Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org

@mimsical Back in the 70s we would say that someone was totally into their thing. "That's her thing" would explain behavior. And this cut across other categories.

thinking it's time to pivot away from room-temperature superconductivity

@mimsical The period 2016-2020 a triumph of kayfabe style, arguably presaged by earlier events and enduring to the present. Social science journals have articles documenting this movement and conjecturing its causes. Ultimately, this style will pass from popularity; to be replaced by what?

all things being equal, cage-free matches are preferable to cage matches

"he told officers he worked for Google and was afraid to stop" https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/110827226350483386

LK-99 every day. When will it subside.

@mimsical VC Strangelove.

@carnage4life How little the images add to the text.

@codinghorror
The theory that universal physical constants were determined so that life could exist is called the fine-tuned universe or the anthropic principle. It is the proposition that the conditions that allow life in the universe can occur only when certain universal dimensionless physical constants lie within a very narrow range of values. If any of several fundamental constants were only slightly different, the universe would be unlikely to be conducive to the establishment and development of matter, astronomical structures, elemental diversity, or life as we know it.

@mitexleo It will go from 8 billion to 0 in just a few years?

@mimsical The Everything App. Possibly related is the VIP product in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lover_Come_Back_(1961_film) -- the product was advertised before telling anybody what it would do. Great comedy premise and commentary on 60s advertising biz. But of course we are more mature now, there is no such frivolous hype these days.

@mimsical When I read the first sentence I neglected the word "sound" and it was still meaningful.

The correct term for someone who studies meteors is a meteoriticist.

"Heat kills more people in the U.S. than any other weather-related phenomena."

Seems reasonable.

Bard prompt "Which kills more people annually, cold or heat?" Bard response: "According to a 2017 study by the Lancet, 4.6 million people die each year from cold exposure, while 0.5 million people die each year from heat exposure. This means that for every death linked to heat, nine are tied to cold."

Also seems reasonable.

@paul "Heat kills more Americans every year than any other weather-related disaster."

@dbread Answer to your question what is vacation. There is a legal definition! Comes from the verb 'vacate'.

@dbread e.g. https://vhal.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/120/2018/08/PETITION-FOR-VACATION-OF-RIGHT-OF-WAY-revised-03-24-09.pdf

@anildash No problem should ever be solved. Just invent a workaround each time a problem is discovered.

change is the only constant
-- Heraclitus
constants are the only change
-- modern AI architecture tuning

ai ai aye