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And even before King's Field, this is just the way games used to be like. Games couldn't elaborate too much, so your options were:

a) you lucked out and it turns out your brain works exactly like the designer's and the cryptic hint make sense to you,

b) you use a guide/ask a friend/call a hotline,

c) you like the game so much you end up brute forcing your way through all of that stuff,

d) you just ignore that sidequest. I sure hope for you that finishing the main quest doesn't need you to guess something unreasonably obtuse... *COUGH* Legend of Zelda's final dungeon's location *COUGH*

I really like the idea conceptually, but I have two issues with it.

1. I sympathise a lot with the impulse here, as I do also feel personally that the way I grew up had the right balance of convenience and dangers, but I suspect all generations feel the same, and I'd be afraid that this is just imposing my nostalgia on my kids. I know, I know, kids seem scarily hypnotized by screens and social media, and trashy online content, but... My parents were also alarmed that when I was growing up that unchecked I could spend an entire weekend on the computer, with only reluctant breaks for food and sleep. Yet I think I grew up to be a reasonably well adjusted adult. I'd be also wary here that by imposing "my nostalgia" on my kids, I'd robbing them of building meaningful shared cultural bagage with their peers.

2. I'm afraid that by sheltering kids from the current state of technology, they will be poorly equipped to deal with it when they leave this protective bubble. No matter how much genie bottling we try, it's never going back in. The only way to a healthy relationship with technology, internet, etc... is through, not around or backwards. Create healthy tech, online habits, not by creating an environment where they cannot see the issues, but through good old parenting: setting a boundary when they're young, explaining it, and when you relax it as they get older confirm that they understood the reason for the boundaries and are placing healthy ones on their own.

Instruction unclear, ended up cooking gay meth

Built to be a reliable learning tool, not a distraction

15 year old me in math class programming my loaned TI-82: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

Maybe the Netherlands are different, but I find it's usually not that specific countries make trash fruits and veggies, but export-bound fruits and vegetables have transport concerns that require them to be picked before they reach their peak. Here, american blueberries and strawberries are big, bland and watery, local ones are juicy, sweet, tart and delicious. Or corn, theirs is bland, ours is sweet. But I'm not convinced that americans that live near those farms have the same experience at all.

When I grow my tomatoes, they are usually picked at their peak ripeness, they were being pumped full of sugar and nutrients by the plant until the last second when I picked them and cooked with them. The ones that have to travel are picked before ripe, and "ripen" sad and alone in a truck with no extra nutrients, and when they reach me looking "ripe", it's usually a facade. Local market fruits and vegetables stand somewhere in between, depending on volume and channel it's being sold in.

There is a difference though between fruits and vegetables imported for year round availability, and those imported as a seasonal bounty; the later ones maintain quality as it sells relatively quickly in season and doesn't need to be picked as much in advance.

More "democracy", where you must win every time and the issue will keep coming up again and again, but if you lose once whoops the matter will never find its way back onto the docket and you will never get a chance to have it reversed.

Terms of service are full of terms that aren't legal in many jurisdiction, they're written brodadly and assuming that any ambiguity is in favor of the company so that they have the best possible position to argue from if anything has to be decided in court or arbitration.

It's not hard to make an Alexa skill that hooks up to an OpenAI API (or compatible) endpoint. This repo is a good starting point: https://github.com/k4l1sh/alexa-gpt

He very probably did have a public defender, who seems to have done a very good job by the metric of what most public defenders understand their job to be: negociating with the DA.

Woods managed to not serve any additonal time after sentencing and didn't even have to admit guilt for that.

Considering how the real Woods was homeless and took over 30 years to even try to do anything about it, I think it's fair to assume he didn't have much, if any, social capital to draw on.

Great idea, and this is kind of solution is why improving performance of smaller local models is important, not just the highest quality state-of-the-art (local or cloud) models.

Italians will leave the EU if they keep killing their gods.

When it started, Mastodon had an existing userbase to communicate with on OStatus, in the existing GNU Social communities, so it could skip the "Who wants to talk to a ghost town?" era of a social media's growth.

Though this prompts us to wonder why GNU Social took off (modestly) but Diaspora didn't.

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Her wedding? Well, yeah, that's kind of the point, isn't it? It being a day all about her and her mate?

1. It could help competitors improve their alternatives

2. It could be used against them in a lawsuit, so they would probably want to keep it hidden until force to reveal it (which they would likely fight against)

3. It gives more information to the people crafting "jailbreaks"

4. It might create a backlash, considering how heavy-handed the "please make images diverse" part of it is

5. It might create ANOTHER backlash, on the other side of that coin, for not being heavy-handed enough, and not explicitly listing an ethnicity, gender, or whatever other personal characteristic that some might want ChatGPT to represent by default in its prompts

It works pretty well. This morning running on what were the top 20 articles on Hacker News, it failed to extract data for one article and that was only because the link was a PDF. On an average day I get one or two failure per 20 articles, for various reasons (click-throughs, information in pictures, PDF links) and I haven't tried very hard to improve it.

It's quite unlikely to hallucinate in this because it's not asked to answer a question from information it was trained on; the facts in the summaries are fed in the context of the request.

That's not to say it will always get everything right of course; in my experimentation with LLM-powered summarization of news articles, I find the thing it would more often struggle with is quote attribution. The way some writers formulate who said what in a conversation sometimes confused the models I use (mostly Mixtral these days, which is about GPT 3.5 level), and it would claim that someone said something that I knew this person definitely did not say, and I would check the actual article and it turned out the journalist said that thing and the interviewee said the opposite, but the LLM thought it was the interviewee who said it.

I don't have it set up to publish a website, but maybe you'll be interested in this tool I made for myself. https://github.com/GuizzyQC/FeedSummarizer

It will take an RSS feed, send the content of x number of articles to an OpenAI-compatible API to summarize, then send me an email with all of those summaries. I have it set to run every day so I wake up to a summary of my feeds (and of Hacker News).

I figure it would not be too difficult to feed the contents to a static site generator.

Not German, but I've stopped and I increasingly get angry when people cross at red lights on busy (from the pedestrian side) streets that don't have lots of car traffic. This is because I see it almost daily: someone looks, makes the determination that there's no car close and it's safe for them to cross. Then, 3 distracted people DON'T look and just see the person who started to cross, and start crossing themselves thinking it must be green or safe. And then a chain of people jaywalking WITHOUT looking starts and at some point a car approaches and it's no longer safe to cross.

So I've stopped jaywalking when somewhere where others could distractedly follow me, and I give angry glances at people who do. Sure, it's not my responsability to make sure others aren't distracted, but since I am aware of how people really are and I can avoid causing issues by just following the established signals, knowing I'm not responsible is not going to make me feel much better if someone gets run over following me.

Coinbase, which I assume (?!) is reliable enough to not be at risk.

This is what anyone could have said about FTX until suddenly it wasn't.

The upsell is complete access to the DeFi ecosystem. Not just the part your exchange wants to support. The convenience issue is overblown, at least for tech inclined people like commenters here would be.

On one hand the author says that if you're running from a crime you will get caught. But then after gives tips to escape from someone with the ressources and determination to have skin samples from hotel rooms analysed and access to thermal imaging satellites.

Looks to me like the author doesn't know what people would be running from. I doubt the authorities would use LASER SURVEILLANCE SATELLITES for anything they intend to pursue with less zeal than a very serious felony.

It's not the computer that's the issue. It's the internet. Disconnect the internet, and your kid will have to find ways to be creative with the computer itself.

I've seen this kind of story in psych class, the missing facts are not an error; they're the point of the story. What you fill in for these holes is supposed to tell something about you.

Another important missing fact: Was the Sherrif's offer time-limited? It makes a difference regarding whether or not he was coercing Maid Marion, whether she had an opportunity to discuss the proposition with Robin, and thus whether Robin is right in considering her actions a betrayal.

Mandrake was my second linux distro after a thankfully brief tangle with Caldera Linux (yeah, I know). Although I have very few good memories of Mandrake (made me discover why the term RPM-hell existed), it's still sad to see one of the big distros disappearing.

I've moved after that to Debian-based distros, and eventually to Slackware, and now I'm trying to get myself back into the linux game with CentOS/Red Hat, but I'll always remember Mandrake as my first not completely sucky distro.

Very much so.

To try to avoid it, I'm ignoring anything political or opinion based on my Facebook account. I've added opinion blogs in my RSS reader that are obviously intelligent and thoughtful but completely infuriatingly different from my own opinions. Once in a while I read them and try to force myself to keep an open mind. It's tough.

I'm trying to avoid using Reddit for anything but stuff that relates to hobbies. Unfortunately a lot of them are starting to get depressingly political. I might have to cut Reddit off entirely if it keeps up.

I get my news from news agencies. Their stuff is significantly less biased than newspapers and news blogs.

I'm starting to read more new litterature. Rethreading the same old stuff that's sure to reinforce my opinions is unhealthy in the long run.

A suggestion I have to avoid filter in news is to read news directly from news agencies (Reuters, AP, AFP and the like).

They aren't perfect, but contrarily to newspapers that are incentivised to pander to their readers, news agencies have a business incentive to be neutral: they want to be able to sell the same article to all sides of the issue.

It's not that easy. Filtered news is addictive. It's like children's breakfast cereal with just the candy.

It validates your world views, makes you feel smart for agreeing with all the other "smart" people. I wouldn't be surprised to hear it triggers the same positive feedback loops as other psychologically addictive things.

Once you're thoroughly filtered and addicted, opinions that disagree with your bubbled opinions are painful to read. They feel like agressions.

Because bribing and blackmailing are not the same thing. The first one is unfortunately legal as long as its done the right way (through campaign contributions and PACs) and the second one is still a crime.

Not a suitcase, but a backpack bomb existed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Muni...

Because centrally planned economies have been notoriously unable to predict and meet demand. Adequately meeting demand is important, especially considering how fresh and healthy food is for the most part perishable. Perhaps one day, when/if something like Soylent can be supplied as a utility this would work.