number at that point is probably trivial.

I also fucking hate Apple, with the same seething rage that redhats hate Windows, and I too must admit this is shockingly effective security.

Fun fact the first Mr coffee cost 300 dollars in 1971, which would be more than 2000 dollars today

Potato cure sadness. If standard potato does not, fermented potato will do

But potato love you

I am the potato

No. To both things. POST OR REMAIN

I tried to be active on writing prompts back in the other place, years ago.

So many of these things are written in first person that it’s grating to the eyes.

I’m arguing that you’re villainising the wrong people.

That’s actually their manager’s business. Literally what they hire them for. And honestly, if you’re going to fault them for performing a private venue for an Amazon event, you should also fault every artist that’s ever performed in like, Vegas. Casinos have been bleeding people to death long before Amazon hit the scene.

I’m not going to fault a performer for literally doing their job and taking a fat payday. I’d probably do the same in their shoes, anybody who insists otherwise isn’t being honest with themselves.

It’s not like the rider said “play show at Amazon, these guys just laid a lot of people off and are screaming about budget cuts so they want you to play for the rest. Here’s 4 million dollars.”

It probably said “corporate event for 6-10k people. Here’s a check for 4 million dollars”

His first attempt was in 2000 with Jesse Ventura in the reform party.

I had the same problem and spent 15 years in shitty customer service jobs before quitting and going to trade school.

It’s worked out really well.