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kryptonite

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  • I've squirreled something away and now I can't find it

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  • If you've got something you want to find a place for, ask yourself, "If I was looking for this, where is the first place I would look?" I've ended up changing where I keep things because sure, it might havd been in a logical place, but it wasn't where I would think to look. It's not foolproof, but it helps.

  • Work-life balance isn't working for women. Why?

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  • You have non-stressful dreams? Lucky.

  • Stop using generative AI as a search engine

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  • the output is always going to be an average of the input recipes.

    Yeah, that's a problem for most recipes, especially baking.

  • Stop using generative AI as a search engine

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  • That's pretty good, but..... how much pie crust does it make? The recipe only says to roll out one circle of crust, and then once the filling is in it, suddenly you're crimping the edges of the top crust to the bottom. It's missing crucial steps and information.

    I would never knowingly use an AI-generated recipe. I'd much rather search for one that an actual human has used, and even then, I read through it to make sure it makes sense and steps aren't missing.

  • Isaac Newton’s wealth ‘intimately connected’ with slavery, author says

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  • Newton wasn't the only one who developed calculus. Leibnitz developed it independently around the same time, and both of them had prior mathematicians' work to base their work on. If it weren't for Newton, we would still have calculus.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calculus

    That said, we can acknowledge Newton's mathematical and scientific achievements while still acknowledging problematic or terrible things that he also did. We don't need to whitewash history in order to recognize someone's achievements.

  • Anon tries watching nu-Trek

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  • In a similar perspective shift, I hated Lwaxana Troi when I was a kid, but the older I get, the more I like her.

  • Anon tries watching nu-Trek

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  • Westley was also a viewer-insert character for kids to relate to. As a little kid watching TNG, I liked him as a character and thought he was cute. I didn't start to find him irritating until I got a few years older than him.

  • Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media

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  • It's eth, actually, not thorn.

    I had thought that eth was used in Old English for the voiced "th" and thorn for the unvoiced "th", but Wikipedia says they were used interchangeably for both sounds.

    You're right otherwise. Thorn was not available on printing presses because they were being made in countries that didn't use the letter, which is why the letter Y was used instead until "th" became more common.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

  • Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities

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  • humans just put certain expectations into the word.

    ... which is entirely the way words work to convey ideas. If a word is being used to mean something other than the audience understands it to mean, communication has failed.

    By the common definition, it's not "intelligence". If some specialized definition is being used, then that needs to be established and generally agreed upon.

  • How about we play, "Never have I ever"?

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  • Jam is made with pureed fruit, while jelly is made from fruit juice. Colloquially, though, people use the terms interchangeably constantly.

  • How about we play, "Never have I ever"?

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  • I always hated the advice to make an L with your hands to see which one was Left. No one ever specified whether you're supposed to have your palms facing you or facing away, so it's ambiguous.

    When I was a kid, I would picture a dining place setting because I knew the fork was on the left.

  • Could Global Warming cause societies to become nocturnal?

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  • That article you linked was a really interesting read. Thanks!

  • Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important

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  • 5 years: pay what it costs now

    It doesn't cost anything to copyright something. You just automatically own the copyright to something you create.

    (This may vary outside the US; I'm not familiar with international copyright law.)

  • The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords

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  • Only a 2% yearly increase?!? Are you serious? I lived in an apartment for 8 years, and my ending rent was 70% higher than my starting rent. By your number, it should have ended up only about 15% higher.

  • Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames

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  • Well, if Musk said it, it must be true. /s

  • What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?

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  • You're thinking of imaginary numbers. Irrational numbers are real numbers that have an infinite number of decimal places and don't repeat.

  • to those of you of either sex who wear thongs or strings, doesn't the back side get in direct contact with your anus?

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  • "Thong" can mean a type of sandal, also known as flip-flops, but it's also the name of a type of underwear or swimsuit bottom that's basically a string in the back.

    I grew up calling flip flops "thongs", but as I got older, people were almost exclusively using that term for the underwear, so I switched terms to avoid confusion.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thong

  • TIL about the Crackpot Index, a humorous post for people who claim to have disproved Einstein's theory

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