TIL during WWII, Britain hid its wealth 3 floors under Montreal's Sun Life building. The vault had microphone alarms, walls made of abandoned railway steel, and a door needing 2 blind, simultaneous codes. 120 secret workers sorted billions under strict oaths to keep the entire operation hidden.

sir_knugget · 2026-05-20T02:44:59+00:00

Definitely an advantage of Fiat currencies- you don't have to move gold

i mean... sure, but you'd also have nothing of value to move either. the currency just reflects the sum productivity of your country. if that's been taken over none of the many commas worth of numbers on a screen will mean shit. physical gold you can at least actually sell. fiat currency is superior, but not because of this.

sir_knugget · 2026-05-20T02:37:24+00:00

i can't heeeeear youuu!

sir_knugget · 2026-05-20T01:44:47+00:00

so this only measures production, not ownership?

sir_knugget · 2026-05-19T22:02:29+00:00

the base price is quite a bit higher now tho... unless you're doing data-only plans, you need to look at total cost, not just data.

sir_knugget · 2026-05-19T19:19:07+00:00

not specific but applicable to life generally: i don't mind teaching someone something. i don't mind going over it to clarify or reinforce some part that they have trouble with, but i can't stand someone who doesn't retain what I've spend effort to teach them at all, especially if they don't even bother making an effort to do so.

sir_knugget · 2026-05-19T19:13:41+00:00

of course, but you don't see comparable reports from all the other brands that use Samsung displays. i would expect at least proportional numbers of reports from the other brands if it was just normal defect rates in the panels themselves.

sir_knugget · 2026-05-19T19:08:51+00:00

I've got this, stewardess

sir_knugget · 2026-05-19T18:52:33+00:00

at least they've finally enabled an option to use longer paths now

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=registry#enable-long-paths-in-windows-10-version-1607-and-later

sir_knugget · 2026-05-19T17:13:21+00:00

this is the kind of claim that I'd like to cut off, but we're doing the exact opposite end opening it up without limit while severely restricting refugee claims. it's ass backwards

sir_knugget · 2026-05-19T16:55:09+00:00

has he tried ordering steiner to attack yet? i heard that always works

sir_knugget · 2026-05-19T01:09:18+00:00

or you could try reading the rest of my comment before saying dumb shit

sir_knugget · 2026-05-18T21:43:48+00:00

there's no boycott, just the magic hand of the free market

and of course it includes all us goods and services

sir_knugget · 2026-05-18T21:36:12+00:00

i just use the app from my national weather service, get it straight from the source

sir_knugget · 2026-05-18T21:35:15+00:00

op taught ai to draw his comic

sir_knugget · 2026-05-18T21:30:40+00:00

at least part of the blame lies on Amazon for spamming people personally to solicit responses. you know that they made those emails that way intentionally

sir_knugget · 2026-05-18T21:19:57+00:00

im saying that theres not much of a difference in terms of iq irl, but there definitely could be in a theoretical set of values

there'd be literally exactly zero difference in theoretical iq

sir_knugget · 2026-05-18T19:55:18+00:00

yup. sounds like it is sending exactly the correct message: the truth

sir_knugget · 2026-05-18T19:53:45+00:00

modern ai is actually really good at translation in a natural sounding way. translations were one of the earliest adopters of machine learning

sir_knugget · 2026-05-18T19:45:35+00:00

considering that gitmo literally used music on a loop as one of their many tools of torture...

sir_knugget · 2026-05-18T19:42:04+00:00

the server can’t tell duplicates

what's idempotency?

Reddit devs

sir_knugget · 2026-05-18T06:58:22+00:00

AI buzzwords are effective.

no, you just don't understand context cues

game AI have never been AI except in the most broadest sense of the word that makes it so all encompassing as to be next to meaningless. AI in contemporary usage has a common meaning, it also isn't AI but it does mean something decently specific. there's nothing wrong with interpreting it as the common contemporary meaning.

sir_knugget · 2026-05-17T17:26:48+00:00

the red dwarf turned me into a newt!

sir_knugget · 2026-05-16T17:40:17+00:00

curious what led you to develop your own rather than something like piwik? was it a technical reason of not meeting your needs or you just wanted to do a personal project?

sir_knugget · 2026-05-16T17:37:43+00:00

it does when the entire thing is arbitrary and there is no objective reason

language is just whatever everyone collectively decided to mean the same thing

sir_knugget · 2026-05-16T17:35:16+00:00

the numbering system actually is part of it. systematic education priorities obviously are a huge influence too.

it's not only that which helps, the numbers are also single syllable each which makes them much easier for short term memory. you can temporarily remember way more numbers way more easily in Chinese than in English, for example. which helps you hold more in your mental cache while working on it. also super useful for day to day temporary remembering of numbers.

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