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Change posture, but also get up and move around. Take breaks away from the screen to let your eyes rest.

Of course doing this can also mess up the flow of ideas sometimes. Nothing worse than coming back and trying to recapture the zone you were in.

Dependency

And uneducated. They do not like awareness of reality.

My response when managers at my work use the word “productivity” is, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

It’s not something the Jedi would tell you.

Senior: “Yeah, we can’t change that because it will break everything.”

Like the lines from “The Big Short”:

“What’s that? What do you smell?”

“Opportunity.”

“No! Money!”

There may be a bit of fear if a business could be impacted badly by definite policy changes coming, so get in the good graces now to maybe soften the blow. But in the end that’s still about money.

Yes, it resets once motion is stopped. It’s one of those things where without comments in the code or something you could also assume forgetting to check one of the bounds just happened to work fine.

Can’t tell if lazy programming or just figuring it will fix itself. In theory there would be a point of overflow maybe? Well, I guess that also fixes itself.

I saw a discussion once about how difficult the idea of an accurate progress bar really is. Note how so many things now take the easier approach of a circular or other shape that shows activity without being tied to any particular time prediction. My preference is a combo progress bar with actual throughput numbers/graph, so you can tell if there’s really progress or some bottleneck that will make it longer.

When WordPerfect was great. Reveal Codes was incredible. That and a HP Laserjet 5P was a solid combo.

Steve Rogers: Big man in a suit of armour. Take that off, what are you?

Tony Stark: Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.

Tony was being snarky, but he’s not wrong about the suit being just an extension. Yes, it’s important to his abilities, otherwise he wouldn’t have needed it from the beginning in the cave. But it’s also not a crutch, as Ironman 3 showed and taught him, and he’s trying to show Peter that it begins with the person.

Also keep in mind what he said to Peter in this same scene - when Peter said he just wanted to be like Tony, Tony comes back and says yeah, and I wanted you to be better. Tony knows that Peter truly doesn’t need the suit because he is that powerful, it’s just once again an extension that enhances those abilities, and if Peter thought it was the suit that made him special he wouldn’t grow.

Not just voter apathy, but voter discouragement. If districts were divided logically, Republicans wouldn’t win many key areas through gerrymandering. Then there’s manipulation of polling places in different ways to make voting more difficult or even frightening for some people to show up. A fair election doesn’t work well for the GOP, so they make sure everything is done to help their results. And this time around they may be doing even more subtle things - see recent news of Steve Bannon’s admission of having people in place to question voter authenticity. More scare tactics.

The flaw of the question is assuming there is a clear dividing line between species. Evolutionary change is a continuous process. We only have dividing lines where we see differences in long dead ones in the fossil record, or we see enough differences in living ones. The question has no answer, only a long explanation of how that isn’t how any of this works.

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tries to hack into it

“Oh no, someone is trying to hack into me too!”

This was called the minute they put the PPP loan idea together. Where’s the oversight? How can fraudulent claims be avoided? The PPP loss still wasn’t as big as the blank checks given to major corporations like airlines to keep the economy machine rolling. And in one sense I’m okay with government stepping in to avoid disaster, that’s one of their jobs. It’s just so many of these companies got free money that they really didn’t need to stay alive, all because they smelled the opportunity…plus they took money that smaller businesses needed and no longer exist.

I tried it with my abliterated local model, thinking that maybe its alteration would help, and it gave the same answer. I asked if it was sure and it then corrected itself (maybe reexamining the word in a different way?) I then asked how many Rs in “strawberries” thinking it would either see a new word and give the same incorrect answer, or since it was still in context focus it would say something about it also being 3 Rs. Nope. It said 4 Rs! I then said “really?”, and it corrected itself once again.

LLMs are very useful as long as know how to maximize their power, and you don’t assume whatever they spit out is absolutely right. I’ve had great luck using mine to help with programming (basically as a Google but formatting things far better than if I looked up stuff), but I’ve found some of the simplest errors in the middle of a lot of helpful things. It’s at an assistant level, and you need to remember that assistant helps you, they don’t do the work for you.

A wizard should know better.

Wages not keeping in step with inflation is exactly why everything seems so expensive. $30k of today’s money is the equivalent of less than $10k in the 80’s, and cars were more than $10K then except for a few that ended up being examples of “you get what you pay for”.

I should probably state that as “wage increases being suppressed”.