Parrots are way smarter than LLMs.

The problem with same batch drives is failing together, potentially beyond your ability to recover with replacement drives.

Because Seagate sell the most drives and all drives fail?

Yep.

If you can do it, you can sometimes use that skill to quickly compare whether two adjacent vertical images are identical. If they are, you will just see a single version of the image as normal. If they are different, you will easily see a ‘fuzzy’ part of the image that won’t resolve and stay still (hard to describe, it’s like when I try to read text in a dream).

A practical application I use now and then is when I want to compare two columns of data on a screen. Use the magic eye technique to overlap the columns and any differences will be immediately obvious, even with a lot of data.

The rental property market

Stupidman.

Why waste a bomb when you can use no-food for free? Oh, maybe it’s a recreational bombing.

It’s kettling at a national level. Virtually imprison innocent people for long enough, in conditions bad enough, and it’s no surprise that they lash out. Likud was waiting for it and used it as the pretext for the extermination of the Palestinian people.

America could sure use less internal combustion and more high-speed rail.

Apart from being individually, inhumanely awful, it’s just so stupid at a societal level. Spending money on cops to wreck the economy is stable genius level thinking.

Uh, what? I’ll use a quote when it neatly captures what I was thinking, and credit it to the original author. The phrase is the important part I guess, but fair play to the author.

If you’re drawing authority from it, that’s on you. Sometimes you just like the turn of phrase and are giving credit.

I quite enjoy a half dozen sea-snots (just fresh with a wedge of lemon please), but I can see the lack of appeal.

1984 missed that our telescreens would be portable and the hate isn’t limited to two minutes per day.

As a child and into my teens, I had an inner monologue that was switched on all the time. After practising meditation and reading without subvocalisation, I was finally able to ‘shut up’ where stopping the monologue was as easy as stopping talking. Anyway, I’d encourage anyone to give it a try. Now being able to think without distracting chatter is well worth it for me.

In pictures, for one example

He often squints reading the prompter, and he has to concentrate so his manner of speech moderates significantly. Then you see him flip the switch to freewheeling bullshit.

BILL ACT 🤦‍♂️

Maybe in the not too distant future we will build our roofs out of solar panels and walls out of batteries.

Our ancient tradition since the 1960s.