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Man + Living Alone + Undiagnosed Depression + Microwave

I'm thinking more catastrophic stuff, like major outages for multiple days/weeks/months like from a hurricane, earthquake, etc. That's the unexpected stuff that throws the local economy haywire, and if you know when it will begin and when it will end, it just takes reviewing what business historically thrive vs falter in that situation in order to profit off of the human suffering.

Review historical train delay timings in a given region, and extrapolate the reasons for them against future train delays. Do so for a variety of regions and cities, to become aware of natural disasters as well as likely geopolitical actions, buildibg up a predictive model that relies on and exceeds the capabilities of this superpower. Bet on or against rideshare services active in the region as appropriate, as well as local business. Determine the likelihood of events like olympics, world cup, etc ocurring in any given city in the near and distant future based on increased service runs. Bet on or against those events ocurring in those cities, on the boom to construction and local businesses in the short term, and on the subsequent economic contraction (that likely leads a reduction in train service by some number of months--also data that can be added to the predictive model). Determine when/where train timings accelerate or appear where they hadn't before, suggesting a technological improvement and/or an expansion in service, suggesting city growth, and bet on the economic expansion in that region.

I hate this, thanks.

He happens to be a well spoken oldster

I put pop!_os on my surface pro 8 in an hour a week ago, having used only windows or macos for the past decade. No issues. They've upstreamed enough stuff to the linux kernel that everything except camera worked even without the surface_linux kernel. Steam runs just fine on it, as do all the games I've tried so far (obviously hardware is trash for gaming, but hey, if it was playable on windows, it'll probably be smoother on linux at this point). If linux works on a microsoft surface, there's no way that it won't work on whatever machine you happen to have.

Back up your files, pick a distro, unlock your bootloader, and just go for it. Only requirement is to know how to... Run commands in a terminal.

No regrets.

She has a very specific ideology, and the bailout disagrees with it. She's an awful human being and I hate all the things she says and does, but at least she's somewhat consistent about her stance?

It's a good rule of thumb that if you do not pay, as the result of some sort of contract, for the service of security, and you do not own the software or hosting within which you expect something to be secure, then you don't actually have any security.

The browser could be storing your data in plain text, and making it available to other software or malware on your system (or even on websites you visit, or to scripts which run in ads on websites you visit); the browser could be making it available to their internal tools or external "partners"; the browser could be storing it in the cloud and be subject to a breach for which you will never receive a cent; the browser could be doing everything "right" right now, but change their terms next week and your convenience will turn into a liability.

Host it yourself, as you do with bitwarden, and manage your own security, or pay a company to host it who makes it their business and is therefore legally liable if they screw up.

Crane's law.

If you are skilled at task or knowledgeable in a field, you are better able to provide a nuanced prompt that will be more likely to give a reasonable result, and you can also judge that result appropriately. It becomes an AI-assisted task, rather than an AI-accomplished one. Then you trade your brainpower and time that you would have spent doing that task for a bit of free time and a scorched planet to live on.

That said, once you realize how often a "good" prompt in a field you are knowledgeable in still yields shit results, it becomes pretty clear that the mediocre prompts you'll write for tasks you don't know how to do are probably going to give back slop (so your instinct is spot on). I think AI evangelist users are succumbing to the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

Ah yes, the plot of Caprica

Before you roll any dice, the chances of rolling two nat 1s are 1/400. But after you roll your first die, whatever it happened to be, your chances of rolling a nat 1 are 1/20. The chances of the entire scenario have no impact on the probability of the individual rolls

You're resorting to personal attacks without knowing who I am, what I do, what I do or don't have on the wall behind me. You apply a blanket label on all people who you class a certain way, and when I disagree with your label and its implications, and recommend nuance, you class me further.

It sounds like you think very highly of yourself, or lowly of everyone else, or both.

What makes your opinions here worthwhile?

You just described Geeks. Geek and Nerd group labels can sometimes apply to the same people, but they are not synonymous, and a person can be one without the other.

Jesus Christ, this is a real thing? I honestly thought it was invented on the latest South Park as a joke

Is that Jane Lynch?

Made it past the fire, but then it turns out that Paul can be overfed.

I got to "AAAHHH! Your password is on fire! Quick, put it out!"

In his show Taskmaster he is well known for both writing tasks and making jokes through intentionally obtuse language and uncommon phrasing. Frequently the "obvious" interpretation of a task turns out to be non-obvious, or the answer to a riddle is this kind of nondeterministic situation that trips up the contestants and makes for better funny.

Which is to say, the author of the headline is a troll, and did it internationally to bait this very kind of conversation. You won't know which way they sliced the giraffe unless you read the entire thing! Of course, after you do, you still won't know.

People with toddlers often keep the knobs off as a form of baby proofing, when the kiddos are tall enough to reach but not old enough to listen. It's then easy to lose a knob that isn't in the right place.

Sold out at $65 by July 3rd, back up but now for $999.

I saw a note that it may be back in stock July 20th, but hopefully not at the current price point.