I love Dinosaur Comics. For anyone just discovering this, there are SO MANY for you to catch up on

There’s a whole section on social media. That’s where they discuss Mastodon and W, among others

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST CHATBOTS DON’T KNOW ANYTHING. STOP ASKING THEM QUESTIONS AND THINKING THEIR ANSWERS ARE ANYTHING MORE THAN WORD ASSOCIATION BASED ON THINGS PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN IN THE PAST for fuck’s sake

“Prove you’re a bot by failing to click all the motorcycles in this image”

Yes, “diverted from landfill” would have been more accurate

I like celery, but am really interested to learn the answer here. The other ingredient that gets added to everything is onions. Fwiw I know the answer to that one: they’re full of sugar. “First, soften some onions…” is basically a way of adding sweetness to food

Motion is also really useful for capturing security camera footage. It’s more specialised for this task than ffmpeg so could work here

Cue 8 paragraphs of “I first learned to cook potatoes with my grandfather back in…” and every reader screaming “Oh my god just get to the recipe…”

Back in the Cold War somebody commented how apt it was that if you wanted to call Russia from the UK you have to dial 007

You’re right. I could believe these data might be explained by a lot of businesses being in a “wait and see” phase, hiring conservatively while they see how the AI thing shakes out

This is a good point, but the issue is that vendors have abused this need by not just pushing security updates, but also regular rewrites that make the products more invasive/full of language model shit - Exhibit A being anything at all from Microsoft

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The same way a layperson knows how to get any medical intervention: taking the advice of a reputable qualified professional

For context, UK domestic energy suppliers don’t actually do any generation or distribution - they just retail electricity produced and distributed by others. So they can buy wholesale energy and attempt to compete on price, customer service, or other innovative products (eg Octopus’s dynamic pricing).

Normally I’d expect Tesla to do an Uber-style approach of subsiding the prices for the first couple of years to try to capture market share, as well as the more obvious vertical integration with their cars. But in this market, switching suppliers is too easy to make that worthwhile

Yep. I’m using a used ThinkPad X1 Carbon. 8 years old and running Linux like a dream

Because they tried leaving it to the private sector and people got unhealthy from eating cheap refined carbs?

I was questioning the use of the word “prolly”

“Prolly”

You’ll probably have more luck if you look for prescription cycling glasses - all of which should also be good for running. The market just seems to be bigger for cycling, to the extent I’ve often seen prescription glasses advertised in cycling magazines, but I can’t recall ever seeing glasses marketed at runners

Totally unrelated though, and just a coincidence. The word meme in the way we use it today was coined by Richard Dawkins in (IIRC) The Extended Phenotype. I presume it’s an abbreviation of Mental Gene, or something like that. The idea was that a meme is an idea or concept that can fight for survival amongst other ideas, just as a gene tries to survive being being a good fit to its environment