nmeofthestate

Weird 'discussion'. Almost entirely single messages with no threads, all with the same anti-Anthropic/AI position.

This would be better as a drunken rant in a pub, where you could at least get to roll your eyes at your friends while George wasn't looking.

Oh no. I quite liked this until you said it was art that Represented something.

The apotheosis of Reddit vexillology where all flag symbolism maps to geographical features.

True, but I think most people get addicted to smoking when young, and are less likely to just decide to start smoking at 40, especially when vaping is an option.

There are less harmful ways to get addicted to nicotine that will continue to be legal for people affected by this legislation.

Reminds me when I was on a business trip in California and bought some Acetaminophen thinking "I'm in the USA - this has to be the hard stuff, right?", only to discover it was just paracetamol.

I googled it - nobody is buying that thing instead of a normal consumer smartphone. It's like a 'Panasonic Toughbook' in phone form.

A RAM discussion descends into cranks referring to "Epstein People" and you're the one downvoted - website's absolutely cooked.

Is this a weird way of saying Opus got "cheaper" somehow from 4.6 to 4.7?

"otherwise the site owner would have to check if their content is considered adult in the UK and implement something"

IMO a small blog website is not going to get pulled-up for this - it's about the author making a point. They're entitled to do so of course.

Shooting isn't the core mechanic in the majority of video games.

So it sounds like these guys posed as investors, schmoozed politicians, and got them on tape agreeing to do corrupt stuff. The recordings were then released to influence voters.

The thing about this is, the response to it will depend on who the politicians were. For example, if it was the "far right" politicians caught on tape, there wouldn't be the same furore about election interference. The recordings may of course be edited to be misleading.

It works, to be honest - I would never let Beige Rock manage my money.

"Black Cube" - wonder what they're going for there. Maybe "Sinister Obelisk" was taken.

This naming is great compared to their traditional naming. I immediately know that I need a pro max premium if I want the one that compiles stuff fast and is heavy and has the fans running full speed all the time and only technically works unplugged, like my current Dell work laptop (guessing).

"A minifigure head mold evolved from 8 cavities in 1978 to 128 cavities today."

Initially I thought this meant a lego minifig head has 128 internal cavities, but finally realised it means a single mould now makes 128 heads.

The writing style certainly screams LLM.

I do wonder whether Kotlin is sufficiently different from C# to make it worth developing in Godot in a non-standard way.

What exactly is an engineering manager?

They're function calls right? I can't square the "message passing" conceit (implying putting message objects on queues, dequeuing etc) with the claim that Obj-C is just C with some extra stuff.

My YT Shorts experience: absent-mindedly watch a few, eventually think "damn, these things suck", tap the "show fewer shorts" link to reduce the chance of absent-mindedly clicking on them again soon. The format, with all its annoying little stylistic cliches, is just too irritating to be addictive. (modern Facebook is even more absurdly un-addictive).

Next up: tips and tricks on setting up your fortified anti-US-federal-government militia compound.

Apparently although it is a requirement to upload data from today, there's an effective grace period of 3 months (sorry - got that from AI).

I wonder if the CSV is supposed to list all petrol stations, as currently it only has 4 with city==Edinburgh.

Edit: after asking AI about this I would say the CSV is pretty useless as a comprehensive source of info on UK fuel prices.

I'm not American, but I doubt being pro-graffiti is a universal American value. I suspect many Americans aren't that into it, given it makes the place look bad. Many Americans might think instead that you should only deface things you own.

I suspect most graffiti doesn't actually have this twisted motivation. It's just selfishness by thoughtless people wanting to advertise themselves, like dogs marking their territory. This intellectual rationalisation is more of a projection by resentful people with a poisonous worldview.

Most graffiti is an ugly demoralising reminder of the existence of thoughtless people who have no consideration for others and are happy to degrade the shared public space for a few seconds of selfish enjoyment. For some reason it's got noticeably worse where I live, feels like over the last couple of years.

Interesting - my annoyance with W11 is nothing to do with AI or CoPilot (or "Privacy", "Phoning home", the usual crap MS haters talk about), it's due to stuff like Windows Explorer getting seriously worse.

Seems totally risible stuff. On Twitter, I've mostly seen this story shared by British nationalist accounts, presumably because they think it tarnishes the cause of Scottish independence by throwing support for it into question.

Having said that, partisan people on social media are always happy to share stuff that they agree with regardless of the source. Presumably these accounts posted less loopy stuff sometimes and got retweets.