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I'm writing a mod in C# and it's reporting a warning on line 3 of a file but the warning is blank for some reason so the "problems" overview just looks like this

i think one of the worst parts of quote posts as a feature is that I can't link a thread as an example of something without getting into their notifications; there's no way to say "link without quoting"

so like. i want to start fucking around with LLMs for life organization in a way that doesn't permanently tie me to anthropic. I'm fine with closed models run through OpenRouter or whatever though. what do people like for this

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I think that actually, serious issue is that it is accurate information anyway. So it should be included. Textbooks should include information about sin.

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The data center water use is actually for baptizing all the new LLM instances. We should also add some baptism related Bible verses to the system prompt just in case.

when I type "2+2" into a calculator, is the calculator "doing addition", or is it just performing a sequence of electronic operations that only become addition when I interpret the end result?

fwiw I just asked Claude Opus 5.5 to compute gamma(8.902) to the first decimal place without tool calls, and it got it; it claims it used the recurrence and computed gamma(1.902) using a Taylor series. obv no clue what it *actually* did but I doubt there's a secret tool call behind the scenes

(I then asked another instance with tool calls, and then it used Python with math.gamma; when I told it to do it with only common functions, it computed gamma(30.902) using Stirling and then divided back down)

I remember I used to hate washing dishes, going through all the stacked-up pots and pans. But then one day I decided to really *focus* on the process, to not just shortcut it by using a dishwasher, to be present in the moment. To focus on what technology had robbed from us. And this is what I found:

i think if you think that an account that posts "hijab-inspired secular accessorization" and "'people of color' is a slur" is real and Says Something About Leftists and not someone pretending, then I think you're bad at detecting when you're being trolled

I've never really felt any compelling interest to click on the random AI generated visualizations/widgets/whatever that float across my timeline and i think it's because I have no way of knowing if they're actually good or just superficial

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like if I was going to do this I would give you a knob for controlling the kinetics and how it interacts with the # of bound edges so you can turn that to extremes and see what happens. I'd have something explaining why the crystals are always growing "up". etc

I've never really felt any compelling interest to click on the random AI generated visualizations/widgets/whatever that float across my timeline and i think it's because I have no way of knowing if they're actually good or just superficial

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or, like okay, bismuth.mino.mobi. looking at the about section I still have no idea *why* bismuth does that. it mentions a "melt" but doesn't provide context for whether the melt surrounds the crystal on all sides or what. there's no context for why the "bricks" don't keep attaching to the base

bismuth.mino.mobibismuth — hopper crystals, grown brick by brickA seeded colony of masons lays a bismuth crystal one brick at a time. Same seed, same crystal, forever.

I've never really felt any compelling interest to click on the random AI generated visualizations/widgets/whatever that float across my timeline and i think it's because I have no way of knowing if they're actually good or just superficial

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I've never really felt any compelling interest to click on the random AI generated visualizations/widgets/whatever that float across my timeline and i think it's because I have no way of knowing if they're actually good or just superficial

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I've never really felt any compelling interest to click on the random AI generated visualizations/widgets/whatever that float across my timeline and i think it's because I have no way of knowing if they're actually good or just superficial

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anime-themed branding is a sure sign that you are getting the absolute greatest or worst version of the thing you are using and there is no way to tell which in advance

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Absolute coward behavior to include the middle initials in this post

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Reporter: You haven’t heard her name until now. She’s only seventeen years old. But White House intern Crespa Blumbo has been in charge of all nuclear missiles for the last two years and she just ordered the military to enact Project Acheron