Since a while? I don’t always watch them, but I’ve watched a couple at least.

The worst are things like:

1. Bot 1 - I went from broke to making $30k/month once I found this amazing financial advisor.
2. Bot 2 - what financial advisor did you use?
3. Bot 3 - I used X, Google their name.
4. Bot 4 - Oh yeah, X is great, I’ve used them for years!
5. Bot 2 - I just talked to X, they’re wonderful.
6. …

And so on. They upvote each others’ comments, and since down votes don’t show up anymore, they seem popular.

There’s all kinds of crap like that, and they’re really obvious and probably trivial for AI to detect.

No, the debate is stupid.

I’m just saying there is a situation where it could matter, not that the debate is valid.

And capitalization. Pretty much any device can do both for you, don’t be lazy…

Or the way I do it:

• 3 * 20 = 60
• 60 - 51 = 9
• 20 - (9 / 3) = 17

So the factors are 17 and 3. I know 3 is a factor because 5+1=6, which is divisible by 3, so I just use a convenient multiple of 3 that’s pretty close to the actual number to get the divisor.

I have young kids and they keep asking me to do crazy math problems while driving, so that’s generally the trick I use.

It can matter if you don’t have enough significant figures, so I tend to do division last to preserve as much precision as I can. In theory it shouldn’t matter, but it can matter in practice.

Yup, if it’s consensual anything, it should be legal.

Yup, I play a ton of older games, and the only updates seem to be changes in shaders or whatever. If they are going to charge something, it’ll probably be to stuff a launcher in there or something, so I don’t want them.

Exactly, and one of my biggest disappointments in this last election and presidency is that nobody is really talking about it. We should be decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana nationally, and decriminalizing possession charges under some amount.

Jail isn’t going to fix an addict, what they need is stable housing and well-funded rehab programs for when they decide to get clean.

Eh, I’m not so sure about the useful vs harmful tradeoff, but it’s certainly not harming anything AFAICT. In fact, they’ll be super motivated to get cheap, reliable electricity as it grows, so expect more investments like reopening 3-mile island, solar energy storage, etc. It could end up being a net win climate-wise (probably not), but in any case, it’s not what’s causing climate change.

If we want to address climate change, we need to address the 500lb gorillas in the room: transportation. Anything else, IMO, is a distraction.

Yeah, and the person measuring them. It would totally suck to be the tall one of the tribe…

And there’s the whole matter of the giant tree next to it.

Yup. We have a librarian here that’s trans, and the only reason I know is because I have eyes (and they transitioned after getting the job). Oh, and we’re in a pretty conservative area, and I’ve never heard or seen anyone having any issues with her, though I’m sure it happens.

Oh, and that librarian rocks. We couldn’t find one of our holds, and it turned out it was stuck in their book elevator thing which had broken down that day, and they went out of their way to fish our books out for us. It’s completely unrelated to her gender identity, I just thought that was really cool.

That said, data centers as a whole are something like 1% of the global electricity use. So while AI may use a lot of energy relative to what you’re getting, it’s really not a ton in the grand scheme of things.

If the goal is to reduce electricity usage, there are bigger fish to fry. If the goal is to stop the small fish from getting too large w/o providing value, then go ahead, guilt away.

Eh, you can do off-site backups a bit cheaper than that, just bring a drive in to work and leave it in your desk. Boom, off-site backups for the cost of a drive. No need to alternate anything, just bring the drive home every few months to re-sync. Or keep that drive at a relative’s/friend’s house if work doesn’t work for whatever reason.

I’m currently using a RAID mirror only, but I’m planning on doing the “bring your drive to work day” thing, and I think it can work really well. The drive should last something like 5 years (or more!), especially if you’re only spinning it up a few times/year.

We got a few, and then I ended up getting a Bluray drive and flashing libredrive on it, and now I can rip Bluray in full quality. I’m probably going to go load up on more Bluray discs because ripping works well.

I don’t have an HTPC, I just stream my videos from my NAS to my TV, and I do all my ripping on Linux.

obviously not in their right min

That really depends on context. If the person was otherwise behaving normally and had a reasonable explanation for how they’re dressed (i.e. they’re coming back from comicon or something), I don’t see why not, as long as the background checks out.

Then again, if they come in filming the place and whatnot, then yeah, I wouldn’t touch that with a 10’ pole. That’s a lot more sus than some makeup.

I’ll take a dish of revenge if it’s tasty.

Mmm, when you put it that way…

They sure can, I just don’t think they would, unless the person was acting oddly. They probably were though, because I assume that’s their shtick, but just dressing up in cosplay but otherwise acting normally probably wouldn’t bother most people behind the counter.