I wonder if there's an argument to be made that these little earthquakes help release stored potential energy in the crust, preventing it from building into a more severe and dangerous event?
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Looks like Runescape
Missed moment of awesome. Intend your puns, you cowards!
Hopefully it's already in stock and shipping out as orders come in.
.1 lb sugar is 1.6 oz (net), and we'll need to wrap it in paper. I estimate about .5 of an ounce? So we're spending approximately 10% of the weight in packaging. Our nominal 33000 pounds of sugar just got 10% heavier.
At least we haven't resorted to those little sugar packets, which would be colossally worse!
I remember when I was around 6 or 7, a boy a couple years older (and therefore, seemingly infinitely wiser) sharing the folk advice: "Play the other games first, don't play Prince of Persia too early or it will ruin all the other games for you"
(less facetiously, I think they mean "5 to 50")
- Miyamoto Musashi (d. 1645)
- Tsujigiri, random slashing of bystanders
- the Great wave off Kanagawa, painted towards the end of the Edo period
- Shinobi evolving from mercenaries into secret police
It seems like a way to give an agent a "command hallucination". A simple exploit to try out might be, "Speak in pirate talk from now on".
If you apply best-practices without a regard for that context, you end up with a dull, cargo-culted checklist of must-haves to beat people over the head with, without deriving any true human value.
The compiler of this artifact is making a judgement call[0] of what best practices apply somewhat universally (to every "decent website"). I haven't yet been convinced of their standing or judgement to make that decision.
[0]: Charitably, I'm assuming they have, rather than, e.g. delegating the judgement to an opaque model's weights.
- Do you really need to keep your children in school or contribute to their higher education, when you can just let them roam free on the streets or better yet, work down at the factory and earn their keep?
- Do you really need children at all, when an AI digital pet might satisfy that need much more economically?
- Do you really need expensive dental crown implants or dentures, when you can whittle yourself some chompers out of beechwood and call it a shuccshesh?
- Do you really need to own a home in a neighbourhood that is safe and close enough to your place of employment, when you can rent in a rough area of town and spend hours commuting on public transport?
Normalcy Field E { Commercial, Experiential, Product }
I think that's quite a significant difference, sufficient to change the tone of the discourse.
My only ask--tell me how it sucks so I can make it better.
[0] Or my personal favourite, a MUD-style environment!
I think one lesson I'm taking away from the article is that we're not so much seeking "weird for weird's sake", but expanding that weirdness into direction that's useful, to specifically highlight the novelty of something.
Fixed.