This actually fairly well answers the questions on how would centaurs wear pants. Just the back legs.

Dang, I used to have so many Juno disks. What a flashback.

Well, if you ever find yourself in Portland, OR I’ll buy you a beer. Nice of you to do that without any credit. Truly the lord’s work.

I’ve heard from multiple places that the text of the bill has some pretty big drawbacks, specifically enough that the governor has come out against it. I can understand the impact to businesses but it has such clear social benefits.

If the text is bad, let the legislatures pass an amendment or a new measure for us to vote on. They bungled the drug decriminalization rollout so I’m not ready to let them kill another good policy. I refuse to throw in the towel on progressive policies. Let’s do referendums every year and force the change the people or Oregon want.

For those who haven’t read it:

Jazz hands, bitches!

That’s all you get.

Everybody in this thread needs to read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

Exactly how would carbon dioxide get exchanged if the lungs are damaged?

RIP Captain

It is not some big conspiracy.

Wired headphones have many pros, but also many cons. Wireless headphones have many pros, but also many cons. You can still buy wired headphones for modern phones using USB-C.

The vast majority of people literally don’t care or prefer having wireless air buds. The people who don’t, still can have wired ones.

The major distinction is that the headphone jack is large and not easily waterproofed. The trade off of having a sealed water tight phone at the cost of losing the headphone jack is worth it for the vast majority of people. It is worth it to me.

If you don’t like it, go buy a Zune.

Using your own WiFi router also bypasses the wireless security settings to access the school network.

Some resources are only available while on the network (printers, access to library, academic papers, other student hardware). Now imagine a random person in a coffee shop next door had u limited access to these resources via an unmanaged access point.

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For cutting up RATs on the runway.

Why stop there, here is a much better picture for primal fear response: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27426933

I refuse to put anything on my phone, she as naked as the day I got her.

It takes 8 minutes for the light to travel from the sun to Earth. Because light in a vacuum travels faster than anything, including information, we would not and could not know it had disappeared for 8 minutes. This means Earth would continue to follow its orbit around a non-existent sun for 8 minutes because the Sun’s gravity would still be acting on the Earth.

If it was nighttime, you wouldn’t notice the sudden lack of sunlight (other than if it was a full moon) but you’d almost certainly notice the change in gravity.

Edit: actually, you wouldn’t feel any difference in gravity or experience any change of acceleration. What you would experience is a very tiny vibration, of 1 million push notifications being sent to your phone from the other side of the planet.

Fundamentals: Intel powers the US military industrial complex, they’ll weather this storm.

Yep, and Llama 3.1 just came out, which is the most open state-of-the-art LLM out right now.

More of a murder on the dance floor.

I agree, the speculative execution failure feels like the start of the bad times for modern Intel.

Reinforcement learning is a machine learning (ML) technique (“AI” in layman terms) for optimizing neural networks and other types of non-linear models.

As far as ML math goes, this is fairly tame. It looks complicated, but is spelled out clearly in the paper. A lot of these kind of theoretical papers — things that would get published in Automatica — are going to lean very heavy on math.

Source: PhD in Computer Science with dissertation using neural networks.