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Also he refers to Tesla as an AI company now that they have a team working on self-driving cars.

Don’t hate the player; hate the game.

Binary search requires splitting the search space into two halves, then asking “is it in that half?”

Normally the “is it in that half?” check involves a numerical comparison: test value versus target value. “higher or lower” here gets you to “is it in that half?”

So finding the midpoint seems like a core part of the process, but really that’s just a shortcut in the case of comparable values, that helps you split into two and check membership.

I admit I couldn’t think of that either: just alter half the items and check for effect.

Dude your mom with a two chambered heart

A true inflection point no doubt

And maybe to share muscle power between different phases of the stroke. Two muscles that evolved to pump different chambers could both work on the same chamber when they’re folded over one another. Allow them to transfer force between the layers.

So far, it was working. The trail of possums stretched behind them. Where they’d just walked, possums sat hunched on the ground, munching contendedly. Further back, they slept.

The only problem was, they still had a long way to go.

“Taco check!”

“Three” “One” “I’m out”
“Me too”

Halfway across the field, and they were down to just four tacos left. A new cloud ptossums erupted over the hill, bearing down faster than the group before.

“Switch to soakers!”

They all carried Super Soaker 50s — courtesy of the Toys R Us — filled with jim beam. Carl and Anne also had the two pistols they’d found, loaded with Peppermint Schnapps.

“Remember to pump!” was all Carl had time to cry out before the swarm was upon them.

A sort of battlefield drone used by the Raptor Legions. So called because you’d “ptossum” at the enemy where’d they’d wreak havoc

Mandela Effect time!

There’s never been a product called “InstaPot”. You just hallucinated that along with millions of other people. It’s called “Instant Pot”; always has been.

Other things that also never existed:

• Stouffer’s Stove-Top Stuffing (It’s always been Kraft)
• McDonalds hash browns orders with two patties (it’s one)
• Haas avocados (Hass, and always hass beeen)

We could use the skim milk for flushing toilets and washing cars. We needn’t shackle ourselves to these mutants forever.

In the book How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place, a team of economists finds the most effective use of money to improve humans’ lives is to buy and distribute vitamins in malnourished areas.

These are areas where people have sufficient calories, but lack certain nutrients in their local diets. It’s relatively cheap to just buy and distribute tons of vitamin supplements to fill in those gaps, allowing kids there to grow up without developmental deficiencies.

That book’s scope is the whole world, but I’m sure it would be very helpful to do the same in the US in food desert areas too.

Is our corn subsidy written in blood?

Has it spilled any blood by existing?

High fructose corn syrup’s pretty damn bad for people, and it’s everywhere because of government subsidies.

I guess the big question is: can government code cause death too? Or only prevent it? Are we always safer with more laws on the books?

Yeah imagine a government you design collectively and then opt into. Sounds horrible.

The air fryer either superheats or melts the mug, depending on its material. You either scald your hands picking it up like you would grab it from the microwave, or you burn your house down.

Who are you who are so wise in the ways of pop?

What kind of validation does the fuel person get?

If one is incapable of harming an aggressor, they need to fix that as soon as possible.

I used to have that problem and I got fixed of it by letting an aggressor hurt me (I got extremely lucky to be saved from that aggressor by some other strangers who happened to be there; else I would have been fucked) at which point a deep part of me reorganized my priorities.

A person who’s incapable of defending herself needs to take immediate steps to fix that. To me it’s a no-brainer to start down that path immediately, when there’s some psycho entering her physical space repeatedly.

Get a gun, get training, etc. Get the ability to defend oneself, if it’s absent. This means psychology too.

I should have said get a gun and the will to use it. The only reason not to have that will is naïveté, and hers is eroding.

That’s not correct. ChatGPT is hooked into the live web.

Describing a concept and getting the term is awesome with an LLM.

I’ve found documentation and discussions of various strategies I’m considering in tech work.

I describe my idea, the LLM gives me the existing term for that strategy, and then I can find discussion, guides, and theory about that. Keeps me from reinventing the wheel.

I have it provide me with its sources