As a kid I went to a large indoor ball pit once where they had something like that, but they had the outputs hooked up to marble runs and ball cannons. It would also filter out any broken balls. I don’t know how long it took to cycle through all the balls, because this place was absolutely massive. Probably millions of balls.

It’s not just the graphics that improved in the last 20 years. Modern game engines created a floor of quality where input just works, basic configuration just works, autosave just works. All these little conveniences around the game itself that you barely think about, until you play a shooter from 20 years ago and the buttons are mapped weirdly and there’s no way to remap.

Good timing for me, because I put on a new pair of socks this morning and looked exactly like Jucika 5 seconds later.

I think you’re missing the point. Having a child for Narnia is not selfish, it is literally for the good of Narnia to have another strong Narnian. But you’re operating under a moral framework where even the good of Narnia is ultimately good for the Narnian, therefore it is selfish to want Narnia to be strong.

Do you have to agree with the idea of a strong Narnia? Of course not. But it’s a very narrow way of thinking to explain every human motivation through selfishness.

There are plenty of reasons that aren’t selfish. You can do it for humanity, for justice, for style points, for Narnia… If you want to logick those into being selfish, that’s your own moral framework talking. Every action is a subjective choice from a subjective perspective in the end, but people can still have non-selfish intentions, however misguided you may judge them.

They just met and the catgirl is already in her lap for scritches??

Character limits are great to condense information and (1/?)

This should be its own post tbh, so I can upvote it again.

Edit: Also, source?

Not pictured here: the party’s cleric who got incinerated by a reflexive response to an awkward situation.

Water is also best used to smother a fire. Taking energy away is much less efficient than taking oxygen away.

Anyway, if you’re frying a lot and grease fires are a worry (bigger than you can smother with a lid), get a class K extinguisher for the kitchen. It turns your oil into soap, and soap doesn’t burn.

If it did it would be simple to train a healthy and truthful facts AI, you would simply train it off from the truthful and healthy facts.

Not how AI works. I mean, it’s technically possible to train an AI that only generates truth, but it would be so overfitted that it’s functionally no different from the search bar on Wikipedia.

Large language models need randomness to function. They cut up every true sentence in the training data into tiny tokens and reassemble them into… well, whatever arrangement of tokens satisfies the discriminator or the humans who grade the output. Discriminators can’t tell fact from fiction and the humans generally don’t care to.

Even if you valued truth above all else during the training and rejected every false statement you encounter, there’s no way you could judge the truth of every possible statement the system could ever produce. And with randomness most statements will be false, that’s simply the nature of truth.

Michael Vsauce has a solution for that last part: slap bracelets with the locations of things that were lost for centuries. Whenever you end up*, the bracelet has a couple things on there that are lost and could be found.

How to prove you’re a time traveller - The Rest Is Science (45:27)

*) In the last couple centuries at least, the further back you go, the fewer things are lost.

Should we put Xavier Renegade Angel on this list? I don’t think it really qualifies as dark humor, more absurdist humor, but he eats all those babies that one episode…

Eventually all that dry air will end up above the ocean and absorb more water to balance the system. I don’t think it’s really an issue, we weren’t getting rain clouds from the Sahara anyway.

Linux-native Dota is a bit worse than Windows Dota, to the point that I tried to run it in Proton instead (doesn’t work). With the right start config (-dx11) it runs fine though. Same for Deadlock, it was almost unplayable without -dx11.

I don’t know with what spells Wizard War 3 will be fought, but Wizard War 4 will be fought with fists and stones.

Pretty sure it’s AI artifacting.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1683/

You can see that the general shape of the squiggles is the same, but some generative algorithm detected a pattern in the noise and “enhanced” it.

There’s one more big difference between Windows and Linux: Windows can only install updates while shutting down, for some reason. On Linux I boot the machine, see the notification for updates, and run them in the background while I do my own things. If the updates need a reboot to take effect, it’s a normal reboot that takes mere seconds.

On Windows, I get an update notification in the morning and either take 5 minutes to restart right then, or wait until I naturally shut down (end of the day) and have an abnormally long shutdown that (sometimes) leaves my laptop running and still not fully updated while it’s in my bag. That isn’t a security issue or a policy issue, it’s a technical limitation that results in a terrible user experience.

Hey, wait a minute! Buyer lady was afraid the seller lady would turn out to be a lad, so she sent a lad in her place? What did she think would happen if seller lady actually showed up and got jump-scared by this buyer lad instead? She’s lucky both these lads got along, because either of them could have decided to call off the deal and go home when they saw the terms were violated.

I take off my onesie before entering the bathroom, but then I’m really cold… Which I’d be anyway because it’s all around my ankles on the floor. I think we need more flaps.