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At this point does it matter that there’s apparently no reasoning and it’s not the path to AGI? To me it seems like even as it is, it’ll be a huge disruption to everything, and that it’s not a bubble in the normal sense. Over evaluated, maybe, but there’s still a lot of value.

Slop Terrifies Me 5 months ago

Yes, that’s why they are on the race to building the very advanced robots. To prevent the violence towards them.

I bought one, then returned it the following day. I cannot comprehend how LG is shipping these monitors and people are buying them. The matte finish on the screen is very bad. So bad that you see colorful grains (maybe 0.05-0.1mm each) all over the screen. Particularly noticeable on light content. I had seen some people complaining about it online, but never would’ve imagine that this was the actual issue and it’s still mind boggling that they are producing and shipping these monitors.

Would love to know what kind of noise and sound level was used for this test. Was it a continuous monotonous noise (such as white/pink/brown noise) at a fixed volume? Or was it some random noise that would "pop-up" randomly?

Does anyone know?

I would imagine that a noise that would randomly "pop-up" would be worse. But would be curious if that's not the case.

Ask any parent how much time they had free (and didn't realize) before having kids. It's quite interesting how much time we have free and not really realize.

Not saying that work doesn't take out a very big chunk of it, it does. But we still have more free time than sometimes we realize.

What we many times lack, is perspective and commitment.

I did that with GTA, translating it to Portuguese. It was then that I learned that I could overwrite the strings with the Hex Editor, but not insert anything because it would stop working. And thus began my dive into computers.

Great memories, thanks for making me remember it.

* Actually now that I really think about it, it wasn't with an Hex Editor, it was with Edit! Fun times.

Another way to teach them about hot things is to have something that is uncomfortably hot but won't burn if you touch it for a few seconds*, warn them that it's hot and remove the fingers quickly but let them touch it anyway. They won't burn themselves but will understand what is hot and will understand when you tell them that it's hot.

The side effect of this, is that then they might be scared of things that are only slightly hot. But that's something easier and less risky to deal with IMO and they'll eventually understand that there's different levels.

*babies/toddlers have a skin that is a lot more sensitive, so this should be taken into consideration.

This one hits close to home. I had a very close family member die because of a Parkinson-like decease not long ago. He had the misfortune of inhaling quite a bit of herbicide after dropping a bag in an enclosed space and ~10 years later he got the decease. Since there was no history of Parkinson or Parkinson-like deceases in the family history, the doctors conclusion was that it must have been a toxic induced decease (not sure how to pronoun this exactly) and the large amount of herbicide inhale in that day was probably the cause.

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This _really_ feels like a marketing piece disguised as something else.