She’s also written some banging children’s books.

There’s the whole earthsea saga that is probably easier to read than Harry Potter.

JD Vance confirmed to be in the next Minecraft.

Can you put out a contract on someone just by betting on polymarket that they won’t die by a particular date?

You know what’s even better? Proportional representation and an executive branch that answers directly to your elected parliament.

Ranked choice or STV just means you continue to vote against Republicans and hope for the second worst option of Democrats, but you can feel better about yourself because you put a left-wing party down as your first choice.

STV should only be used for figurehead positions with no real power.

If the data is present but difficult to restore, it’s annoying. You might need to spend a few days fixing stuff.

If the data is gone, it’s devastating and can bankrupt a company. On a personal level it’s the same as having all your photos destroyed in a fire. And backups not containing the right data are very common.

Noise cancelling only really works on constant background noises like an engine. It doesn’t work on bells and just kind of muddies speech, but you can still here the noise.

The problem is diplomatic ramifications.

Parliament can always do what it wants, but if it’s unilaterally removing rights from another country they’re going to be pissed off.

It’s not gay unless the brain worms touch.

Petition for the UK to ship reform off to the colonies.

It’ll make both countries smarter.

Most of the country wants it but the politicians don’t want to give the far right any excuses.

What we’re seeing is closer and closer alignment until we end up as a defacto member of the common market, but without a say over the rules.

If we end up rejoining it will probably take more than a decade and it will be under the default rules, just because the EU can’t be bothered to deal with British exceptionalism again.

I’m not being funny but it can be both.

Square root is an operator that maps a number to the positive number that when squared returns the original number, but there is also a square root symbol.

Similarly, % can be an operator that maps a number x to x/100, but there’s also a percent symbol.

It just depends if you’re talking about functions or fonts.

Their family probably came to Taiwan after the Japanese invasion.

Japan was notoriously brutal to the indigenous population, but most of the people in Taiwan came there in the civil war.

In fact, stamping out the indigenous culture has been an ongoing part of the post civil war Taiwanese government, and it’s only recently that the Taiwanese language has been allowed to be taught in schools.

Congrats, the game is now non-finite (you can just keep drawing forever).

Nah, you can actually see some of them developing AI psychosis.

https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/this-prominent-vc-investor-just-had-a-chatgpt-induced-psychosis-on-twitter-heres-what-this-means-197ae5df77f4

You’ve got to understand that most AI execs aren’t technical people, they’re hype men. And LLMs are weirdly good at hype and the illusion of technical correctness. So they don’t have a problem with it.

Sam Altman saying he uses chatgpt to tell him how to act with his baby is one of the things he’s said I actually believe. Of course he’s also a got a team of nannies he couldn’t be bothered to mention, but the trust for chatgpt is there.

Yeah, but this is a legitimate concern in the US.

In most of the world, safety checks for cars include making sure that they are safe enough for people outside the car. There are rules about crumple zones and sharp edges, that effect how they hit pedestrians, and what they can do to other cars.

You can’t drive a cyber truck in Europe or the UK. In the US, it’s a free for all.

If you want smaller cars/trucks back on the road, you need to copy the safety laws from countries where people drive small cars.

No, you just use a standard technique like word2vec.

Basically words are considered similar (and embedded to nearby locations in a high dimensional space) if they are likely to be used in the same context.

And because slurs are used to indicate that you don’t like someone, they tend to occur in the same kind of context.

So they’re all very similar. This is actual natural language processing being used, but it’s a shit post and the graphics aren’t very clear.

Bragging rights and improved sleeping ability from the knowledge that the devs are being supported.

The serious answer is it’s often easier for people in a company to buy a license key than it is for them to arrange a donation to the devs. So this is an easy way to make small donations.

So why can’t America sell weapons to Ukraine forever?

I thought this was the American dream. Make loads of money while other people die somewhere far away.

Also not to be confused with tower bridge which is the one everyone that doesn’t live in London calls London bridge.

Yeah, market.

Like a literal old fashioned market. You pay to put your stall out and in exchange you get customers in a well regulated and run place.

Don’t like it? Don’t pay.