Agreed. I didn’t realize he died so long ago. Tho I am very envious that you saw him perform live.

Wow – only 88!!! That’s nuts!

Wow that is a lot. Thank you – and RIP David Bowie. The others, too, of course. I was thinking Muhammad Ali died circa Bush as potus. Huh. And Elie Wiesel must have been like 90+. Like he was married when he was put in a concentration camp (and his wife was killed there🙁).

Who died? I stopped keeping track after …hmmm would it be funnier to say Kurt Cobain (RIP) or James Brown (RIP)?

I agree with you, but something jumped out at me while reading this thread. To a degree, the fear of “breaking something” is completely legitimate, but it’s based on not getting quick feedback from systems. For instance, if you are walking in a direction that you think is east, but the sun is setting ahead of you, you know you’re headed in the wrong direction. Computers often don’t provide such useful feedback, often leading users to “break things.”

Dear god, please don’t let comedians refer to the internet – talk about cringe.

But hopefully with less overt racism.

I remain to be convinced people aren’t already stupid.

Ohhhhhhhh – thank you.

I don’t follow. What am I missing?

Is that Sarah scribbles??

Ayup.

Agreed. I think of that scene from the end of The Truman Show: the viewers are transfixed, Truman is trying to break free from the set. Then, the show goes off the air, and a viewer at home says, “Alright. What else is on?”

That’s how I feel about the outrage-bait now. Like so many businesses built their castles on beach sand that they’re inevitably getting washed away. How did they not see that coming?

If you really want to secure your computer, encase that puppy in concrete (after disconnecting it from power),

Yeah, it’s a handy device. Shame on the toll booth operators cough I mean genius innovators 🙄 – I mean social networking??? How innovative and non-obvious! Sorry, my digression had a digression.

Tldr don’t hate the game, hate the player.

Came here for this.

Agreed 110℅.

I am not.

None of those foxes (fauxes!) have legs!

They’re really good.*

• you just gotta know the material yourself so you can spot errors, and you gotta be very specific and take it one step at a time.

Personally, I think the term “AI” is an extreme misnomer. I am calling ChatGPT “next-token prediction.” This notion that it’s intelligent is absurd. Like, is a dictionary good at words now???