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No need. The probes are about as real as birds are.

Was this sponsored by the sugar industry?

I do it more when typing on mobile. Ain’t nobody wants to read (or try to edit) paragraphs almost as long as their screen is tall.

Another (worse than ever) Actions outage today.

You can’t take it with you. But you can run out of money late in life and spend your last half decade either on the streets or marinating in your own feces in an understaffed nobod…

The adage that nobody uses more than 25% of MS Word’s features — but it’s a different 25% for each user.

Roughly 2002-2010 that attention to detail was on display and the OS struck an impressive balance between features, ease of use, and power user access. Since then it’s been straigh…

Gee…

If those 2-4 weeks a year are hot enough to kill infants, the elderly, and people with health conditions, though…

Yeah, that article was silly. Yes, setting up a new phone is a giant annoying exercise in yak shaving, but that’s to be expected when transferring to any device. That said, I’ve ha…

Claude has a specific version that typically starts with “it’s” or even more often “that’s”. It takes the construction “That’s not a bug. It’s a feature.” and applies it to absolut…

Yes. Because until now it was propped up by immigration — and mostly legal immigration — which has dropped precipitously.

Okay, I’m the first to get annoyed at LLM-ese. But language requires the ability to say that something is A and not B. There are certain phrasings of that that are painfully Claude…

That’s the thing. LLMs don’t have any logical ability. Only predictive ability. They’re not the same. And that’s why LLMs are a) unreliable and b) not a path to AGI.

The latter, and/or cultivating favor with certain people in positions of power. I haven’t been paying that much attention, but IIRC CBS was acquired relatively recently by someone …

Comments should explain WHY. Why this needs to be done. Why we’re doing it this way instead of that way. Why this works when it looks like it shouldn’t. Why the business requires t…

They’re not, but a certain faction of the US right is taking them as a model nonetheless — I’m assuming they covet the sort of power the oligarchs there enjoy.

I’m not following it closely, because I don’t believe that within my lifetime we’ll achieve anything that’s effective and safe; or if we do, it’ll be too late for me and more than …

Dude, even setting aside the question of whether eliminating aging is a good idea (for the economy, for the species, etc), what makes you think nobody’s working on it? And lol, eas…

IIRC in the past they’ve shut down some TLDs for now-defunct former countries.

Most of us don’t interact with our registrars often enough to notice changes in support culture, and who has time to be constantly checking for changes in their ownership, if that …

Oh, duh! How dense of me.

… by defunding it?

Bulky? Costly? Software doesn’t support it? How much do they cost, anyway? I bet they’re also absolutely awful to read/write text or code on. And the quality for 3D uses is still m…

You’ll probably want to use an escrow service. eBay used to and probably still does integrate with a couple reputable ones. Alternatively, sell to a reputable third party that buys…