It’s cool to see McLaren’s progress like this.

I’m someone who grew up on Windows but switched to Linux and holy shit was it so much nicer. I don’t know if Windows massively improved or if people are just incapable of comparing something new with something they already know. Because Windows is hard.

99/100 basic users need someone to unfuck their windows install after what, one, two years?

Every time you need to do something non standard you’re basically going from training wheels to “good luck, deputy sysadmin.”

Broken registry. Orphaned cruft.

Malware, spyware.

Why didn’t the gazelle just be in the middle of the pack? Then it wouldn’t have been singled out and hunted down.

She could always go to a homeless shelter where you’re surrounded by crazy hostile energy and shitty staff. I used to roll my eyes when people at the shelter would say things like, “This place will destroy your soul.” I was just happy to have a bed and roof over my head.

But when staff keeps makes disparaging remarks under their breath, throwing your fragile possessions around for fun (you can’t say anything or risk getting kicked out), doing shit like waiting until it’s lights-out and we’re sleeping to loudly take out the trash in the dorms, being rude to you if you interact with them… it really eats at you.

And everybody acts like you’re subhuman and don’t deserve basic respect. You have to be thankful! Gotta appreciate what you get! How dare you ask to be treated with BASIC HUMAN DECENCY.

I used to appreciate the help when I thought they were helping me out of the kindness of their heart. But now I know you pay for everything.

I don’t think it matters in most contexts. When people are casually talking about it, venomous and poisonous are both stand-ins for “it has venom.” They’re not telling other people, “actually, don’t eat spiders.” I was just joking about the classic pedant line about spiders.

But it does make a difference on paper. I’m curious how you would express this in German: A black widow is venomous and in theory a healthy human can eat a dead black widow with no ill effects.

Portia jumping spider! It’s such a crazy little machine.

What about you?

It was a Google site (from years ago) so all that’s left is a random archive somewhere. I had all the local spiders+favorites, but the only original content were pictures of Latrodectus and Kukulkania Hibernalis. Beautiful spiders.

I’m not a scientist, but I’m the kind of person to keep black widows as pets and create a website that catalogues all the spiders in my area. I’d allow spiders being called bugs, or even insects. Even poisonous is alright but it does hurt a little.

Isn’t “it’s good enough for most users” a little too close to “it’s good enough to be bought, used for a bit, and then tossed”? Usually computers that were adequate for X stop being able to do X. There’s little to no margin and you can’t upgrade it?

I don’t get it, what makes the output trustworthy? If it seems real, it’s probably real? If it keeps hallucinating something, it must have some truth to it? Seems like the two main mindsets; you can tell by the way it is, and look it keeps saying this.

Search results are dependant on who is searching. But still:

When you use DuckDuckGo the first result is wikipedia.

When you use Google the first results are corporations.

When you use Bing the first result is a corporation, then Wikipedia.

Brave search gives an AI summary of carbon capture, an investment page, one of the corp pages, and then a breakdown on why ‘carbon capture’ is a misleading tactic.

Edit: All this to say, maybe stop using Google.