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First line of Bilbo Baggins's birthday speech.

He was also Jewish. Which makes his antisemitism even more strange.

https://youtu.be/OCIgRIOBycc?si=loRsFC_BVh1ALxfs

Basic system and web security might not seem important now, but let me tell you, if you adopt good cyber security practices early it will help you create a much more secure environment...

What're you guys doing with those rocks?

The more you learn the less you know.

That's a coal fired power plant. Specifically the John Amos power plant in W. Virginia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Amos_Power_Plant

I recommend googling his face, but it is very hard to tell the difference between the two.

Man they really got my hopes up that I missed something and he was voted out. He still holds his seat and won with 66% of the votes in 2022 so I don't think he's in danger of losing in the near furture.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Texas#District_2

You're absolutely correct. Not to be confused with freeware which is more ambiguous and most often proprietary (though not always).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware

I think it was more poking fun at the fact that the developers, not the LLM, basically didn't do any checks for edible ingredients and just exported it straight to an LLM. What I find kind of funny is you could've probably exported the input validation to the LLM by asking a few specific questions about whether or not it was safe for human consumption and/or traditionally edible. Aside from that it seems like the devs would have access to a database of food items to check against since it was developed by a grocery store...

I do agree, people are trying to shoehorn LLMs into places they really don't belong. There also seems to be a lot of developers just straight piping input into a custom query to chatgpt and spitting out the output back to the user. It really does turn into a garbage in garbage out situation for a lot of those apps.

On the other hand, I think this might be a somewhat reasonable use for LLMs if you spent a lot of time training it and did even the most cursory of input validation. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't even take a ton of work to get some not completely horrendous results like the “aromatic water mix” or "rat poison sandwich" called out in the article.

Say you were accused of killing a baby. A news article ran that said you texted, "Lol about to go eat some babies!" You look like an absolute psychopath. Do you deserve representation?

Going further you know you didn't kill the baby. The message was an unrelated tasteless joke about religion. You've been convicted in the court of public opinion by the aforementioned article about your deeds though. Do you think it would be fair to you, in an adversarial justice system, to not have the absolute best representation? Do you think, in those circumstances, that you should only be allowed to hire a lawyer that will half ass your case?

There's some pretty powerful air rifles out there. The one from the article appears to be a varmit air rifle (at least that's what I would call it). Here's a review I found:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ghNp27YgJd4

And another one that shows the targets they're hitting up close:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VDzhK2oFDIs

I'm not a lawyer but I went and checked the ABA because I was pretty sure the term "zealous advocate" was in the duties and responsibilities. Here's what I found on the ABA site, "As advocate, a lawyer zealously asserts the client's position under the rules of the adversary system."[1]

Lawyers, especially defense lawyers, get a lot of hate for being zealous about even the most vile client's defense, but I promise that if anyone reading this ever needs a lawyer you'll be glad as fuck that they are duty bound to not half ass your defense.

[1]https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/publications/model_rules_of_professional_conduct/model_rules_of_professional_conduct_preamble_scope/

We have to wait until tomorrow?

Change the print settings to a higher dpi and/or adjust the density. You might have to fiddle around with some other settings in there to get it how you like it. Generally if the test page prints okay there's something wokny with the print settings for whatever app/driver. Test pages print with preset settings, so they are standardized.

Could be unrelated, and you might just have issues with the printer head, but I've closed a more than a few tickets back in the day for people by adjusting print settings for them (these were brother label printers so YMMV).

Here's a generic KB for doing this on most models of Brother printers:

https://support.brother.ca/app/answers/detail/a_id/83445/~/the-printed-pages-are-faint,-light,-or-faded.-how-do-i-improve-print-quality

https://xkcd.com/1138/

While silcon dioxide is used as a food additive, and is found naturally in a lot of food, it's regarded as safe and even has been shown to have health benefits.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_dioxide

That's wildly different then the claim that Taco Bell was sued, and had to change formula, because they had so much "sand in their meat."

We can debate what it means effectively, but the term organic in the US means something. It's a regulated term and you can't just slap different stickers on something and call it organic. So much just straight up misinformation in this thread from people too jaded, or too lazy, to look it up.

https://www.usda.gov/topics/organic

https://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/organic

Now I'm not saying that the regulated term "organic" doesn't have some other weird side effects, or that people haven't attempted to hoodwink the process, but the term itself carries the weight of regulation in the US. So it's not some silly, "Hurrr derrr Organic means Organic" thing like people are making it out to be.

The source is mass (internet) hysteria from 5 or 6 years ago. The above poster's claim is false and just silly given the slightest amount of scrutiny.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/taco-bell-grade-d-meat/

https://www.mashed.com/110654/truth-taco-bells-seasoned-beef/

The natural world tries to kill you all the time. Why are you trusting that!?! Seriously though, both of these arguements are somewhat fallacious. Saying that GMOs are safe because, "It happens all the time in nature." Is the same fallacy that it isn't safe because, "It isn't natural to accelerate the process with genetic modification." Both are just mental shortcuts for people so they don't have to think about the insanely complex topic of GMOs, the effects, and what the right path forward is for all of us.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature