Updooting for Max Miller

It probably more is the difference of lust vs desire. Lust implying sinful attraction, or excessive attraction.

Also note, I don’t think that way about those words personally, but it was the first reason I could think of for why it would be included in the negative stuff.

It’s not exactly breaking the mold…

Only missing putting it back on heat after drying with a paper towel to boil off any residual water

Support UBI, then meaningless jobs don’t matter.

At self checkout, I pack while I scan, and then I have control over the order of scanning and packing.

It does suck that places are opting to have self checkout in exclusion to checkout lanes, but for the people that don’t like self checkout just don’t use it when you have the choice.

Oof, didn’t expect it right in my heart reading these quotes

Your uncle!

Before the advent of LLMs it was a different playground. I agree that now it has poisoned search engines as well, but there are non-Google search engines that are slightly better at filtering those sorts of results.

I think it is an important distinction, still. A search engine will list a variety of results that you can select which ones you trust. It gives you more control over the information you ultimately ingest, allowing you to avoid sources you don’t trust.

If you use LLMs in conjunction with other tools, then it is just another tool in your toolbox and these downsides can be mitigated, I suppose. If you rely entirely on the LLM, though, it only compounds.

The difference is that a search engine result (before they started adding LLM results) will give you individual articles and pages with the information you’re looking up. You will get a lot of fake results, and sponsored articles that push certain viewpoints or agendas, but in theory you can find the sources for that information on those pages (I say in theory because not every article will list where the information was sourced from, but at the very least you can find the author’s name in most cases).

For the results from an LLM, you get an amalgamation of all that data spit out in a mix of verified and fake information altogether. It can hallucinate information, report fabrications as facts, and miss the context of what you’re asking entirely. (Yes, a search result can miss what you’re asking as well, but it’s usually more immediately evident). Depending on how it’s used, the longer the session goes on the more likely the information is going to be tailored to what it expects you want it to provide. If used simply for “what is the current exchange rate between country A and country B”, you might get the wrong answer but it probably is an isolated mistake.

If you start asking it for a second opinion, for it to appraise what you are saying and give you feedback, you’ll start to get answers further and further from impartiality and more and more in line with mimicking your own pattern of thinking.

And for the majority of Americans cults just get laughed at as well. At least until it started leaking into politics, but that is being seen in many other countries now, too.

A lot of Americans are doing horrible things, and there definitely is something about the culture here that affects that, as you don’t see the mass shooting and school shooting issues in other parts of the world as strongly. But coming at this saying that it doesn’t really happen outside of the USA and that it doesn’t happen in the UK is just ridiculous. If you make a statement that infers you don’t understand per capital, then you’ll get a reply making that rebuttal.

Isn’t/wasn’t the Jesus Army cult UK based? Like, the USA just has a LOT more people than the UK does, it makes sense for there to be more people that fall into fringe groups. But the UK certainly isn’t immune to it.

When this happens to me, I sip it right then and there, burning my lips as punishment for letting it get to that point. I no longer have lips, but now it rarely gets to that point for me anymore.

Mostly /s but coffee is usually not so hot that I can’t take a few sips of shame to get it to a more manageable level.

Just today I had to explain to a coworker how I grew to love Linux because I was hating Windows, I don’t hate Windows because I love Linux. And I don’t want to hate Windows, I wish they were slowly becoming anti-user, but they keep adding (forcing) features that are so unfriendly to the user.

I had to help someone figure out why their new storage drive wasn’t showing up, and it was because Windows has something called “Storage Spaces”, turning “unused” storage drives into a sort of virtual raid local One Drive. It’s a neat idea, but it hides the physical drive from File Explorer and Disk Management. That should be a feature you have to intentionally configure and enable, not something that can just happen automatically.

I agree, this timeline sucks. It shouldn’t be this easy to bite the onion…

Nah, some people might get offended right from the get go if you start talking about the basics with them, but it’s only a problem if you continue to insist that you know better than them once it becomes clear they have an understanding of the topic. Like, if you’re excited to talk about dinosaurs and the person you’re talking to is a paleontologist, but you pivot to talking about deeper aspects of the topic once you realize, you’re all good! Even better if you start asking them questions to learn from their expertise.

On the other hand, if you realize that they are a paleontologist and completely disregard that, insisting to them that you actually know more than them, or continue trying to explain base concepts, then yeah, you’re a jerk.

Saw several stories where the user was experiencing a building wide power outage…

I had to scroll back up because I wasn’t paying attention and my brain initially just saw two dogs… I need more coffee

Maybe anymore Minecraft is different, but when it started it was about mining and crafting tools to mine more efficiently.

Terraria always evokes terrarium to me, which makes it feel like a whole little world, but also felt like it was more contained to me (from title alone).

It’s not pointless, they could walk back home, sure, but if they are going for a longer walk and are a couple of blocks away from home, that’s a couple of blocks closer they get water. Or if they are active and playing outside, giving them water would likely be much appreciated.

Water in disposable plastic bottles is wasteful, sure, and maybe you’d have a point saying it would be better to offer cups of water. Maybe there are other people, further away, that could use the water more, sure. But providing something to someone in an act of generosity and good will is nice.