Nice. This could be expanded to add Sheldon Cooper and Alec Hardison, as well.
Evil Wil Wheaton has made a lot of enemies.
Nice. This could be expanded to add Sheldon Cooper and Alec Hardison, as well.
Evil Wil Wheaton has made a lot of enemies.
Exactly. So there’s no way to measure the exact egg that was first born to a species we would not recognize as a chicken.
(Edit: Warning: Only bullshit meant to amuse and fascinate follows. I’ve been watching too much “SmartyPants” on DropOut.tv, where they try to make each-other laugh with serious sounding silly presenations.)
Further, we might each choose a different arbitrary egg and declare that eggs parent “not a chicken”.
But for this question, that doesn’t have to matter.
If we can all agree that something in the ancestry of the modern chicken was not a chicken, and agree that it was likely still birthed from an egg, then we can conclude that that egg came first.
Even if we cannot agree about which exact egg hatched into the first chicken, or which exact animal was the first chicken, we can agree on their relationship such that we can agree that any selected “first chicken egg” came before any selected “first chicken” to be born from it.
The hardest part of this proposition is whether we can agree that the first chicken was born inside an egg. I propose that it must have been, by our own definitioms, because we widely agree that chickens are born from eggs. Not by any intrinsic property, but simply by our accepted definition of the word “chicken”.
So any hypothetical chicken-ancestor we choose as the “first chicken”, but not born from an egg, we should not be willing to call “first chicken”, after all.
So we must proceed forward in time from that failed choice of “first chicken” until something sufficiently chicken-like is born from an egg. Then we can call that animal our “first chicken”, and examine it’s relationship to “chicken eggs”. We will, by our method of searching, always then find that the “chicken egg” that our “first chicken” hatched from, came first.
That’s a sell cue, for any shareholders reading along.
Ditto.
I’m nostalgic for Bonzi Buddy. That’s not something I thought I would say. He was a creepy lying spying bastard, but at least he was kind of useful. The modern Internet and App ecosystem isn’t as cute.
Oh! You meant Moore’s Law is asymptotic!?
Yes! That is key to the joke I was making.
When I say Big O, I’m talking about the slick jazzy anime about rejecting true love and living with heartbreak because we believe a lie about our own superiority. This is always true, no matter what the discussion context. If I happen to say anything remotely relevant to mathematical Big O, that is just a deeply weird coincidence.
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Write more robust code.
Sure, I could read a book about best practices and Big O…but…What if we just table the idea for a few iterations of Moore’s Law instead?
As a SteamDeck player, does this mean I can start saying I use Arch, by the way?
This gives off a strong “I have black friends.” vibe.
Yeah. That’s the difference people don’t seem to understand.
AI is perfect for stuff that’s just made up bullshit anyway.
I had a job like that early-ish in my career.
I taught myself so much random tech stuff while I was being ignored for 8 hours each day.
I still love that boss. They were great.
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I’m just realizing that’s probably how Miles emerges as a miracle worker in DS9.
But what if someone else’s government creates the Torment Nexus before ours can?!
Silence! Or we may wake it from “Normal” mode!
The arbitrary standard for the censorship in Fediverse is extremely bad.
“The pirates code… Be more like… guidelines.”
- Don’t truncate passwords for verification.
It needed to be said. Because some password system architects have been just that stupid.
Edit: Fear of other’s stupidity is the mind killer. I will face my fear. My fear will wash over me, and when it has passed, only I will remain. Or I’ll be dead in a car accident caused by an AI driver.
However useless and abandoned Xitter looks today, we must remember that it is full of bots whose sole job is to make it look less abandoned.
For any advertisers or Xitter users relying on “reach” reading along - however bad Xitter looks, it’s actually much worse.
Even though you’re just right, I want to give a little bit of defense of Picard’s quote:
I think the point he’s trying to make is that we can’t always know the outcomes of our choices, but we can at least examine whether we made the best choices available at the time.
My favorite is during
Knightfall
whenSpoiler for the start of Knightfall
Bane drops weapons into the outdoor workout area of Arkham from a helicopter, and then makes a hole in the outer wall with rockets.
I enjoyed the Nolanverse Bane, but he wasn’t anything like the level of ruthless evil bastard as comic book Bane.