Yeah, it’ll be cool when AI is more publicly accessible though.

Until then we can keep playing pretend with Markov chains…again. But at least we’re a bit faster at running them now than back in 1905.

Yeah, I dunno. I reckon you’re a husky owner who, whether you realise it or not, naturally fits with these kinds of breeds.

Spitz working dogs can (and honestly should) be a nightmare for the average household. But it’s fairly easy to meet their needs, and when they’re met, hey’re hands down the most loyal, intelligent, and rewarding dogs you can have. Don’t sell yourself short, I reckon you’re not lucky, you’re just a good husky owner.

The problem for huskies is they’re seen as the easy-access “cool wolf” looking dog. People don’t realise they’re part of a seriously wild working breed and forget their brains need constant challenges and proper jobs to do —, otherwise, they’ll go and invent their own.

I get a lot of praise for my lappies. People think their behaviour comes out of the box like that. Nooooope.They’re constantly given jobs and challenges. The enrichment from this is why they’re so well behaved and focused.

Edit: Also, can’t help myself…

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No.

You can try get my Lapphunds inside if you want, they’ll just let themselves back outside to sleep in the snow all night. Huskies are no different.

My breed, and I would guess NA snow breeds are good to about -35C as well, or not far off. My dogs really start getting a pep in their step below -5. If there’s no snow, they’ll seek out concrete. Almost never do they use their beds.

It’s about half a million active users. So, yeah, a tiny city’s worth.

Though things often start snowballing this way and Windows 10 end of life is likely see see a jump.

I dunno. I view my dogs as companions. Yeah, they need me to look after.them like they’re children, but I need them to take care of me in the wilderness, protect the house, cheer me up, entertain guests, tow me on the longboard.

There’s no association with them and a human child for me. If anything dog ownership has shifted my mentality into the symbiotic relationship of a pack. I think being stuck thinking of them as children would make for some very miserable times and bad behaviour from both the owner and the dog.

Especially when the worst that could happen is nothing which is exactly what’s going to happen if OP says no. Literally can’t go backwards no matter what, but it’s possible they could go forward.

Well…unless something psycho happens, I guess. Then OP will suffer greatly, go very backward, traumatised for life etc. etc. etc…

Nah, they’ll be fiiiine.

Well, ackshually…

Eh, I can’t be bothered looking it up, but knot theory in mathematics, we’re at like 56M combinations or some insane number possibly many millions above or below that.

It’s a weirdly interesting area of mathematics lol

I’ve done similar before and was still blown away by the bad data.

Somewhat unrelated, but still a hell of a story in the power of human input into data…

Working in the healthcare industry during COVID, federal law had 18,000 of our employees required to submit proof of vaccination to continue working in our hospitals and clinics. All they had to do was get their vaccination certificate PDF off the government website, type in their staff number, and upload the form, we then submit this information as the employer to confirm that these people do indeed work for us and are safe to continue doing so.

56% managed to do it. The rest were all sorts of shit. Most common were people that took photos of their computer screen, converted the photo to PDF, and uploaded that. Next most common was people print the PDF, scan it, then upload the scan PDF.

We had thought of everything to make a simple download then upload as easy as possible, including a 3 step video, and yet they went above and beyond in unimaginable ways. The people that genuinely didn’t know what to do hit the support link so they could be guided through it and did things perfectly in a couple mins—the self-confessed computer illiterate people were not a problem at all.

Thanks to training a form detection bot, I got it down to under 2000 remaining in a day, and the looming threat of “You have to do this or we can’t legally give you work and pay you until you do” quickly sorted out the rest.

People will ALWAYS fuck things up in ways you’ve never thought of before. Reading the short, clear, and user friendly instructions for the simple job doesn’t work and they’ll get angry that something went wrong, every fucking time.

It’s a testament that no one’s been hurt by AI generated recipes yet. Even our dumbest aren’t that dumb.

“Wait a second… Ya know what? I don’t think 5W40 is canola.”

That’s true…

Dick Tracy then!

Technically Tintin…? 🤣

A character doesn’t need superpowers to be interesting. People can enjoy the Punisher despite him being “just a guy who shoots people with a gun” in the same way people enjoy “John Wick”, Judge Dredd, “Taken”, Jason Bourne, “Die Hard”, or any movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

How did you get through all of that without pointing out Batman?

And the hippie mums dig it.

My first thought is its not the microwave unless they’re multitasking TV dinners and League of Legends a few times each evening.

I just got this hunch it’s something like clogged channels or something, but OP thinks a microwave just sitting there is the issue. But that seems just as unusual.

Because it’s like the US. Well-known, but when stacked up against other browsers, not really good at anything, pretty shit at a lot of things, and certainly more old in the way it goes about doing it all. Then there’s Mozilla’s behaviour which is like a drunken parent at times.

But in many people’s minds there is only Chrome and Firefox, and they see all the cool kids hate Chrome, therefore Firefox is the best.

I don’t understand why people are still using Firefox.

When I was competing in climbing I knew I’d do well and just wanted to have fun. I didn’t think about others beyond seeing if I’m friends with anyone in my next group.

This has been the case in everything I’ve competed in. Never noticed anyone stressed, just really focused.

Online cat owners remund me of Pearl Jam - Betterman.

They’re so deep in a toxic relationship, they overcome it by saying the bad behaviour is cute and that’s as good as they deserve.

Edit: Every downvote is an upvote for Stockholm Syndrome. The felines have you under control and now you do what they meowed you.

In Mass Effect, it’s VI (Virtual Intelligence), while actual AI is banned in the galaxy.

The information kiosk VIs on The Citadel are literally LLMs and explain themselves as such. Unlike AI/AGI they aren’t able to plan, make decisions, or self-improve, they’re just a simple protocol on a large foundational model. They just algorithmic.

Simulated Intelligence is okay, but virtual implies it mimics intelligence, while simulated implies it is a substitute and actually does intelligence.

Mine’s 35. 40 is illegal unless you’re a medical doctor. And legally I have to be paid overtime for every minute over but it’s my choice.

They are characteristically similar some times…