the government doesn’t want to put limits on tech companies, that’s so fucking backwards.

/s ?

Mild surprise at the suggestion that “evidence” or “science” has anything to do with it.

Maybe it’s not counting memory that can’t be tested because it’s needed for the kernel and device drivers. For example according to its man page free reports total memory “minus a few reserved bits and kernel binary code” and on my desktop here that’s about 15.2 out of 16GB.

I don’t know though, most of a gigabyte does seem like a suspiciously large amount of memory for that, never mind 2.4 gigs. I guess it’s i/o buffers, page tables, and things like that.

Of all the languages you could choose to randomly stan for. I hate Go. It seems like every cosmetic change they made to the syntax in order to make it look slightly different than C was a change for the worse.

Star Trek, The Mighty Boosh, Gilligan’s Island

Technically they might not even need to become carnivores to learn the habit of chasing people down and punching them to death to defend their territory.

I wanted to try out this “twitter” thing everyone was talking about in 2019, but it wouldn’t let me sign up without a mobile phone so I went with fedi instead.

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True, there aren’t many old drivers who are honking the horn and giving everyone the finger — most of those people die young I guess.

Two spaces sure, but that’s for people who don’t use tabs.

I’ve heard of 8, 4, and even 3 which is pretty crazy… how could it possibly be 2!?

rational used to just mean "possible to express as a ratio before it got co-opted by the academic-industrial complex- "

Hmmm… when you say “academic” do you mean the Academy of ancient Greece? Because I’m guessing that’s around when that mix-up first happened.

Right, I’m aware of this and see nothing wrong with it.

If you feel that it’s unfortunate, why take their side? I’ve found that no confusion is caused by using it the correct way. If any might be, it is at least in service of a noble cause.

I may be a little amused by it, but not verily surprised.

The word you’re looking for is “literally.”

a firestorm on X ensued … it mostly came from users who seem to be on the far left of the political spectrum.

The far left of x dot com, huh. I’m sure they’re gratified to know that their opinions matter to someone.

That is social, but it isn’t media.

For the answer, see every existing LLM. Constructing a coherent model of reality is not among their functions.

Congrats to GameStop on being described as “struggling” when I would’ve expected “defunct” by now.

Them going “retro” makes sense to me. I happened to be near one of their locations the other day and remembered that the last time I went in there it was to ask if they still had a bin full of second-hand PS3 discs somewhere. All I got was a succinct “no.”