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  • Any ideology may be dangerous. People who are convinced they're tuned into a privileged view on reality may be willing to kill others to protect it. Human history is full of proofs of that.

    "On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology." — Kenneth Clark

  • Depends. Looked today into why there's no ready-made DuckDuckGo browser for Linux (but there is for Mac,Windows,Android). There's source code for LInux in a .deb. Rahtha confusing methinks.

  • Trouble is that 'quick answers' mean the LLM took no time to do a thorough search. Could be right or wrong - just by luck.

    When you need the details to be verified by trustworthy sources, it's still do-it-yourself time. If you -don't- verify, and repeat a wrong answer to someone else, -you- are untrustworthy.

    A couple months back I asked GPT a math question (about primes) and it gave me the -completely wrong- answer ... 'none' ... answered as if it had no doubt. It was -so- wrong it hadn't even tried. I pointed it to the right answer ('an infinite number') and to the proof. It then verified that.

    A couple of days ago, I asked it the same question ... and it was completely wrong again. It hadn't learned a thing. After some conversation, it told me it couldn't learn. I'd already figured that out.

  • Jansport, yep have a green, leather-bottomed one 20 years old still used weekly. One zipper is sometimes a bit sticky.

  • A Mackie mixer and two nearfield speakers I bought 25 years ago still see hours-daily usage. When the fancy Kenwood tuner died 2-3 years later, I replaced it with a Boss 50w/chan 12vdc transistor amp that still never even gets warm.

    Speaking of Casios, I have an F-105 [1572] 'Illuminator' that's 20 years old and still using the same battery. It gains about 1 minute per year.

  • Partly, yep. Seems like every time I try to pin down an AI on a detail of a question worth asking - a math question, or a date in history, it'll confidently reply with the first answer it finds ... right or wrong.

  • From your description 'too low to the ground' sounds like it was probably ball lightning ... which can do all kinds of goofy shit depending on the weather or how it was created. I've never seen any good videos of BL on Youtube, but there might be newer ones.

    Don't know D.C. at all but if you were anywhere near a marsh, maybe 'swamp gas'?

  • The best have usually been around a longer time and have a reputation. Which ones do the pros cite?

  • As an amateur radio operator, The high bands get wiped first! 80, 160, not so much (no ionosphere? ground wave still works. Easy to throw up a long wire ... afterward). Hams (esp. ARES) will become VERY IMPORTANT for a LONG time when it happens. Field Day is a good way to prep for aftermath. (Gear can go into metal containers to escape parts damage until afterward.) Portable generators (best without a lot of electronics on them) will be needed to re-charge the batteries!

  • There are A LOT of BIG countries with big electric grids in the world today. Which countries GRIDS get hit the worst depends on which side of the Earth is facing the 'hit'. Could the West (US, Brazil) or Europe or the East (China, India).

  • Linux Mint puts out a great OS for a few thousand per month. With the start it's got, Firefox could go on for decades without more income.

  • Good start. Prefer 12-grain bread tho. And for a BIG meal, I throw on a couple (or 10) thin slices of deli meat & more mayo.

  • Great M.O. that. Why waste time cooking instead of learning? Bet he took that pizza home to watch History Channel.

  • Toast two slices. Slice of cheese between. Microwave 12 seconds to melt cheese a little. Hate waiting for toasters though,

    I once ate nothing but eggs and rice for 3 months. Rice too slow. Another time I bought a 9-pound sack of roasted, unsalted cashews at wholesale, and ate only that until it was gone. Interesting pale results in the bathroom on that one.

  • Not foodie, so I just eat whatever takes the least time and mess to make. The toaster takes too long for me. Fold a slice of cheese in a piece of bread in under one minute!

    I once ate nothing but eggs and rice all day for 3 months. (Took too long to cook rice.) Another time I bought a 9-pound sack of unsalted but roasted cashews and ate nothing else until it was gone in a couple weeks. (Interesting, pale results in the bathroom from that one.)

  • They are marginalizing themselves daily, but yeah, they deserve our help with that.

  • The first amendment guarantees freedom of the press. The journals should completely ignore nut-job's obvious attempts to imtimidate them into buying into his perverted world-view. (Not 'ideology' so much as 'spasmology'.)

    No doubt the journals belong to organizations who will help them defend themselves against cretinist arm-twisting. The demented bonobos will bully their way out a job soon enough.

  • I was standing outside last spring and remarked 'wow, what a beautiful day'. After a few seconds, an dude sitting at a nearby table said 'Every day when I wake up is a beautiful day'. Yep, life can be what you make of it.

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