He was consuming a fuck ton of alcohol and it skewed the results of the demonstration and he kept it secret from the film and the doctors he worked with.

I don’t think McDonald’s is healthy but we don’t need to lie to make the point.

Not objective in the sense that aliens would come to the same definition for what is and isn’t a planet. Compare that to something like what the elements are.

So you’re saying things just exist, and as humans we categorize them? Because that’s what I said.

There is no objective criteria for what a planet is and isn’t. Like a lot of things in nature, things just exist, and as humans we categorize them.

You’re the second person to ignore the sentence immediately following that.

How?

Exactly! It’s right there past Mars! It’s not like it’s some weird thing off in the cold dark past Pluto.

There is no objective criteria for what a planet is and isn’t.

There is, though, or rather there should be another one.

The official definition says

But I also said,

Like a lot of things in nature, things just exist, and as humans we categorize them.

People fighting for Pluto that it should be a planet instead of a dwarf planet

Ceres: 🥺

Context: Ceres is now considered a dwarf planet, and used to be considered just an asteroid, but when it was first discovered it was considered a planet. That was in 1801. There is no objective criteria for what a planet is and isn’t. Like a lot of things in nature, things just exist, and as humans we categorize them. Ceres is round like a planet like Pluto. I’m not saying it should be considered a planet, I think dwarf planet fits them both nicely. As late as the 1950s Ceres was still sometimes considered a planet by some people.

I have a sort spot for it. I love it.

Edit: Because two people have misunderstood me now I’m going to say it more explicitly. I’m fully aware there is a scientific definition for dwarf planets. I’m not saying there isn’t. I’m just saying compared to something else like prime numbers there isn’t an obviously correct way to categorize them and the definition has changed over time. By stating the current definition of planets and/or dwarf planets you’re missing my point. Those definitions change. See here for the history.

Efficient AI hypothesis

I stopped asking in like 2020 for the most part. Everything I asked was getting.akred as a duplicate even though it wasn’t because someone believed an ANSWER on a different question answered my question (they didn’t).

Plus StackOverflow Meta has been a fucking joke for years. They removed a site from HNQ because of a tweet. Why are they listening more to random Twitter users than folks on Meta?

And the whole Monica fiasco still has me upset.

But seriously. Every time I asked a question on StackOverflow I’d spend like 30 minutes wording it correctly and looking for duplicates. I’d find things that were sort of duplicates and explain preemptively why they aren’t. And every fucking time some doofus marks it as a duplicate. I just can’t take it. Like it literally makes me so angry even thinking about it. They had a problem with their humans LONG before AI came around. If they’d fixed that problem they could’ve really positioned themselves nicely when AI happened as a boutique place for humans answering humans. But no, their culture cultivates assholes who believe they’re following rules to the letter.

B trees are cool but not obscure necessarily. I didn’t learn about them in college. It sounds like binary tree and it’s similar but it’s different. It’s a data structure to take advantage of the way disk reads work.

i forgor 💀

Please use the proper format which is ! community@instance! Like [email protected]

It is the American way!

I’d post one of Facebook’s “Imagine” images as a joke but it sort of defeats the purpose. So imagine I did it. Feel free to leave the tap on while you do if you really wanna get the full experience.

I’ve been saying this for a while. It’s gonna be particularly difficult to get valuable insight. With sponsored search results you can keep scrolling. Sponsored content will “pollute” the context of the conversation even if only some responses push sponsors.

That’s base 22, for all the base 10 users out there.

Real. Curiosity is such a desirable trait in folks.

Yeah, after reading the answers I see it more clearly. Also, I assume in hindsight that it’s three switches which can be on or off, so we know if all three are off the light is off. Which helps as well.

Like I said, it’s been over a decade, some of the specifics may be lost to me.