So put an SQLite database on a Luks-encrypted partition or a Luks-encrypted filesystem in a file.

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I mean, what do you think of Steve Martin? I don’t know about you, but I think he’s one wild and crazy guy.

Yeah, ok. I’ll concede Betterhelp too.

Exactly. Day 2. ;)

Firefox, Plex, and VPNs I can understand being surprised about. But the rest of them… I mean of course they were going to milk you for money. Was there ever a time when any of those didn’t?

Hold my beer.

Maybe they matched the donut placement to the sign. Did you ever think of that?

Yes. If there’s any one thing that pisses me off about the latest “AI” bubble, it may be that… AI has been around for decades, and has been useful for decades while this “GenAI” scam BS is taking center stage.

I took a course in college named “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” in like 2005. In that course, I learned about the A* algorithm which is used among other purposes by games to let NPC’s navigate from point A to point B potentially around obstacles or over terrain of different passability. That shit is genuinely useful and bears no resemblence to LLMs or Stable Diffusion. And yet it was called “AI” back in… like the 1960s and was still called “AI” in 2005. Probably still is in college courses around the world.

Now, I haven’t read the article, but I’d have to hope nobody put too much blind faith in the AI’s output here. But the right tools in the hands of sufficiently well-educated scientists, be they called “AI” or not, can certainly assist in things like drug development.

Oh, also, you can call just about anything that’s done with code “AI” even if it really has nothing to do with artificial intelligence. My employer was fairly recently sold an automated customer service tool by a big, well-known software vendor that another team I work distantly with had to configure/program, every step from soup to nuts. (There was absolutely no machine learning involved or anything like that. This other team had to decide all the flows the customers could go through.) But you can bet your ass you couldn’t read any three consecutive words in any of their marketing materials about it without at least one of the three being “AI”.

I’m sure there are microwave ovens no more sophisticated than the one I have (spoiler: it’s the dumbest microwave oven I could find) that are being marketed with the term “AI”.

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maybe…

You’re not wrong.

Definitely one of the scarier creatures in D&D, at least accounting for hit dice.

I kinda want to put it in a D&D campaign. Maybe an evil druid makes a magical device that births an army of evil treants or redcaps or something.

Can you define your terms a bit? What do you mean by “range” and “angle-range?” Also, if you’re taking about angles, angles relative to what in particular? (Maybe relative to the line segment connecting the centers of the two circles? Relative to a tangent of one of the circles at the point of intersection?) Are you looking to solve this only for the case where the two circles have equal radii, or for the more general case where their radii may be unequal?

Also, I’ll assume Euclidian space here. Non-Euclidian isn’t my forte. I guess, though, to say I know nothing about it would be a bit hyperbolic.

Why isn’t that common to cover with a blanket other parts of our body when we feel cold, like the belly or lower back?

It… is?

Your post is all over the place with like 3 different unrelated topics.

The 30k thing is great for you, and maybe a coincidence. (You didn’t make it clear.) But I assure you syncronicities aren’t unique to your faith.

And I have no idea what that has to do with the meeting or the bible verse you referenced.

What are the chances of two separate gender reveal parties happening simultaneously using the same exact means of displaying blue/pink in the same apartment building exactly one apartment directly above the other?

Also, it bothers me way more than it should that on the middle one, the arrow goes from the movie frame to the window and the other two are the other way around.

Anyone else read the post title in Contrapoints’ voice?

One could make a community named “Anon Posting” or something, lock it so only a mod can post, and then make the sole mod a bot that would post anything it got via DM (probably after automoding, rate limiting, etc) to said community.

I do think it’s a good idea for the bot to keep a log in case it gets abused for sufficiently evil purposes. One could add some extra functionality to the bot that would give identifying information about the poster to instance admins on demand (via DM), but I think instance admins would have pretty easy access to all DMs made to the bot, along with identifying information anyway. (Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong on that.)

Also, the bot could totally delete its logs and with them the identities of all posters after a while. Maybe a month?

And, of course, this wouldn’t be ironclad anonymity. But it would keep identities secret from anyone but the bot maintainer and instance admins.

Yeah, sounds like a pretty cool concept. Not volunteering to write such a bot (at least any time soon) or anything, but I support it.

I don’t know anything about Pokemon canon, but you know LoZ has bomb flowers, yeah? In some games there’s no such thing as a “bomb” that’s distinct from a bomb flower.