be okay with a shitty old phone for years etc.

Nothing in the comic indicates the woman in the first two panels isn’t doing this.

Pacman should have something like informant built in. Informant it better than nothing but is a little glitchy. The Arch new file warned about this, but I don’t think people checked it. Informant stops you from running pacman without it first checking for unread new items. But even Informant in one of the issues points out that the pre transaction hook is still too late for some manual intervention that needs to be done.

Pacman already queries things for updates, why can’t it query an RSS feed to check for stuff?

My wife is unemployed and loves doing gift stuff including wrapping. Even constantly asking if I want them to wrap their gifts for themself lol. I think some folks just see this without having loved it and assume it’s bad. The reality is couples split their chores. My wife doesn’t help me with yard work, even while unemployed, does it make them a deadbeat? No. That’s just not how we split the chores.

Yeah, after reading the answers I see it more clearly. Also, I assume in hindsight that it’s three switches which can be on or off, so we know if all three are off the light is off. Which helps as well.

Like I said, it’s been over a decade, some of the specifics may be lost to me.

YOU’RE DOOMED! You must weigh two against two in the first step.

Impossible even if you know if the light is on or off to start with. Even then, there are 2 possible outcomes which means the solution space halves on each test. 3 divided by 2 is greater than 1 (1.5) so we cannot figure it out in a single test.

That’s my recollection of how to solve these from computer science. The classic one is 8 coins and figuring out which one weighs a different amount (and you don’t know if it is more or less). You have a scale that tells you which side is heavier (or equal) but it doesn’t give readouts (as in it doesn’t say a side is X pounds/grams). With only three uses of the scale, how can you find the fake coin? I’m not going to go into the process in depth but because you have THREE outcomes (left heavier, equal, and right heavier) you reduce the solution space (which of the 8 coins is the bad one) by a THIRD each test. The number 8 sort of lures into thinking powers of 2. You can actually do it with 9 coins in 3 tests.

Some of the details of my explanation may be wrong, it’s been over a decade since I took that class in college lol. It was my worst professor (while different story lol) but I distinctly remember him talking about this. He had a very thick accent, some form of eastern European or Russian, I’m not really sure what exactly. But he gave us that problem as homework or something or maybe just to think about. And he’d ask us to explain how we’d do it. Whenever someone began to describe something doing like test 4, 2, etc instead of the correct way (which involves using coins you already tested) he’d say “YOU’RE DOOMED!” Then someone else would try, and when they got to a way that wouldn’t work “YOU’RE DOOMED!” It was hilarious. Very memorable.

And they lied about it on the award application, but yes.

Did you see the one where someone trained bots to do crystal pvp on 2b2t? It was fascinating and actually “AI” (not LLM AI but what we would’ve called AI pre LLM/gen AI lol). I don’t remember much else. Basically the bots actually saw the screen, not at full resolution, but enough to really see and move and attack players in a very advanced way. (Crystal PVP involves putting down end crystals and detonating them, it’s much more involved than just clicking with a sword or aiming arrows.)

Sort of already exists as Baritone. https://github.com/cabaletta/baritone I’m not sure what all it can and can’t do but it’s pretty sophisticated.

Edit: Note that, as far as I know, none of it is AI in the modern usage of the term.

AI took that too! Oops all joblessness! 🤩

My house had cat 5e cabling but wired for phones when I moved in. Luckily it was a simple fix (relatively, I’d never worked with terminating cables before).

Bark!

If you’re applying for an award that asks “were toxic ingredients used at any point while making this cake” because part of the culture of the award is not using toxic ingredients, then yeah, you need to disclose that you used toxic ingredients.

Honestly sending Jesus as salvation is sort of like this. Instead of just choosing not to punish people and require a sacrifice, God sends his son to die. It’s like, buddy, you’re the one who judges humans, just ignore the sin instead.

Like imagine someone owes you money and instead of just erasing the debt you chose to take out a loan and pay it to yourself.

Just let them win different years.

Actually he grows to be Scrappy Doo, sadly. He never accepts his new body.

BLUE PRINCE! WOO!

“Well, honey, what was I supposed to do? It said it’s NOT here to do those things! They can’t lie! They’re hyper literal! That’s their whole thing! Plus, it seems like refusing it is worse, right?”

“Dear, you absolute putz! They are hyper literal! That’s the problem! If it said it’s not going to do those things then it’s probably doing something WORSE!”

Fear washes over me as I turn my gaze back to the living room. The strange creature now looked like a totally normal Christmas tree. Our mantle has two stockings, two on the left side. Obvious spaces for two more on the right are there, though there are no hooks. I rub my brow and head to the kitchen with my wife. I get the strangest feeling seeing the imbalance. Why did we choose to decorate like that? I look towards the entryway where the thing came in. Again, four cost racks, two coats. Four shoe cubbies, two empty. “Honey, I think this thing took our children-”

Just then, why was I talking? To who? I’ve always lived alone. Haven’t I? Then, there’s darkness. I flail my arms forward. What the fuck? I’m actually on my hands and knees? Or… Something?

There’s a blinding light. My eyes quickly adjust. I’m stuck in some sort of large box. A giant reaches in and pulls me up. It’s a child. “A puppy! What I’ve always wanted! Thanks mom and dad!”

I open my mouth to scream but only a bark escapes.

Olo is a good example. It’s due to a quirk of human perception and the structure of our eyes. They basically designed a machine to try and stimulate the green detecting cones without stimulating the red detecting cones. Normally if something pure green hits your eyes, it stimulates those red cones too. So this is something our bodies are capable of perceiving but not something that we can ever perceive under normal circumstances.

Is it a “new color”? Not exactly. Did it take a good bit of imagination to conceive trying to get our brains to see it? Yes.

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