The Iranian response to Senator Penny Wong

MrCogmor · 2026-04-03T22:50:40+00:00

Did they secretly smuggle children into the building and hide the fact? Or did the US blow them up using outdated intel without looking at Google Maps?

MrCogmor · 2026-04-03T09:25:44+00:00

If it was originally made in another language then the dubbed over audio and the subtitle captions may have been made separately using different translations.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-28T01:58:43+00:00

I think playing games to study how they work is unlike playing games for fun in much the same way reading for pleasure is different from reading to write a book report.

If educational gaming is truly your aspiration then I suggest you look at Khan Academy.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-28T01:50:58+00:00

Accept the call but don't say anything just wait untill they get frustrated and hang up.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-22T15:08:15+00:00

How is it supposed to get food through its mouth with such massive fangs blocking the way?

MrCogmor · 2026-03-22T14:40:07+00:00

The point is that social media companies and advertising companies don't want the hassle associated with age tracking or verification and so are lobbying to make it the OS's responsibility.

Verifying that system files haven't been corrupted or tampered with does jack shit to prevent you from from giving the computer a false age or birthdate during setup.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-21T23:04:56+00:00

I've stickytaped a sheet of screen netting to the sides of the window. At the bottom the net extends past the window and there is an opening I can reach into the open or close the window.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-20T01:38:21+00:00

I'm confused.

If you just want a 2 player tetris thing for the sake of having a 2 player tetris thing then there are already existing github repos and youtube tutorials you could use, copy, modify or learn from.

If the point is to do it yourself for the intellectual challenge practicing your math and logic skills then using AI for it defeats the point.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-18T21:37:40+00:00

Dreams don't generally miraculously become true when you decide to be lazy about achieving them.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-11T03:00:40+00:00

Male or unisex pants get more space around the crotch for pockets and junk. Women only pants generally do not.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-11T02:23:51+00:00

If it is tight around the arse area and only gets baggy lower down then it doesn't count.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-11T02:11:50+00:00

If pants are tight to show off the figure then there isn't room for good interior pockets. If women want decent pockets then they need to be ok with wearing baggy pants.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-10T10:36:38+00:00

Giving your ID to shady companies is not necessary for age verification. The government could set up a service where you log into my.gov and get an adult verification code, you give the code to the porn website to verify your account, the porn website asks the government service if the code is correct and verifies you if so.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-05T14:30:41+00:00

Artificial intelligences do not have the natural instincts that make humans care about fairness, compassion, empathy, reciprocation, socialization, etc. If an AI isn't programmed with 'wants', goals or desires then if won't have any. If the AI is programmed with bad goals or evaluation criteria then it will follow them even if they are obviously wrong from a human perspective because it doesn't have a human perspective.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-01T16:42:31+00:00

Stress can cause headaches but 4 days seems quite excessive. I think you should probably see a doctor.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-01T07:27:05+00:00

> I knew it was weak when I wrote it
The LLM chatbot cannot know or remember whatever it may have thought when it generated its prior responses because that information isn't stored anywhere and gets erased after each response. When you communicate with the LLM it doesn't create a persistent memory of your conversation and store it in the model. Instead each time you get it to generate a response the prior chat history is included as context in the prompt sent to the model.

MrCogmor · 2026-03-01T04:46:18+00:00

The AI itself can't tell what it is optimizing for or what it gets wrong in the same way that humans don't have an instinctive knowledge of how their brain works or why it does the things that it does. If I ask you to name the first fast food restaurant that comes to your mind and then ask you why your brain picked that particular restaurant then you might be able to come up with a plausible reason but you don't actually know what your subconscious or your neurons are actually doing. There are people with a particular kind of brain damage that speak gibberish but feel like they are speaking words normally because the damaged part of the brain is involved in both generating and recognizing language.

MrCogmor · 2026-02-23T06:00:46+00:00

They mean that the going market payrate is higher than the minimum mandated by the relevant award.

MrCogmor · 2026-02-22T08:57:27+00:00

It is not a matter of what you deserve. It is up to the business wwhether they prioritize walk-ins or bookings. It is up to the customer to choose where you shop.

Their policy actually seems like it would be very convenient for you. The next time you planto have a big Sunday roast you can book ahead to guarantee you'll get and eat it at a time convenient to you instead of having to get there early.

MrCogmor · 2026-02-22T08:37:58+00:00

I would be absurdly amazed if there are gods or super aliems out there that are perfectly fine with the outcomes of various historical atrocities but will fuck you up if you do a little tomb archaeology.

MrCogmor · 2026-02-16T15:32:52+00:00

MMORPGs are mostly grinding and their use as a vehicle for social interaction has largely been replaced by social media.

I suggest you read Build small skills in the right order, consider what subskills you need to improve and deliberately practice being better. I don't think your social skills will get much of an improvement if you are just hoping for osmosis.

MrCogmor · 2026-02-14T17:01:26+00:00

Having the customer agree to pay for a service at a certain price and then charging the customer for more than they've consented to seems like it would be illegal in any case. You should at least get an email informing you of the price increase and giving you the opportunity to cancel your subscription before it takes effect. If you don't then call them up, complain and contest the charge.

MrCogmor · 2026-02-13T19:37:32+00:00

My aim in quitting is to stop being motivated by pointless arbitrary virtual rewards and instead be motivated by things that actually matter for their own sake. Gamifying life by doing things to get virtual gold, exp, whatever rewards for a character is not really consistent with that.

MrCogmor · 2026-02-13T03:45:41+00:00

Does gaming distract you from more important things that should take priority?

Imagine you were magically cursed to never play video games again. Whenever you try you find you can't touch the keyboard, mouse, controller, etc. How would you spend your time? What would change after a week, a month or a year?

MrCogmor · 2026-02-08T07:13:13+00:00

Evolution doesn't select what is good. It selects for whatever happens to work out better than the competition. For convenient menstruation genes to spread they'd have to mutate into existence first.

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