Rhaedas

When it stops working.

Get rid of coveting, you’re undone much of what drives capitalism. That’s a good thing, but it also ruins our society that is dependent on it.

I was thinking Beakman’s World. Apparently it’s just such a common phrasing in high school science that it became a meme without anyone’s particular influence.

And Overgrowth. Some incredible programming.

And if you were lucky you’d have a higher end stereo system that could fade in the sounds too. Combine that with a pause, you could avoid that jarring noise of starting and stopping recording between songs. Just had to find the stations that didn’t have the DJs who talked halfway through the song intro.

I’m a solid 20. Those of you who didn’t get very high scores, you don’t know what you missed.

I’m going to take this from a different angle. These companies have over the years scraped everything they could get their hands on to build their models, and given the volume, most of that is unlikely to have been vetted well, if at all. So they’ve been poisoning the LLMs themselves in the rush to get the best thing out there before others do, and that’s why we get the shit we get in the middle of some amazing achievements. The very fact that they’ve been growing these models not with cultivation principles but with guardrails says everything about the core source’s tainted condition.

I simply forget. I’ve always thought that commenting should be an automatic upvote (and maybe when it comes to filtering it does, more comments ranking higher).

Trick question, it’s not a country. That’s the island in Lost, and one of the locations it pops up.

Regional, or maybe the local town zoning won’t allow that kind of traffic.

Yes. Not sure why I didn’t use that. Technically Flying J is a brand/chain, but not what’s typically thought of.

If it’s slow, then it’s the central backup and you use anything else for regular use. Just having it as a fallback for recovery would be huge.

gets into whole “there is no touching” near the end. Right up there with Sagan’s “Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.” existentialism.

It was years ago, but I’ve eaten at one of the major truck stop brands (Flying J) and it was higher level than any brand restaurant as far as service and what they offered.

That is my response, every damn time.

This is really no different than the lack of a 13th floor. It doesn’t make sense, but things bow to public pressure, and an internet meme can be peak pressure. Hell, what about Name McName, look how things bend to try and avoid that trap. I still think the best approach is a parental one of accepting it and even parodying it so the original users get tired, bored, or embarrassed. Trying to avoid it is a form of Streisand effect, it enhances the desire.

I would say orange is “I want it that way”.

Somehow I managed to get inspired and created/published a few medium content books (aka puzzle and other oddities in niche areas) online. Actually sold a couple somehow, but if they don’t do well that’s okay. Trying to work on a real novel now. Not really a writer at heart, but have fallen in love with an idea and the deeper I get the more I want it to succeed. Ironically I took a break from the writing part and played around with cover ideas and character envisioning. Was better at that since I’m a graphics person, and finishing that side trip inspired me to jump back into the writing.

You do some beautiful work. As a kid I collected a few of the metal miniatures from the board game, loved them. Models don’t have to be big to capture the imagination.

And they were right. That’s why it’s called universal basic income, everyone gets the same amount (well, probably adjusted based on cost of living, but ideally the same). What they’re implying is not correct, that everyone will get an amount that they’ll be happy with. Those that work and get UBI will be both comfortable and secure if things go wrong. Those who can’t or don’t want to work (maybe for a period of time, maybe they’re just done with working) will have enough to “basically” survive. No one is getting rich off UBI, but everyone will be better off that isn’t now.

The real important thing that UBI can bring is making companies have to do more to convince people to work for them. Get rid of health insurance tied to the workplace (like with single payer) and then they have to offer real benefits and good working conditions. They’ll fight it screaming and kicking too, they like how workers have to play their game and take what they’re willing to give, not the other way around.

Sorry for the long diatribe. I guess I have strong feelings about it.