kryptonite

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[–] kryptonite 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've never heard of peanut butter on hamburgers. Where do people eat that?

[–] kryptonite 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you've got something you want to find a place for, ask yourself, "If I was looking for this, where is the first place I would look?" I've ended up changing where I keep things because sure, it might havd been in a logical place, but it wasn't where I would think to look. It's not foolproof, but it helps.

[–] kryptonite 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You have non-stressful dreams? Lucky.

[–] kryptonite 5 points 3 weeks ago

the output is always going to be an average of the input recipes.

Yeah, that's a problem for most recipes, especially baking.

[–] kryptonite 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's pretty good, but..... how much pie crust does it make? The recipe only says to roll out one circle of crust, and then once the filling is in it, suddenly you're crimping the edges of the top crust to the bottom. It's missing crucial steps and information.

I would never knowingly use an AI-generated recipe. I'd much rather search for one that an actual human has used, and even then, I read through it to make sure it makes sense and steps aren't missing.

[–] kryptonite 1 points 1 month ago

Newton wasn't the only one who developed calculus. Leibnitz developed it independently around the same time, and both of them had prior mathematicians' work to base their work on. If it weren't for Newton, we would still have calculus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calculus

That said, we can acknowledge Newton's mathematical and scientific achievements while still acknowledging problematic or terrible things that he also did. We don't need to whitewash history in order to recognize someone's achievements.

[–] kryptonite 2 points 1 month ago

In a similar perspective shift, I hated Lwaxana Troi when I was a kid, but the older I get, the more I like her.

[–] kryptonite 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Westley was also a viewer-insert character for kids to relate to. As a little kid watching TNG, I liked him as a character and thought he was cute. I didn't start to find him irritating until I got a few years older than him.

[–] kryptonite 3 points 1 month ago

He has a pocket in his cape. It's where he keeps his Clark clothes, shoes, and glasses when he's Superman - super-compressed first, of course.

[–] kryptonite 13 points 2 months ago

As a kid, I had a small dictionary, so I checked whether "gullible" was in it in order to mess with my little sister. It wasn't there, but I still got in trouble when my mom overheard me telling my sister, "Did you know gullible is not in this dictionary?"

I was miffed because I was telling the truth.

[–] kryptonite 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's eth, actually, not thorn.

I had thought that eth was used in Old English for the voiced "th" and thorn for the unvoiced "th", but Wikipedia says they were used interchangeably for both sounds.

You're right otherwise. Thorn was not available on printing presses because they were being made in countries that didn't use the letter, which is why the letter Y was used instead until "th" became more common.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

[–] kryptonite 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

humans just put certain expectations into the word.

... which is entirely the way words work to convey ideas. If a word is being used to mean something other than the audience understands it to mean, communication has failed.

By the common definition, it's not "intelligence". If some specialized definition is being used, then that needs to be established and generally agreed upon.

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