Such grace.

For me, it was similar, but it totally grew on me. It’s an acquired taste.

Earl Grey is what got me to switch from being a coffee-only to mostly-tea guy. But after a year or so, I got tired of the bergamot and switched to other teas. First to other types of flavored tea, then plain tea. Nowadays, I drink about one pot of tea each day, and it’s mostly Darjeeling or an occasional Oolong.

Tbf, I’ve been using sudo rm -rf /* for years, and it has made every computer problem I’ve ever had go away. Very effective.

Would be funny if the AI was also burning computational resources while doing this so as to make the lie more convincing.

In terms of pure, artificial language generation, this is actually impressive. In terms of the actual utility of AI as a supposed problem-solving tool? Not so much.

Are you saying that comments like came here to say this take my upvote who’s cutting onions saving this for later laughed at this harder than I should have tell me you’re x without telling me you’re x not all heroes wear capes sigh unzips pants thank you for the gold kind stranger are somehow less valuable than a genuine human thought?

Preposterous! Laughable!

That’s one thing I love about the Fediverse. Over on Reddit, if you belong to the 38k, you’re a rounding error. Here, you’re a significant part of the community.

You could ask the same question about all sorts of parasites (ticks, tapeworms, etc.), but I think the answer is pretty clear. It’s not the conundrum you think it is, and the vast majority of people correctly see no contradiction between killing a mosquito that’s on their arm drawing blood and agreeing that mosquitoes are a relevant part of the ecosystem that should not disappear entirely.

You know what, Toby? When the son of the deposed King of Nigeria e-mails you directly asking for help, you help. His father ran the freaking country, okay?

“Blah blah blah… ‘click sign in’… Okay, gotcha!”

Also bad: When you ask XOR questions, but people think they’re funny and give you OR answers instead.

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Decoctorch sounds kind of cool though. Anyone up for some calendar reform?

Also, by leaving your email on unread, I can continue to cycle through your and other people’s emails once a day, until your email has finally achieved a level of urgency that compels me to reply.

I can ask the question, sure, but what if the answer is wrong?

I commute to work every day, and I don’t own a car. My bike (Shimano gear-hub with a belt drive) was about 1k€, and it was one of the cheaper models available.

T470 here (the anniversary model). I’ll part with it when someone takes it from my cold, dead body.

One big change that’s noticeable in many countries in the northern hemisphere is the disruption of the (northern) polar jet stream. The previous effects of the jet stream include a relative stability of (cold) weather in winter. Due to climate change, the jet stream becomes increasingly unstable, leading to winters with a back-and-forth between warmer periods and frequent “cold snaps”. It’s the latter that people point to, when they say “See? Climate change isn’t real”. The former is what people refer to when they say “There’s no snow anymore like there used to be”.