It can do that for school level stuff because that material is present in it’s input dataset in a redundant manner. For anything niche or domain-specific, it will hallucinate or fail.

I typically don’t have an issue getting a grasp on fundamentals, so most of the things I want to ask it about might be beyond school-level. My main way of learning is to ask questions to make sure I understand the material - which means more potential hallucination points, and maybe worse impact because I’ll think I get it, but I’ve just been confidently lied to that I understood.

For example, I’ve wondered for a while if patches of space with less gravitational curvature “age” faster than patches that are more heavily distorted by gravity wells, and what the implications of that might be. Makes sense, we know that gravity slows down subjective time. But I can’t get a productive answer out of an LLM because I can’t trust it, and it’s not worth bothering my physicist friends about.

Ah-ha, now there’s an interesting use case. I’ve had occasion in the past to work on PCB design - to be clear I didn’t do the design myself, I have no idea wtf I’m doing there, but I’m capable of reading spec sheets and soldering - and when I had to sub in components, I managed to find what I needed by filtering down for specs on DigiKey using their search. I think an LLM could have saved me a bit of time there if I could’ve just fed it the BOM and asked for alternatives, and over the course of all the subs I had to do for the particular project I’m thinking of (it was during Chinese New Year so it was tough getting answers from suppliers) that would have added up.

“I only ask questions to LLMs if I already know the answer”

Not a developer here. I’ve been thinking about this because I hoped LLMs would be able to help me learn things at first, like a patient tutor I can ask all my stupid questions and it’ll never get annoyed with me. Since it can’t do that though, because it lies all the time, I don’t think I have a use case for it at all… About all it can do for me is rewrite or summarise English, and it doesn’t even do a particularly good job of that most of the time so I end up saving time by doing that work myself anyway. I suppose it’s pretty good at translating, but I haven’t tried it for that as I don’t have a lot of call to speak foreign languages.

Well, okay, I understand what you mean and why, but you stated “water is a mineral according to the dictionary” in your post, so I was just clarifying that bit. So yeah, Merriam-Webster is wrong.

Edit: Again, sorry. This is the internet and pedants like me thrive here 😅

Sorry, no, water is not a mineral because it doesn’t have a characteristic crystalline structure, and if a dictionary says otherwise it’s wrong: https://geology.com/articles/water-mineral/

However ice can be, if it forms naturally - the definition of mineral is:

A naturally occurring, homogeneous inorganic solid substance having a definite chemical composition and characteristic crystalline structure, color, and hardness.

And yes, this means that if you grow a crystal like a diamond for example in a lab, technically it’s not a mineral (it’s just sparkling rock).

I don’t think necessarily, no. I’ve had mine for nearly a year and despite a few unexpected shutdowns (might have been a power supply issue though, I don’t think it was thermal) it works perfectly. I haven’t overclocked at all really though, I did the automatic one and got something like a 0.2GHz boost. Left it at that, I don’t feel any pressing need to push this chip; it’s plenty fast for what I need at stock.

I looked up the TP00061B and selected 3rd gen, I found this: https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/x1_carbon3_hmm_en_sp40g55065_01.pdf

Looks like there’s a coin cell battery in there, so you can remove it to reset the CMOS. I’m not sure how relevant this video is to your exact model, but I’m sure you can figure it out using this as a base if you’re comfortable working on computers generally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=secIrlXFy5k

Edit: Oh, I see you got it! Nice 🙌 Happy computing!

What’s the exact model please? It may be possible to reset the CMOS if we can cut power to the main board completely; there’s usually a coin-cell battery to keep a minor charge supplied to the volatile memory holding the current config, but the exact model number of the laptop will let us find the spec sheet so we know for sure.

It’s the strongest argument yet for adding Trump, anyway.

Where do you get that I’m “idolizing them” from my post? Whatever Valve pays to get this development done, it’s not pushing up the price of a device that runs Linux/Proton vs one that runs Windows, because Linux/Proton/etc don’t attract a licensing fee, while Windows does. That’s just objective fact. Meanwhile you’re over here speculating your tits off about stuff that might happen, so you can yell at me. The fuck did I say to warrant this aggressive bullshit from you?

Technically the OS isn’t free

And practically, that doesn’t matter. Valve isn’t charging anyone a licensing fee for the software they’ve developed, so as far as the cost of the device goes SteamOS is free. Just because they could charge for it doesn’t change that.

I was skating at the local ice rink, and tripped. I think it was an Olympic-sized rink, but that might have been the pool… it was pretty big, anyway. I bounced my head off the ice so hard I saw blue and red fireworks (only time that’s ever happened to me), and slid half the length of the rink on my face wherein I crashed into the barrier. That shit hurt, I still remember it vividly 30 years later, but luckily nothing broken. My mum was simultaneously aghast, and relieved and amazed I wasn’t more injured. She was convinced I’d have fractured something in my face when she saw me fall.

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That’s the “special application” I mentioned, but it seems to have been updated since I last looked at it so it now offers the same level of encryption as the webmail app.

I would prefer to see it freely available, but it doesn’t seem foundational to using the service in any scenario - free accounts have the webmail and mobile clients, which are arguably both more flexible (and maintainable) than the Bridge.

Thunderbird doesn’t have your private key to decrypt your Proton emails. The key lives in your browser and in theory there’s no way to securely provide that key to Thunderbird so it can do the decrypting. There’s a special application they built for business owners who want this functionality, but by nature it breaks Proton’s security because the email content is then stored in plaintext (or close enough) so it’s not “secure” in the same sense Proton webmail is.

Brie, gruyere, swiss, provolone, cheddar…

The autistic trait that comes back to bite me most often is the unshakeable confidence that if I just show someone the truth, they’ll believe me.

This has bounced around in my skull since I read it in a meme here. I hate how true it is.

I do this always. It’s the “I’m not a threat” thing. I prefer the discomfort or personal inconvenience to being seen as a threat or even causing anxiety in that direction. Maybe it makes no difference, that’s fine, maybe they think I’m weird, also fine as long as it has the intended effect of getting across that I am not a threat. It’s worth it for the times it does matter.

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“Death” would be the noun, “die” the (intransitive) verb. “Dead” would be the adjective, i.e. the condition.

Although it has to be said that there’s a lot of flexibility and I’m pretty sure you could find valid ways to use each of them in all cases.