It’s the egg.

The way evolution works is that offspring might suffer mutations and not be 100% a copy of their parents DNA. As such, for any concrete definition of chicken there was a non-chicken that put a chicken egg.

There’s no argument for the chicken first, because a chicken needs to come from a chicken egg, but a chicken egg does not need to come from a chicken.

It’s not my favorite music, but a friend of mine recently passed away and I can’t get this music out of my head because we played it at his goodbye party when he went to live in another city. It’s in Portuguese and a music about goodbyes: Matanza - Tempo Ruim some rough translation below for those who don’t speak Portuguese:

Raise up your glasses for those about to leave

Long will be the road to follow

Nothing will be like it used to be, nothing will be easy for you

Don’t do the same that your father did

Don’t bring weapons where you’re going

So many I’ve seen paying to see, they didn’t had time to regret it.

Nothing you shouldn’t already know, there’s nothing you can’t have.

I wish the road always comes to you, and that the wind be ever in your favor. I wish you always have a beer on your hand and that you have your great love by your side.

I say goodbye to all of you, many here I will not see again.

Besides the winter and bad weather I don’t know what awaits me

But it doesn’t matter what it might be if some day I have someone to say:

I wish the road always comes to you, and that the wind be ever in your favor. I wish you always have a beer on your hand and that you have your great love by your side.

Since light cannot pass through a black hole does that mean light has mass?

No, it doesn’t. Light is a wave. What is the weight of a musical note?

Also why does light form a singularity in a black hole?

It doesn’t, the singularity is the name by which the actual mass of the black hole is known by. In short singularity is the mass in the middle, black hole is the phenomenon caused by that mass, but they’re mostly the same thing.

Is that like a fixed point on a map or something?

Sorta, think of a black hole like a drain emptying a huge pool, you can feel it sucking the water the closer you are to it. The singularity is the drain, but from the outside you can feel the water being pulled from much farther away, and that’s the black hole.

And can you travel to that fixed point after the black hole has its way with it?

What point? The singularity? No. That is the black hole, it’s like asking whether you can travel to the sun after the star had its way with it, you’re using two words that mean the same as if they were different things.

And if the velocity of a black hole is so intense that it exceeds the speed of light, then would that mean we have a new speed to consider?

Black holes don’t have any velocity, they just are. Think on the drain example I gave, the drain is not moving, but the water around it is.

If so can you explain what speed is that is faster than light?

No speed is faster than light. Again, light is a wave, not a physical object, imagine the drain again, you’re making ripples in the water, and you see that those ripples get near the drain and are “pulled down”, you might conclude that the ripples are attracted to the hole, but in reality it’s just that the medium they’re moving on (water) is being pulled into it and so ripples on that medium get dragged along.

You reminded me of a joke. In Brazil there are lots of jokes about Portuguese being dumb, kinda like blonde jokes. There’s one where the Portuguese says “Brazilians are way too naive, anything you tell them they believe you, I was in a cruise ship with one of them, I lied to him and told them I was gay, he believed me and spent the entire trip fucking me in the ass”

AI will not be able to replace intellectual workers, not as it is now anyways. The only people who think that either don’t understand the intellectual work or the LLMs.

For an AI to be able to do that it would need to be an AGI, which we’re not even close to. And if it gets created it’s not just intellectual workers that are at risk, in fact intellectual workers would be the last one to be replaced.

LLMs are a neat trick, they provide some usefulness and can be used to improve productivity. But the moment you give them any autonomy they will destroy everything. And that’s a core issue with the technology, LLMs don’t understand what they’re replying to, they’re just a word predicting machine. Expecting LLMs to do any form of intellectual work is akin to saying accountants will lose their jobs because calculators exist.

Huh, that one was different for me, it was:

Un elefante, se columpiaba(n), sobre la tela de una araña

Como veía, que resistía, fue(ron) a llamar a otro elefante

Dos elefantes…

You’re correct, I misread as “you can’t overpower technique” to mean good technique triumphs over brute strength. Yeah, her technique was good, I just stood up, she weighs less than half my body weight so no technique needed.

I’ve trained in lots of martial arts, this is one of those catch phrases people like to throw around a lot there, but it’s only true if you normalize for strength.

I remember a long while back my SiL went to some BJJ classes, and she was going on and on about how it was great because with those techniques strength didn’t mattered and she was learning how to defend herself against much more strong opponents. I told her something among the lines of “that’s great and all, but don’t get overconfident, BJJ only works if the opponent is in a similar weight category, a kick to the nuts is a lot more effective in real life”, she didn’t believe me, so I asked her to get me in something she had learned, she went for an arm lock, I ensured she had grabbed me correctly and then I stood up carrying her up with me. Yeah, BJJ is great and everyone should learn a little bit, but technique doesn’t matter for shit if your opponent can lift you with one arm. Also no, I’m not superman, my SiL is very petite.

What are you talking about? There are hundreds of great games being released, the gaming industry is a lot more than a couple of big corps.

Do you have a link to that video? Until you do I’ll believe the official communication from the company that I linked which has examples on the issues they were facing.

In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.

Never knew about this debate, but IMO the text is not ambiguous:

suddenly drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall

That’s very literal. Looking into the subject it seems that people think those are metaphorical wings, but I don’t see anything near that phrase that justifies thinking it’s metaphorical.

But also, at the end of the day, it’s a moot debate. Balrogs are Maiar, them having wings or not is as important as the color of the shoes of some other character, they’re spiritual beings that adopt some physical form, which they can change at will.

Just share your location on Google maps temporarily, that’s the easiest. You will have your phone with you and if your phone doesn’t have a signal it’s unlikely anything else you might be willing to take with you will.

Yeah, there’s a very real chance that the issue was my GP, but since you’re essentially stuck with the GP that you can get it is what it is. I don’t live there anymore so I can share these details in case it saves someone else. I lived in Dublin so obviously both are there, the GP was in Kilmainham medical center and the hospital for the specialist and expensive blood work was Black rock hearth Hermitage Clinic. I have a friend who just went through a similar situation so it’s not exclusive to me, but he does live in the same building I used to so he might go to the same GP, and that GP might have some arrangement or something with the people from that other hospital, not to mention he blocked me from seeing a cardiologist for years saying I didn’t needed it (wanted to do a checkup because my entire father’s side family died of heart related conditions, and after the ridiculous amount of money it costed to see the other specialist I just let it go.

I’m saddened to think it could all have been due to a bad GP, my time in Ireland was very badly affected by these experiences with medical care. And speaking with friends they had had similar experiences so I never thought it could have been a bad GP.

The health plan from the company wasn’t bad, at least I don’t think it was, but I don’t have any parameters to compare it to. I worked for 2 companies while I lived there and both used the same health plan. I don’t remember what it was, but at the specialist they said that I needed to pay and then talk to my health plan, and the health plan only refunded half of the value. I still work for the same company but on a different country, and here the health plan seems to cover everything, so I doubt they would have a good plan on one country and a bad one on the other, but it could happen.

I have lived in several countries so I can give you a few answers:

Brazil:

You have two options, private which is generally expensive but fast and good and public which is free but usually slow and mediocre. Most people who can afford it use private, but public system is honestly quite good in some places. I lived in two different cities, on one of them you didn’t go to the public system unless it was an absolute emergency, because otherwise chances were you would come out worse, on the other city the public system was slow and under budgeted but very good otherwise, you would still prefer private if you could afford it, but people tight on money would use it, so you might do time insensitive stuff on the public system for example.

If you break your leg you would call an ambulance, get taken to a public hospital and be treated all free. You might have to wait on the hospital as people with graver injuries would be taken ahead of you.

Ireland:

There is a public system, but you have to earn below a certain threshold to be able to use it. Emergencies I think are covered for everyone, luckily I never had an emergency while living there so can’t speak from experience. You MUST have a GP, and most of them (at least in Dublin) are not taking new patients. Once you find a GP you must go through them to get to any specialist, for that you pay €60 and then you go to a consultation with them and they can decide whether to forward you to a specialist or not. If they forward you to a specialist you will have to pay their consultation fee, then pay for any exams, they pay to see the specialist again. All-in-all I’ve spent around €1000 trying to get a diagnosis once, luckily I had health insurance and it paid me back half.

Spain:

My wife twisted her ankle while visiting here as tourists, someone called an ambulance, it took us to the hospital, and after some wait se was seen and they did an x-ray, confirmed nothing was broken and gave her some special socks to prevent the joint from forcing too much. Because we forgot to bring our sanitary card from Ireland we had to pay for that, it was a total of €200.

We live here now, and since moving here a couple of years back we have gone through dozens of doctors and exams. I have a health plan from my company so this might not be the same for everyone, but I have never paid a single cent for anything, including X-rays, blood works, CAT scans, etc. Honestly I keep thinking at some point I will receive a huge bill from the health plan, but so far it has never happened.

To me it’s abhorrent that Ireland is seen as having good healthcare. That just goes to show how shitty the system is in the USA. I lived in Ireland for 4 years, had a health plan paid by the company I worked, still had to pay 50% of every visit, and to get to any specialist you need to go to your GP (€60) and then, if your GP agrees (which he might not), they will contact the specialist for you which you will have to pay for out of your own pocket (usually €150-€300 depending on specialty), that specialist will ask for exams (blood works are €80 on the GP, but specialist might require specific tests that GP doesn’t offer, I have paid around €600 for some blood exams), then you go back to the specialist (and pay €150 again for a consultation) for him to check the results of the exams and tell you there’s nothing wrong so you can do another round of exams to see if they find anything… We’re already at around €1000 and the health insurance will only return me half at some point… The max €80 in prescription medicine was quite nice though.

Alexander is a common name, but it depends on context, if you say “at the time Alexander conquered X” most people would understand, but if you say “Alexander was here” you might be talking about a work college.

There’s not only one Caesar, while you probably beat Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius and others were also “Caesar”, and you might referring to any of them. For example, “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s” does not refer to the same Caesar you probably meant.

Slim shady is a made up name and it’s way more specific than <common name> the <common adjective>.

Charlemagne is short for Charles Magnus, or in English Charles the great, so that’s exactly the same.

Attila is a very unique name, I’ve never met nor heard about any other Attila so the name is disambiguation enough, but it’s likely that if that is a common name in some country they have an extra qualifier to it, I’ve heard Attila the Hun, but there might be others.

There’s nothing special, if a name is common you need disambiguation, if a name is overly specific you don’t, same reason why we have last names, “I met with John the other day”, “which John?”, “The Smith”, “Ah yeah, John Smith, not John the son of Richard”, “No, I haven’t seen John Richardson in a few weeks”.

Can I ask what’s wrong with having the arrow keys in a different layer on esdf and/or ijkl?

The thing you got to understand is that the energy of the crash has to go somewhere. The same energy will apply to both cars, the modern car will absorb a lot of it by deforming, the old car won’t absorb any in that way because it’s a hard piece of metal. And you have to wonder, what is more important to you, the car chassis or the people inside? You might as well ask “why do we put packing peanuts if nails are a lot tougher” or “why do we ship eggs in weird cardboard boxes if a metal square would be more resilient”

I know this might go against the flow here, but realistically if they’re using the tools in the way they say they are (which you should 100% check with your doctor to let him know about possible hallucinations) it’s not that bad. Speech-to-text is not prone to hallucinate, it can fail and detect wrong things but shouldn’t outright hallucinate. After that, LLMs are good at summarizing things, yes they are prone to hallucinations which is why having the doctor review the notes immediately after the session is important (and they said they do), so I don’t see this as such a big issue from the usability point of view.

You might still have issues from a privacy point of view and that’s a much more complex discussion with them about what kind of contract they have with the LLM company to ensure no HIPAA violations (as from the LLM point of view it’s just making a summary of a text it might store it, and then the whole stack is suable). They need to understand that just because they haven’t kept a copy around doesn’t mean the other party hasn’t, and because they shared it out without your agreement (you’re only agreeing to AI note taking which can be done locally so them sharing information with third parties is entirely up to them) they would be liable. I’m not a lawyer, so you might want to double check that, but I would be very surprised if that’s not the way it works, otherwise Drs could get away with a bunch of HIPAA violations by having you sign something that says they use a computer to store data and then storing things in shared Google drive.

Cryptocurrency is a decentralized digital currency, it can be used for the same thing as any other digital currency, the difference being that you can use it without relying on a centralized authority like a bank or similar financial institutions.

Yes you can buy pizzas with it, although that’s less common nowadays because there are more practical ways to pay for that and you probably don’t mind the bank and government to know you buy pizzas.

I thought what made money money was everyone agreed it was valuable and was willing to exchange it for goods and services directly. I don’t see that with crypto.

You don’t? If I were to offer you 1BTC for your mouse, would you accept it? If you say no you’re stupid, if you say yes you confirmed you see it as valuable and are willing to exchange it for goods directly.