SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
You can always ask followup questions, demand citations, or chase those up yourself.
Riddle me this: Why the fuck would I want to deal with an entity which requires me to do that and never learns enough so I won't have to anymore?
It's like being saddled with a particularly annoying intern for no reason at all.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
Nah. It’s mämmi and we embrace it.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4d ago
The Motte world domination 2025.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
5d ago
One obvious potential explanation: Gay men don't have to care about what women think of them.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
5d ago
blames other women who show off the goods for free for making men want that kind of sex.
Just wait a year or three until the free image and video models manage to combine decent prompt understanding with uncensored training material and stock up on popcorn.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
No, Hestia does not have to be a generic big titty asian girl.
Agreed. Small tits are underrated!
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
Even Ulyssessword came up with several as he was disproving me.
You and I clearly have a very different idea for what counts as "great". Those are the most lukewarm "great" takes I've seen in a long while.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
You have gained +5 to neuroticism
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7d ago
Things get spicier when you notice that there are modern groups whose moral guidance with outsiders is remarkably similar and what the effects of that are. Further discussion of that is probably best left for the culture war thread.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
10d ago
IIRC, the usb spec has always required that any compliant usb port can withstand an infinite short circuit of any pin to any pin without damage.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
10d ago
10 pounds? Those are rookie numbers, son.
Unfortunately.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
11d ago
What the hell is ”CRA”? Googling mostly turned up Cyber Resiliency Act and something from Canada.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
12d ago
You keep spelling that with one too few *'s, you know...
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
12d ago
But the point was to test the people putting the concert together—if they can’t do the little arbitrary things maybe they are failing at the bigger important things.
In Van Halen's case, it wasn't just an arbitrary test for that either. They started using it after repeatedly having to deal with venues that were unsafe and several near-misses. They didn't expect the M&Ms to be actually selected either. It was enough if the concert organizer noticed it and asked them "Err, guys, what's this M&M thing here?" because then they knew the organizer had at least read the rider with the actually important technical and safety requirements.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
13d ago
Here they were simply infesting the entire countryside on sunny days and would often attack me after barely walking 10 meters from the car if stopping by the side of the road. Worrying about human or animal attacks is for noobs. Real men fear insects for a reason!
Large horseflies are even worse in some ways. When they’re circling you they look like angry wasps and then you can’t quite know if you should smack them or run from them. And the fuckers keep following you unless you run many tens of meters (or over a hundred).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
14d ago
I've found my recommendations to be often reasonably decent as long as I keep engaging in that heavy curation.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
14d ago
concerns about attacks by wildlife are usually the mark of a greenhorn
Except of course attacks by ticks, mosquitoes, horseflies, blackflies, deerflies and wasps (not to forget midges if you're in Scotland). And probably a bunch more that luckily don't live up here. Goddamned motherfuckers.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
14d ago
The OP specifically mentioned they are not in "grizz country".
Also grizzlies are quite literally the same species. The Northern American subpopulation just hasn't developed as much fear of humans as the European one but similar differences exist even between local Eurasian brown bear populations depending on how remote the larger area is and has historically been.
Now polar bears, they are scary fuckers and will happily hunt a human.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
14d ago
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
14d ago
accidentally walking between a cub and mother at precisely the wrong time.
Finland has a fairly sizeable brown bear population (grizzly is basically the same species, just somewhat larger) but unprovoked bear attacks are really rare. A brief search through a national news site shows that there was only one unprovoked attack within the last 10 years and that wasn't serious (the bear struck a guy who fell down, after which the bear left and the guy got off with a few scratches). The rest have all been hunting situations gone bad or a dog aggravating a bear and the owner getting attacked when trying to fend off the bear (and even then they've been very rare). If you make noise and look around, the bears will just hide and avoid you.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
14d ago
Good insect repellent. I'm surprised you say that "he most dangerous critters you will encounter are the two-legged kind" when where I live the biggest danger by far is from ticks.
I could see a pocket knife be useful for all kinds of other things. If you're worried about wild dogs, a good flashlight and large stick should help fend them off. For the rest you've basically already lost (eg. a bear encounter or some redneck with a shotgun) or extremely unlucky. Maybe a flare gun or pepper spray?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
14d ago
I use free tier youtube via the website and adblocker.
I basically only watch guitar / synthesizer / photography (and now some outdoors backpacking) videos. Just a few days ago I watched a few astrophotography videos which resulted in youtube trying to push some conspiracy theory clickbait bullshit about NASA hiding Voyager findings.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
14d ago
Instagram and YouTube both recommend me by far more overtly anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic content
I've found Youtube to be an unusable cesspool unless I heavily curate my recommendations. That means hitting hide on anything offtopic and removing anything remotely general interest from my watch history. Otherwise within a few days it degrades to such state that it starts pushing videos that are trending locally and you can imagine the result of that.
No, it isn't. I'm not talking about remembering a bunch of explicit instructions or preferences. I'm talking about learning in the way a competent person goes from a newbie to a domain expert. That is completely missing in LLMs. No matter how much I guide an LLM, that doesn't help it generalize that guidance because LLMs are static snapshots. And if your answer is "but GPT-6 will totally have been trained better", then why on earth would I waste any time whatsoever with GPT-5?.
Like I said I have no use for or desire to be saddled with an annoying intern, whether a human or an LLM.
If you're trying to force everyone to use the solution you like, you better be damn sure your solution actually works for them instead of constantly resorting to "no, you're just using it wrong".
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