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Ghandi notoriously nukes EVERYONE in Civs 2 through 4. It's become (or maybe became, but it's still all training data) a huge internet subculture. Penny to a dollar this is a baked…

This was the line that did for me, as an old school backend engineer who has accidentally deleted way more production databases than I have fingers over the years - > We have resto…

Is English your first language? If it isn't, I completely agree with you. However if it is, then I would make the argument that it's exactly the right way to teach it, particularly…

I guess it depends. There's been a major issue in the UK for a while regarding quite a few very iconic, decades old, live music venues. Back in the day they were in less salubrious…

Slightly on topic - anyone remember LeapMotion and is anyone aware of any current support for that? Found an original one in a drawer when I was having a clearout the other day

Agreed, and many of mine do when I'm out with the dog or on the toilet. The thing is that those are unscripted. The point that I think the OP was making was that enforced breaks on…

Yeah, but people who grow or sell flowers are not on the same level as the very very good engineers who develop these dystopian systems. The people in the advertising industry who …

And I would argue that this very quickly becomes a race to the bottom, where the viewing of mass produced trash accelerates because "that's what people want to watch" becomes "we'l…

I love Vim. I use it pretty much exclusively. I found it very funny. So, yes.

Thank you. Think we've hit the level of my "run away scared at the first sight of machine code" understanding, but I now vaguely understand what's going on.

Ah! ok - that makes sense. Thank you. So it would be a specialised chip with a load of hardcoded functions, kind of like an ASIC?

So, given that I'm already aware that I almost certainly won't understand any answers to this question, can someone give me a idiot level baseline as to exactly what an AI chip is …

Even if it is a cheap one, it's still wrong. I have the same visceral gut reaction to seeing a musical instrument get destroyed as I do to seeing a book burnt. I own a lot of very …

I've had a driving licence in the UK for 26 years, and have never once paid for my fuel before filling up. This is normal everywhere in Europe at least, to the point where I suspec…

As a kid, I learnt violin and trombone to a very high orchestra level standard, and could read sheet music from a very early age. I then moved on in my late twenties to guitar, bas…

Depends. My nearsightness is so bad that even the insanely expensive ultra thin lenses are too heavy to wear for more than a few hours at a time and give me a raging headache from …

It's also not unheard of for native English speakers to use it differently (in speech, at least) as a consequence of regional accents. I would use "a history book", because my acce…

I don't know how it works in the US (and tbf, I'm not much wiser after reading this article), but the UK it falls under trade dressing - eg the Royal Mail have rights to use one sh…

I mean, cool. If you're already an athletic freak who can do this for a couple of hours at a time with a massive room with no furniture in. You're basically describing Wii Sports, …

::looks suspiciously at fastly again::

Not for me. It's the new one too.

The status page is now showing some dramatic drops in everything but error rates, which are through the roof. It's not just old.reddit either, its the new abomination too

Or indeed the New York Post posting a factually correct article about a laptop. Incidentally, as someone from the UK who was unfortunate enough to have him as my MP for years, I'll…

It's the Gell-Mann amnesia effect ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmn... ) in full flow. Journalists, almost entirely as a group, are experts in nothing.…

This is an eye opening thread, to say the least https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500959074653024259