An interesting statistical quirk: Notice the disjoint in these two posts. This is not rounding; Godfrey, on the left, is counting Grover Cleveland twice
@The4thCircle Cleveland served two terms nonconsecutively, with a four year term by Benjamin Harrison in between. This is the only time this has happened.
So it would be reasonable to describe Cleveland as the 22nd President, but would also be reasonable to describe him as the 24th President, and depending on whether Cleveland is the 24th President in addition to being the 22nd President, then Joe Biden is either the 45th or the 46th President. People get tripped up by this all the time.
I can also say unequivocably that if I wasn't CONSTANTLY getting hints from the internet, it would be unsolvable for me. Entirely opaque. Completely impossible.
Incidentally I'm thankfully still not seeing any of this Google "AI results" stuff. It sounds like nearly everyone else is. I don't know if the difference is because I'm on a Canadian IP, or because my feedback when they briefly opted me into the early beta tests was so aggressively negative they put some kind of "AI Hater" flag on my account
Finally getting the new Google Shit Flavor. Just really floored that even if you report an AI result it just leaves it up there. Just such a total loathing for the customer being expressed in this feature
@dogfox@Catawu And you can trace "why does it work that way?" directly back to slavery. American governance is just horror stacked on top of horror on top of horror for centuries
If there was any area where we needed a lot of "innovation," it's in climate tech. We've already blown through numerous points-of-no-return for a habitable Earth, and the pace is accelerating.
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@pluralistic To your knowledge is there any meaningful way for people whose work experience already lies in software and/or FPGA engineering to participate in this new economic sector?
@pluralisticnod asking because I'll be seeking a job soon and i am focusing like a laser on strategies that will allow me to avoid the risk of being asked to work on or with what they're calling "AI" now
You need to find a second person in the city with this ability and leave messages for each other in UV paint
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Have I ever told you about my experience with my Ether? It's a tunerless AM radio, its sensitivity is fine enough I can wave it through the air and "hear" the exact boundaries of EM fields
I am typing this on a phone in a laundromat and reserve the right to come back and edit it to correct legal wording.
Think about this real hard: The candidate who's spent four years claiming the elections are rigged has been convicted for rigging an election. Yeah, the charge is falsifying business records. But that's only a NY felony if a second crime is committed, & the 2nd crime was paying to kill news stories without following campaign finance laws.
So like let's compare the other most significant Presidential candidacy by a felon: Eugene Debs.
Debs was convicted and jailed twice, the first in 1894 for alleged violation of a court order banning railway workers from striking, the second time for giving a speech protesting World War I. During his second imprisonment he ran for President and got 3.4% of the vote.
What can we take away from this? Trump didn't even commit felonies you can be proud of.
@textfiles Someday in hundreds or thousands of years an archaeologist is going to recover this digitization and it will explain so much to them about America