I suppose I’m not sure but I doubt it. Usually when they block something it comes with a big red warning that you’re violating corporate blah-blah by even thinking about this page and you should reconsider your questionable decision-making or some words to that effect.

For Imgur the site loads and the all-important ads load, but the images just time out.

Imgur blocks VPNs, or at least it tries to. The images won’t load when connected to my work VPN. Seems to work fine from Mullvad though so I guess they’re not doing that great on their blocking.

Man I loved Moby Dick. The detail on the whaling ships, technology, life aboard, etc was great. The philosophy was not that interesting but easy to skim through.

Then years later I read somebody’s cutting response to something or other online, “That’s like reading Moby Dick and thinking it’s about whaling.”

… huh.

They are taking the piss, this is not a real word people would say in German.

Power of attorney really does not help at all.

Power of attorney is granted to allow you to do stuff they want for them as if you were them. It does not allow you to override their clearly-expressed will.

To override their will you would need a guardianship which (at least in the US) you are not going to get until they are quite far gone with dementia.

TL;DR at least in the USA your parents have a legally-protected right to be as stupid as they want and you can’t use the legal system to stop them

I do not get this one

Are there doing damage to all these refineries and stopping fuel production? Or are these stats including all sites where a drone reached it at all?

That’s a heck of a comment right there. I learned some new stuff about Canada today.

Hiked out to a hot spring at Big Bend National Park with my laptop, my satellite dish, and a big solar panel, and spent my day working with my feet dabbling in the river.

That was a pretty awesome day for me but I bet in 50 years people will just be irritated that all the cool places are full of losers trying to get work done and ruining the vibe

There was a much cheaper oral drug that showed similar efficacy in phase two trials this summer and the media ignored it.

Which drug is that? You’re not kidding about “media ignored it” I tried searching and found nothing.

Dynamic forces are way higher than static forces. 210 pounds means you will break it if you sit on it. Even 100-pound waifs can easily produce 210 pounds of force when plopping down ungently. Bigger people will smush them easily.

Maybe you need different friends. I certainly don’t get that reaction from my social group.

Are there hedgehogs with long tails like in the comic?

I think those are porcupines.

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I’m pretty sure the average American doesn’t think too much about where FBI informants come from. That part seems like a decent wager on his disinformation attempt.

The chatbot is at its heart a text-completion program: “given the text so far, what would a real person be likely to type next? Output that.”

To get a vision of “normal”, it is trained on a corpus of, essentially, every internet conversation that ever happened.

So when an emo teenager comes in with the beginning of an emo conversation about beautiful suicide, what the chatbot does is fill in the blanks to make a realistic conversation about suicide that matches the similar emo conversations it found on tumblr which are… not necessarily healthy.

The “guardrails” come in a few forms:

• system prompt: All chatbots are using this. Before each session where the user starts a chat, the company feeds the chatbot a system prompt saying what the company wants the chatbot to do, for example, “Don’t talk about suicide, ok? It’s not healthy.” This works to an extent but is easy to trick. As far as the chatbot is concerned, there is no difference between the system prompt and the rest of the conversation. It doesn’t recognize any concept of authority or “system prompt came from the boss” so as the conversation gets longer and longer the system prompt at the beginning gets less and less relevant.

• tuning: All chatbots are using this. After training the chatbot intensively on everything ever seen in the whole internet, give it a 2nd level of more targeted training where you rank it on “good” and “bad” – these texts are bad, don’t copy texts like this; these texts are good, do copy texts like this. This is not as targeted as the system prompt, and can have surprising side effects because what constitutes “texts like this” is not well-defined. Doesn’t change the core behavior of the chatbot just wanting to complete the conversation like online example texts will do, including sick and twisted conversations.

• supervisor: I don’t know if this is in common use – have one chatbot generate the text, while another chatbot which does not take information from the user watches it for “bad topics” and shuts the conversation down. These are really annoying, so companies have an incentive not to use a supervisor or to make it lenient.

They had a plunger, ball goes up and hits targets (or not) and falls down. Your score is however many targets it hit while it was up.

Your controls were bumping and rocking the game case to try to make the ball bounce better off of things.

Games have … improved since then.

How much did the real estate value of the property go up during your experiment? Even if there’s no cash flow, helping to pay the mortgage while you sit on an appreciating asset might make sense monetarily.

Not OP but I’m partial to, “Damn, that sucks.”

No they’re kind of just doing their thing how their thing feels best to them