gcanyon

> a universe where there's no doubt that there is no god

Do you mean that the universe itself provides clear, incontrovertible evidence there is no god? Or do you simply mean that in the universe portrayed, none of the people happen to have any doubt about the non-existence of god?

I installed an oven in my house. The oven was on a 30(? it's been a while) amp circuit, and the new oven kept blowing the breaker that had kept the old oven happy.

The stove was on something like a 60 amp circuit, so rather than try to rewire the panel, I patched the oven into the stove's circuit, because it was way over capacity.

That said, the wires were beasts: single-strand copper, maybe 6 gauge (over a tenth of an inch in diameter) and did not want to bend at all. I ended up going back to Lowes three times to get bigger connectors. In the end it was a box of aluminum half an inch wide, with a tube down the middle and a screw-in on the side to hold the wires in place.

I got it done, but it was a pain from start to finish. And of course with that many amps at play, every time I touched anything I first went to every single person in the house to tell them what I was doing, and not to go near the breaker box.

I would not want to do that for a living.

It's like the Portuguese are purposely screwing with us (language learners).

Joe Jackson sang it decades ago: "Everything...gives you cancer..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbgXOkyF09M

Nanosystems! I read Engines of Creation in the '80s, and then sadly found that I was not up to speed enough to fully take in Nanosystems.

> Note: this is very similar to Pfizer’s COVID vaccine trial which professed to be “95% effective” against COVID-19, but in reality only created a 0.8% reduction...

This is confusing relative risk reduction and absolute risk reduction. Intentional or not, this causes me to discount/question everything written here.

While they're at it they should try re-flying the Valkyrie...

It has to be the case that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are doing internally what they accuse others of doing: using expensive advanced versions of their models to train lighter-weight more efficient models. Have they explicitly acknowledged that Astra was used to train Sol?

The best people in general are annoying.

I used to make a vegetarian option without the sausage if people asked. It's so long ago gluten-free wasn't really a thing.

Pasta sauce was my thing. I used to boast that I made the best there was. It was good, but I know better now what really great sauce is, and mine was very good, not great. It did have the advantage of being different every time, since I did everything without measuring.

In my twenties I made spaghetti every Saturday night. This started as throwing some Ragu in a pot and adding some spices, and eventually morphed into crushing my own tomatoes and cooking over most of the day. I did this every week over years. A varied group of friends came to eat each week -- no plan, no notice, just come over if you have nothing else going on. It's how I met my wife -- I never would have had the courage to ask her out on a real date, but "I make spaghetti for my friends every Saturday, you should come over," was easier. It's been years and I don't often make spaghetti anymore.

> “Every Monegasque resident is now less than 200 metres from a free public charging point”

Given the area of the country is 2km, even given its narrow geography that would take all of 50 charging stations to achieve...

One thing that always puzzled me was how the gas engines in hybrids were so efficient. Technology Connections has a great video explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnUFH5GX_fI

tl;dw: constant RPM and a weird stroke geometry where the power stroke is longer than the other strokes to extract more energy from the expanding gasses.

Ooh, interesting -- I didn't know what. Obviously it's a curiosity, not a real annoyance unless I'm trying to calculate how many days my great-grandfather lived :-)

"now char coming but movement everything wrong ... prince is not in floor"

I'm assuming a language barrier on the part of the author. I wonder if the models would do better being prompted in the author's main language.

Excel now support lists and arrays as values in a cell, but it still thinks February 29th, 1900 is a thing because 40 year-old backwards compatibility?

This is a strange world we live in.

Backwards compatibility with Lotus 1-2-3: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/microsoft-365...

With a 70x66 degree FOV, how is that Rogue One footage not false advertising? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyD_bmMy5nQ

This has been the case for me with the Dock for twenty-plus years. You can't kill the Dock. You can hide it. You can set the delay until it appears. But you cannot kill it, it just respawns.

And it's such a terrible waste of memory/screen space/an edge of the display.

And of course I said yes, and Apple said no, to Launchpad, an actually useful tool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Trump wants the violence. There's a difference between protesting a government that will follow the rules even if the people don't, and protesting a government that won't follow the rules even if the people do.

1. Yeah, just because I'm not proud today doesn't mean I've been a booster of every other thing the U.S. has done for the past quarter century. 2. That said, let's not pretend that now is no different than any other point in our history. 3. And finally, I think I am reasonably well informed, since my wife is the director of a non-profit working on this specific issue.

> failed to adequately verify the information before launching the strike

I'm so proud to be an American today :-(

We need this for video and audio, with metadata baked in. “I didn’t say that.” “This recording says you did.”

We shouldn't just try to save jet fuel, we should also try to avoid contrails -- only about 5% of flights generate them, but they cause roughly half of the global warming caused by flights in general. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qBPwloCdRKw

I hope this doesn't negatively affect Laika -- I very much like their films.

Agreed!

Despite the fact that trainyard has been defunct for ~8 years, I didn't want to simply clone it.

I tried to give a similar, but not the same, experience -- I'd be very curious to know how close you think I came.

About fifteen years ago a puzzle game called Trainyard came out for iOS and took my dev team by storm for a few weeks. It ceased getting updates some years ago and isn't on the app store anymore. So I came up with a variant on it and just put up https://www.geoffcanyon.com/lightyard.html I need more puzzles to include in the base pack, if you come up with something interesting, export it and send it to me!

I think they mean there was a greater variation in reluctance than might be expected, or that there was some serious arm-twisting to get people to go along, which had future consequences.

I'm surprised that article doesn't reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race

We need Apple Reference Video and Audio.

We use structured output and To my knowledge it has never failed (millions of data points). There seem to be two classes of people: those doing productive work with LLMs, and those who only get replies insulting their mothers…