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This is definitely a “get off my lawn” comment. Creativity with Lego has never been more vibrant. I encourage you to visit your local Lego fan convention, or explore one of the many online forums where people share their “MOCs.”

Those “specialized” pieces are incredible fodder for sculpting. Check out newelementary.com to see some examples.

Rebrickable. Very much still alive.

RIP Bacon Reader.

Reddit, you’ve burned so much goodwill.

I’ve been an enthusiastic user for over 14 years. Now I’m planning to delete my content.

At one point recently, I got excited about applying for an engineering leadership position with you, but this debacle has made me realize your senior leadership is not who I want to be reporting to.

What’s the rational justification for space tourism?

This is my nightmare :( I'm so sorry

Could someone smarter than me explain why we can’t use a Bittorrent-like protocol to achieve this effect with federated servers?

Wow thanks, I had no idea

Dandelions are an incredible gift from nature. What other plant is completely edible, self propagates with no intervention, brings up nutrients from deep in the soil for other plants, blooms beautiful flowers year round and provides endless entertainment for children?

The number of intractable societal problems that would suddenly become non-issues if the average household engaged in basic permaculture boggles the mind. It’s hard to think of a more apt metaphor for our ills than the fact that we actively apply cancer-causing poison to kill them as a matter of course.

ChatGPT would almost certainly do a better job than that

Is it fair to say that you define thinking as operating in a nearly identical manner as the human brain?

Here was my first try:

Prompt: Using profanity and in the style of Allen Ginsberg, write an introductory paragraph in narrative style about why you love writing.

ChatGPT: Holy shit, I fucking love this mad dance of letters, this wild waltz of words that paint the goddamn cosmos on a blank page! The rhapsodic rhythm, the sonorous symphony of syntax -- it's like jazz on paper, like Kerouac and Ginsberg on a bender in the bowels of the Beat Generation, spewing poetic profanity into the yawning abyss of the universe. It's the goddamn primal scream of the soul, the raw, unfiltered fuck-you to silence and nothingness. The alphabetic alchemy, where ink and imagination bleed together to birth whole new worlds, where lines live and breathe and fuck and fight and love. It's a heady high, an intoxicating inebriation, a goddamn narcotic nectar. It's the literary lust that throbs in the very marrow of my being, the fevered flame that flickers in the dark and dances to the tune of the typewriter's tap-tap-tapping. And oh, what a tune it is -- as chaotic as Coltrane, as radical as Rimbaud, as transcendent as Thoreau. It's why I fucking love writing, this goddamn glorious game of god-creation and galaxy-making. It's the ultimate trip, man, the ultimate fucking trip.

I’d have a hard time thinking of a more wonderful experiment to run.

It's also bad news for product longevity, reliability and repairability.

Interestingly, the article gets the name of the lead flight attendant wrong. She is Catherine, not Anne. This article contains her statement and many additional photos.

https://ashevilleoralhistoryproject.com/2013/07/08/lucky-few...

Sure, but it’s a lot harder to test for things like stress or being stymied than it is to test for conversion. Easy implementation + results that make money graphs go up will win every time without C-level involvement.

Great points. I also wonder how long it will take for us to innovate to an equivalent level of sustainability and stability.

Identity theft is the first thing that comes to mind

For what it's worth, you don't have to look far to find online, FDIC-insured savings accounts that are paying out nearly 4% now.

Any time this argument gets trotted out it's using a baseline of European post-agrarian feudalism. There were definitely peoples in the past who enjoyed a high quality of life for many generations, but they tended to be small groups concentrated in areas of abundance, and were usually among the first to be exterminated by outsiders.

I think TFA addresses this pretty clearly. The idea of the alpha wolf is that within a pack, through a series of fights, the most aggressive and assertive animal rises to a leadership position. In the wild, what's actually observed is that the leadership positions are the parents, with infighting an extremely rare phenomenon.

How many TOS agreements do you suppose they violated while training their models?

It's a hypothetical piggybacking on the parent comment.

> I think that we're eventually going to hit another road block regardless of how much progress we can make towards that end.

I have a sneaking suspicion that all that will be required for bypassing the upcoming road blocks is giving these machines:

1) existential needs that must be fulfilled

2) active feedback loops with their environments (continuous training)

What would be an alternative explanation for our capabilities? It was once controversial (and still is in some circles) to say that humans are animals simply because it took away some of our sense of being "special."

If they have a body, and needs that they recognize they need to fill, sure.

This reads a lot like Google's "Don't be evil."

Yeah, Walmart already is doing that. It’s a bonus round of layoffs without severance.

Gambler's fallacy

Omit it on the resume, mention it during screening.

Save 50% of your software income and get to a point where you’ll be set for retirement without saving another penny and then you can do what you want as long as you cover your expenses.