I believe their reactions might be slightly different depending on the person, but if you simply asked them if it made the comment made them uncomfortable they'd say yes 100% of the time.

No, it's about your relationship to that person. Are you on friendly terms? Are they comfortable around you? Do you have some kind of established rapport?

Or are you a complete stranger making a weird comment about another strangers physical appearance out of nowhere?

imo Shadowheart was the most unbearable companion at the start. But I think the point was that they're all deeply flawed people that are forced to come together and face their trauma. Tadpole therapy works, I guess!

Here's the article for anyone interested: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst-detects-the-earliest-most-distant-galaxy-in-the-known-universe-and-its/

The teacher's meaning is clear, which is the purpose of language. Mickey's just being a grammar nazi.

Wow real shocker there /s

Being excited about being wrong because either way it's information

This literally is the basis of science that I think a lot of people misunderstand. Science doesn't prove anything conclusively. What scientists try to do is disprove the leading theory and when they can't, it adds to the pile of evidence that increases the likelyhood of the leading theory being correct. Even things that we're very, very, very sure are correct are still like 99.99999999999...% confirmed.

A good example that's often used to show how it's more important to try to disprove a theory rather than trying to prove it is the existence of black swans. It was long thought that all swans were white and every time someone saw a white swan, that idea was reinforced. But when someone actually went out of their way to go looking for a black swan, they found a bunch of them!

One place I worked at recently was still using Node version 8. Running npm install would give me a mini heart attack... Like 400+ critical vulnerabilities, it was several thousand vulnerabilities all around.

The easiest way to tell the difference is that monkeys have tails and apes don't. Chimps are definitely apes and I'm not sure what OP is getting at.

Wow that's interesting! Gotta be at least in the running for the rarest Linux distro ever

I ran Ubuntu for a couple of years, and then I switched to PopOS because I didn't like the direction that Ubuntu was going.

imo Pop takes everything that made Ubuntu great and makes it better. It's not bleeding edge though, but it is stable if that's what you're looking for.

I recently made the switch over to an Arch based distro for the first time ever (Garuda Linux is the distro) and I've absolutely loved that change too. I feel like Garuda at least, I can't speak for all Arch based distros, but Garuda is very user friendly, sleek with KDE apps including Plasma, and very powerful. I like to game on my laptop and have definitely noticed some framerate increases after switching to Garuda.

Ubuntu should have keyboard shortcuts in the settings panel. You can go through and change them manually to match what you expect from MacOS.

Every other planet looks like shit. Another W for Earth, the best planet in the universe! (as far as we know)

I do find that everything related to Python is especially badly documented and/or maintained. Maybe I'm just not looking the in right place though? I don't generally use Python as my primary language.

Usually API docs are tucked away inside a "developer dashboard" or whatever they decided to call it. So I think you can assume at least moderate API and web development knowlege and programming skills.

That North and South Korea maintain a fax line between their countries... which they use almost exclusively to send threats and insults to each other.

Also related to North Korea, the hilarious fact that Dennis Rodman, former NBA player, is so well liked by the Kim family that he's basically a diplomat to North Korea, or at least the one they turn to when things really start going badly.

Proof: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/12/20/north-and-south-korea-exchange-faxes-threatening-to-attack-each-other/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-sends-fax-threatening-strike-south-korea-without-notice-flna2d11781034 https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-KRTB-4721

Reminds me of an early application of AI where scientists were training an AI to tell the difference between a wolf and a dog. It got really good at it in the training data, but it wasn't working correctly in actual application. So they got the AI to give them a heatmap of which pixels it was using more than any other to determine if a canine is a dog or a wolf and they discovered that the AI wasn't even looking at the animal, it was looking at the surrounding environment. If there was snow on the ground, it said "wolf", otherwise it said "dog".

I really think that consciousness is just a combination of Narrow AI -- that is, AI that is only good at a very specialized task. For example, we have a part of our brains specifically to process the raw data from our eyes, that's a Narrow AI designed for that express purpose. When you combine all of the AIs that would be necessary for sight, smell, taste, touch, etc, as well as maintaining bodily functions, immune system, and other autonomic systems, you've essentially got an AI that can run a body.

However, at the point, that body would rely purely on instinct and only react to it's environment. Add one more layer of Narrow AI whose purpose is to extrapolate the given information and make educated guesses and you've got the potential for intelligence. Because now you're not just reacting to the environment but you're actively thinking of how you can use all of those other Narrow AI that control your body to shape your environment, which is the basis of intelligence.

Wow. I actually agree with Elon Musk about something for once, what a shock!

Tom Scott has a very good video explaining why electronic voting is terrible all around and it will probably never be secure.

Tom Scott's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs Tom Scott's video via the Computerphile channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI&t=1s

Vf = Vi + at

Means final velocity equals initial velocity plus the product of acceleration and time of acceleration.

F = m(ΔV / ΔT) or F = ma

The second equation is much simpler and means force is equal to the product of mass and acceleration.

This can basically be broken down to be "it's not the speed that kills you, it's the sudden deceleration" which is usually attributed to Eddie Rickenbacker who was an American WWI pilot.

"It's not the speed that kills you, it's the sudden stop" - Eddie Rickenbacker

It was also famously paraphrased by Jeremy Clarkson:

“Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.” - Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear