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Any places around the urban areas or higher learning in NC won’t look twice at an interracial couple, they’re everywhere. There’s still racists here, don’t get me wrong, but they hold their tongue usually.

Reads over actual paper

I’m going to take your word for it.

Given how difficult that seems to be to find that kind of visual disturbance in a place like the galactic center where things are moving relatively fast, no way is a lone black hole going to be seen anywhere outside that kind of bee swarm of stars. But there certainly must be a lot of them, no reason to think there aren’t.

It’s bright super-saturated teal. So now we know teal is “true” green.

Ollama.com is another method of self hosting. Figuring out which model type and size for what equipment you have is key, but it’s easy to swap out. That’s just an LLM, where you go from there depends on how deep you want to get into the code. An LLM by itself can work, it’s just limited. Most of the addons you see are extra things to give memory, speech, avatars, and other extras to improve the experience and abilities. Or you can program a lot of that yourself if you know Python. But as others have said, the more you try to get out, the more robust a system you’ll need, which is why you find the best ones online in cloud format. But if you’re okay with slower responses and lower features, self hosting is totally doable, and you can do what you want, especially if you get one of the “Jailbroke” models that has had some of the safety limits modified out of them to some degree.

Also as mentioned, be careful not to get sucked in. Even a local model can be convincing enough sometimes to fool someone wanting to see things. Lots of people recognize that danger, but then belittle people who are looking for help in that direction (while marketing realizes the potential profits and tries very hard to sell it to the same people).

Your point is valid legally. And in many cases you’re right, your options are limited if someone isn’t driving correctly near you. However I still disagree on the idea that there’s not much you can do to avoid situations if you stay aware of potential problems. That’s where defensive driving comes in - if I see someone is following too close in traffic or isn’t slowing even though I’m signalling a turn, I’m not going to take a position of “well, I’ve done all my legal required actions, it’s out of my hands.” I’m going to use the outs that I’ve already got in my head to avoid them hitting me, whether that be changing my speed to space out the reaction time for them, abandoning the turn or move, or going off the road.

I disagree, someone not seeing your signal and action is still your problem. The percentage of legal blame will possibly be more on them if you can prove you did signal, but it is every driver’s duty to ensure their movement does not cause a problem for others, right-of-way or not. It it’s deemed preventable, it’s a driver’s fault to some degree. That’s why it’s called defensive driving.

I will give it to you, when it works, it does some magical stuff. But try designing such complex things that are miracles in coding and then it have to run on a half-ass computer. I want to say terminal, it’s not that, but it’s those small fake computers that companies seem to think are better to get than an actual desktop because they’re cheap. I know that’s hardware, not Excel, but Excel does not run well on that, so…

Or worse, you get moved to 365 which doesn’t do most scripting and breaks all that was working. That cloud shit is a problem.

Good for the staff. This is how you resist. I hope the front staff treated them like the assholes they are.

“Ma’am, we’re with Homeland Security.”

“And you came to an elementary school. Doing a great job there securing the nation.”

Not at all. You just haven’t gotten deep enough into the beast to see the horror.

I remember as a kid sitting in front of the TV and watching the live broadcast of the first test flight. For it to also be named after a scifi show I loved was icing on the cake. I would have been okay with the original name planned, Constitution, as Enterprise is technically Constitution-class, and that name has some awesome lore behind it too.

It’s funny that some replies are saying your post itself is too wordy or long. People just can’t focus on anything anymore. As for the suggestion of bullet points, I’ve had people reply a single answer to an email that just had three short bullet points. So no, it’s not always because the questions are buried in text, it’s because people react to the first thing they see and don’t finish reading.

A government that can’t stand up to simple criticism is a weak government.

Don’t Look Up

Every individual is different than their parents. We don’t see large scale changes from one species to another from a single generation, but from population changes over huge amounts of time.

Sometimes there’s a mutation that allows previous features to come back in an individual showing the history. Look up images of chickens with teeth.

Chickens as we know them now in a farm didn’t exist until we did our own evolutionary selection to change them to something that would have more meat on them by picking the preferred ones. Dogs are another very obvious demonstration of that. Dogs came from a now extinct ancestor of wolves, so you can carry the same fallacy, when did the wolf become a dog? It wasn’t the first ones that were lured in by a warm place and food, was it the second generation?

Evolution doesn’t have clear lines, humans just like to classify things. It’s a lot easier to do that with species separated by millions of years because the details have changed enough.

Nobody knew that economics was so complicated.

It depends on the road and the car. If the road isn’t designed for the speed you’re going, you are risking your life and others. Step it down to more common speeds. Going 60 mph on a highway is actually slow these days, but it feels normal and you have time to react because the road surface, sight distance, and curves all are built with those speeds in mind. Now try 60 mph in a 35 mph residential area. Not only is it deadly if anything goes wrong, the road isn’t as flat and you can’t see as far, plus the room to move is much tighter.

It’s said that one of the fastest cars in the world, the Bugatti, can only be driven at its full speed and for a limited time in certain places because it requires both a very flat surface and other ideal road conditions. It also eats up tires.

Biodegradable just means you protect it just like we protect current biodegradable materials. But your #2 stands, the research is great but until I see it in production or on a shelf for sale, it’s just research.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence. Jesus, the incompetence.

Also, thinking things are part of a big conspiracy helps some people rationalize that there is intelligence behind all this chaos. Because if that’s not true, then there’s no one at the helm who has a clue, and THAT is frightening.

My grandfather drove around a beat up Datsun pickup, smaller than most sedans these days. But it did the job for what he used it for, and ran forever. I think I’ve seen less than five on the road in the decades since. They seem out of place in today’s SUV/huge truck world.