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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Its just an API.

    There’s a few ways they could go about it. They could have part of the prompt be something like “when the customer is done taking their order, create a JSON file with the order contents” and set up a dumb register essentially that looks for those files and adds that order like a standard POS would.

    They could spell out a tutorial in the prompt, "to order a number 6 meal, type “system.order.meal(6)” calling the same functions that a POS system would, and have that output right to a terminal.

    They could have their POS system be open on an internal screen, and have a model that can process images, and have it specify a coordinate pair, to simulate a touch screen, and make it manually enter an order that way as an employee would.

    There’s lots of ways to hook up the AI, and it’s not actually that different from hooking up a normal POS system in the first place, although just because one method does allow an AI to interact doesn’t mean it’ll go about it correctly.






  • They legally cannot.

    In fact, in times where the law was followed, the fact that our law gives the president no choice was used to blame the president for things. Headlines would read “president gave money to {something perceived as bad}”, which is technically true, but presidents were just acting on behalf of congress.

    It stems from a time of trust, where the executive branch would do the executing of laws, and Congress would pass the laws and give the president a budget.

    I miss having branches of government, they’ve all fused together now. We had them separate on purpose. If Obama or any other president had done this, it would’ve been an impeachable offense on its own, the universities wouldn’t have needed to even act.


  • I’m not sure, so if I were you I’d test the waters before committing to moving in.

    Have your girlfriend over more often, stay for dinner, those things. If she’s already doing those things or it goes well, have her stay the night a few times. After that, have her stay for a week. Pay attention to how the kids and your ex react, not just what they say about it. Do they avoid going into rooms where your girlfriend is? Do they seem more annoyed than usual at signs of her presence, like a left-out plate?

    When you do all this, treat her like a resident, not a guest.

    If all that goes smoothly, I’d give the move-in a shot. If it doesn’t, then you haven’t committed your girlfriend to giving up her current living arrangements, she can go back to them.



  • Well first, this deal was part of that sale. That’d be like someone’s boss pocketing a tip and telling the waitress “you don’t deserve this tip you already got paid” or a salesman “you get something hourly, why would you need this commission?”

    They worked for it, after the sale, because it was in their contract.

    That said, the company didn’t even say it was a mess. They said that they needed something like, one more biome, one more leviathan, a few bits and bobs like that. Requirements that they added on later in development, that those three guys say aren’t needed.

    I really wanna hear from the other devs, the ones under the 3. Theirs is the opinion I’d trust in this mess. But I’m leaning towards corporate fuckery, personally.


  • Eat enough that your body gets used to it?

    If I had to guess I’d say its based on the amount of water I drink, and maybe coffee poops keeping me regular, less about the diet itself.

    Dunno for sure, but I do know I have been so regular it was a surprise when someone told me a bidet reduces toilet paper usage, because I just didn’t believe it could do so. That’s because it can’t in my case. Takes me about as long to poop as it does to pee. Wish I could tell you what exactly I’m doing right but something is right.


  • Always gotta wipe, just in case, but I rarely actually need to. No idea what I’m doing right so here’s some facts about my diet

    1. I drink a gallon+ between straight water, coffee, and flavored sparkling water (no calorie, aspartame-sweetened)

    2. My breakfast is usually cereal with 1% milk or bacon and eggs once a week.

    Ramen for lunch

    Pizza or pasta for dinner, with a vegetable side

    Fruits and whatnot are eaten intermittently as snacks.

    Hope this helps I guess its not the best diet but I’m always regular.




  • Genie in the OP image would’ve said “OK you now have 0 wishes”.

    Since he said 255, my interpretation is a valid solution.

    Of course, if we’re talking hypothetical wish gaining prevention methods, I’d just have a check before,

    previous_wishes = wishes;

    {Do all the wish things. wishes ends up with a 255 because of our shenanigans}

    If(wishes>=previous_wishes) wishes = previous_wishes-1;

    ;If the current number of wishes isnt less than the old number of wishes, set it to the old number and subtract 1

    If(wishes==0) {/*TODO: write function to end wish giving sequence*/}


  • Nah theres just no process for undoing your submission.

    It doesn’t matter when it’s decremented if you can’t interrupt the process, anyway.

    In a code sense we pause for input, feed it to the wishmaker function, and pause until the thread returns, then decrement.

    We could decrement first, also, but neither violates the rules.


  • You’re correct but you have an off by 1 error.

    First, the genie grants the wish.

    NumWishes=0;

    Then, having completed the wish, the genie deducts that wish from the remaining wishes.

    NumWishes–;

    And to complete the thought,

    Lastly, the genie checks if the lampholder is out of wishes

    If(NumWishes==0) {…}

    (255==0) evaluates to False, so we fall past that check.