knightly the Sneptaur @ knightly @pawb.social

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You know a good heist always needs that genius mechanic who can bodge a mechanical solution to such practical problems, or just have a flatbed truck with a crane or something.

If this were a movie, it'd end up with an 18-wheeler and whatever nonsense would be required to steal a whole train car. XD

LLMs are just massively-multidimensional maps of human language use. It is academically interesting to have developed both the map and a method for plotting a course through language-space using a prompt as an initial vector, but human intellience is not in language. Rather, language is part of human intelligence, and mapping it to ever more computationally-expensive distances is never going to chart a path to the digital mind that all the tech billionaires are so desperate to enslave.

Both to some degree, realistically. I used an old collander as a signal reflector for a wifi dongle on the end of a USB extension cable and was able to boost the signal up to about 4x, or maybe half the range of the purpose-built and highly directional Yagi antenna I eventually bought to replace that kludge.

If a court didn't order it then it isn't a deportation.

Because the real assassin didn't want the attention, and real heroes tend to have mysteriously short lifespans.

Letting a fall guy enjoy the fame and either prison time or exoneration gives our real hero a lot of headstart on disappearing and becoming someone else.

It's still a matter of timescale, as in "how far future are we talking?". On a stellar scale, they'd need to get here in the next billion years or so before the expansion of the sun boils off everything above the lithosphere. On a geological scale, it's only a couple hundred million years 'til everything that isn't already buried or washed into the sea is getting squashed into a new pangea. On a climatological scale, corrosion and decay/overgrowth will render almost all artifacts unrecognizable within a couple of thousand years, though it'd be a few tens of thousands before our impact on the atmosphere is nulled. On a human timescale, the inverse-square law means that our radio signals are only detectable without astronomically-sized antennas within a shell of a few dozen light years or so.

Or they could do the smart thing and ration the industrial supply, but that would offend the money.

They lost me when they released Fallout 76 prematurely and refused to honor my refund request. I'm glad I bought it direct rather than through Steam, I charged that shit back and swore them off right then.

Area denial weapons. The name comes from the Old English "calcatrippe", meaning "heel-trap", which itself came from the French "chause-trape", or "shoe-trap".

Their design ensures that they will always land with one spike pointing up, so they can be scattered in the path of advancing enemies to slow them down or injure their feet.

It's only relevant at quantum scales, so it's not something we can experience directly. The super oversimplified version is that imaginary time is what light is doing while it moves through a medium where it can't travel at light speed. Light always travels at light speed, but it can pass through infinitessimally small closed loops of time where the light isn't interacting with anything but is nevertheless delayed by things it might have interacted with.

Imaginary numbers are defined as the square roots of negative numbers, or as multiples of i, so yes that definition of imaginary time is accurate.

The square roots of negative numbers are different because they are neither rational nor irrational numbers, so they can be combined with real numbers to form complex numbers. Complex numbers are vital to mathematics because they allow you to solve polynominal equations that can't be solved with real numbers alone, like (x+1)^2 =-9 where x = -1±3i

How humid is the area where they were stored? Is it subject to significant swings in temperature like direct sunlight?

Not a 60% success rate, but a 60% rate of throwing good money after bad.

That's creepy-chan. I went to highschool with her, and she's always had that vibe, even back then.

Somali food is so good, though.

It also makes those large corporate platforms unappealing, which is a very good thing for those of us who have always said that federation is a half-step towards proper decentralization.

On the contrary, if the only reason you voted for Harris was to vote against Trump then it sounds like you agree with me.

If, on the other hand, there was something about Harris' campaign that actually spoke to you, then I'd love to hear it.

Run out of points to make and repeating yourselves already? XD

Prove me wrong, vote for her again. See how well that does in 2028. XD

Trump being an evil peice of shit was never going to make Harris a worthwhile candidate.

Edit: Y'all can downvote me all you want, it's the truth. Trump won because Harris made people not want to even bother voting.