Well luckily Russian warnings are about as serious as Chinese warnings.

Actual Russian territory has been struck (Belgorod as one example) and Crimea has been hit very hard a few times.

The only retaliation was yet another cruise missile strike against civilian infrastructure, that would have happened anyways.

The oligarchs won't nuke shit. The moment they do they know they get into a war that's fought inside Russia rather than in Ukraine which will, regardless of any other outcomes, end their lives.

I mean... if you want a rigorous definition of intelligence to compare it to, then I guess you'll have to start there, and then when it's broadly accepted as a thing, we can compare it to that.

For now, with the definitions we do have, it's not intelligent. It's just a retrieval system, with no more intelligence than my filing cabinet.

We don't really need a rigorous definition, when we already have a general definition that it fails.

Intelligence is the ability to gain and apply knowledge and skills.

You're very right that human behaviour involves a lot of mimicry. I've noticed more than just words being influenced in my behaviour, when I'm getting to know someone. Part of that is an evolved behaviour intended to aid in socialization (as humans are social creatures).

I write code every now and then while I'm working. That code is from scratch. I'm applying knowledge to solve a task. And I choose coding, specifically, because ChatGPT is remarkably good at developing code.

Until it isn't. It makes mistakes, because it's just regurgitating code that seems to fit. It can get me 80% of the way there, and it's a wonderful tool for that, but that other 20% has to be corrected because it doesn't understand what the code does, it's just "copying and pasting" (and that's an oversimplification, but only slightly so).

The difference between my coding and ChatGPT's coding is that when I read code, I know what I'm trying to do. I can apply my knowledge to say "this will work" or "this won't work" or "what the fuck is this?" even before I even try to compile.

Excellent news.

Innovation improves with more minds working on problems. Concurrently solving the same problems is perhaps not the most efficient approach, but it should lead to the greatest volume of innovation.

Not to mention that means another space station, which means more zero-g science.

OP asked them to stop, they didn't. They took enjoyment in aggravating the OP. They earned that split lip.

Next time they decide to deliberately provoke someone, perhaps they'll consider this event first.

There's a wonderful little exchange in Mr. Inbetween, where he's in anger management and they're asking him why he beat up some asshole teenagers:

They were being assholes.

Well sure... but the world's full of assholes.

Yea, you know why? Because we let them.

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Problems don't get fixed until we start to deal with them. This is how you deal with assholes.

It's a LLM. Not a general intelligence.

All it effectively does is correlate, retrieve, and extrapolate existing information. It does not generate new data.

Hwy 2 is an incredibly busy highway and he would have been driving somewhere around 50kph over the posted speed.

There is no way he didn't know something wasn't right.

In KSP I always just promoted my LKO stations to solar orbits. Never look back, you're not going that way. Always burn forward.

It's a good thing stock Kerbals don't need to eat.

It'll probably stop the mess, assuming it doesn't tear.

Though personally I'd be worried about fumes.. confined between the pan and the element the temps could be considerably higher than the surface of the pan itself (not unlike how the temps rise when you put a lid on a pot). Aluminum fumes are no joke, which start to be a concern around 600C. Of course at those temps, silicone would just be a bubbling mess too.

Foil won't do anything to protect the ceramic top from a heavy piece of iron though. The silicone mat will provide a bit of padding to help avoid scraping the ceramic, and it offers a little leeway in setting down the cast iron.

All while being reusable.

A thin silicone mat will work fine for what you want, and handle most of the temperatures you're going to be exposing it to (the pan is going to be hot, even if there is no radiant heat from the element itself).

They'll still melt if you go too hot, but for your average cooking, they're enough.

It's good for cast iron cookware. Shelters the ceramic top from the iron.

Not very efficient though, rags are more expensive than the useful energy it will release.

Presumably, an enemy nation's first strike catching you with your pants down.

Well, I haven't tried it, but I imagine it might be sufficient to evaporate the water as it condenses on the windows.

But... it feels to me like it's just as likely to make the problem worse, by increasing the potential humidity of the room (as warm air holds more moisture).

Maybe in a place like Chicago, where it doesn't get very cold, it might work? Up where I live, I cannot see this being a tenable solution at all.

Russia realizing that the Leo2 and Abrams are gonna fuck up their invasion plans even more than previous weapon shipments already have.

This is a panic offensive against Kherson. They need to take ground, and they need to take it quickly before those western MBTs can join the fight. Because once they do, their greatest assets are no longer viable on the ground.

I don't know if any Ukrainian tank crews are trained on this new equipment yet or not, but if they are, I really hope those weapons can get there sooner than later. Ukrainians are being murdered and these weapons can help to limit that.

Not even hypothetical that they're happy to go around murdering innocent people.

Every time they suffer a major defeat, they balm their wounded egos by launching cruise missiles into houses and hospitals.

I don't at all blame Germany for being sick of this shit. Nearly the entire whole world is sick of it.

I don't blame him.

Not only has he seen a tremendous amount of death delivered to his doorstep that he has to bury down deep, but Macron has been trying to play the appeasement game for far too long.

And there Macron is, basically nuzzling him.

Sure, if you're living in a PG movie.

In reality they're bullies because they like conflict. It empowers them. If you try and stand up to them it threatens that empowerment... and in my own anecdotal experience, they will fight to protect that empowerment. And that's starting from a position where their morale is high and yours is low... dangerous fight for you.

I wasn't safe until puberty finished and I was figuratively twice their size, reliably kicking their asses in said fights.

Fingers crossed they give them all asylum. Encourage as many defections as they can. It hurts the war effort.

And then when it's all over, send every last one of them to The Hague for a reckoning of what they did in Ukraine, Africa, and everywhere else Wagner has operated.

That's the Jedi version. You can tell because it had a happy ending.

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Unlike the Jedi.

Russia looking for a sugardaddy to feed it weapons.

Not a good look, even if we already knew Putin was a little bitch.

>All i really want to see is no russians allowed to cross the borders from russia

The more Russians that run away from Russia, the faster their country will outright fail.

They're already circling the drain, and that's a huge reason why they're trying to hard to prevent Russians from leaving.

Obviously, we need to ensure those Russians do not export their toxic culture to the rest of us. But if they want to assimilate into the societies they immigrate to, they make those societies stronger whilst making Russia weaker.

If they don't want to assimilate, then they can go the fuck back to Russia.

Judging by the title, so did they.

I bet with one of these I could overclock my toaster enough to run Crysis.

What about big ass wasps?

Yes, Libya too. NATO did not need to lead the charge to impose the UN Security resolution, and should not have lead that charge.

Individual members, hell every single member, forming their own new coalition for the purpose? Yes, hell yes. But NATO only showed that it will offensively engage nations when it wills.

So although I roll my eyes when Russia says "but NATO!", I roll my eyes because they have nukes, not because they're making a false assertion about NATO being dangerous to their security.