It’s a Large Language Model designed to generate natural-sounding language based on statistical probabilities and patterns - not knowledge or understanding. It doesn’t “lie” and it doesn’t have the capability to explain itself. It just talks.

That speech being coherent is by design; the accuracy of the content is not.

This isn’t the model failing. It’s just being used for something it was never intended for.

Not all imperfections are created equal. I don’t worry about ridges because those sand away with few passes. It’s the parts with too little mud that I need to re-fill that I try to avoid.

There’s also the fact that the tool is 90 degrees but corners rarely are.

That whoever is going to be me

It is actually just as hard as it looks. Not only the act of plastering itself, but knowing which products to choose and how to use them correctly. It seems simple on the surface, but it’s an art in itself.

I love this.

I too hear all the sounds much more clearly now. Some of them sound quite expensive.

Thanks for the tip - I might give it a try. They seem to be selling a similar product in the local harware store. I use steel corner beads on outside corners but with inside corners I’ve just prefilled and then taped with paper tape just like all other joints.

I see. I don’t watch anime but that term made me thing of someone tall, fit and slender.

One day around 7 years ago I turned off the radio in my truck and I never turned it back on. I just sit in silence and I honestly prefer it that way.

Edit: to elaborate a little: I consider it almost like a meditative practice. I drive virtually every day, so this way I can quite easily force what I consider to be a healthy near-daily habit.

I do the same thing with my phone whenever I’m queuing.

I was in a relationship from 18 to 34. Now, for the first time in my entire adult life, I’m single instead of jumping straight into the next one.

No doubt there are things I miss about being in a relationship - and I still probably lean toward that being the ideal setup - but relationships have downsides too, just like being single has upsides.

I’m not sure what the final tally of that equation looks like, but every now and then I catch myself wondering whether I even need to be in a relationship at all. I spent most of my childhood practicing playing alone, and I got pretty damn good at it.

Is anime build the same as twink?

I sometimes get the sense that mob justice is less about actual justice and more about the rush of being part of the mob and finding some meaning in belonging to it.

It’s really not that different from piling onto someone for voicing a wrong opinion online - it’s just further down the same spectrum.

Nobody wants to be the one getting piled on, but man, it’s great to be in the pile with the rest of “my team.” Not to mention being the one who sparks the pile in the first place. That’ll make you feel powerful and validated like nothing else.

What do you even do on Instagram for 16 hours?

Starlink doesn’t work in Russia or in Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine. It does, however, work near the front lines - exactly where Ukrainians need it most. That’s why Russia has been able to use those terminals there, as well as on drones flying behind Ukrainian lines.

What changed now is that it got disabled across all of Ukraine - but Ukrainians are whitelisted and can register their terminals to get them working again. Russians can’t. They also disabled Starlink for anything moving faster than 70 km/h, since Shahed drones can’t fly that slow.

Wasn’t he trying to take that away from Ukraine at some point?

You’re probably refering to this incident: Did Elon Musk Turn Off Starlink Access in Crimea To Disrupt Ukrainian Attack?

No, he didn’t turn it off - it was never enabled in the first place so that Russians can’t use it.

You couldn’t really warn future civilizations about the dangers of a true Artificial General Intelligence - because there probably wouldn’t be any future civilizations.

And even that assumes the problem magically solves itself once humans disappear, which it wouldn’t. A real AGI would be perfectly capable of continuing to exist without us around.

Can we play Age of Empires after this?

You clearly weren’t using Knipex pliers.

I’ll start paying for YT before I ever start watching ads. I won’t as long as I don’t have to, but the second they finally figure this out, I’m subscribing.

It’s well worth the money considering how much I use it and for how long I’ve used it for free. It’s honestly one of the few streaming services actually worth paying for.