Wow, way to completely ignore the content of the comment you’re replying to. Clearly, some are better than others… so, how do the others perform? It’s worth knowing before we make assertions.

The excerpt they quoted said:

“Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.”

So that implies that “the other assistants” performed more than twice as well, so presumably that means encountering serious issues less than 38% of the time (still not great, but better). But they said “more than double the other assistants”, does that mean double the rate of one of the others or double the average of the others? If it’s an average it would mean that some models probably performed better, while others performed worse.

This was the point, what was reported was insufficient information.

If home improvement and DIY were actual categories for the Nobel Prize, i’d be running out of places to put all my Nobel prizes.

I’d probably have to put in a new shelf. Maybe use some nice cherry planks…

A reminder that all packets are delivered on a “best effort” basis, and some packets will be simply dropped en route.

Uh, I think it’s called the World Wide Web.

I mean, I’m joking, but I do remember buying games directly from a developers website, that’s a thing that used to happen.

So… I think we’re all on the same page that it’s clearly unethical for the feds to be doing this to people. Taking people out of their homes in the night, even not fully dressed, that horrible. And to be clear, it’s ICE doing that under Trump’s orders.

That said, what you wrote above, that all sounds pretty unhinged. I mean, u-haul is not doing this, they rent vehicles. You might as well be angry at Ford, for making the vehicles. You might as well get angry at Walmart or Amazon fire selling them zip ties.

How?

Literally, how can they possibly do that? How can you be certain the person you’re renting to isn’t a law enforcement officer? Background checks? Would it be fair to block these people from ever renting a moving van (like for when they’re moving)? If they did bar law enforcement from using their vehicles, and a federal agency brings them up on charges for obstructing justice, how could they possibly fight that claim?

Yeah, I had a similar thought. I mean nothing is set in stone with color coding, but there are some pretty clear norms.

I don’t think that’s really an accurate portrayal of events… I mean, how much did Obama or Biden work to add to political polarity and divisiveness? When did they try to pit Americans against each other?

I think that argument breaks down when you get to the most recent presidents we’ve had.

These are exactly the kind of concerns citizens should have in a free democracy because that’s how you keep your democracy free.

I do hear you, and I know, and I agree… It’s just that I always expected to fight against the slow creep of totalitarianism. I expected to have to look out for veiled threats, or hidden signs of tyranny. I never expected to face overt, blatant totalitarianism. I never expected the US president to openly endorse white nationalist organizations. I never expected so much of the public to be on board with what are so clearly unethical policies, with an administration that closely mimics the rise of the Nazi party…

If politics is a tug of war, I expected to have to constantly pull in the right direction, I didn’t expect the other side to light the rope on fire.

I expect you’re quite worried about this situation but try not to be so dismissive of others, please.

That’s fair, I can see how starting my comment like that must have been really annoying. Sorry for that.

It’s chilling.

None of this should sound plausible in the USA. These simply aren’t the kind of concerns citizens should have to have in a free democracy, because it shouldn’t be possible to let things get this far.

It truly breaks my heart to see the US as it is now. It’s frightening, and it’s extremely disappointing. I think of all the people who give these totalitarians their vote, and I’m deeply disappointed in them.

That’s really not how that works.

It’s really more like… If everyone is guilty of crimes against the state, then anyone can be imprisoned at any time.

(All at the discretion of those in charge.) This is really a much worse situation for everyone.

I would have struggled if I hadn’t gleaned the premise instantly as soon as I saw the logo.

I mean, as it’s made by ubisoft, it would be pretty funny if they leaned heavily into the evil Abstergo storyline as a dig at EA.

Why would spider-man do that?!

Seriously, that pic looks like Tom Holland.

That’s the joke! Good job spotting it!

It’s probably just downloading an update over and over and over again because it doesn’t know to stop.

That theory seems extremely likely to me! As soon as I read it, I thought “oh, yes that’s exactly what happened”.

Probably it automatically downloaded an unnecessary large update, it had enough storage space to finish the download, but then it started to decompress and install the update, at some point it ran out of usable space, so it started the whole loop over again, forever…

Also also: this isn’t just photons, everything is like this. It may not align with how we observe things on a microscopic scale, but this is fundamentally how the universe works.

Wow, I think this answered my question before I asked it. So yeah, I was wondering about that double slit experiment, I’ve seen it demonstrated with photons and visible light, but do the principles demonstrated by the experiment actually apply to other particles? In the right environments, do atoms behave similarly?

Per the law of conservation of energy, it takes a specific amount of energy to lift an object of a given weight a given height

That of course leads to another problem for people with super strength… heat dissipation. If someone were to lift something as massive as a train car, the amount of heat generated by that persons muscles would be proportionate to the mass they’re lifting. Unfortunately, they’ll be expending massive amounts of energy, without a proportional amount of surface area, so the potential for heat dissipation is comparatively quite small.

My conclusion: any character with super strength would probably unintentionally also have the human torch’s iconic power. Depending on the character, they may only be able to do this once…

M-83

They’re even French