Joshjrn

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Someone pls explain this language (singularity).

What is single about this?

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You'll sometimes see some splintered definitions, but the combined definition is generally more accepted: the singularity is the point in which technology, generally an Artificial Intelligence, is capable of independently designing and executing its replacement or upgrades, ushering in a period of technological advancement so fast that it becomes impossible to predict the technological landscape months, weeks, or even days into the future in the way that we currently can't accurately look more than a few years.

That's the singularity. Anyone trying to pretend as though our current Large Language Models are anywhere close to that is either ignorant or selling you something.

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One thing a lot of people don’t realize: when you are on “hold” it’s still a live line that is being recorded.

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And frequently being listened to live by the person who put you on hold. Unless they actively needed to speak to someone else, "hold" means "mute my end and play music".

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There must be hours of recordings of me yelling at Indian call center employees who are overly apologetic but can never actually solve the problem I'm having.

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If they are polite and can’t solve your problem, why are you yelling at them?

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they scanned it “delivered” but didn’t deliver the package and delivered it next day or at the end of their route

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They'll do that or say that signature was required and no one answered the door.

I know this because I once stayed home all day waiting for an expensive package and got the alert that they "attempted delivery" while I was sitting in my living room 20 feet from my front door. I called the shipping company and they fed me bullshite. I then called the company that shipped it to me, they called the shipping company and then called me back. Apparently they admitted that their drivers will routinely mark something as delivery attempted if they get to the end of their shift and still have packages in the truck. That way it doesn't frick with their internal metrics, not dissimilar to a fast food restaurant asking you to pull forward. They then deliver it at the start of the route the next day.

Sure enough, my package was delivered the next morning, no signature required.

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Restaurant closures in BR seem to be far outweighing new restaurant openings in BR..

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You're being seriously misled by your observation bias. Openings are vastly outstripping closings.

Restaurants are extremely volatile. Nearly 20% of new restaurants will fail in their first year. Roughly 50% will fail before their five year anniversary. I'm not sure why people act like a couple handfuls of closures each year in a city this size with this many restaurants is an indication of anything other than that restaurants are volatile and frequently fail.

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Who is the Master Race now

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My half decade old gaming rig still kicks the shite out of your console :pimp:

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B. Does the resident have a current lease/rental agreement that is not in arrears. If the answer is no the police should come and handcuff them for trespass. The process shouldnt take more than a day.

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For people “overstaying”, I agree. That’s usually a self created local law problem. However, it’s become a common scam for people to forge a lease and rent payment receipts. As soon as they flash those, law enforcement says “sounds like a civil dispute” and washes their hands of it. I’m not sure how you fix that quickly without accidentally breaking things.

If you have two factor on everything, it doesn't really matter either way. If someone takes control of your second factor, they can likely "recover" the account without the password, regardless.

It's why two factor is pushed so heavily by enterprise security.

Manual or motorized bike?

I’ve had multiple adults on motorized “bicycles” shoot out of blind spots across North Blvd and cause near misses. The last time, I told the passenger in my car that I am going to feel horrible for the person who inevitably kills one of them through no fault of their own.

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it was ok aside from the absurd poker game

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Changing it from baccarat to hold em to tap into the then-current zeitgeist was a choice I don’t particularly agree with :lol: