atan

I would guess it was interpreted as the slur for Japanese people (perhaps an automod thing - never really used Reddit though so I dunno how these things work in practice.)

I hiked along some cliffs in Mull where there was a large feral goat population, and was swarmed by these fuckers (we call them deer keds). Absolute nightmare fuel. They would quickly shed their wings and nestle in hair (mostly my beard) or inside clothing. They're really flat and leathery, and cling on for dear life - making them unreasonably hard to remove (they would wriggle free from my fingertips as I tried to prise them off.) I removed several dozen over the day and still found their corpses in my laundry.

The only goats we saw were dead and stinking. On the plus side, the weather was bad enough to mostly keep the midges at bay. Without a doubt, the worst experience I've had in the Western Isles.

I think this is a common misconception about games like EVE. I played it for about 7 years, and have continued playing full loot MMOs and survival games since then.

The PvP in EVE was the most exhilarating experience I have had in a computer game. This was intrinsically tied to both the consequences of loss and the thrill of victory, and reward - something you just cannot get from 'theme park' MMOs. Learning to harness the adrenaline rush and overcome the post-fight shakes was a very real thing that many of us spoke of. It's that which kept myself and many of the people I played with locked in for so long.

My focus was solo and small gang PvP - initially low-sec piracy, but later moving on to null-sec roaming and wormhole diving. After the first few months, I played almost no PvE content, and funded all ships and eventually my main account through PvP activity alone.

It's been about 10 years since I stopped playing - and the game may well have changed significantly - but the solo and small gang PvP which I engaged in was pretty easy to get into then. Sure you'd die a lot in the first month, but the trick was to keep your ships cheap, play to it's strengths, and try to learn from every engagement.

I've had good experience with Nudie Jeans and Service Works.

That's not true. The majority of wine is aged in standard oak barrels. Bourbon barrel-aged wine is a modern gimmick which is not at all common in the classic wine growing regions.

Moth Light Media

Ben G Thomas

North 02 (mostly paleoanthropology)

White water rafting

"What we are building now are things that take in words and predict the next most likely word..."

This is a gross oversimplification and doesn't reflect current understanding of how the most advanced LLMs work. Anthropic has recently published papers showing that Claude "sometimes thinks in a conceptual space" and will "plan what it says many words ahead".

This doesn't seem quite so different from human intelligence as what the summary suggests.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/tracing-thoughts-language-model

Dithering... Shit or get off the pot.

Caravan owners will often holiday in them frequently, though others will mostly/exclusively use them as holiday lets. I believe that they can't be occupied all the time (maybe 10 months in a year) so no permanent residents (I could be wrong on that though.)

If we don't act soon, literally the entirety of the world's GDP will be spent on treating type-2 diabetes! It will be totally unavoidable!

For real though, I have to work now. Go tell your jokes to someone else.

No comrade - forsake this heresy! Never forget that "It is impossible to get type 2 diabetes eating a ASF diet." To save the planet and eliminate type-2 diabetes and metabolic dysfunction we must convert all available land to the raising of livestock. It is the only way!