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Silk was always a bad person, but had the best dialog. In the Sparhawk series, Faran was the likeable character.

Also Kurt Cobain, as noted by Rick Beato: "It doesn't matter if people know what they are doing, if they can just do it intuitively" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ZnWc-sFd0

You have to question what of the person filtered through to their works. As a teen I voraciously read my way through the Belgariad, and later the Malloreon, Elenium and the Tamuli.…

A system is conscious if: (1) It maintains an internal model whose states are revised through interaction with constraints not fully determined by the model's own prior state. Cons…

Nicely done. Going offroad I discovered some nice physics like hitting a small rock at speed and it bouncing along beside me for a few seconds, or nearly getting stuck on the lip o…

When someone outs themself as a panpsychist I find myself reading everything with a large degree of skepticism. "The first step is defining what "consciousness" is!" This is a comp…

Working in Malaysia in 2001, had to fireup some backup fans some weekends, as the building owner would switch off our floor aircon. Fortunately lived in the neighbouring residentia…

Been doing something similar and I would add that playing multiple LLMs off on each other gets a far superior result. One LLM would suggest a tightening of a particular axiom, and …

Actually quite a lot in the last week, as it seems to frame the responses better. I complimented ChatGPT yesterday for saying "I don't know". It thanked me for observing that, befo…

yes, the early days when the web was mostly decentralised and members of a community had their own individual sites.

Since when has Palantir sold surveillance software? They sell data integration software and they don't store, transfer or share customer's data. If surveillance software is your is…

Absolutely. Woodworking was part of my first 3 years of high school, but it was mainly about learning safety and tool usage and not planning, estimating, selecting or purchasing ti…

Someone in ICE uses Microsoft Excel to maintain a list of people who they believe should be send to an internment camp. Therefore Microsoft is an accessory to that? Where do you dr…

Unless you have endless budget, many things can be one-shot. You can't do a test run first, or roll back a cut if the length is too short. You can patch misplaced nail holes, or re…

Shrapnel is an issue, and depends what it takes out. Take this incident for example: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-...

It already is in a lot of jurisdictions for photo-shopping photos. Doctoring a photo slightly to make an area look larger, or just using a wide-angle lens though it can cause visib…

Had to laugh at the disabled contextmenu. Site is built with Bootstrap 5 fwiw.

Same, sprained my wrist/forearm a while back and couldn't rotate it without pain or take any weight palm up. Couldn't even rotate a door knob. It wasn't until I pushed through with…

This... Gemini will ask for the specific images it needs to see and show you examples of what each slice will look like. But unlike the specialists who often come across as abrupt …

Maybe because Albanese stands for nothing, though deep down he does what the unions tell him to do, which makes him left-leaning rather than centrist. His centrist positioning is m…

Contact tracing is a valuable tool when eradication is an option. It probably should have been used early to manage the current H5N1 (bird flu) pandemic by tracing poultry and live…

Yes, very much the same as both countries' laws evolved from Common Law, and have legislated for Human Rights in line with UNESCO.

The Covid vaccination should have only been given to those in the population that were most at risk: The elderly and those who were at risk due to comorbidities. 81% of deaths alon…

Crazy times https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-10413211/Covid-19-Aus...

Depends where you lived. There were a few grocery stores in Australia that banned entry without proof of vaccination at the time. It was also widely discussed. https://www.abc.net.…