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Lingthusiasm! It’s basically just two linguist friends chatting about the weird and interesting oddities in their field. It’s delivered at a level easily understandable to me that has never studied linguistics

No, but I don’t think that was ever the plan. The counteroffensive can succeed in a few different ways - cutting off supply lines to the occupied areas in the south, attriting Russian forces enough to force another unpopular round of conscription, or a major breakthrough like the Kharkiv offensive - but none of them are war-ending by themselves. It’s possible that Russia has a sudden change of heart and withdraws if it suffers some particularly tough kind of loss or Putin dies, but it seems very unlikely to me.

Sending Ukraine things like more modern jets and tanks has only started this year, which is clearly an intention to continue supporting Ukraine for a while. Nobody’s sending someone a fighter jet if they think it’ll no longer be needed in a month or two, after all

This feels like it comes from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It’d fit well

The RAF apparently started escorting an RC-135 with a pair of Typhoons under the callsign “Psycho” shortly after this incident

The Brave browser is based on Google’s Chromium. Presumably they thought you meant the browser and not the search engine

Especially when ISRO’s entire budget is less than half of one per cent of India’s federal government budget. Uttar Pradesh’s government budget alone is fifty times ISRO’s.

Someone already said Shadow of the Colossus, so I can plug my other favourite Outer Wilds. Especially the tracks from Echoes of the Eye. Dark Passage is raw dread in audio form, the River is a spectacular adventure theme, and the jam at the end of the universe is a perfect ending

Absolutely. Or even just excess capacity of wind and solar, to be honest. Whatever works, so long as we don’t need it to replace fossil fuels and it isn’t itself making more CO2 to lock away the CO2

I don’t know if it’s a mod or the base game, but I always appreciate the Göring quote on the Hearts of Iron IV loading screens:

“No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Goering. You may call me Hermann Meyer.”

• Hermann Meyer

Yes, carbon sequestration is the term for it, but none of them are currently practical to do on a scale that would mitigate the effects of the fossil fuels we burn. Growing trees is an example of this, as they do lock up carbon in the process of growing, but they’re kind of a risky prospect since if the tree dies and rots or is caught in a wildfire then it releases the carbon again. Another option is literally just sticking it back underground in mines or oil wells, but of course that takes a lot of energy to do and then whole point of burning fossil fuels is to get energy so this one is currently a bit self-defeating. They’re things that might be helpful to do if we succeed in transitioning to clean energy and have an excess of it available

They’re from a delightful blog (and now book) called the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It’s a collection of neologisms with etymologies included, so yes they are made up but that’s the point

No, it’s $709 more per month. It’s just being compared to 2021.

Are you sure? Likening it to the dot com bubble doesn’t mean that the tech is never going to make an impact, it means that the behaviour of investors is irrational. After all, the Internet is very much still here and affects our lives enormously, but the dot com bubble also absolutely did burst

To be fair it is disputed, it’s just that everyone else’s claims are significantly less ridiculous than China’s. There’s a small scrap of sea claimed by all of Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, and China.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5ddGvleVe0A

See after the first cut, maybe 10 seconds in. It actually is flashing

Considering what Poland’s tank fleet is like, I don’t think the rest of NATO would even have time to show up before Prigozhin got run over by a Leopard

Ahh, I see what you’re getting at. Thanks for clarifying

Surely it can’t just be a case of the LM saying a hard yes or no to any question of “is this prime” with the data they have, though? The results are a significant majority one way or the other in each case, but never 100%. Of the 500 each time, GPT3.5 has 37 answers go against the majority in March and 66 in July. That doesn’t seem like a hard one answer to any primality query to me, though that does come with the caveat that I’m by no means actually well studied on the topic

That explanation of the prime number thing doesn’t seem to actually match what’s in the paper. GPT4 goes from a wordy explanation of how it arrived at the correct answer, “yes”, to a single-word incorrect “no”. GPT3.5 goes from a wordy explanation that has the right chain of thought but the wrong answer “no” to a very wordy explanation with the correct answer “yes”. Neither of those seem to be predicated on either of the models just answering one way for everything.

Digital painting over a 3D render according to the artist. Also it’s a tutorial, so I guess if you want to see how it was done you can!