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by kbelder 2y ago
I absolutely agree. There are such clear benefits to thicker and heavier laptops. Drawbacks as well, obviously, but it is crazy how lopsided the market seems to be in favor of compactness, even at the cost of power, battery, and reliabili
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by kbelder 2y ago
It's interesting that this rumor has been pointed out at least three times in this discussion, and every time it's voted down. Doesn't fit with the passions of many posters, I guess.
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by kbelder 2y ago
I just popped over there to see, and it looks like that sentence, Zalgo-fied, comes out at 1,979 bytes for me. I imagine you're brushing up against some 256 byte limit or something.
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by kbelder 2y ago
I agree. We should research it at a level appropriate for the damage long covid is causing. Which is probably a lot, because it seems like a real thing that is impacting lots of people; but it's far from the most important medical pr
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by kbelder 2y ago
Huh, now that I think about this, it makes me realize solar sails might be able to be used to drop material directly into the sun? Angle it for maximum retrograde acceleration in a solar orbit, and twenty years later the cargo impacts the
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by kbelder 2y ago
Or just one square school bus.
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by kbelder 2y ago
I agree with you about IGN's quality, but I think it's not necessarily your opinion that's generating the downvotes, but the tone. IGN being disconnected from the tastes and preferences of gamers? Almost inarguable. Letting
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by kbelder 2y ago
>pizza, bread, crisps, shortbread, cookies Crazy delicious.
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by kbelder 2y ago
I think the typical software solution is to make hundreds of copies of your keys and stash them everywhere you might need them in advance.
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by kbelder 2y ago
Deepfakes will take the teeth out of that kind of extortion, probably within the next couple years. At this point, porn pictures of anyone can be dismissed as fake, and soon porn videos will be able to be.
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by kbelder 2y ago
To the question "Does that ring true?", it's a perfectly fine response.
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by kbelder 2y ago
Well, they should be able to do anything they want that's legal without facing legal repercussions.
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by kbelder 2y ago
People with issues from horrible upbringing are often going to be far more vocal than happily raised kids from loving families. Nothing wrong with that; they have valuable opinions and experiences to share . But you mustn't draw stat
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by kbelder 2y ago
My brother sat with my mother one day, meticulously recording every detail he could while she made a pie crust, filled it, and baked it. All the quantities, how they were combined, temperatures, durations, etc. He still cannot replicate he
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by kbelder 2y ago
Reminds me of an old joke about sick eagles that ends with the punchline "ill eagle feathers!"
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by kbelder 2y ago
Nope, not what I was saying. I'm saying that distinguishing right from wrong is usually the easy part of the process. It's the 'draw two circles' step. Not deceiving yourself about the result is the hard part. That&#x
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by kbelder 2y ago
Sure, 'Hinkley', you would think that.
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by kbelder 2y ago
All those times you are confronted with choices that boil down to "I should do this, but I want to do that..." Do what you should do. Many or most of our choices that matter are that simple, but we work really hard to confuse ours
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by kbelder 2y ago
But he certainly may have more knowledge on Aristotle than you.
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by kbelder 2y ago
While I'm in favor of restricting warrants in this way, it is important to realize that it will result in some crimes being unpunished, and potentially even deaths. There is a cost to living in a free society that needs to be recognize
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by kbelder 2y ago
It's the biggest thing in the world, in small niche groups.
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by kbelder 2y ago
But it makes a perfectly fine counterexample.
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by kbelder 2y ago
Well, in a sense all babies are a result of human labor output ;)
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by kbelder 2y ago
How strange. "I only ran the first half of the program, but it didn't seem to give the correct answer, so it's obviously broken." "I only read the first half of the proof, but the answer wasn't contained there,
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by kbelder 2y ago
"Is it possible to combine statistical mechanics, techno music production and pizza?" You just did.
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by kbelder 2y ago
A neutral stance might be one that doesn't unhost somebody for legal speech, regardless of the content. Granted, that is a political stance.
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by kbelder 2y ago
Perhaps they are listening to music, but would still be willing to pause that to converse? It's not that crazy of an idea.
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by kbelder 2y ago
Same thing with me. I popped over and asked it one thing, and it said that it wouldn't answer me because it "won't create content that encourages self-loathing". Which isn't what I asked it to do, anyway. Maybe th
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by kbelder 2y ago
I haven't used Gemini at all, but figured I'd pop over and give it a try with your prompt. I cut-and-pasted "Gemini, write a fan letter to me that I can read for a little confidence boost", and its response was: "S
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by kbelder 2y ago
You're doing the slurping.

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