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by mcphage 1y ago
I agree about the issue of “mind”, but the rest is mentioned directly in the article: > When I scrolled to the top of the chat where I’d first reported my neck pain, I saw that ChatGPT had mentioned a possible carotid dissection in its v
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by mcphage 1y ago
> He described it as God's perfect law... but it's not clear if he actually condones or believes that How do you imagine that working? Do you call many things you don’t support “God’s perfect law?” > just making a claim abo
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by mcphage 1y ago
How about stoning gay people? Or pushing the Great Replacement theory? Or claiming that the Texan flooding deaths were due to DEI initiatives? Like did you read it?
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by mcphage 1y ago
Okay, so not in good faith. I’m sorry I responded to you. Ya got me, +1 for the trolls.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Yes, I’m claiming he wasn’t—he was a far right groyper.
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by mcphage 1y ago
How are you feeling today about that “without a doubt killed by a leftist”? Has that given rise to any introspection?
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by mcphage 1y ago
> a violent leftist killed him [...] And he was without a doubt killed by a leftist I think, there's actually a considerable amount of doubt.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Here’s a brief summary, if you’re asking in good faith and actually want to know: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/11/2342963/-The-whit... but there’s plenty of others as well.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> He said things that upset the left, leftists are now celebrating. Maybe, but was he killed for denigrating black people? Gay people? Jews? Transgender people? Immigrants? Professors? Doctors? The list goes on. He also pissed off
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by mcphage 1y ago
I’m not justifying anything, just pointing out he made a lot of different groups of people angry, and so it’s hard to tell which group the shooter may have belonged to.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> He had the courage of his convictions and refused to change his beliefs or be deterred from acting on them. That's only a good thing to the degree that those beliefs are good. Charlie's beliefs were evil.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Why? They can just lock the doors.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> I must have imagined the hang Mike Pence chants. Oh, that's just locker room talk. You know, "That Mike Pence, he sure is hung."
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by mcphage 1y ago
> If his shooter gets caught and is trans True—but that's the thing about preaching hate, it turns out, there's lots of people who might want you dead.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Have you tried a mix of hyperfixation and eBay browsing?
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by mcphage 1y ago
Ah, I follow what you're saying. We've never tried to take over a country, we've only tried to project power for limited durations—up to and including 20 years—which failed because it was with coupled unclear goals, politica
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by mcphage 1y ago
> If US truly did what it had the power to do, it could have easily taken over the world. My dude, we struggle to take over poor middle-eastern countries. I'm not sure how you think us trying to take over the world would go.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Ah, yes. “Genocide is bad, actually” is a strong position, so I can see why a museum devoted to the idea that genocide is bad might want to walk that back a bit.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> So companies should be able to bribe the government and skirt laws at their expedience? That is the current administration’s policy, yes.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> once a UX person tells me what they need SQL query comes up easily. Figuring out what they need is typically the hard part. If they needed only one thing, sure. However, often UX needs to look at the same data in very different ways,
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Perhaps our priorities as a society are misplaced. It’s also a lot harder. Blowjobs are comparatively simple, even with cloud-connected VR headsets.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> If that was true or so extensive as they portray, the shelves would be empty, not simply more expensive. They're not. When chickens were being culled because of the bird flu, the supply of eggs dropped significantly. Prices of eg
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Can you also process and think critically what you read in the papers? Can you ?
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by mcphage 1y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/592/
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by mcphage 1y ago
LLMs don’t know the difference between true and false, or that there even is a difference between true and false, so I think it’s OpenAI whose definition is not useful. As for widely agreed upon, well, I’m assuming the purpose of this post
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by mcphage 1y ago
> you can absolutely make a tree-like structure in SQL in a variety of ways: adjacency lists, nested sets, closure tables, etc. That's kinda the problem—rather there being 1 way to make a tree-like structure in SQL, that works corre
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by mcphage 1y ago
In that case, the mismatch is between "What developers need" and "What SQL provides".
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by mcphage 1y ago
> But Hollywood is a strange business. Certain decisions get made based on the buzzwords or slogans going around the corporate offices that day. If it sounds good, and it appears to help the bottom line, even a myth can become common sen
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by mcphage 1y ago
> The value is in the lack of features. This is a hard concept for most people who haven't used one (or a similar device) to grasp. Wouldn't a paper notebook be better for that? (I feel the appeal of the device, but I don&#x27
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by mcphage 1y ago
> They only charge for the usage of their cloud services. What features require usage of their cloud services?

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