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5. Windows update intentionally bricks GRUB.
6. Delete Windows.

Seconded. Not coming up with much when trying to find out more about it.

ISO 8601/RFC-3339 (Unix Epoch also acceptable) gang reporting in.

This might help. https://smcl.org/blogs/post/making-sense-of-reading-levels/

I had to look it up because of your comment. It’s been over a decade since I dealt with anything in the AP Style Guide or adjacent. Fortunately, you are correct.

Sadly, yes. It is largely a consequence of two things: constant right-wing efforts to destroy public education and neoliberal profiteering. The first requires little explanation. The second is something that I only learned about because LeVar Burton (Geordie LaForge in Star Trek TNG) has produced a documentary on it and has been participating in activism to try to fix the damage.

Basically, with the neoliberal philosophy that profit is more important than anything else, education fell into the sights of profiteers. Through connections and back-room deals, schools have been forced to adopt proprietary “literacy” methods and tools that were initially developed explicitly to allow people with diminished cognitive capacity to somewhat function in society. This means that there’s a whole generation that only learned how to do things like guess what a word is based on its shape, rather than understanding its phonetics or figuring out its meaning from its constituent roots.

This profiteering, as a side effect, also harms education overall as it has robbed people of their ability to engage in self-learning. Something that is only helping to cause further harm with people off-loading cognitive efforts to LLMs, and not having the skills to differentiate between when they spout pure bullshit and output something that is useful or factual.

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You do you, AI bro, you do you. Suggesting that anyone else use a tool that is meant to generate text that sounds confidently factual, without factuality actually being a requirement for the output is silly. Maybe if using a local LLM with a RAG (with the vector DB populated with known good recipes) and having the temp set properly. Then again, LLMs are language models and not good with numbers because they are fundamentally not designed for that kind of thing.

At that point, it’s less work to just grab a cookbook from the shelf and find a recipe by looking it up in the index. If it’s not in there, it’s probably available in a niche source which can be directly looked at.

Like those that use glue to keep cheese from sliding off the pizza.

In case you’re not joking, please don’t trust this technology with anything that you are putting into your or someone else’s body. You’re going to have a bad time.

With the video game industry’s history of unfair labor practices, the burden of proof for credibility that this did not violate contract is on Epic.

Das ist ser schön!

It’s immutable too, which is great for a console experience, but probably not ideal for a desktop user.

I’ve been enjoying Fedora Atomic, personally.

That’s the DataHand, one of the few novel text-entry devices in the last few decades. It’s sadly no longer made but ifyou want a modern one, check out the Svalboard.

The Svalboard is made by one guy in California with FOSS firmware based on QMK/Vial. He took it on because his DataHand, which had enabled him to keep working with a wrist injury, broke and no parts were available.

I got one myself after near disabling wrist RSI. I don’t type as fast as I used to (yet) but I am able to work with a lot less pain.

If you want a modern one, check out the Svalboard.

It’s also, I find, much more widely supported on a wider variety of hardware and with easier config automation.

That would be reasonable. The people running these things aren’t reasonable. They ignore every established mechanism to communicate a lack of consent to their activity because they don’t respect others’ agency and want everything.

Technically, no. However, they are corvids.

Modified plantigrade? Close relatives like skinks are plantigrades and some snake species have vestigial hind limb protrusions that are basically highly-modified femurs.

1950s American recipes are indeed horrifying. I’ve got an excellent vintage Good Housekeeping cookbook (none of the recipes are the best but it gives a wide gamut of basics to refer to, if needed). There is a section including aspics, which is just awful.