Agreed.

When I was a kid we went to the library. If a card catalog didn’t yield the book you needed, you asked the librarian. They often helped. No one sat around after the library wondering if the librarian was “truly intelligent”.

These are tools. Tools slowly get better. Is a tool make life easier or your work better, you’ll eventually use it.

Yes, there are woodworkers that eschew power tools but they are not typical. They have a niche market, and that’s great, but it’s a choice for the maker and user of their work.

Blue collar dudes yell into cellphones. Doesn’t matter how smart. They just do. It used to drive me nuts but I get it now.

I had a cancer removed from my ear and they bandaged it a lot like this? There are two primary means if bandaging an ear and they both look ridiculous. I have no doubt he got them to “make it look like a big deal” but you are not slapping a bandaid on that and calling it a day, right?

Edit - Moh’s surgery dressing is what I’m talking about.

Look, I hate the guy, but that is how you bandage an ear.

People got shot so that parts real.

He could have been nicked or he could have caught it on a sharp point bending down or he could have cut it with a fingernail.

My money is on the fingernail. He’s probably on blood thinners. He’s probably got thin, brittle skin. He probably clawed at his ear when the bullet whizzed by.

He could easily have nicked it. A nick can bleed like crazy and also heal very fast.

From there it’s all spin…

The simplest explanation is probably this given how fast it healed, I guess.

For years, I’ve saved every silica packet in a coffee can. I stopped a while ago since I have a liter of them and the can is full.

Works great for drying things out.

I realize this is the advice in the article but wanted to point out that they build up quickly and come in just about everything that isn’t food these days.

I was speculating about how you can overcome hallucinations, etc., by supplying additional training data. Not specific to ChatGPT or even LLMs…

Another way to think of this is feedback from humans will refine results. If enough people tell it that Toronto is not the capital of Canada it will start biasing toward Ottawa, for example. I have a feeling this is behind the search engine roll out.

“Vampirize by 15%”

Love it. :) lol

Find a friend with the same tree in good working order and give them a goldfish then about two or three days later tell them you won a weekend in a nice cabin by a lake about an hour from their place. You can’t go but they can take it a you’ll feed the fish.

When they leave, go in and swap trees.

The great thing about this plan is you don’t actually need to rent the cabin because they will never want to see you again once they figure out what you did, anyway.

I think if you are in a community it searches the community, if you are in Subscribed it searches subscribed, and if you are in your local instance… You get the idea.

Not sure if the depends on the app, etc.

When I was growing up they used to say “brush after every meal” and then it became three times per day, now it’s “please just brush twice at some point”.

That is what people miss. This is “the system”. It starts and ends with government and “we” chose this (I’m Canadian, we have similar issues but not as extreme, yet).

By continually voting in sociopathic narcissistic social climbers as both public and private sector policy makers (think of shareholders and corporate governance boards) we ensure the system is rigged for the top dogs.

The truth is the system could work in the average person’s favour very easily but it would mean limiting some personal freedoms; mostly of very, very rich people. It also would require the average person to get off the “everyone is exploiting me, so I need to do that to them first” treadmill.

Many people have never been on that treadmill (never had the chance or donate excess income or time to local food banks, etc).

The very, very rich don’t care. They simply maximize the profit in any situation. Put them in prison and they’ll give out legal advice for cigarettes and turn that into a burner phone they use to call their Cayman Islands broker.

It’s the upper/upper-middle people who will feel the pain as income is redistributed to poverty stricken people. And if we just impose ubi without fixing the “CEO problem” it will simply lead to inflation. Sucess of ubi programs is entirely due to it happening in a local market. Expand globally without fixing capitalism and you get inflation.

A socialist approach that still allows significant room for upwrd mobility (e.g. CEO can make up to 10x minimum wage, as a non-expert guess) with some type of employee representation on the board of large businesses (state imposed labour union) would probably do it.

Then make ubi contingent on minor public service with free daycare that you can use when performing said services (exception if you have more than 2 kids under 12, or are disabled in some way) say two days a week (networking, activity, build resume) would be a brainstorming idea to workshop.

I can’t speak for the Dev but I am guessing they have other things on the go. Releasing this app as quickly as they did and following up with subsequent releases for bugs and quality of life features probably meant neglecting anything else that wasn’t of major importance.

They are probably getting back on track with that stuff?

Paper. You can use paper and take a picture with your phone.

I was kind of joking, kind of not, but thank you for this info.

Immediately make a joke about quacking up.

“Mice don’t reproduce many aspects of human disease for their physiology being too different from ours,” senior study author Zhen Liu, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told CNN.

But we test all our new stuff on them and write articles about Cancer cures without adding “in mice” to the title, and that gives people hope.

Edit: I understand the importance of this research but the gleeful tone feels like it was cynically added by the author (or, I don’t know, an llm told to “humorify by 12%”) to differentiate from the original source and just feels gross.

I’ve managed tons of people any only used a formal pip with three, that I recall. Two were people transferred from other teams to see if I could retain them because they were about to be let go. Another was someone I hired who was obviously going through some type of mid-life crisis about six months in… One if the first group took direction and turned into an ok employee with lots of coaching. The other two had to be let go.

The first guy just never worked, he was collecting a cheque until he got fired. He was hard to deal with because every time I addressed his lack of any work product he would act like we’d never discussed this before. Just a really weird guy. I think he’d dragged out other jobs like that and figured I was too nice to let him go?

The second guy was similar. He slipped up a few times and it became obvious he was working two jobs at the same time. He admitted it and said he was good enough to do all his work in half the time a normal person would. Great but his work product was complete crap and delivered late and incomplete every time.

I have no idea how many people I’ve managed or supervised in some capacity or other over the years. The vast, vast majority are doing what they can and if they get off track they just need a hand getting back on track (there’s often something going on outside work that distracts them, this is usually temporary and a little understanding and accommodation goes a long way - we’re all just trying to get through the day, sometimes that easier than others).

Down voters don’t get how amazing it is that a fish can talk, let alone heckle.