Who’s been paying attention and didn’t see it coming? Danielle Smith has been betraying Canadians for years with her shitty policy experiments in Alberta, this is right on brand for her.

So you get a notification, spacelord suggested Hereditas: https://github.com/ItalyPaleAle/hereditas

Not sure if it’s the same one OP is thinking of, though.

Edit: also, from further down: https://github.com/potatoqualitee/eol-dr

It’s a very nice concept to be able to dump a shitload of knowledge into a folder, look at “processing…” for a few seconds, then ask questions to get exactly what you’re looking for out of it rather than having to go digging through the mound of information and without having to worry that the computer just threw in a few made up facts for giggles. The idea is that the dumping happens over time mostly, allowing you to quickly find buried information from years ago with a few relevant queries.

One thing I’d do with this is dump all my emails into it, from across all my accounts. That might save me having to search keywords in 8+ accounts over 4-5 different platforms every so often…

It also might have been useful in a lawsuit I prosecuted a few years ago. Instead of going through two years of encrypted messages by hand to pull out relevant excerpts with context, I could have exported the lot and just asked for the information. If it worked it could have saved me months (I spent a few hours after work every night screenshotting, dating the screenshots in chronological order, then I’ve that was done I kept a spreadsheet that I filled with relevant excerpts and links to the screenshots, by reading every single screenshot… it was a lot).

Exactly what it says, what’s confusing about it? The problem with LLMs is that they bullshit; the problem with LLMs bullshitting is that you have to check everything they say, they are not trustworthy - severely limiting the utility. So, don’t trust LLMs. God meanwhile is assumed to be the paragon of honesty, and thus completely trustworthy, so would be the only entity to be trusted implicitly.

This works even if you don’t believe in god, like me: trust nobody, everyone must bring data if they want me to trust what they say.

Maybe a better analogy would be the Ship of Theseus - how much of an AI-generated picture has to be replaced by human work for it to not be considered slop anymore?

I’ve seen the argument that if you’re generating an image and making some edits, you’re robbing yourself of original concepts

This argument can also be deployed against Fair Use artworks, though, or tracing.

As with much discussion of generative AI, the difficulty of Hooded Horse’s position is pinning down what they’re trying to ban. Does an artwork count as generated if somebody used the tech to make a base image of some kind, then fleshed it out and finished it off at length by hand?

A very salient question. Is someone generates a rough outline and then redraws it, fixing errors and making modifications with their human artist eye, is the thing they draw a problem? It will involve a human artist, and human artistic skill.

Tracing is one way to teach children how to draw. If someone generates an image to trace for practice, is all their art problematic because they were trained with AI?

This seems kind of like asking a vegan if they’d eat lab-grown meat… I think the answer depends heavily on why the person believes what they do in the first place.

SovietWomble has some great let’s plays!

• Untitled Goose Game (shorter, absurd magic, highly recommended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di7pxNivACE

The next two are long-form supercuts of a bunch of streams:

• Prey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZyXFo-K3c4
• Dredge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nSbcKtwpq8

I got Control: Ultimate Edition for $4 on sale recently and was really surprised by how good it is. One of the few games I’ve stuck with right through to beating it, and the DLC too. I’ve been considering Firebreak but the backlog is long and money is a little tight for frivolous promises right now. Sounds like I should play Alan Wake, though!

Emotional dysregulation is a bitch.

https://weworkremotely.com/

https://www.dice.com/

https://remote.co/

I can’t give any of these my personal +1 as I haven’t used them, but I’ve seen their names around for years. Good luck!

In any fight, circumstances are king. You need far, far more variables defined in order to be able to answer this question, and even then it won’t be a certain outcome. Who has the element of surprise? What’s the age, weight, and sex of the tiger (and the wolves)? How recently have the tiger/wolves eaten? Does anyone slip on a banana peel during the encounter?

Maybe we’re going about this wrong. Are you trying to make sure the tiger is dead or are you trying to use as few wolves as possible?

Well, okay, I understand what you mean and why, but you stated “water is a mineral according to the dictionary” in your post, so I was just clarifying that bit. So yeah, Merriam-Webster is wrong.

Edit: Again, sorry. This is the internet and pedants like me thrive here 😅

Sorry, no, water is not a mineral because it doesn’t have a characteristic crystalline structure, and if a dictionary says otherwise it’s wrong: https://geology.com/articles/water-mineral/

However ice can be, if it forms naturally - the definition of mineral is:

A naturally occurring, homogeneous inorganic solid substance having a definite chemical composition and characteristic crystalline structure, color, and hardness.

And yes, this means that if you grow a crystal like a diamond for example in a lab, technically it’s not a mineral (it’s just sparkling rock).

TIL 😱 Poor little kitties, why are humans so thoughtlessly monstrous?

First of all, I agree entirely. Now: Pounds, so you’re in the UK. Have a read about your options with the ombudsman service: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/get-more-help/how-to-use-an-ombudsman-in-england/

the Financial Ombudsman Service sorts out problems with banks, insurance, PPI, loans, mortgages, pensions and deals with other money and financial complaints - read our advice about getting your money back if you paid by card or PayPal

If nothing else you’re putting them on blast with the government, and that contributes to the paper trail for eventual action. In the meantime it might get your complaint resolved. Did you try tweeting at their official account too? Sometimes that can help get things moving.

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Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament (the originals) 😋

I looked up the TP00061B and selected 3rd gen, I found this: https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/x1_carbon3_hmm_en_sp40g55065_01.pdf

Looks like there’s a coin cell battery in there, so you can remove it to reset the CMOS. I’m not sure how relevant this video is to your exact model, but I’m sure you can figure it out using this as a base if you’re comfortable working on computers generally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=secIrlXFy5k

Edit: Oh, I see you got it! Nice 🙌 Happy computing!

What’s the exact model please? It may be possible to reset the CMOS if we can cut power to the main board completely; there’s usually a coin-cell battery to keep a minor charge supplied to the volatile memory holding the current config, but the exact model number of the laptop will let us find the spec sheet so we know for sure.