Why would you need to defend yourself for ordering a pizza and being shocked by the high price? Sometimes I think I’ve gotten too old for the internet. People should be allowed to order a pizza every once in a while and not have to formulate a 5 point list of the reasons why it’s okay for them to order pizza.

Fixed. Thanks!

I imagine you sitting there like Scotty, “Give me an ip address, not no colon, not no hexadecimal, and not no bloody double colon. Just 4 numbers between 0 and 255 with a dot in between.”

I swear it’s going to be a generational change where it takes a slow adoption by the younger network people as the older network people slowly retire. Kind of like how racism and sexism has diminished. It wasn’t like we changed anyone’s mind, just that people held onto it until they died and younger people just said, “The future is now, old man.” and moved past it.

Look I’m not saying you’re wrong or anything just that I really don’t appreciate you stalking me.

At least you didn’t pull upwards like I did. Glad the ceiling was there or it could’ve been much worse.

Sure as well as every other social media platform since the inception of the internet. I remember seeing Flat Earth insanity on myspace, digg, and even fark. But no one runs around and claims flat earth was popularized on those sites. What they’re saying above isn’t based in reality unless you’re willing to say the same about every single social media platform.

Damn 4chan existed in 1956 when the Flat Earth Society was started? Is there anything 4channers won’t try to take credit for?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_beliefs#Flat_Earth_Society

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth

Even if you inherited your parents property if you already have one you should have to pay extra taxes on it from the day they die until the day you sell it, period.

This seems needlessly callous to me. At least give them a 6-12 month period to clean up, do repairs, and sell the house. Not everyone that inherits a house is making enough to pay increased taxes right out the gate like you’re proposing. Also, from personal experience, cleaning houses of deceased relatives tend to require a bit of work to get ready for selling and is incredibly emotionally draining. What you’re proposing is going to be extremely painful for the people at the bottom, and emotionally wracking, since as soon as a loved one dies you’re now under the gun to sell.

I agree though, second homes should be extremely heavily taxed. I just think we need to approach it with an even hand and make sure that we are targeting big corporate rental agencies and the very wealthy, and not some family that just lost their parents/grandparents. Something about targeting those people seems needlessly aggressive and not really the intention being discussed…

Maybe we should take a step back. Your original statement was that it’s hard to have these conversations without generalization. I tried to explain simple ways to avoid the trap of over generalization. Your response appears to be, “I don’t care to put forth the tiny amount of effort to avoid miscommunication.”

So is it actually quite easy and you don’t care? Why say it was hard to begin with then? I’m just kind of confused at this point.

Maybe don’t generalize a group of people without careful thought and appropriate caveats then? Seems pretty easy to me. You even admit that you are writing from personal experience, and don’t have perfect information, so why not include precise language to reflect that? Seems pretty simple and way more inclusive.

Like I said previously, using precise language simply avoids putting readers that are a part of whatever group on the automatic defensive. Why not just take the extra couple of a seconds to avoid that miscommunication? If you don’t care to do that, then that’s fine, but over generalization is going to automatically alienate some readers that you perhaps didn’t mean to offend.

It’s super easy actually! You just qualify your statements. For example:

• I don’t like how some people…

• I’ve noticed that a lot of people…

• There’s quite a few people that…

• The majority of people seem to…

This language avoid assumptions about how everyone else feels and leaves the reader an out to say to themselves, “I’m not in that group and they acknowledge that I am an exception.” It avoids the trap of over generalization and doesn’t put the reader on the defensive. Language like “all people” and “allistic people” (meaning all non-autistic people) only work to alienate. Ironically it demonstrates the same behavior they appear to be complaining about…

From the article:

Springfield Township officials banned its employees from displaying the flag on township property in January…

It has nothing to do with private property. I think it might be a slight bit fucked to walk into a Township courthouse and have the secretary flying a Nazi or Confederate flag. This is really no different. It certainly would deter me if I wanted to report excessive force if half the township was flying a flag that basically signaled that they believe the police no matter what. I don’t see how banning the display as a public employee, at the place where you work as a public employee, is infringing on anyone’s privately held freedom of expression.

I think the word you’re looking for is physicist. A physician is a medical doctor (as in a person that treats sick people). A physicist is a person that studies physics (as in a person that knows how to solve word problems involving pool tables).

This excludes all the ipv4 ips that have a 0 in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th octets. Sorry but we’re going to have to revoke your Network Engineering credentials.

The more you learn the less you know.

That’s a coal fired power plant. Specifically the John Amos power plant in W. Virginia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Amos_Power_Plant

I think it was more poking fun at the fact that the developers, not the LLM, basically didn’t do any checks for edible ingredients and just exported it straight to an LLM. What I find kind of funny is you could’ve probably exported the input validation to the LLM by asking a few specific questions about whether or not it was safe for human consumption and/or traditionally edible. Aside from that it seems like the devs would have access to a database of food items to check against since it was developed by a grocery store…

I do agree, people are trying to shoehorn LLMs into places they really don’t belong. There also seems to be a lot of developers just straight piping input into a custom query to chatgpt and spitting out the output back to the user. It really does turn into a garbage in garbage out situation for a lot of those apps.

On the other hand, I think this might be a somewhat reasonable use for LLMs if you spent a lot of time training it and did even the most cursory of input validation. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t even take a ton of work to get some not completely horrendous results like the “aromatic water mix” or “rat poison sandwich” called out in the article.