lurquer

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by lurquer 1y ago
> Immigration is not the issue either. It's about the 3 equal branches of government and how one branch is trying to discredit the other. Which branch is guilty of this? It’s far more frequent for a rogue district judge fo overstep
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by lurquer 1y ago
Full udders are painful. For humans too. If mom starts breastfeeding and then abruptly stops, the boobs will swell up and ache horribly for several days (until lactation stops due to lack of stimulation.) You don’t need to train the cow. Af
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by lurquer 2y ago
Even with a key it is breaking and entering
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by lurquer 2y ago
Oh yeah… The Aztecs were sweethearts. ‘Caribbean’, by the way, is derived from the ‘Canib’ Indians, from which we get another sweet and gentle word: Cannibal. Idealizing these cultures would be similar to some revisionist historian in 2525
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by lurquer 2y ago
Ironic. ChatGPT could have easily improved it: This lawsuit has always been driven by Elon’s personal and financial interests in advancing his for-profit AI company. As his own emails confirm, he sought to merge a for-profit OpenAI into Tes
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by lurquer 2y ago
There are several Transformers successors and spinoffs across various media. Animated series like Beast Wars: Transformers (1996) introduced a new generation of transforming robots, shifting from vehicles to animals. Later, Transformers: Pr
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by lurquer 2y ago
There are only two elected officials in the entire Executive Branch.
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by lurquer 2y ago
I’m surprised they didn’t include the default purpose for all similarly useless inventions: Search and Rescue.
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by lurquer 2y ago
Why not a mining operation in the Antarctic? Or the Sahara? Or in the Mariana Trench? As all these options are cheaper and easier than asteroid mining, and as none of these bright-eyed ‘entrepreneurs’ are undertaking these tasks, I can only
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by lurquer 2y ago
“ The employees suggest there are a number of risks that we are facing from AI development, including further entrenchment of existing inequalities, manipulation and misinformation, and loss of control of autonomous AI systems, which the le
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by lurquer 2y ago
You have a speck of gunk in your vitreous near the focal point. Not retina. You can’t ‘see’ damage to your retina… you brain just interpolates. The gunk in your vitreous can stay there a long time… it’s gel, more or less, and can take a lon
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by lurquer 3y ago
Lobotomies can likewise help.
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by lurquer 3y ago
The average age of marriage was not 14. That’s a myth.
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by lurquer 3y ago
Likewise. Damn. I guess I’ll stay stuck in here for a while longer.
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by lurquer 3y ago
as you are driving, perhaps you should consider what's filling your tank.
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by lurquer 3y ago
a couple of minimum wage teenagers could do it faster, better, cheaper, and safer.
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by lurquer 3y ago
Agree. Ironically, I turned to ChatGPT to ask how one would design a webpage such as that!
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by lurquer 3y ago
When it comes or aperture radar, you do what you must because you can.
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by lurquer 3y ago
I drank five or six cups of coffee a day for decades. I’d even have a cup before going to bed — that’s how tolerant I had become. Got a mild flu/Covid/cold couple years ago. Better in a week. But, during the illness and since, the
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by lurquer 3y ago
> If there is a god then humanity is probably something akin to an ant farm to it. To expect god to care about any particular person is like trying to care about one particular ant in a colony That analogy doesn’t hold. I have an ant far
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by lurquer 3y ago
Indeed. In fact, there is no reason to believe some stochiastic if/then process could ever result in the type of morphogenesis we see in the video. Whence comes this assumption that life may be reduced to a set of Boolean logic rules?
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by lurquer 3y ago
Then make a simulation on a computer of a single cell dividing and assembling into a form. Good luck. Hand-wavey comments such as yours evidence a profound lack of appreciation for what such videos signify.
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by lurquer 3y ago
It’s like some demented Winnie the Pooh
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by lurquer 3y ago
Ha. You’re right. Sarcasm via text is, indeed, easy to miss (and probably more befitting Reddit than HN.) I try to avoid snark on this site as it’s greatest value, to me anyway, is precisely it’s absence of same. Mea culpa.
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by lurquer 3y ago
Almost as easy to miss as sarcasm, apparently. Sigh….
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by lurquer 3y ago
They are indeed very subtle. Easy to miss.
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by lurquer 3y ago
The answer to what the ‘real deal’ is obvious, but fairly disturbing. Games. From the first clever bloke who came up with an algorithm to play a card game against himself (ie, Solitaire), to the Mechanical Turk, to Big Blue, the the ghosts
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by lurquer 3y ago
It is a useful tool for editing. You can input a rough scene you’ve written and ask it to spruce it up, correct the grammatical errors, toss in some descriptive stuff suitable for the location, etc. It is worthwhile. At least it was… If you
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by lurquer 3y ago
I used it for writing assistance and Plot development. Specifically, a novel re: the conquest of Mexico in the 16th cent. It was great at spitting out ideas re: action scenes and even character development. In the past month or so, it has b
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by lurquer 3y ago
I do not believe you know what you are talking about. What version -- English or otherwise -- translates the Hebrew word for 'fruit' into 'apple'? It's translated generically as "fruit" in all English vers

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