I suspect there’s a substantial overlap between people who would fall for this even with a delay and people who would send a “hi” and wait for a response.

He wouldn’t know how to load it even if was was functional.

Mr President, if we get to November of [2026] and people’s 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10–20% at the supermarket, we’re going to go into election day, face a bloodbath

Wow, I agree with something Ted Cruz said. That doesn’t happen often.

fuck you, Ted

And I agree with something Trump said? On the same day, no less. What are the odds?

Dunno. I only said that because I couldn’t think of any other major modern pyramids and it was an excuse to reference Hot Fuzz. Now that I think about it, there’s one on the Louvre in Paris as well, so I was wrong anyway. Pyramids plural was correct.

I visited it when I passed through. I wouldn’t visit the city just to see it, but I’ve got to say it’s definitely worth the stop if anyone is in the area and hasn’t seen it before. I’m not into hunting and fishing, so I can’t speak to the quality or value of the gear for sale. I can, however, say that seeing fishing boats for sale, floating at the dock in a pond, inside a store beside regular retail-style merchandise racks, all beneath the distant pyramidal ceiling is a unique experience. The glass elevator ride to the top and the view of the city was worth the ticket price, at least once. Would recommend.

Edit: Admittedly they sell various other outdoor gear as well that I would have been qualified to have an opinion on, but I was a bit distracted and not actually browsing the inventory.

Just the one pyramid, actually.

Yeah, I don’t really want my downfall brought about, but if were to happen, the lack of bras would be a nice silver lining. I don’t really have an opinion on the fruit eating.

Maybe he was impressed at the part where the agent got away with it. If I was a murderous psychopath that would seem like a really appealing job perk.

Diabolical.

I’ve admittedly got a lot of selection bias, since people don’t tend to bring me their computer when it’s working correctly. I’m sure it usually works fine. Still, the only times I’ve seen a multiboot system suddenly fail, it was Windows’s fault.

We do understand exactly how LLMs work though, and it no way fits with any theories of consciousness. It’s just a word extruder with a really good pattern matcher.

I like the comparison but LLMs can’t go insane as they just word pattern engines. It’s why I refuse to go along with the AI industry’s insistance in calling it a “hallucination” when it spits out the wrong words. It literally can not have a false perception of reality because it does not perceive anything in the first place.

This feels to me like a common folk saying from somewhere translated into English. It’s also a very apt and appropriately vulgar metaphor for the situation.

You can, but on the same drive they will share the same bootloader. While Windows officially can share its EFI partition, be aware that updates may rewrite it, and might not bring your other install along. This is fixable, but still very annoying if you have some expertise on Windows boot setup commands.

This is why I always to prefer to setup multiboot systems on separate drives with their own EFI partition, and always use the non-M$ install for the boot menu.

Yeah, but we have no way of knowing if it’s a skill issue on dohpaz42’s part, or a skill issue on the part of the people inviting them to the meetings. Some meetings can benefit you/from you, others simply can’t.

Huh. That would explain why the exact same person reminded me of himself. Feel a bit silly for missing that.

I dislike cheating as much as the next person, but I do love a good outside the box solution like this. I don’t recall what YouTube channel it was, but there was a guy who made an amazingly inelegant aimbot that worked by electrically stimulating the user’s muscles using off the shelf TENS devices hooked up to a custom controller. He explained what it did and asked permission in chat to use it. The other players thought it was hilarious and agreed to let him do it.

And I mean, like, really REALLY good at pinball.

Go ahead, no one will notice. No one will immortalize it on camera to be viewed across the internet. It’ll be fine.

Steampunk then: What if we combined real Victorian craftsmanship and tech with imagined advanced machines.

Steampunk now: What if I glued two plastic gears to a cheap vinyl corset.