As a non-US person, it blows my fucking mind how frequently y’all haul out a goddamn Ouija board to channel the founding fathers on any issue. What would George Washington think about ChatGPT? Uh probably that it comes out of a box possessed by the a demon and then he’d ask if you owned a comfort girl he could borrow for the night? What a valuable exercise. Much wow.

Spaceman pointing a gun at other Spaceman “wait it’s all a cult?”

How can you be so sure aliens aren’t already among us?!

“Address Unknown”, a twilight zone/detective noir tv show within the universe of Max Payne.

If you can see it, you’ve already downloaded it. You’re just chosing to retain it.

Saw it done on someone once. If you’re in bad enough shape that you’re getting it, you are for sure not going to remember it. Which is good because it’s fucking violent

I agree with you.

I’d be curious if a purely random choice of beat would actually be easier than if there was a skewed bias.

Why are your knuckles on your ass

Same way as every single other Russian transition of power in modern history:

Reveal that the previous leader betrayed the Russian people, and you’re here to set things right. EVERY transition.

From your link:

And could you explain how, for the court, how can you be correct, when I explicitly made you Principal Skinner?

Jury gasps

There have always been susceptible idiots.

Nazi’s are just a byproduct of an eroding standard of living. When things are good and getting better, there just isn’t the fertile ground for that kind of ideology, even among the idiots.

When standard of living is on the decline? Anyone who gives a simple answer and a simple solution gets the attention of idiots.

I think my main issue with that use case is that it’s a “solution” to a relatively minor problem (which has a far simpler solution), that actually compounds the problem.

Let’s say I don’t want to write prose for my email, I have a list of bullet points I want to get across. Awesome, I feed it into the chat gippity and boom, my points are (hopefully) property represented in prose.

Now, the recipient doesn’t want to read prose. ESPECIALLY if it’s the fluffy wordy-internet-recipe-preamble that the chat gippity tends to produce. They want a bullet point summary. So they feed it into the chat gippity to get what is (hopefully) a properly condensed bullet point summary.

So, suddenly we have introduced a fallible middle translation layer for actually no reason.

Just write the clear bullet point email in the first place. Save everyone the time. Save everyone from the 2 chances for the chat gippity to fuck it up.

People who are using it to solve problems which require equivalent effort of writing a sufficient prompt and just directly solving it without AI at all for sure are AI folk.

So you trick your stomach like you’d trick a dog by hiding medicine in their food?

I wtf’d that you could do 100W w/ USB… Then I can see that new specs are to allow 240W.

Can I vote for obsfuscators not holding a language hostage?

I think pretty much everyone views their political ideology as “the one that stands for freedom”, and it just comes down to what it means to be “free”, and the follow up of free from what.

I feel like libertarians would love the concept of FOSS and decentralization, and I don’t think anyone would argue they skew left.

So, I disagree that FOSS is inherently left wing. I think it’s attractive to the left wing for many good reasons. I think people project their own politics onto whatever they love, and things can be loved by very different groups for different reasons.

You don’t want a department that you throw it over the fence to, you want them embedded on your team. Keep those feedback loops TIGHT bois

Metric and imperial don’t change the way carpenters work because in the case you mentioned of a sub-mm dimension, that’s in the 64th of an inch range. Carpenters don’t ever measure to that precision because of the fluidity of the material. Craftsman will at that point just cut to fit.

My point with those hard numbers wasn’t that metric would make those numbers easier, only that your examples were intrinsically favouring imperial measures. Maybe it’s easier to say:

What’s easier to figure out, 1/3 of 3cm or 1/3 of 1 93/512 inches? You can easily construct scenarios for a measure that are easy in one and obscene in the equivalent. It’s less about the notation and more about the measure. If you assume all of the initial measures are round in imperial units, then the math will automatically be easier. If your designs were designed in metric, they’ll be round to metric. If they’re in imperial, they’ll be round in imperial.

And when this degree of precision is actually important, imperial craftsmen (engineers, machinists) already use decimal. A “Mil” is a milli-inch.

Anyhow, again, I agree that for some very specific scenarios dealing with fractions is easier, especially when you’re doing any base 2 operation.

I just think that you would be surprised how infrequently the issues you’re imagining would actually manifest themselves, working with intrinsically metric designs, and that you’re underestimating the number of scenarios where not dealing with fractions actually would make your life easier.

I understand the underlying principle, but I’m not sure if it actually shakes out that way for a few reasons:

If you asked a carpenter to cut something to 1/24", they’d be like “what?”. Sure, the math was easier, but the result is unusable. No measuring instrument has divisions of 24ths. The person making a cut would need it in terms of 8ths, 16ths, etc. Any time saved at the initial stage is lost when they need to convert it again to a useable denominator.

Secondly, what’s 3/32nds of 17/128ths?

The examples you give are harder in decimal form because nobody is going to make metric carpentry designs for things that are to the tenth of a millimeter, so 1.25cm isn’t even real.

I admit, there are a lot of specific scenarios where fractional convention is helpful. I just personally think they don’t outweigh the drawbacks.