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I will say that cleaning does seem to make me feel upbeat afterwards too. I should probably do it more…

Tineye’s oldest match is here:

https://iamsuuuuuuupertired.tumblr.com/post/611573131181686784

I don’t have a Tumblr account, so I can’t view it.

Harper’s Pub

All of the parties involved in the argument were said to have been drinking.

For God’s sake, the British developed technology to deal with this some time back. The Guinness Book of World Records was originally designed to resolve disputes between bar patrons. Just put one in the bar instead of resolving them via homicide.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/70781-most-prolific-chicken

Most prolific chicken

White Leghorn (No. 2988)

United States

The highest authenticated rate of egg-laying is 371 in 364 days, laid by a White Leghorn (No. 2988) in an official test conducted by Prof. Harold V. Biellier ending on 29 August 1979 at the College of Agriculture, University of Missouri, USA.

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

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. Sir Hugh Beaver created the concept in order to settle arguments debated in pubs, and twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter co-founded the book in London in August 1955.[3]

https://gwrstore.com/en-us/collections/guinness-world-records-books

$21 per copy from their own store.

https://www.amazon.com/Guinness-World-Records-2025/dp/1913484564

$23 on Amazon.

Eventually, I expect that advanced AI will. The same is true for many human professions. But I’m dubious that pure LLMs will be the route this takes. Too many limitations.

It’s possible that such an advanced AI might make use of or incorporate LLMs.

At a meeting in April, xAI staff lawyer Lily Lim told employees that they would need to submit their biometric data to train the AI companion to be more human-like in its interactions with customers, according to a recording of the meeting review by the Journal.

Employees that were assigned as AI tutors were instructed to sign release forms granting xAI “a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty-free license” to use, reproduce, and distribute their faces and voices, as part of a confidential program code-named “Project Skippy.” The data would be used to train Ani, as well as Grok’s other AI companions.

Huh.

I wonder if xAI has transexual employees, and if so, how socially-conservative users feel about conversing with a composite AI incorporating said data sources.

Conscription makes sense for countries that have a critical need to be able to rapidly mobilize people.

If you can’t wait six months to train a lot of troops, might find yourself with a week or a few days of warning that you’re being invaded by a major power, then there’s no real replacement militarily. You have to have your people trained before that warning arrives, or you won’t have time to do any training.

Historically, say, Finland had a major concern about Russia invading. I’d say that in that case, it makes sense.

However, there is a cost to doing so. You lose months or years of potentially specialized labor to do so. That’s like a substantial tax on the population. You’d rather not do it if you have the opportunity to avoid it.

The US has been a long ways away from other major powers, and for a long time has maintained a decent (later, very powerful) professional navy (and, later, air force; these days, its peacetime army isn’t especially weak either). The US is pretty confident that if someone is going to invade the US, the existing, peacetime forces could buy at least six months of warning and delay to train up more forces from scratch if need be. It doesn’t believe that it will be in a position to need to mobilize very large numbers of infantry on short notice, so it doesn’t need to pay that price. In that case, avoiding conscription probably makes sense.

EDIT: Vice interviewed someone at Jane’s a while back, and their position was that the modern US’s existing forces would be able to repel an invasion even if it were composed of all of the other existing militaries in the world, leveraging geography and powerful peacetime naval and air forces, which is obviously going to be a highly-unlikely scenario, a theoretical mind game. Any plausible invading coalition is probably going to be much smaller.

when I started using vim mode in zsh.

I’m an emacs user myself, but if you’re not aware, readline — which handles a considerable portion of the “prompt for text” stuff in many terminal programs, like input for bash and such — can be put into vi mode.

https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html#Readline-vi-Mode

In order to switch interactively between emacs and vi editing modes, use the command M-C-j (bound to emacs-editing-mode when in vi mode and to vi-editing-mode in emacs mode). The Readline default is emacs mode.

When you enter a line in vi mode, you are already placed in ‘insertion’ mode, as if you had typed an ‘i’. Pressing ESC switches you into ‘command’ mode, where you can edit the text of the line with the standard vi movement keys, move to previous history lines with ‘k’ and subsequent lines with ‘j’, and so forth.

Or, in ~/.inputrc:

set editing-mode vi

To set the default.

he has not played Kerbel Space Program.

“Kerbal”

It seems more bland than ever before.

https://www.amazon.com/Diet-Coke-Bag-Fountain-Syrup/dp/B0042RROR4

You can add some of that to your can after opening it to jazz it up a bit.

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It’s not really a new idea.

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

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/perfect-storm-of-demand-and-supply-driving-up-storage-costs

OpenAI’s “Stargate” project has recently signed an agreement with Samsung and SK hynix for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month. That figure alone would account for close to 40% of global DRAM output.

High-density NAND products are effectively sold out months in advance. Samsung’s next-generation V9 NAND is already nearly booked before it’s even launched. Micron has presold almost all of its High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) output through 2026. Contracts that once covered a quarter now span years, with hyperscalers buying directly at the source.

If China’s going to compete on AI, it’s going to be doing so with a limited supply of memory, I expect.

They’re not venomous, but I bet that you could convince one to bite you.

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

I suppose.

$ grep or$ /usr/share/dict/words|sed -r 's/t?or$/trix/'|less

browses

• bacheltrix

• moderatrix

• predatrix

• seamstress -> tailtrix

Kind of diverging from your point, but I’m pretty sure that few boomers actually played what some people call “boomer shooters”.

I don’t think that Wolfenstein 3D (1992) qualifies, given what features it looks like people consider included, so probably Doom (1993) was the very start of that; couldn’t play one sooner.

The youngest Boomer, the very tail end of the Boomer generation, would have been born in 1964.

At bare minimum, someone would have had to have been 29 to be both part of the Boomer generation and played one of those early FPSes. In practice, most would have been rather older. And in the 1990s, video gaming was less of an adult hobby than it is in the 2020s.

I’d probably call early FPSes really more the province of Generation X.

We don’t do geographical indications in the US, but we do have some trademarks that are owned by industry associations in a region, like The California Raisins.

“We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry,” he wrote.

In a follow-up post, he added, “Have I mentioned my repeated call for civic education.”

Ehh…you could establish a residence in New York City and also in Kentucky and switch your domicile back and forth based on which place you want to vote in a given year.

EDIT: It looks like the bar for both is whether you spend at least 183 days a year, with part days counting. So technically, if you spend about half the year in each place, so some of those days are partly in each, you probably could just choose, since you could meet the bar for domicile in both places concurrently (though you can’t actually have a domicile in both places simultaneously). I don’t know how frequently you can switch, though, like whether there’s a delay in voter registration taking effect or whatever.

Aw, thanks. Glad you like it!