HiroProtagonist

A small but great little community: https://leviathanalpha.com/

Sid Meier's Pirates on the iPad was a great experience. Bummer it isn't supported in modern iOS.

You're both right, depending on whether you mean relative pin vs absolute pin.

I don't think it is necessarily controversial, but I subscribe to the opposite view. I try to judge a thing by whether or not it is good, not by its provenance.

For example, if I read a book which I thought was written by a human and loved it, why should my opinion change if I learned after the fact that it was written by AI and not a human? I can't un-laugh those laughs, and un-enjoy the enjoyment I received from it, you know what I mean?

Could one make a similar argument for banning sugar?

The Shahed drone is a 'set it and forget it' device where you program a stationary target and launch it. It would not work well for moving targets, like ships.

Very cool thing of you to do.

What you did there, I see it. :)

I wonder how these macro trends will shake out as more and more Americans start using GLP-1 meds.

Pi-hole

The story you’re recalling is “Just Deserts,” a short story by M. T. Anderson. It appears in The Chronicles of Harris Burdick (2011), an anthology edited by Chris Van Allsburg where various authors wrote tales to match Van Allsburg’s mysterious illustrations. In “Just Deserts,” a lone child is raised in a simulated town after an apocalyptic event (implied nuclear war). He attends “school” and interacts with other children via screens, only to discover – in a scene involving a hollow pumpkin – that his parents and classmates are all artificial constructs created to keep him company. This twist reveals he is the last real child on Earth. The story was first published in The Chronicles of Harris Burdick (Houghton Mifflin, 2011).

> one of the tasks we could put ASI to work doing is...

What makes you so confident that we could remain in control of something which is by definition smarter than us?

I am a vet who codes. This seems like a great initiative!

I’m glad you are ok. Stay safe!

Drag the King to his destination square.

Down here too.

Same, thank you for mentioning it elsewise I would never have seen it.

Very cool idea!

Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

I had the same experience. I was disappointed.

Hi Dave, I just wanted to say that I applaud this response. No excuses, just ownership of mistakes and a plan to fix them.

This is leadership.

Sounds like you’re a programmer to me!

You should write a screenplay. I’d watch that movie!

I think he applied to work there and was rejected, as opposed to applying as a student.

I think it is unfair to generally state 'Apple still refuses to take accessibility issues seriously' because the one issue you care about most isn't addressed to your satisfaction.

I think you'll find that generally speaking, Apple cares a lot about accessibility.

There’s an HBO show in development now. I’m looking forward to it!

Beware the Nam-Shub of Enki.

Lavabit?

It’s possible that she wasn’t sleeping and instead may have been experiencing a medical emergency like heart attack or stroke.

He shot a woman in the face:

That’s when 13-year-old Ian pulled the trigger and shot her right in the face. The outcome could have been fatal. “It blew out all the bottom teeth and the gums on the lower left side of my mouth,” she said.