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kbin_space_program ,

End of the bronze age. Have a set of letters between citystate rulers, one writing that help is urgently needed as seaborne invaders have been spotted nearby and his military is off with the hittite empire.

The response back, in modern slang amounts to "lol ur fucked."

kbin_space_program ,

Its from the book 1176 BC by Eric H Cline.

kbin_space_program ,

It's the CCP. You can't have a non government funded company.

kbin_space_program , (edited )

$147000 is a lot of money to grant to three college kids with zero proven business record.

kbin_space_program ,

You need that extra time, or you have the issue Vancouver has where international students with no given Canadian income own something like 30% of the city's luxury housing.

kbin_space_program ,

Obligatory Fuck EA for the bullshit they pulled.

They buried the game launch intentionally behind Battlefield 1.

kbin_space_program ,

Cream of Earl Grey black tea if before 3pm.

If after 3pm, A Bourbon-flavoured rooibos.

If after 8pm, its not just bourbon flavoured anymore.

kbin_space_program ,

Its adding whiskey, gin, rum or bourbon, depending on the tea(white/herbal or Rooibos for no caffeine) for variations on the Hot Toddy.

kbin_space_program ,

Its amusing how the creationists have mostly stopped trying to attack "deep time" and instead really misuse science.

Like that "finger". Do they think early hominids didnt have fucking hands and fingers or something? That we were all snakes or clawed devils?

kbin_space_program ,

Yeah, but my point is, even if it is a finger, and thats a pretty massive if. And if its a soft tissue fossil from 3MYA.

So what?

It fits the overall shape of the end of a finger of any great ape. Sure, it would be a stupendous scientific find, but it couldn't disprove evolution.

kbin_space_program ,

As I understood that one, it was localized to the Black Sea or Mediterranean and based on blockages to their connecting channels to larger bodies of water. But last I heard of that was a long time ago.

kbin_space_program ,

Okay yeah.
For everyone else, what we're talking about is a theory that the Black Sea has a few points in history where the regions monumental earthquakes caused landslides that blocked(and maybe later cleared, or it cleared naturally) the Bosporus. When it was blocked, the sea swelled and flooded.

kbin_space_program ,

What a garbage article. Chock full of google propaganda and fear mongering.

kbin_space_program ,

Mentions UBlock seems.to be fast and safe, but that the API used lets extensions look at everything you do amd can dramatically affect browser speed. Implying that UBlock Origin is responsible for Chrome being such a memory Hog and that they, not Google, are the ones after your data.

kbin_space_program ,

My Oma was in the Netherlands in the 1930s. Her family sheltered part of a jewish family(the elderly mother who was too sick to escape to North America, and one of her sons, a lawyer, who stayed behind to care for her.) This was before the invasion and the start of the war.

At the time, late 1930s, she said that everyone knew something bad was happening to the Jewish people the Nazis rounded up, but not what.

After more than a year of occupation, they were turned in by a neighbor for extra rations because none of her family needed daily visits from a doctor. The Nazis took the two Jewish people and her Dad into a camp.

A local factory owner, some months on, tried to have everyone from the area released in return for his compliance in letting them use his factory output. Her dad was among those released, but they refused to release any Jewish prisoners. Her parents then immediately joined the resistance and helped it out until the end of the war. The factory owner allegedly ensured that the output to the Nazis was changed to be only subtly defective units, pipe walls too thin, cooled too quickly etc.

kbin_space_program ,

Except the guy leading the fantasy party is Indian

So thats really weird.

kbin_space_program , (edited )

Spinosaurus and Baryonyx.

Because so many people recognize the former, but we know so very little about that entire family of dinosaurs, and currently it might be one of the easier ways to get paleontologists to argue amongst each other.

For example: the graphic in the post shows Spinosaurus standing on two legs. It was probably mostly quadrapedal, standing on all fours.

It has a huge, paddle like tail, but apparently didnt have the muscles to use it like a croc or gator does.

The entire family has denser bones suggesting an aquatic life, but most of the spinosaurids have those huge back spines which dont seem to serve a known purpose and the spinal bones have room for air sacs which runs counter to the whole aquatic thing.

So to sum up, we have a heavily built, seemingly aquactic crocodile like dinosaur with teeth and jaws built for active hunting. But wouldnt be that fast on land (heavy bones and giant spines) and cant swim like a croc or gator(no muscles for that.) And it doesn't have a long neck like a heron or pleisiosaur.

Best of all, the most complete skeleton of spinosaurus was destroyed in WW2, so we don't even have that to work from.

kbin_space_program ,

Stegosaurus does have the Thagomizer, so named by The Far Side comics, and officially given that name because scientists didnt give it a name before that.

kbin_space_program ,

The only previous thing I saw was a scMmy financial, WSB youtuber who hit top views 3 days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yolCkHT1S_o

kbin_space_program ,

Putin is said to have commented, before the invasion, that Russia has a population of conscription aged men of 25 million, this seems to have been their design philosophy of just grinding Ukraine into dust, even if it took millions of Russian lives to do it.

However, that theyre already pulling women prisoners into the meat grinder suggests that number may have been wrong.

kbin_space_program ,

Say we want the mantle of most boring cuisine from the English without saying it.

kbin_space_program ,

Simple, the original team that made DA:O went off to do other things or was promoted into management where they did well, but couldn't replicate the magic of their OG team.

kbin_space_program ,

MBAs who contract dev work out to India to make a quick buck without realizing how bad the code they're going to get back usually is.

Shoutout to Raj the QA lead I worked with in India though. That dude's team was thorough.

kbin_space_program ,

While thats technically allowed in Canada. When the Conservative party tried to do it under Harper and then-minister Poilievre to start stacking the court system with cronies, every part of the system raised hell enough for evem those religious nutters to back off.

kbin_space_program ,

Particularly given that the design quality houses a whole slew of critically bad design choices.

Like shock absorber brackets and axel mounts that can't handle simple offroad loads.

How to fix Korea's birthrate? Put girls in school earlier, controversial report argues (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)

“Notably, Chang’s report claims that biological females develop earlier than males do, so requiring girls to enter school at younger ages will create classes in which the two sexes are of more equal maturity as they age. This, the author posits, makes it more likely that those classmates will be attracted to each other, and...

kbin_space_program ,

The best way to increase birth rates in advanced countries is:
Work life balance.
Restore the traditional tax rates on the rich.

State of S3 - Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore (blog.jeujeus.de)

In this article, I aim to take a different approach. We will begin by defining a laptop according to my understanding. The I will share my personal history and journey to this point, as well as my current situation with my home and work laptops. Using this perspective, we will explore the current dysfunctionality of the standby...

kbin_space_program ,

In windows 10 you can reenable it, but you have dig a bit in the power management control panel to do so.

Its unfortunate that this thinking has bled over to Linux.

kbin_space_program ,

Also she may be imagining the shitstorm her mother would give her if she did.

kbin_space_program ,

Gf is nerdy and loves ttrpgs.

Hasn't seen star wars or lotr.

kbin_space_program ,

Yup. Its more that she just doesn't like movies in general, and our leisure time is not spent in front of the TV.

Although we(our dnd groups) are working on her since roughly 50% of ttrpgs is references to those two or trek.

Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalls over Beijing's price demands, Financial Times reports (www.reuters.com)

Russia’s attempts to conclude a major gas pipeline deal with China have run aground over what Moscow sees as Beijing’s unreasonable demands on price and supply levels, the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing three people familiar with the matter....

kbin_space_program , (edited )

When they did a deal before, China was getting the gas below cost to Russia. ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/russia-30-year-400bn-gas-deal-china )

Putin is finding out that China doesn't have allies, it has victims.

kbin_space_program , (edited )

Its apparently not that uncommon a move, as according to what I've watched about it, it allows the company using the trick to go public without going through the checks and balances that the FTC usually does.

What is uncommon is that they fucked it up at least twice that I can recall. They were supposed to go public summer 2023.

kbin_space_program ,

You're looking at it from the wrong angle.

He wants a tough sentence with jail time.

  1. As a technically "first offender" they can argue that it shows obvious bias and get a favourable appeal result.
  2. It plays to Putin and other autocrat propaganda. "See how the US actually is, we have the same democracy here" sort of thing.
  3. Most importantly, it plays to his cult and to his ego, he gets to stoke dangerous things which very nearly almost worked last time (only thanks to Pence and the few cops who stood up to the mob.) and he gets a ton of attention from his cult for it.
kbin_space_program ,

The rich absolutely want to codify that they have a set of rules "worthy of their position" and the corporate media is being forced to tow that line.

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    kbin_space_program ,

    They need to add that prices falling is terrible for how we measure economic success

    kbin_space_program ,

    Deflation didnt cause the great depression.

    The stock market crash of 1929 where there was too much imaginary money floating around and it sudde ly vanished, combined with several years of freak weather(either too little or too much rain.)

    kbin_space_program ,

    Based on Google Gemini and the sheer number of restrictions Microsoft had to place on Bing to prevent chaos.

    I think saying that it "works" is a stretch.

    kbin_space_program ,

    It should not be used for programming:

    https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/#:~:text=%22Our%20analysis%20shows%20that%2052%20percent%20of%20ChatGPT,of%20preferred%20ChatGPT%20answers%2C%2077%20percent%20were%20wrong.

    kbin_space_program ,

    The article I posted references a study where chatgpt was wrong 52% of the time and verbose 77% of the time.

    And that it was believed to be true more than it actually was. And the study was explicitly on programming questions.

    kbin_space_program ,

    I haven't had need to do it.

    I can ask people I work with who do know, or I can find the same thing ChatGPT provides in either la huage or project documentation, usually presented in a better format.

    kbin_space_program ,

    I never said that.

    I said I found the older methods to be better.

    Any time I've used it, it either produced things verbatim from existing documentation examples which already didn't do what I needed, or it was completely wrong.

    kbin_space_program ,

    Example:

    Many pesticides contain PFAS, some directly, but the EPA has determined it was mostly from prevuously unreported chemical reactions between the pesticides and their PFAS laced containers.

    The same chemicals that have now been rated as "not safe in any quantity."

    Gee, why are all the frogs and songbirds dying?

    kbin_space_program ,

    Hey, all we need is flying combat exoskeletons and we can have real life Exo-Squad!

    kbin_space_program ,

    If something is going to blow up, its much better to happen on a test stand than on an actual product or test launch.

    Best case would be doing the math beforehand, as they Didn't do with the flame trench iterations until the water pump system was added. And we know that because other people on youtube did do the math and determined even the special high temperature concrete from NASA wasnt going to be enough by itself.

    kbin_space_program ,

    Dude, the entire pad was gone. People in the "safe" zone had concrete raining down on them and the rocket itself was severely damaged from the takeoff.

    If they had done the math before that, they would have never attempted that launch.

    kbin_space_program ,

    It is, but it isnt applicable in at least the glue-pizza situation as the probable source comment has been found on reddit.

    A better use of the term might be how when you try to get Bing's image creator to make "Battletech" art, you just mostly get really obvious Warhammer 40k Space Marines and occasionally Iron Maiden album art.

    kbin_space_program ,

    There are a lot of people, including google itself, claiming that this behaviour is an isolated and basically blamed users for trolling them.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o

    I was working on the concept of "hallucinations" being things returned that are unrelated to the input query, not directly part of the model as with the glue-pizza.

    kbin_space_program ,

    A Google spokesperson told the BBC they were "isolated examples".

    Some of the answers appeared to be based on Reddit comments or articles written by satirical site, The Onion.

    But Google insisted the feature was generally working well.

    "The examples we've seen are generally very uncommon queries, and aren’t representative of most people’s experiences," it said in a statement.

    It said it had taken action where "policy violations" were identified and was using them to refine its systems.

    That's precisely what they are saying.

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