The Ramen Dutchman

I mean really, fuck Microsoft and Windows!

This was wonderful, thanks for sharing The Bard in Gree… A- Are you a kobold or three, perhaps?

Is there more of this?

What’s this from?

I feel like this is an XKCD…

I miss Reddit switcharoo rabbit holes.

I don’t think that’s what’s happening, here.

This is more as if there are mods for a game engine, and loads of people think the mods are made for one game specifically even though they work on any game using that engine. That would grind my gears as well, to be honest.

Yeah, I’d also like the original art without text over it!

EDIT this is the oldest similar version TinEye could find me, but I couldn’t find the credit along with it.

Salt is worth 5cp per pound in D&D 2025 (a source)

I wouldn’t lose my salt over that.

I know some jewellers in my neighbourhood can:

1. Shut the metal, anti-theft blinds in front of the door and windows
2. Notify the police

With a single button or switch under the counter-top.

I could borrow that in a TTRPG set in modern times or some Sci-Fi future. It could work in a medieval setting as a kind of magic trap.

“Sleeping to regain hit points, multiple times a day, even when in a high speed chase” is up there for me.

Loomer is not a very credible source…

Also, you could’ve been much nicer about this. There was no need for you to insult people over this.

I would say it’s a good example of a bad use-case for an LLM; you don’t have sources, and you can’t fact-check anything. Those two are absolutely vital requirements when claiming something as true.

Aside from that, most generative AI have been trained on vast amounts of data that was never allowed to go into the dataset; copyrighted/IP-righted paintings, articles, comics, and novels have been included against the wishes of the artists/authors. The fact that nothing is being done on a legal system level shows that copyright and IP rights clearly do not apply to American oligarchs, and many of us don’t like that. Most generative AIs also need an absurd amount of power to run and hurt the environment a lot. It sucks to separate paper and plastic waste just to know that there are people blasting through an hour worth of airconditioning just to ask a computer something they could’ve looked up instead (and found sources, too!)

I say this as someone who loves using AI and experimenting with it¹: This was a very bad use-case of generative AI.

¹: although lighter ones and locally like Mistral, using open datasets like OpenOrca

I do think they couldn’t catch the killer, and they needed a scapegoat just to make an example out of someone.

No need to track down your scapegoat; especially not when you just found someone’s cringy but fitting manifesto online.

Looking it up, there’s a discussion on Framework’s Discourse, but nothing shipping yet.

The best hope at the moment is to buy and connect an LTE M.2 key card that connects over USB-A, which would work on any laptop, come to think of it.

Hold up, there are third-party SIM card expansions‽

I don’t have a Framework laptop (yet) but once I’ve got the money together I really want one!

I would guess that if you go province by province, state by state, territory by territory, you can probably find others with very high gun ownership rates.

Well, yes, the Falkland Islands.

Out of the completely sovereign countries, Yemen would be second place, though the US more-than-doubles their gun ownership per 100 civilians indeed.
Now, Falkland Islands and Yemen also have far, far fewer guns than the US; their high gun ownership comes in part from their small population.
India and China rank second and third in total guns owned by civilians, but purely through their sheer population. Gun ownership per 100 civilians ranks low in China (3.6%) and so-so in India (5.3%).

Don’t get me wrong, the fact that the US only barely doesn’t double some tiny territory’s gun ownership by population, still speaks volumes for the US’s insane level of gun ownership!

As a Mint user, you got me worried about the community I’m in (^^;

Not exactly an “outlet” but a place that was closed down for excessive fecal bacteria…to which he disagreed.

He disagreed with the fecal bacteria? I mean, whatever floats his boat, but they’re going to infect him anyway.

Or calories on packaging.

Or inches in Europe when talking about a screen from S. Korea, which was designed in cm to begin with.