I wrote the original reply as a joke. Clearly we’re not playing by any sort of rules here. so worrying about the difference between digit and number is kinda funny. but then I thought it would be fun to actually drastically overthink it and be overly pedantic about what the question says.

So no, not bitter. I just have a very bad sense of humor and find dumb things entertaining.

And from what I can tell based on the callout at the end… This is a line from connector which is a compatibility layer that allows running Fabric mods on Neoforge.

Which means connector is going to be included in every stack trace, regardless of how related it is to the problem. It will be the one to raise the errors that couldn’t be caught and managed… But AI will see connector being the one probably flagging the errors and be more likely to tag it as a “suspected” mod. I wouldn’t be shocked to find out that AI has a tendency to shoot the messenger.

Now isn’t the time to start being pedantic about rules.

edit: the prompt says “Circle the smallest number” and not “Circle the smallest number that appears below”. What is the smallest number? 0 (at least by magnitude, negative numbers are just bigger numbers in the negative direction). So the prompt effectively says “Circle the zero”

If we’re going to work off the “that appears below” assumption. then the smallest number is “1” and not 1, 2, and 3. So circling all 3 is incorrect.

If we’re going to work off “that appears below, not including the categories” then the number to circle is 15 specifically. Not the “2.” in front of it.

And if there is a “circle the category indicator number for the category that includes the smallest number below” implication, then it’s truly just a bad question. Make it clear what you want.

There is a 0 in the bottom row. That is the smallest number. That’s why these were all wrong. Also it says number singular and they circled all 3

Doesn’t Ubuntu disable the root user out of the box and expect these actions to be performed via sudo/polkit. There is clearly a precedent for not needing a root password and being able to use your own user’s password for these kinds of things. So it is a monumentally stupid idea to require the system-wide root password, but not one that is done by all of linux, and seems to be a decision made by your distro to not use the modern solution.

The fact is though, you’re right and the pain point is that distros are still doing things the silly way.

• Distros should be using sudo/polkit/anything other than root user password to do things like this
• Modifications to the sudoers file should be easier
• The distro setup process should just be able to have some prompts about smart default things (“Passwordless updates?”) even if they include strongly discouraging comments.

If I can sudo apt install without requiring a password, I could generate a package that installs a custom sudoers config file that allows me to do anything, so “passwordless sudo, but just for apt” is potentially easily exploitable to gain full access. But that also still assumes A) you care and B) someone has access to your account anyway (at which point you may already have bigger problems)

It is interesting to me that at this point, because of Waydroid, the primary things keeping me from using a Linux phone are the same things keeping me from de-googling more of my current phone. When running LineageOS in the past, I couldn’t reliably use RCS. Plenty of apps have issues with google’s Play Integrity shenanigans.

Once I hit a point where Im ok with running a degoogled android, I’m basically ready for just going straight to Linux on phone.

RIP stack overflow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmRk9Undc6U

When they say repeated, they mean repeated for all time ever. Has someone ever used the phrase “how are you today?” … yes. Has someone ever used the phrase “Pablo Picasso is my favorite brand of watermelon” before? Probably not. There are probably a lot of phrases with varying levels of “have existed before”. That previous sentence might be an entirely original one.

But there are plenty of other sentences that can be conveyed that actually exchange information but don’t generate new sentences. “So, what do you do for work?” “My favorite color is green” are almost certainly not new sentences.

A better breakdown of my sequence of numbers with the exact same values might be

1, 1, 2, 3,
1, 1, 4, 5,
1, 1, 6, 7,
1, 1, 8, 9
1, 1,
1, 1,
1

And now you have a repeated intro section per line and a sequence of totally unique numbers to that line.

“Most numbers are repeated” could mean that if you pick any given number from all the 21 numbers, it more than 50% likely to be a “1” you pick, just because 1 shows up so often.

“Most numbers are NOT repeated” could mean that if you if you pick any given number from the 9 unique numbers that show up in the set, you are 88% likely to pick a number that only exists once. But if any of these numbers were to be repeated even once, for any reason, that part stops being true.

In language, this just means that some phrases are going to be purely templates like “Hello” but some phrases are informational without being new: “I like turtles” and some are completely never happened before.

And depending on where your mental anchoring is, “we have a lot of repeated phrases in our lives, how could MOST sentences be new” or “repeating things would get old” … that stat may be hard to believe or surprising, or very obvious.

“Hello, how are you?” has been repeated plenty. But after that things start to vary.

In the sequence of numbers 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9… Most numbers only appear once even though most numbers are a repeat.

• There are 9 possible numbers and most (88%) of them are not repeats
• “1” accounts for most (60%) of the entries in the sequence.

If we assume “hi, how are you?” is “1” and most sentences are another number, we can see how even with common phrases being repeated frequently, most sentences may tend to be original.

(I’ve not done the math and I’ve definitely not studied language enough to say how dubious or accurate the claim is, you just piqued my interest and I started trying to rationalize it all)

I agree. But that’s wrong because lying about current events is wrong. This is what I meant about framework. AI is a tool in that regard and not the problem. There is plenty of “real” journalism out there spreading lies too that I have problems with.

I’m fortunate I guess that most of the AI slop I dismiss is things more akin to baby panda sneezing scares mom panda. Where it doesn’t REALLY matter if it’s real because there are no consequences. It’s either funny or it’s not.

If someone were to say to you “why did the chicken cross the road?” You wouldn’t demand that there is actually a chicken. You would accept it as a framework for a joke.

The same holds true for staged videos or AI or anything. Is the framework important to the point? A video claiming people can fly and using AI as proof… That’s problematic. A staged bit where it would still be funny if it was just told verbally by a standup comedian? Who cares how real it is, the realness was never the point, the concept of the situation was.

Almost all comedy movies are just long staged bits.

And “how funny would this be if a standup comedian told this as a joke” vs “the context of this potentially actually happening is very important to the underlying humor of it” is a variable line for people. And that’s ok. Unless someone is in danger (don’t let someone jump off a cliff because ai said they can fly), other people’s lines don’t really affect you

I don’t disagree. But cooling performance does impact CPU performance in some cases even without “overclocking”

And in very hot running chips, it can start to matter.

Boost clocks depend on thermal headroom. Better cooling will get you better performance still, even if you aren’t manually over clocking.

You do know that you don’t have to change distros to change DE right?

And yet Maths textbooks do! 😂

“No one” in this context meant “no one who actually does maths professionally.”

In a Maths textbook

Right, and I have decades of maths experience outside of textbooks. So it’s probably been 20 years since I had a meaningful interaction with the × multiplication symbol.

You don’t know that the obelus means divide??

I clearly know what the symbol means, I demonstrated a use of it. But again, haven’t had a meaningful interaction with the symbol in 20 years, and yet I deal with / for division daily.

When I see 1+½ i can instantly say “one and a half”, but when I see 1 + 1 ÷ 2 i actually have to pause for a moment to think about order of operations. Same with 1+2x vs 1 + 2 × x … one I recognize the structure of the problem immediately, and one feels foreign.

The point is that people who do maths for a living, and are probably above average in maths, tend to write things differently than people who are stopped their maths education in high school (or lower), and these types of memes are designed around making people who know high school maths feel smart. People who actually know maths don’t need memes to justify being better at maths than the rest of the public.

Most actual math people never have to think about pemdas here because no one would ever write a problem like this. The trick here is “when was the last time I saw an X to mean multiplication” so I would already be off about it

1 + 1/2 in my brain is clearly 1.5, but 1+1÷2 doesn’t even register in my brain properly.

They also get a power trip out of it. Some people would do that for free

I switched to vaultwarden back when it was bitwarden_rs due to the crazy overdone bitwarden docker setup… and then started using some of the licensed features. I have a home organization that I use to share passwords with my family. So now I can’t switch back to bitwarden official (even lite) unless they provide me a way to handle that.

I’m not opposed to paying them, but I am opposed to subscriptions for access to something I’m hosting on my own server. So a subscription license isn’t happening. I don’t see a reason to leave vaultwarden at this point

IINA is based on MPV, so I would assume that with a custom OSC, mpv can also look like this.

edit: went looking https://github.com/maoiscat/mpv-dark-box is definitely not what youre looking for, but an example. It might be possible to modify this to have a blurred background instead of a black background.

https://github.com/stax76/awesome-mpv has a bunch of info about customizing mpv, with a On Screen Controller section.

Imagine having a router with an AP built in. We don’t use that consumer tier stuff around here. 😎