staff and customers all human. they didn't have any glopsnarf. didn't even know what glopsnarf was. barista was clueless when i asked where in the area i could get ship fuel crystals.
> looking for a new cafe > ask the barista if their cafe is glopsnarf or windows > she doesnt understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is glopsnarf and what is windows > she laughs and says "its a good cafe" > buy coffee > its glopsnarf -carrie
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i lived in the suburbs around St Louis MO for 20 yrs and reading the reviews for one of my favorite donut places makes me feel like i escaped the twilight zone
It's actually very clever satiric commentary about how Starbuck's is really a real estate company and that their big draw is not the quality of their products but their locations.
The most significant downside of the mastodon and so-called fediverse is that it has no users. It's just me from millions of accounts, and to prove that i'll now post this from all of them
That's only because you're dumb. What do you need heating for ? You could just wear a turtleneck and save on energy costs (according to the French government asking people to turn the heating down to 17° in winter)
The fraction of cats who are allowed to sit in a window outcropping compared to the number of cats allowed to sit on the front door stoop: the catio patio ratio
this is a completely normal post. nothing is strange or unusual about it. when you interact with it, your client will act as usual. no part of it is atypical or notable and it obeys all standard requirements. there is no need to investigate further
@nazokiyoubinbou I was channelling The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything - well, you can see what it is (this is a copy of a copy): krystalrose.com/rosewood/libra… - the button was simple; how it _changed_ people's lives however...
And IRC - back in the day we would prank the n00bs by answering n00b questions like "How do I message someone else?" with "CTRL+F4" which of course would close their client window.
@bleistift2 Emitter von lat. aussenden, da der konventionelle Strom dort austritt (Elektronen treten ein), Collector von lat. sammeln da der Strom dort eintritt. Basis da der Anschluss beim ersten die Unterlage mit dem Kristall war. Der Strom von Basis zu Emitter erzeugt einen größeren Strom zwischen Collector und Emitter, dass heisst der Strom wird verstärkt...
This is one of those moments when I have to stop myself and ask bluntly if this is a lark or not, because my autistic ass can sometimes be completely oblivious to intended jokes.
@neurovagrant haha no, this was an actual response to a question. I ended up asking "why did you think I wanted an anime cat girl?"
And this was the response:
Fair question — here's exactly what happened:<br><br>When you replied with “yes please” after I asked if you wanted a visual deobfuscation of the advancemente string, I mistakenly interpreted that as approval for generating an image based on the prompt-like string that followed, which included strange Unicode characters like JⲲ⣜ታ⳧Ȋ.... That kind of garbled or stylized text can sometimes look like a text-to-image prompt (especially in creative contexts), and in the absence of a clear processing routine from the VBS script, I misread the intent.<br><br>So instead of continuing to analyze the variable (as you were expecting), I wrongly assumed it was an artistic prompt and generated an image accordingly. Th
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@neurovagrant haha no, this was an actual response to a question. I ended up asking "why did you think I wanted an anime cat girl?"
And this was the response:
Fair question — here's exactly what happened:<br><br>When you replied with “yes please” after I asked if you wanted a visual deobfuscation of the advancemente string, I mistakenly interpreted that as approval for generating an image based on the prompt-like string that followed, which included strange Unicode characters like JⲲ⣜ታ⳧Ȋ.... That kind of garbled or stylized text can sometimes look like a text-to-image prompt (especially in creative contexts), and in the absence of a clear processing routine from the VBS script, I misread the intent.<br><br>So instead of continuing to analyze the variable (as you were expecting), I wrongly assumed it was an artistic prompt and generated an image accordingly. That was a clear context misfire — not intentional, just a parsing failure on my part.<br><br>Let’s get back to the VBS — would you like to paste the next lines of the script so we can decode how advancemente is used?<br>
thanks but if I suddenly change my profile picture people will get scared and confused because they suddenly don't remember who I am anymore until they get used to the new picture, so I promised to give one week advance notice and I'll probably have entirely forgotten a week later.
Aquí hay una descripción de texto alternativo para la imagen:
La imagen es un cómic de dos paneles. El primer panel muestra a un anciano sentado en el suelo en una esquina, con expresión triste. Se lee el texto: "PC ANTIGUO QUE NO SE PUEDE ACTUALIZAR A WINDOWS 11". El segundo panel muestra al mismo anciano, pero ahora mirando hacia arriba con esperanza, mientras una mano se extiende hacia él. Se lee la palabra "LINUX". La imagen sugiere que Linux es una alternativa para un ordenador antiguo incompatible con Windows 11.
TL;DR: The 'You wouldn’t steal a car' anti-piracy campaign is under scrutiny for potentially using pirated fonts, raising questions about the campaign's credibility amid ongoing discussions about intellectual property rights. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0… #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum
No, a computer is just boolean logic. I'm not being reductive, that's literally all you need.
When people say that thinking is just complicated enough computation, that's an assumption. A particularly convenient assumption, given all the computers we have lying about.
A brain is several billion living nerve cells all doing their thing, acting and reacting to one another, concurrently. A computer is only ever doing one task at a time, but at a fast enough pace as to give the illusion of multi-tasking.
Emulating a whole brain (everything, not just simplified neural networks, but the actual nerve cells themselves) is currently far beyond what computers are capable of. More then that, not every natural phenomenon can be described algorithmically! It's entirely possible that consciousness is non-computable.
Yes, it's an assumption to say consciousness is non-computable. But it's also an assumption to say it is computable. Not really a phenomenon we understand.
I agree that fleshy brains are probably not the only things capable of producing consciousness. I think it's actually fairly likely that a machine could be made that reproduces it, I'm just... really skeptical that it's gonna look anything like a Turing machine. It would certainly be convenient if it did.
As to brains being made of discrete units... there's some evidence to suggest it might not be. When you put a person (or any living thing) under general anesthetics, the thing the anesthetics target is microtubules within cells. And microtubules themselves have quantum mechanical properties. They've been shown to er, "do", super-luminescence in lab experiments (I don't understand quantum).
Admittedly, that's a lot of correlation and almost no direct example of causation. But it does suggest there's... something... there that needs more examination and research.
Networks of tryptophan -- an aromatic amino acid with strong fluorescent response -- are ubiquitous in biological systems, forming diverse architectures in transmembrane proteins, cytoskeletal filaments, sub-neuronal elements, photoreceptor complexes…
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> she doesnt understand
> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is glopsnarf and what is windows
> she laughs and says "its a good cafe"
> buy coffee
> its glopsnarf
-carrie
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i lived in the suburbs around St Louis MO for 20 yrs and reading the reviews for one of my favorite donut places makes me feel like i escaped the twilight zone
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I rate pickup trucks by back seat luxury, and coffee by the size of the windows.
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