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“France considers requiring Musk’s X to get users to lie about their age”

FTFY

Two things that haven’t quite been mentioned yet:

1) Real life has effectively infinite FPS, so you might expect that the closer a game is to reality, the higher your brain wants the FPS to be in order for it to make sense. This might not be true for everyone, but I imagine it could be for some people.

More likely: 2) If you’ve played other things at high FPS you might be used to it on a computer screen, so when something is below that performance, it just doesn’t look right.

These might not be entirely accurate on their own and factors of these and other things mentioned elsewhere might be at play.

Source: Kind of an inversion of the above: I can’t focus properly if games are set higher than 30FPS; It feels like my eyes are being torn in different directions. But then, the games I play are old or deliberately blocky, so they’re not particularly “real” looking, and I don’t have much trouble with real life’s “infinite” FPS.

Unglaublich !

Agnosticism is a thing. He might be off in his own weird non-declarative void-like corner but the whole intermedium isn’t like that.

Ah, but the clueless code monkeys, script kiddies and C-levels who are responsible for writing the AI companies’ processing code only know how to scrape from someone else’s website. They can’t even ask their (respective) company’s AI for help because it hasn’t been trained yet. (Not that Wikipedia’s content will necessarily help).

They’re not even capable of taking the ZIP file and hosting the contents on localhost to allow the scraper code they got working to operate on something it understands.

So hammer Wikipedia they must, because it’s the limit of their competence.

Hard to say. I feel like it’s about as likely he would have found LLMs to be an overcomplicated false prophet or false god.

This was a man whose operating system turned a PC into something not unlike an advanced Commodore 64, after all. He liked the simplicity and lack of layers the older computers provided. LLMs are literally layers upon layers of obfuscation and pseudo-neural wiring. That’s not simple or beautiful.

It might all boil down to whether the inherent randomness of an LLM could be (made to be) sufficiently influenced by a higher power or not. He often treated random number outcomes as the influence of God, and it’s hard to say how seriously he took that on any given day.

We seem to be headed in that direction though. My most recent motherboard has built in LEDs for no practical reason other than “ooh shiny”. Took me a minute to find the UEFI setting to disable that. “Stealth mode” apparently.

It’s also increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to find wired mice, keyboards and headsets in that ever-increasing gulf between “all singing, all dancing, expensive gaming device full of unnecessary LEDs” and “cheap, awful, bare minimum”. If it plugs in and there’s a 5v rail nearby, gotta draw on that to be shiny! Anything else would be sacrilege!

Alcohol is a known muscle relaxant. That fact is even a plot point early in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but I digress.

It’s also something of a mind relaxant. If your pain is made worse by tensing up worrying about the pain, then alcohol is going to help both ways, because you’ll be less able to worry and you won’t be able to tense quite so much anyway.

I’d be surprised if neither ibuprofen nor diclofenac have any effect at all - but don’t take those with alcohol in your system. Liver damage is not something you want to add to your list of ailments.

Consult a physician, etc.

Off the top of my head:

Spelt - past tense of “to spell”. Valid in Britain and British Commonwealth countries, though “spelled” is also accepted.

Cleft - One of the three past tenses of “cleave” that have fossilised into particular subjects at various stages. “Cloven” is ancient and “Cleaved” is the more recent.

Felt - past tense of “to feel”.

Smelt - past tense of “to smell”. This might also be more common in British English.

Past - used many times in this post(!). Derived from the past tense of “pass”, though its usage has split somewhat from “passed” even though they’re generally pronounced the same.

Spilt - past tense of “spill” not to be confused with split, (which is its own past tense). Might be another one more acceptable in British English

And none of this counts the irregular verbs that use ablaut (vowel change) and have past tenses that end in -t like taught, caught, lit etc.

OK, it’s been a few hours. I’ll do the clumsy thing that everyone else has avoided and point out that it’s deliberately set up so that people who have never heard of operator precedence - those who do things purely left-to-right - don’t get a weird fraction when the division step is done, making them think that the answer they’ve reached must be the right one. You’d still get a handful who’d argue regardless, but that whole number ropes in a whole bunch more.

Couple that with the fact that the value reached this way doesn’t match the value obtained from using operator precedence and you get arguments about what the right answer is. And a comment like the one you’re reading right now that’s too long for the hard-of-thinking to read.

“More engagement, baybee [sunglasses smiley emoji] [cash bag emoji]” etc.

Maybe, but they wouldn’t want to give away that such a thing definitely already exists. Also, any intelligence gathered that way would likely be inadmissible as evidence if it was used to prosecute someone.

By getting an overt backdoor installed, both those problems go away.

The current US administration is unpredictable. Prepare for the worst. Full deportation if you’re unlucky, or merely (your son) getting kicked out of academia. If you have money, you might be able to sweeten a deal to get him to stay, but you might be better off spending that money to have your son study in a less volatile environment, i.e. a different country entirely.

Be aware that lots of people have already had this idea. Applications to academia in other English-speaking countries has increased significantly in recent months.

Has any study been done on how efficient they are as heaters? The electricity they use when idle doesn’t vanish; it’s given off as heat. In the winter it might be worthwhile to not bother to unplug them because what they’re giving off could offset what other, more conventional, heat sources might otherwise provide. i.e. you leave a charger plugged in, and your house heating goes off half a second sooner, saving you the pennies there that the charger costs otherwise.

Admittedly, this doesn’t apply to summer and hotter climates, so most people, most of the time, probably ought to be unplugging them, but there’s a small percentage of cases where the reverse might actually be beneficial.

Using the same logic, it is “implausible” that we would not take money from those who have it and give it to the sheer volume of people who need it.

Oh. Suddenly it doesn’t work that way. Huh. Funny how that is.

The Star Wars universe is full of trillions of sapient, dextrous beings, humans* or otherwise. Just because the inventors don’t (necessarily) show up on screen doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

If you want a “too simplified as to be almost certainly wrong” answer: E.T.

His species are canonically native to the Star Wars galaxy but we don’t see them most of the time in the SW lore. Let’s assume they’re the ones who invented it all. Easy.

I mean, the one we got a movie about didn’t seem all that bright, but he managed to build a communicator array out of a Speak-n-Spell, so they must have something going for them.