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  • Heat index is more commonly used and more frequently now in media (hmmm, wonder why?) but I think this is just some intern or AI that ran across a local midwest slang and ran with it to embellish their news story about the current heat wave to fill it out to a larger word count. I’m not from the midwest, so I’ve never heard that before.

    Even though heat index is often used, temperature is still the main one talked about, which is fine under normal conditions. But it doesn’t take a very high temperature with high humidity to become very dangerous. Any time I think about this my mind goes back to the first chapter of “Ministry of the Future” and how horrible now already can be for some places, and the future will just expand where that happens.





  • Even the best models fine tuned for coding still have training that was based on both good and bad examples of programming from humans. And since it’s not AGI but using probability to generate the code, you’re going to get crap programming logic dependent on how often such things were used and suggested by humans to other humans. Googling for an answer on how to code something pulls up all sorts of answers from many sources, but reading through them, many are terrible. An LLM doesn’t know that, it just knows that humans liked some answers better than others, so GIGO.



  • Concerning C-64 (and maybe other types), I’ve seen places online that will take donated manuals and such in decent condition for preservation purposes. You know, back when you actually bought a box that had the disk as well as maps and books to go along with the game.

    As far as old electronics itself, best bet is to try to give it away via Craigslist or local posting, but it’s hit or miss on if someone is going to happen to need that stick of RAM at the same time. It should be recycled if you can’t get rid of it, as there are toxic things in circuit boards (small amounts, but still).




  • Agreed, and actually I’m fine with some ideas not being everyone’s favorite. As the Vulcan philosophy says, infinite diversity in infinite combinations (IDIC).

    What I was mainly referring to was the VERY long standing attitude from Paramount to viciously come after anyone who does anything remotely resembling Star Trek assets. Non-profit fan based stuff included. If they aren’t getting a cut, then you WILL NOT do it. Learned that in the 80s, wondering why programs made n BASIC were obviously modeled off of Star Trek stuff, but used other names for everything.










  • They definitely are other places as well to varying degrees. Some of it is just human nature and how our brains are wired to feed the ego when we believe we’re “right”, otherwise we wouldn’t have a history of constant disagreement, war, etc. over stupid stuff. The fundamentals of street epistemology is useful for any topic, from politics to religion to pseudosciences. It’s even helpful as self-validation, which will show how hard is can be to question your own beliefs, and maybe help understand how others can get caught up in thinking a certain way without actually thinking about it.