I’m American, and in my experience anyone with actual training on canoeing technique would stay on one side like you’re supposed to, but plenty of people also go canoeing who don’t know any better and switch sides to attempt to steer. I grew up canoeing and immediately was annoyed by the forward turn section of the diagram.

There is no lie. It’s just tough to admit that it’s fairly accurate.

Yes, I just glossed over that detail by saying “similar to”, but that is a more accurate explanation.

“They’ve been saying so many bad things about him for decades, and nothing stuck. He says he’s innocent, so who should I believe, the man I trust, or the lying media and the deep state? They just have it out for him because he tells it like he sees it.” You can point out all the inconsistencies in what Trump says, but they’ve tuned out already. They already know what they need to about him, or they just aren’t detail people at all. Some are so far gone, they think, “He’s a good person, therefore whatever it was he did was a good thing.”

Unfortunately the most probable response to a question is an authoritative answer, so that’s what usually comes out of them. They don’t actually know what they do or don’t know. If they happen to describe themselves accurately, it’s only because a similar description was in the training data, or they where specifically instructed to answer that way.

Dumpster concerns aside, I think these count as feral yeast.

This reminds me. Some years ago I was driving down the highway and I found myself behind the most garishly styled car I’ve seen in my life. I don’t recall the exact details now, just that I found it so brightly over decorated that it hurt to look at. “Who would put all that effort into making their vehicle so hideous?” I thought. Then there was a slowdown and everyone had to hit their brakes. Their brake lights, I now saw, were partially masked to say “YOLO!” every time they hit the brakes. “Well, fair enough,” I realized. I still hated it, but I had to respect that the car made them happy. You only have one life to live, and if you want to spend part it driving the most ugly car ever bedazzled, well, you do you. I’m happy for you. They’ll never know it, but that moment really stuck with me ever since. Don’t let others’ judgment stop you from doing to your car, or your body, what brings you the most joy.

Well, unless it’s a safety hazard to others. Please don’t do car mods that risk harm to others.

They were asking Deepseek, an LLM model developed in China, because they were curious what limits might be baked into it by its makers. I imagine that if they were testing an American made AI, they would instead ask it about things an American company would be likely to censor.

I particularly enjoyed Adobe® Creative Commons™ software and Microsoft Minecraft® Bedrock™ for Workgroups™.

A lot of it isn’t new, or is new but wasn’t published because it was redundant at the time. Everyone who wasn’t wearing blinders already knew Trump is a pedo creep who was best friends with Epstein. Now, finally, thanks to Trump’s broken promise on releasing “the Epstein files,” those blinders are off, or at least weakened and so it’s actually worthwhile to put this stuff out there again. Framing it like it’s some new revelation will get some of the people who ignored it before to maybe consider it this time around.

Pointless nitpick: I don’t think he’s wearing a bald cap, it really looks like the guy partially shaved his head for the bit. That takes some real commitment to do that just to call out the hypocrisy of someone being also shitty.

Wow, this takes me back. This was one of my favorite sets to play with, and I had forgotten it. I was always a little disappointed that the magnet arm couldn’t actually reach the little magnet cargo box in the base. I usually put the robot on the torso-docking hover-platform, and the human in the head/spaceship, on account of the human being safer in an enclosed cockpit, while the robot was less at risk riding exposed to the vacuum of space. I also added some upgraded thrusters to the head from some other set so it could fly faster when detached.

It wasn’t the user’s infrastructure, it was the LLM company’s. The selling point is that it’s all integrated together for you. You explain what you want, the LLM not only codes it, but launches it too. Yes, his screen shots of the LLM “taking responsibility” are idiotic, but so many people don’t understand that LLMs don’t actually understand anything.

“Basically their methodology was that they asked ChatGPT whether the job could be automated,” he explained. “They also asked people whether the job could be automated and then they said ChatGPT and people agreed some portion of the time.”

lol. This is such an idiotic thing to do. “Hey, you know that linguistic pattern matcher that doesn’t actually reason or introspect? Since it can talk, why don’t we just ask it what it can and can’t do?” Seeing this, published by an AI research institute no less, is what inspired the creators of the actually riggourus test the article is about. It inspired me with a desire to smack those idiots upside their empty heads.

Dude went dumpster diving for a name. It’s not theft if they’re throwing it away. One woman’s trash is another man’s treasure.

I thought mayor was a partisan position in every US city. If fact, in the US every elected position is effectively a partisan position, even the rare ones that officially aren’t.

Took me way too long to get that.

People think the stem is too tough, but it just needs to be cooked right. The trick is to start cooking the stem pieces first, then when they just start to be cooked, add the florets. Exact timing depends on the cooking method, but if done right all of it will be tender and tasty.

If I recall correctly, the follow up was the same person complaining about being painfully constipated for several days.

Yeah, I have to agree; if your plastic cup isn’t labeled “coffee”, then why are you even bothering to drink a coke?