That’s why I always carry around my pocket globe and compass to scale and compare distances accurately.

Nope, believe it or not, that’s treated entirely differently. Considered to be covered by the 5th amendment since you would be required to provide information that could be self-incriminating.

My wife can bake (more or less), but cannot cook much else to save her life. She’ll default to crackers, cheese and turkey slices for every meal, maaaaybe the occasional frozen pizza, if I don’t cook. Also I’m a really good cook and I like my food, so… I’mma do the cooking.

I mean… that is just good design. The main function should be the initializer and orchestrator of the logic. You should be able to look at the main function and tell, at a high level, what the program is doing. It should be usually pretty basic and procedural. Other functions handle the details and complexity.

They can bullshit you to death.

And they often do. Literally.

“Hahaha, you’ll never get in”

smiles, flips down welding mask

My guy, this entire community is based around people who post shit like this all the time in complete earnestness. I dont think that its as “obvious” as you do that this particular case is satire. But even if it is, that is only confirmation that plenty enough people post shit like this being serious that there is something to even satirize about it. So, whether or not this specific guy is making a joke, my comment and question about serious LinkedIn posts like it still stands. But you in particular who calls people idiots for participating in the purpose of the community they are in, and acts like a smarmy asshole about it too… you can fuck off.

I don’t hang out on LinkedIn reading social posts. If I’m there, it’s too check job posts or answer direct messages from recruiters. Do idiots like this not get blasted by everyone for these asinine tasks? Or are all the people that actually participate in the LinkedIn social feed as deluded as them?

DBZ pun names even cross over into English sometimes. Vegeta and Bulmas kids are Trunks and Bra. King Cold’s kids are Freiza (Freezer) and Cooler. Saiyanss are from planet Vegeta (short for Vegetables) and all of their names are modified vegetables like Kakarot (carrot), Raditz (Radish), Nappa (Napa Cabbage), Broli (Broccoli). Mr. Satan’s daughter is Videl (anagram for Devil). Bibidi, Babidi, and Buu (Bibbidi-babbidi-boo from Disney Cinderella movie). Bubbles is named after Michael Jackson’s chimp. Whis and Beerus are Whiskey and Beers, and Champa is Champagne. King Piccolo’s minions are Piano, Tambourine, Cymbal, and Drum, all instruments. There’s a ton.

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work as well as state-run communism does - which is to say, in theory they’re great

State-run communism is also an oxymoron. The total state control of production is meant to be an intermediary step in the transition from capitalism. First the state seizes materials, machinery, money, etc away from the capitalists and corporations, redistributes the seized wealth according to need, and then it relinquishes control of production to the workers and of the governance to community structures and dissolves itself. That last step has never happened at a national scale in human history. State-run communism is not communism, by definition. It’s just capitalism where the state leadership are the only capitalists.

Or the severely physically and mentally impaired, people caring for spouses, parents, siblings and children with disabilities, people who work full time hourly jobs and still depend medicaid, etc… maybe think before opening your fucking mouth Kellyanne.

The problem comes when the benevolent dictator dies peacefully in their sleep.

The problems arise well before that. There’s no such thing as a benevolent dictator because it’s an oxymoron. Anyone who would seek to control everyone is not benevolent. And even if we agreed that unilaterally controlling everyone could still be benevolent, there is no means to gaining such control that is not inherently not benevolent short of nearly every one of your constituents collectively appointing you to that position.

When I started dating my now wife, my now Father In Law got into a massive argument with my wife’s uncle because the uncle’s a pretty unhinged version of a leftist and was arguing that his ideal form of goverment was that of a benevolent dictatorship. My FIL was flabbergasted that anyone would think that that was a good idea, not just because he’s politically opposed to my wife’s Uncle’s idea of what constitutes benevolence, but that he would think that a strong autocratic leader would fix anything, regardless of their politics.

8 years later, here we are with my Father In Law being so loudly and unrelentingly pro-Trump it has nearly caused permanent rifts in the family, including with my wife, and nearly destroyed his marriage too. He has zero problem with Trump taking as much power as needed to push his policies through. The fucking irony of it, supporting the most blatant autocratic shift in American political history after being furious at the idea from my wife’s Uncle, and it’s entirely lost on him.

Mines nothing amazing, really, but i find it handy.

I 🏴‍☠️ movies. The downloads often come with excess files, images, text, sample videos, etc. The only files I want beside the movie file are subtitle files if they came with the download. And the video files often have obnoxiously long file names with coding info in it, the uploader’s name, etc. And sometimes they get nested weirdly.

Most of the time, the file name and nesting is not really a big deal since I use plex and does good at ignoring nesting and it typically matches the title to imdb entries even if the file name is full of garbage. But sometimes it doesn’t match correctly and has to be manually fixed. And I just want my files to be clean, readable, and get rid of the bloat.

So I made a script that walks through my movie libraries, deletes all unneeded files, generates a directory structure dependent on whether or not there are subtitles, and renames the files (and directories) by removing all of the junk words and coding and leaving only the title and release year. Like I said, it’s nothing amazing, but it’s the only utility I ever wrote in it’s entirety for myself that I actually use on the regular.

Why? Because sometimes the majority chooses fascists? So, of course that is always a risk, though it is a risk without the NPVIC too, clearly, and I think makes it more likely as well. But you also have to remember that the majority of voting eligible people do not vote regularly. There’s any number of reasons for that, but a major reason for it is winner-take-all states make states hard red or hard blue states. People who dont align with their states’ hard political lean justifiably feel like voting is pointless as their vote ultimately wont count towards the final decision. But if the NPVIC were in place, more people would have a good reason to turn out as their vote will actually count. And people who dont live in swing states will have to be given more concern from campaigns too.

But ultimately, it is only a bandaid for a broken system. The electoral college is bullshit and so is Plurality voting. And frankly, voting should be compulsory and accommodated at every level. Make it compulsory, implement the Approval voting system for every election (eliminating the dominance of the two party system in the process), and the competition of ideas will make one party control of each branch, and thus run-away fascism, significantly harder to achieve. But then we seem to be already well too late for that.

So it doesn’t take half the states to pass it. It only takes enough states to make up half of the electoral votes. It could actually be done with as few as 12 states if those with the most electoral votes all agreed (though that requires Texas and Florida to join the compact). But even now, there are only 17 states and DC officially joined in the compact, yet that already makes up almost 39% of electoral votes. They will need some red or purple states to join too, to reach the number of course. There’s not enough electoral votes in all the solid blue states alone. Purple state Pennsylvania, and red states Kansas and South Carolina all have bills in committee to join. Were they all to pass, they’d have 45% of the electoral college in the compact.

It’s to the benefit of hard red states too though. It will make their needs more of a priority for campaigning presidents instead of only Swing States being pandered to. The Swing states are the only ones that have a vested interest in preserving the status quo. And it’s not like Trump wouldnt be president now if the compact was triggered now (unfortunately) so it’s silly to pretend that it would prevent conservative presidencies.

No no, dont even give it that much dignity. The complainants are not asking to “block the map” too close (11 months) to elections. They are asking that the map not be illicit, unethically changed 5 years early, based off the explicit public request of the President who is not meant to have power over state election matters, with the explicitly stated intent of gerrymandering out more seats for Republicans that they “deserve” than they otherwise would have won, only 15ish months to the elections (which is apparently plenty of time). Their “reasoning” doesn’t make sense because it’s not reasoning. It’s blatant full chested support of voter suppression/disenfranchisement to bolster their party and their autocratic President. They’re so full of shit you could smell them talking from the next room over. Fuck those lying, cheating, corrupt, un-American, fascist cunts.

Predictive language models are bad at this because they are not actually parsing meaning from the text. It is just outputting patterns it has seen before from training data based on your inputs. The patterns are complex and the training data is often immense enough that is has seen just about any kind of pattern plenty. That is often good enough to get sensible output, but not always.

There are models that do handle this better through a few different strategies. They can have a team of specialized models take on the problem. Using one model to categorize the prompt and the data generated, it then has other models specifically trained on that kind of data, or even just basic stupid calculators in cases like this, parse and produce results it understands. Then it can take the output of all of those other models through one more model that organizes the data cohesively.

Alternatively, you can also have a series of models that successively breaks down the prompt and data generated into finer details and steps, where instead of guessing at math problems like this, it literally “shows its work”, so to speak, applying step by step arithmetic to it instead of just guessing with “good enough” language modeling.

"the survivors were trying to climb back on the vessel to salvage some drugs.“

The fact that they can even pretend to say, definitively, what the intent of two corpses was… “if he hadn’t been shot in the back of the head, Lincoln was 5 seconds away from sneezing and interrupting the play”. It’s literally that absurd to claim. You don’t know their intent.

Were they trying to salvage drugs? Maybe, or maybe they were just trying to not drown. Would salvaging drugs even legally justify a strike? Of course not, but then the initial strike was also not legally justified. None of this shit is OK and I’m tired of acting like this needs to be debated. This is murder, full stop. Fuck Trump, fuck Hegseth, fuck this Admiral, and fuck anyone else justifying this shit.