That’s 41 degrees for everyone who doesn’t measure things in bird per gun.

No one’s asking nor wondering why you find looking at things in the sky beautiful.

They’re asking why you’re ascribing meaning to an arbitrary number of days. Months aren’t subjective, they’re arbitrary.

What to know about blue supermoons:

1. They literally mean nothing.
2. The change is imperceptible to everyone.
3. Expect useless clickbait slop about it until it passes.

Looking back at history, it would lead to more propaganda and more support for going to war.

A population getting attacked only leads to that population wanting to an us vs them mentality and emotional knee-jerk reactions over rational responses.

Because: “The dose makes the poison”.

In other words, any chemical—even water and oxygen—can be toxic if too much is ingested or absorbed into the body. The toxicity of a specific substance depends on a variety of factors, including how much of the substance a person is exposed to, how they are exposed, and for how long.

Are you using the group policy editor?

Why would I leave windows if Linux isn’t offering anything better?

Because Linux offers an ad-free experience, whereas Windows offers a free ads experience.

No mouse and like games like MaM/Civ?

Recommendation for slower paced, top down strategy game:

• GBA emulator and the game Advance Wars 2

Recommendation for hard and fast paced game (audio required):

• Crypt of the Necrodancer

Recommendation for story based game:

• Undertale (avoid spoilers, this game will mess with you, only goes for 4 hours per playthrough but you will replay it for the different endings)

For anyone downvoting this who didn’t understand the reference:

Russia is saying that they’re the ones shooting down their own planes, because they don’t want to admit that Ukraine has the capability to shoot down their planes.

I’m not sure what the downsides are here…

Your question:

what things did the LHC discover that have real practical applications right now other than validating some hypothesis

Is really multiple questions:

1. Is doing fundamental research with no application in mind useful?

2. Has the LHC led to practical applications usable today

The answer to question 1 is yes.

There’s different types of research programs made to target different goals. Some aim for short or medium term applications, and others are just pure fundamental research.

Just because pure research doesn’t have an application in mind, doesn’t mean it’s not useful. The application isn’t the goal, the expansion of our knowledge base is. Everyone who ever thought up of an application for something did so based on their own knowledge base. If the knowledge base never expands, then we run out of applications to think up. This is why pure research is useful.

And all of history supports this:

• The discovers of rays shooting off cathode-ray-tubes in the 1800s were just doing pure research and had no idea it would lead to TVs
• particle accelerator research lead to invention of cat scans
• chemists trying to research heavier elements leading to the discovery of nuclear fission, leading to nuclear power
• electrolysis research lead to the invention of lead (and rechargeable) batteries
• etc…

The answer to question 2 is also yes:

The obvious ones are:

• improved manufacturing processes
• improved supercooled superconductors
• improved large scale vacuum chambers
• Improved data processing
• Trained a new cohort of experienced scientists/engineers/workers/etc (who can now work on new projects outside of the LHC)

The solution is simple: Remove the dagger mid-combat.

You could make the dagger too hot to hold and it falls out of reach (off a mountain, into rushing water, etc…)

You could make the dagger dissolve away (through lava, acid, being eaten, etc…)

You could make something take the dagger (disarming, stealing, etc…)

A hag/genie/etc could place a curse on the PC (holding anything makes them experience immense pain and drop what they’re holding, anything dagger they hold is turned into a spoon, etc…)

I have yet to be given an example of something a “general” intelligence would be able to do that an LLM can’t do.

Presenting…

Something a general intelligence can do that an LLM can’t do:

Play chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvTs_nbc8Eg

Why can’t it play it? Because LLM’s don’t have memory, so they can’t work with logic. They are the same as the little “next word predictor” in your phone’s keyboard. It just says what it thinks is the most probable next word based on previous words, it’s not actually thinking or understanding anything. So instead, we get moves that don’t make sense or are completely invalid.

Undertale for sure. (I’m a long time gamer, and I consider this in my top 5 games now)

It has such a slow start, and meh graphics going into it. It took me 3 separate years trying to get into it, but once I got past the first 2 hours, man did the humour, characters and music blow me away.

If you’re worried you won’t get into it:

• The graphics start out rough to make the better graphics later on really stand out
• The slow start is actually them setting things up a whole bunch of things that pay off later, stick with it. (Also since the game is only 7 hours and there are multiple endings, you will replay it to get the other endings and notice just how much content is hidden at the start that you didn’t understand the first time playing it).

I’m so glad I came back and stuck with it.

I was just trying to clear something out of my library and ended up with the most powerful gaming attachment I’ve had in over a decade.

My long bet: The EU will force Google Search + Ads, to separate from Youtube within a decade.

Did you purge and update your filters?

Note: I’m not talking about turning filters off then back on, I’m talking about updating the version of each filter itself.

I’m curious why people would downvote a request for port forwarding?

first major release under daddy Microsoft, so things may be different

I wouldn’t hold my breath:

1. Bethesda’s management have always unvalued spending effort on engine development
2. Microsoft’s awful mandated top-down rules are what seriously messed up Halo Infinite:

• To go into this point in more detail:
  • 343 industries hired a large amount of “temporary” contractors to work on Halo Infinite (this is standard in AAA games)
  • For legal reasons, any contractor who had worked on a project for 18 months is given workers protections
  • Microsoft mandated that each contractor be “let go” right before reaching this 18 month time-frame.
  • During the regular process of development, different developers would build different things, then over time either help out with any questions on how to use it, or tweak it to support a new use case.
  • During Microsoft’s mandated development, the developer who built a tool or best knew how it worked was let go. Since it’s easier to write new code rather than read existing code unassisted the developer who needs something done before a deadline has to build a new tool. After 5 years we now have 40 something tools that are all built based on different assumptions that keep overwriting each other’s results in wildly expected way. No one knows how anything works anymore.

Single player nostalgia list:

• FPS:
  • Halo series (Reach, 1, 2, ODST, 3, 4)
• Strategic:
  • Homeworld
  • Supreme Commander
• Racing:
  • Trackmania Stadium
• Roguelike
  • FLT
• Survival:
  • Minecraft
  • Factorio
• Tactical:
  • Advance Wars 2
  • Battle for Wesnoth
• Other:
  • Thumper
  • Space Engine

Multiplayer nostalgia list:

• FPS:
  • Halo series (again, 90% of the time the custom game browser already has a game running that I want to join, and it’s still getting updates)
  • PUBG (how is this 6 years old already?)
• Party games:
  • Golf with Friends
  • Tabletop Simulator
  • Ultimate Chicken Horse

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