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Not only is it a "box of numbers", it's based on statistics, not a "hard" model of computation. Basically guessing future words based on past words that went together.

If it's saying something like "you are right" it's because it's guessing that that's the desired output. Now of course, some app providers have added some extra sauce (probably more tradition "expert system" AI techniques + integrated web search) to try make the chatbots more objective and rely less on pure LLM-driven prediction, but fundamentally these things are word prediction machines.


I bet everyone around the world is glad that Canada decided virtue signalling is more important than exporting LNG and oil.

Because trans men have no advantage in men's sport, whereas trans females do. It's not even about trans people at all, it's about preserving fairness in women's sports.

Before trans issues were widespread in culture, intersex athletes were also scrutinized. Hell, I remember when people were questioning whether having a testicle removed gave Lance Armstrong an advantage...


Or defenestrate...

I love that the existence of this word implies being thrown out of a window was so common it required its own word

People used to empty chamber pots by throwing them out the window.

A uniquely... English word, that.


Also used in Italian and presumably in many other languages.

Like with any word, it's use in colloquial form may vary from generation to generation, from subculture to subculture etc


Not at all. It's just the Latin prefix "de" (out of) plus "fenester" meaning window. Not an English word except by borrowing.

The joke was that [to my then knowledge] it's not used in Romance languages, but it is used in English.

Is it? I know of that word in at least 3 languages.

> It’s crazy that Hegseth has a Christian nationalist tattoo on his chest

Who on earth thinks a Jerusalem cross is a "Christian nationalist" symbol?

https://www.pieceofholyland.com/blogs/christian-articles/the...

Edit - to respond to some of the replies all at once:

- German swastika is literally a different symbol than Buddhist and Hindu swastikas

- If Hegseth is actually proclaiming he's an extremist maybe use that proclamation as evidence rather than demonising a cross motif that existed nearly a millennia before the United States

- And whoever thinks the crusades were about slaughtering non-believers seems to not know anything about history, Jerusalem was Christian for centuries before Mohammed was even born and the Muslims were the invaders...

- It's extremely hypocritical to call Christian symbols "extremist" or whatever while giving a pass to symbols from a certain other religion that's particularly fond of conquest and has conquered significantly more previously Christian regions than the reverse...


I don't know much about the Kingdom of Jerusalem per se, but even today many Jews say prayers specifically written after the Crusades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland_massacres So the symbols of "hope and triumph of establishing Christianity in the Holy Land" do not evoke particularly positive connotations, even aside from the usual modern opposition to that particular mission.

Hegseth thinks that.

The shooter who committed the 2019 New Zealand mosque massacre thought that.

Fellow members and leaders of Hegseth's National Guard unit thought that.

Crusader symbols in general have grown popular with many far-right nationalists, who see the imagery as a nod to an era of European Christian wars against Muslims and Jews.

Contemporary usage of symbols is often at odds with and regardless of any historic original back story and meaning.

Of possible interest: https://religionunplugged.com/news/pete-hegseth-trumps-defen...

and: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/pete-hegseth-christian-national...

Addendum:

> If Hegseth is actually proclaiming he's an extremist ...

Nope, he's always banging on about being a Proud, Patriotic, American, Christian, Nationalist. I can't say I've ever heard him proclaim himself to be an extremist ... save perhaps in the extreme love of God and America he professes to have. You can hear him Capitalise the words as he spits them forth.


Who on earth thinks the buddhist swastika is a German nationalist symbol? Oh, right, everyone who saw Nazis use it. Turns out that when one group uses a symbol to represent themselves, that symbol becomes associated with them. Go figure.

In this case it's not even "a symbol represents who it is used by". You literally linked to an article that espouses about how it's a symbol of the Crusades, i.e. united Christendom coming together to slaughter non-believers, in other words it has always been a symbol of hatred.


> Same for Zig, Odin, C3 etc

Not a game but similar in terms of programming, all of JangaFX's products (which do very impressive visual effects in real time) are made with Odin.

Yes, it's perhaps easier to glue C++ libs together but C libraries are enough for doing graphics and games.


> Which means among other things that they didn't have the capacity to sustain manifest v2 while Google pushed the browser into v3.

No but they did build an ad-blocker right into the browser so the main reason people were against the change doesn't really matter any more.


Eh it's got a lot going on... UI has way more features, it's got a built-in ad-blocker, email client, etc...

Vivaldi is the new Opera (literally same founder), but Opera still exists as Chinese spyware.

I didn't really follow opera since Chinese buyout and migration to blink.

any real proof for the Chinese spyware statement? is it really bad?

is it better than Google spyware?


In Czech Republic they usually pour 3 fingers of head. But the measure line is also part way down the glass, the foam all above the line...

You could get a pint of nothing but head as well, if you wanted.

In Spain they try to create the head by dumping the beer in the glass, Guinness style, and letting it excessively foam up. So it's half flat and half full.


> You could get a pint of nothing but head as well, if you wanted.

True but a mlíko pour is a special request and usually cheaper.


Same in Germany. In Belgium, the glasses don't have a line and they don't fill them to the brim neither! The only thing that prevents pubs from cheating you out of some of your beer is their reputation. And to be honest, I sometimes had doubts about getting all that I paid for.

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