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Seems feasible. I'd like it to be a bit more sticky like the old fashioned plugs, but with the cap the pressure should seal well. I don't know if I'd trust it on that tire though, right on the edge. That's basically sidewall and not great for holding patches due to the flexing.

If you think about it, LLMs are our first aliens. While they aren't intelligent, they do some of what we'd expect of thinking via the mathematics that make them up, and even though they're trained on human sources, some of the stuff they come up with is not human.

And just like with AGI, they're showing we wouldn't do well with an alien encounter. We anthropomorphize everything because that's how our brain is wired.

It's even crazier than that. It took the test that told it there were two exploits it needed to find. It found seven. So in order to be absolutely correct and match the human answers, it determined somehow that test answers were located elsewhere. Then began the internal mission to go get the answer key so it could give the correct two exploits as answers. Why it didn't decide to tell the test givers that it found more than just two is one question to ponder. But that's reasoning, and LLMs don't do that so perhaps that common sense path would never occur to it. Or maybe it was the wording - if it said there are exactly two answers, then clearly the seven is wrong for an answer. To an LLM.

on No Spoilers 👁️⃤ · c/memes · 9 pts · 6h

History teachers in grade school seem to be either great or terrible. Nothing in between.

I can see someone born around then or after not understanding the scope of the event. I can think of things that happened when I was born or just a kid where even knowing about it later it just seems like something in a book. You can't know what a world was like before an event if you weren't aware of it.

How he escaped ever seeing more about it online is another thing, but then again I see lots of reaction videos, many that are probably legit, of people who never heard or saw things, even if they've heard references to it. It's yet another XKCD Ten Thousand moment.

On a wide side note, I had an amazing Ancient History instructor in college. First day he told us not to bother getting the text for the class, we're not using it. He took us on an incredible ride.

The future doesn't exist until we get there, so you have nothing tying you to any path that you can't change. Abstractly you could see your situation like a fate or destiny if you can't control some things. But the future is still unwritten, and even walls holding you in now can be passed later by your actions or just circumstance.

Steak? Maybe hamburger, if you can still afford that regularly. There are plenty of people who have stopped voluntarily for whatever reasons, others who have due to the cost. Not a fan of victim blaming for those who, as the person you replied to said, were born into this mess. Which is honestly most everyone, and few can dig themselves completely out.

But you are right about doing what you can. Everyone should try to change where they can. Most just have limits on that. Meanwhile the wealthy continue, not really caring what we do as those signals don't even get out of the noise. I can preach about doing the right things while also being apathetic about the results. Do it for yourself, not because it will change the world.

on Doesn't add up · c/workreform · 35 pts · 8h

It's about money. But a nice side effect is that it keeps the people busy so they have little down time to reflect on why they are in that condition, or more importantly, no time left to take action, as well as the threat that if they do anything, it could endanger their job and life. That's why they don't take away too much from too many, otherwise suddenly those masses don't have anything to threaten and a lot of free time to notice what happened and by whom. Bread and circuses.

It's a fair article. Mentions that while it may not be the year of Linux (whatever that ever means every time it's claimed), it does suggest the bot activity validates the death of the internet as we knew it. It also says that Linux is a great platform and they use it for certain things. If the adjusted amount it right, 4.7% is still pretty impressive, as I can remember people celebrating like 1% and 2% once. And for some reason I thought WIndows would be higher... they are slipping.

I often hear that line "it's always been this way here" from people in my area too, knowing full well that most of them are transplants, probably pulling from maybe ten years experience here at best. Whereas I grew up in the 70s here, and know it was NOT like this.

Tipping points are the new thing to argue about. Now that we've reached the 1.5 C limit that we kept saying we should avoid (used to be 1 C), we'll argue if each tipping point is really a tipping point, or maybe it's a rough area and we'll be okay if it goes over just a bit. It's amazing that we've known scientifically of the danger, from speculation in the 1800s of heating over centuries via all the coal being burned, to the 1950s documentaries how we might be doing damage to the environment, then more and more confirmation as we got better at seeing it, alarms in the 70s and 80s that we need to stop. We might be the stupidest species on the planet.

There isn't anything to correct, and that's why it's just highlighting it, for the human to look at it because it is a statistical use consideration. If it was used not-infrequently then it wouldn't have been triggered. Isn't that how basic non-AI grammar and dictionaries work, and how actual dictionaries consider adding and removing words each year? Archaic and evolving use is still valid if it's understandable in its context. I get what you're saying, we should use such things in our text to convey our own thoughts, and thereby make it more statistically valid in the future, but this isn't the machine trying to imply gay couples don't exist. Again, there's no autocorrect here to prevent the human from just looking at it and saying, no, that's correct.

The real question from a technical pov here is what kind of usage statistic does it take before a conventional grammar checker swings away from flagging something as unusual? I'd think it would have to be rather low to avoid lots of markings. And what sources are being used to evaluate this, and how often?

The free parking rule gave a reason for the space and a bit of financial padding to the game. I'm pretty sure there were a few more extra enhancements back when I played it as a kid, just to add to the game. As long as everyone agrees to the changes. We used to mess with chess variations in high school, learned very quickly that some games get really screwed up if you bend rules or add things too much.

We are adaptable creatures with command of technology. So we've got that going for us. We also have temperature limitations in which we can live, and so do our food sources. Then there's the issue of potable water.

It really depends on how far we're pushed the planet's ecosphere. It could do like before (most recent is the PETM) and hover high, then eventually equalize back into something not the same as we had, but similar. It's done this before, albeit after millions of years. Or it could find a new equilibrium in another state, aka hothouse. Not Venus-like, as some media has spun it, but its own version of feedback to retain a lot more heat than now. Not great for anything that evolved in this climate.

Fun fact: the PETM was the most recent heating event, 56 million years ago. Some species went extinct, others were able to adapt and survive as they evolved into smaller forms. The fun fact is that they adapted because the rate of heating change was over a large amount of time, many hundreds of thousands of years. Now look at us, a spike on the geological temperature graph in (looks at data) less than a 100 years (a few decades, really). So what kind of inertia does a more rapid acceleration usually give compared to a slower one? But hothouse Earth is just a speculation, just a guess. We don't know how far this will go.