FishFace

Interesting!

Due to the influence of Tasting History (Max Miller), this year I bought long pepper for use in a few recipes (currently marinating some shawarma) - that's an interesting flavour, also a bit sweeter (dried) than (dried) round pepper.

Yes, neural networks are, usually, AI, but no, thermostats are not AI.

The definition of AI is more or less "a machine that can accomplish something that an intelligent thing like a human can do but which would be unfeasible or impossible to create an explicit algorithm for the machine to follow in order to accomplish it."

So natural language translation is AI: before it became usable in the 2000s, this was seen as something that only humans could do. Producing meaningful text and recognisable images from scratch or a prompt is AI for the same reason.

On the threadiverse people equate AI with Artificial General Intelligence, i.e. something capable of true reasoning, with something we might call "understanding" (not a concept that I can attempt to define, but if you think about that ability which LLMs lack in spite of being able to produce text as if they had it) but this is ahistorical.

Thank you for the example, it's not one I'd come across before. But am I reading it right - did it not take (a civil war and) several constitutional amendments to overturn the SCOTUS case?

Look at the ingredients of those and you will find plenty of spices.

Black pepper does not grow in north-western Europe, you know - the fact that you forgot it's a spice is testament to how well the spice trade worked.

Ragebait

People who like multi window gimp must be a very special kind of nerd. I used it before single window mode was added, but when it was I never looked back. Positioning each subwindow in a way that didn't suck was such an absolute pain

Do the other effects for switching desktops, like the default slide, not accomplish the same thing? I also find that having no animation makes it harder to keep track of where things are, but just have the sliding one

Weirdly this happens on my work laptop (x11) but not any other Linux machine I've used including all the Wayland ones. I assume it's due to video drivers.

Crazy that we're in this situation where the there's a question over whether a court will overturn its own precedent.

And as with the rest, there's just nothing to go on here: if your religion prevents you from doing a particular job, there can only be narrow parameters within which someone has to hire you, or keep you on, in this job. If it's because your religion requires you to wear certain clothing and the job requires you to wear an incompatible uniform, then yeah, they need to figure something out. If it's a key function of the job that you're not willing to do, then get on your bike.

Look up the case of Standard Oil, against which an antitrust suit was filed, charging it with abusive monopolistic practices. The case was won, and Standard Oil was broken up - at a time when it had less than 70% market share.

yikes

Being civil on the internet seems like a lost art. I know what I say. I bicycle everyday. Now, could you be so kind to behave like a normal person and not be rude, thank you.

You just told me I need to get better at cycling in order to to allay my concerns at potentially falling off while carrying something fragile and precious, and can't even see that that is inappropriate.

So, no, you can still fuck all the way off until you grow the ability to empathise with other people.