The fun starts when you study quaternions

i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = −1

wanders in from c/all

So umm… are you gonna eat that?

That’s a pretty reasonable tradeoff. We normally cook beyond burgers at home so that sear is valuable. But I throw a lid on top to melt the cheese anyways. As a side benefit you can get that slightly burnt cheese crust and you still get the crust on the bottom of the patty.

Melt that cheese!

Beats me. I just know that serial protocols do all kindsa fun stuff at the data link layer to maintain data integrity. Stuff bits, optional parity bits, weird timing changes.

Lesson #3 on why Baud/s != Bit/s

Lots of serial protocols use stuff bits at the data link layer. The data itself is the clock and if there is no change in the data, the clock is lost. So they after every 4 or so consecutive 0s it adds a fictitious 1 to make sure the recipient’s clock is synchronized.

Fuck yeah I just bought that liquor online only an hour or so ago. Crazy to see it pop up in the wild. I hope it tastes good!

… and putting the cat in the dryer?! You’re awful!

You know what they say about Romans with big feet…

Nah - the english language is just full of ambiguities that people tend to understand through context or intonations from speaking that are lost in text

… what?

Did you even read my earlier comment?

I explicitly meant “as”. It’s great as autocomplete. Not as an agent to complete programming tasks.

Well, this kind of AI won’t ever be useful as a programmer. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t reason. It cannot make decisions besides using a ton of computational power and enormous deep neural networks to shit out a series of words that seem like they should follow your prompt. An LLM is just a really, really good next-word guesser.

So when you ask it to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem, great it can do that. Because it saw someone else’s answer. But if you ask it to solve it for a tower than is 20 disks high it will fail because no one ever talks about going that far and it flounders. It’s not actually reasoning to solve the problem - it’s regurgitating answers it has ingested from stolen internet conversations. It’s not even attempting to solve the general case because it’s not trying to solve the problem, it’s responding to your prompt.

That said - an LLM is also great as an interface to allow natural language and code as prompts for other tools. This is where the actually productive advancements will be made. Those tools are garbage today but they’ll certainly improve.

Nice - a new word game! It’s tough though.

I like Honda small motors. They power my lawn mower, chainsaw, Fit, and personal spacecraft.

Some FOSS projects are supported by having a for-profit company offer turnkey packaging and support for those projects. Look at TrueNAS. They sell nice NAS hardware preconfigured with their software and the profits support the development.

Sounds like the bedrock-only part is just a visual update. If you’re on Java you already have access to shaders.

But still - fuck MS for making bedrock a totally separate game so they could avoid giving alpha buyers free in app purchases.

You missed the pokedex entries too!