Why bother with that? If you need shoes to dissolve, regardless of the materials, just subject them to my foot sweat for a few months.

It’s not the reviewer’s fault! When they asked ChatGPT to peer review the paper it found nothing wrong.

I’ve never thought about this exactly, but I bet there are a lot of planets with 30 month years when compared to Earth’s orbit of the sun.

AI as sovereign citizen legal council! Finally, a use in the legal field that thrives on hallucinations!

Only if the ad was sexually transmitted.

That’s fair. I didn’t mean to imply anything about the drug use.

The way OP views the world reminds me of how I see things when I am experiencing certain depression symptoms. I tend to filter my view of the world so that only the negative things are true, and it makes it harder to do anything positive in my life.

When my symptoms let up, either through treatment or sometimes on their own, I can still see the negatives but they’re there with a lot of positives, too.

If OP does have depression, it’s possible that treating it in a more effective way would be the answer to their question.

Have you considered that you might be self medicating depression rather than getting high?

Maybe a professional could help more than anyone on lemmy?

But they said I wouldn’t have to tip if they got rid of the humans!

How the car is going to buzz into my building, take the elevator, and deliver to my front door is beyond me. Technology is amazing!

City.

I want to be able to surround myself with a variety of people and cultures, while also being able to surround myself with the community that makes me feel welcome.

Growing up gay in a rural town that was relatively progressive was still a nightmare, and the town’s best feature for me was the commuter train that took me to the closest big city.

I love having access to basically everything relatively easily and I love having a multitude of options for all the things I have access to. Small towns can’t provide that.

I also hate yards, though gardens are nice.

So yeah, for me while I have found some small towns I could make work, I would always be giving up things that I value to do so. Big cities are the best, and smaller cities can be good, too, but I’m a city boy through and through.

For me the important difference between the two isn’t just a zoning problem, it’s a people problem.

Small towns, like the one I grew up in, even ones that are comparatively progressive, are still a nightmare for anyone who doesn’t fit in with the community norm.

Big cities let people find their community because therefore a lot of different ones to try.

This doesn’t go away with different planning or by fucking cars or whatever the kids are into these days.

It’s all about girth!

I would parade the cheaters through town naked while ringing a bell and saying “shame” over and over again.

Or just give them a 0 for the assignment if I had evidence of cheating.

Not being able to solve a problem in class that they could solve at home is not evidence of cheating. Neither is not showing your work on hard problems, especially in the take home format where students could not only use other resources, but other sheets of paper, if they wanted.

If showing all your work is required for answers, then I would have clearly stated that prior to giving the students any work and remind them before all tests to do so.

If you are sending take home tests over a vacation, you also need to, as a teacher, clearly define what is and isn’t cheating if it’s not defined in your syllabus.

As the teacher it’s your job to set the requirements and boundaries clearly, and not be reactionary when you’ve failed to do so.

It’s unclear from your description if you gave proper guidelines on all of this, but it does seem like you didn’t set up the requirement of “show your work, or I will accuse you of cheating without any evidence,” so I would prepare to get much deserved backlash from this.

Getting the problem wrong on the board isn’t evidence of cheating, but it might be evidence that you need to cover that subject in more depth for the students. Learning is the point after all, not test scores and your pride.

I agree from a general fuck lawns perspective. I hope to never rake another leaf or mow another blade of grass in my life.

In the context of my argument, though, I’m complaining about the propaganda tactic involved. They’re manipulating the public by using a subject that brings up outrage already (lawns are bad is part of it, but the bigger part is pitting the poor against the not as poor but definitely not really wealthy) in order to draw attention away from the real issue.

In California only 10% of our water use is by consumers. A ridiculous amount of our water goes into crops that we sell to China allowing those farms to turn our water into massive profits!

During droughts here our leaders tell us to not take long showers and to not flush as often. They even pushed restaurants to stop serving water without being asked first.

And you see lots of stories about the horrible homeowners who dare to water their lawns! Oh what a wonderful distraction from the issue that one is from the fact that no amount of consumer changes can make a difference and small restrictions on corporations would solve the problem entirely!

There are lots of medicines that can help, but none of them should be taken without working with professionals.

Please be careful pf taking any medical advice from strangers on the internet that isn’t “you need to talk with a licensed professional.”

Even suggesting diet and exercise and vitamin D can be harmful advice under the wrong circumstances.

Amusingly enough, no.

This was after Toy Story 3 released but before Brave.

When I worked at Pixar long ago an intern had a cron job that was intended to clean up his nightly build and ended up deleting everything on the network share for everyone!

Fortunately there were back-ups and it was fine, but that day was really hilariously annoying while they tracked down things disappearing.

And you’d end up using it almost exclusively to play Windows-based VR games through compatibility layers.

The part you’re calling “a hell of a stretch” is actually the reason LLMs work. It’s not a good text parser. It’s a great pattern matcher. And it matches patterns that aren’t obvious or intuitive.

Many of the listed uses are actually great for this type of tech.

In theory, because of the amount of data used, there should be matched patterns that would allow it to be used for psychological research. Replicating well known studies in that area with the tech is a good way to test that theory.

Using it as a first-line simulation might not be a bad idea as long as its followed up with a real study to validate the results.

We just need to make sure that humans are checking the work properly because, as you say, it’s not sentient, nor is it really capable of following a code, like the scientific method.

The real thing to fear is humans not doing their part out of greed, laziness, or malice.