Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company in South Carolina said his team stabilized Pepper X about a decade ago, but only released it now because no one had been able to beat his previous record.
I know Ed Currie personally. He's a great dude, gives back to the community, and is a total mad scientist. He has peppers waiting in the wings which put this one to shame!
Exactly right. Funny thing is he’s had Pepper X waiting for just such an event, but decided to release it anyway because nobody could beat the reaper. But they were getting close, so time to pull ahead again.
Republicans voted by a narrow margin on Wednesday to nominate Scalise to replace McCarthy, but several lawmakers said after the closed-door meeting that they would not vote for him on the House floor. The number of hold-outs grew over the next 24 hours, making it clear that Scalise was nowhere close to securing the 217 votes he...
Comparing current LLMs to the ENIAC is thought-provoking; I understand the eagerness to extrapolate in that direction. That being said, I don't think it will be linear or even logarithmic in progress. The current state of computing and technological advancement has become:
Initial introduction or release
Major hype and influx of greed money. <- we are here
Failure to live up to the hype, resulting in the tech becoming a punchline and gobs of money lost
Renaissance of the tech as its true potential is eventually realized, which doesn't match the original hype but ends up very useful
Iteration and improvement with no clear "done" or "achieved" milestone, it just becomes part of society
So cool. We are on the cusp of very interesting times in exploration again.
Bennu's exterior were so loosely packed that if a person were to step onto the surface, they might sink in, much like a pit of plastic balls in children's play areas.
No they wouldn't, that thing barely as any gravity and that's why it's so loosely packed. But the visual is fun. Galactic ball pit!
"Circumstantial Evidence"... yeah. The circumstance is that South Carolina is extremely racist (I live here) and the congresswoman who drew this map is extremely racist. The same shit was just proven racist in ALABAMA of all places... but not here? Unreal.
Yeah the genie is already waaaay out of the bottle in the US. It would be logistically impossible to get rid of guns, nice as that would be. This is something both extremes refuse to accept, because they wouldn't have a cause or solution to rally around. No, Bubba, nobody's going to take your guns. No Stewart, we can't just ban guns and wash our hands of it. Other countries have indeed mostly eradicated firearms in normal society, but nowhere near on the scale that the US has.
I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever....
A few years ago, the Lemmy Developers decided to keep their political views on lemmygrad while keeping lemmy.ml more neutral. Now they are banning users who are critical of their actions and bigotry....
Now that Medium has fully enshittified, and Substack is well on its way, where can I publish for free with good discoverability and no paywall? I've considered starting my own blog site using a static site generator, but I figured I'd get people's thoughts prior to doing that. Thanks!
The new world's hottest pepper, Pepper X, is 3 times spicier than its predecessor (www.npr.org)
Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company in South Carolina said his team stabilized Pepper X about a decade ago, but only released it now because no one had been able to beat his previous record.
Something weird going on at DuckDuck… (beehaw.org)
The Intercept conservative?! The Nation conservative?! What gives? https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/17db21e0-7037-4d77-b3fd-fa7b958a3432.webp
Time to go (www.reuters.com)
Who could have foreseen such an outcome?
[DALLE] An unforgettable luncheon (lemmy.world)
Scalise Bows Out of Speaker Race, Slams Reps. With 'Own Agendas' (www.rollingstone.com)
Republicans voted by a narrow margin on Wednesday to nominate Scalise to replace McCarthy, but several lawmakers said after the closed-door meeting that they would not vote for him on the House floor. The number of hold-outs grew over the next 24 hours, making it clear that Scalise was nowhere close to securing the 217 votes he...
Are there any kbin instances which are up to date with the source code?
I know Ernest is working on getting ready to update kbin.social but are there any other instances which are faster with the bug fixes and updates?
Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here | NOEMA (www.noemamag.com)
First Look at Pristine Asteroid Dust Reveals Abundance of Water And Carbon (www.sciencealert.com)
Supreme Court likely to side with South Carolina GOP in racial gerrymandering case (www.politico.com)
A lower court had ruled that the state’s Republican-drawn map was a racial gerrymander.
What popular quote are you tired of hearing?
Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it
Megapost: House Speaker vote:
So here we go again…...
Please, do not use Brave.
I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever....
The Lemmy Developers are now personally blocking and banning users and communities critical of Tankies and the Developers. (sh.itjust.works)
A few years ago, the Lemmy Developers decided to keep their political views on lemmygrad while keeping lemmy.ml more neutral. Now they are banning users who are critical of their actions and bigotry....
#justfediversethings (sh.itjust.works)
I would not mind having a third eye, would you? (sh.itjust.works)
What kind of stew do you have today? (sh.itjust.works)
OC What do people use to start a blog nowadays?
Now that Medium has fully enshittified, and Substack is well on its way, where can I publish for free with good discoverability and no paywall? I've considered starting my own blog site using a static site generator, but I figured I'd get people's thoughts prior to doing that. Thanks!
OC The three types of Android users.