Those are its eye stalks. I don't imagine pressing with a lot of force on its eyestalks is something a slug likes to do, but then again I haven't asked any yet.
it was ringing the bell somehow, what else could it have been? even a particularly fat slug would have trouble pressing the bell as its vertically aligned.
you think nobody runs out of money, or finds themselves up shit creek? what about inherited properties that you dont have the money, time or ability to renovate and youre waiting for someone else to buy it from you?
Those situations happen but they are rare and usually short lived. The reason we see boarded up store fronts and unoccupied homes for literally years is because we incentivize it.
no go and play with your friends... oh yeah thats right they live miles away and the only way to get hold of them is via a screen but because of hysterical adults (who decry the ills of social media from social media) theyve banned me from using it because it will do general detriment to me much like TV was feared to cause, much like books were feared to cause. This time is no different, hysterical parents
This seems to forget the difference between adults will fully-developed brains, and children who are still forming. I hope you'd agree with the principle through this analogy: an adult who looks at pornography would not want to show their child pornography.
> I hope you'd agree with the principle through this analogy: an
adult who looks at pornography would not want to show their child pornography.
but its nothing like pornography. were talking about "screen time" which is a vague generic idea, just the same as "social media" encompasses pretty much any major tech companies website/app instead of actual mediums for socializing like IRC, forums etc that were around for decades prior just never called that
Well, maybe it actually didn't work out so well because in a society where information can travel so fast, we have more and more people thinking hoaxes are real because they've been trained to do it...
I'm not saying there is a conspiracy behind this, just that maybe we are ignoring the bad outcomes and mark them as "bah, it's normal, we always behaved like this"
only if I cannot reasonably access a computer will i use a thumb-typing touchscreen device to do serious work. as computing devices, they are sub-par when compared to desktops. as telephones, they are subpar compared to dumbphones
> what social networks were already offering, e.g. your feed, or direct messaging
by social networks i assume you mean specifically facebook, twitter etc and not IRC or any of the other pre-existing social networks that simply didnt have profile pages or comments sections
> It was a major clash between the idealistic vision of building global interconnected communities and the financial reality of companies wanting to optimize everything for their own profits.
I think its even simpler than that. HTML et al was a nice idea but its largely ignored in the pursuit of making web pages seem like apps.
Berners Lee had this idea of documents like pages in a book, nothing like the full-fledged applications in the browser we get today, yet that legacy Berners Lee cruft still remains whilst people find ever more inventive ways to overcome it
In my experience, most code that operates on integers does not anticipate overflow or wraparound. So it is almost always guaranteed to produce wrong results when these conditions occur, and is only saved by the fact that usually they doesn't occur in practice.
It is odd to me that every major CPU instruction set has ALU codes to indicate when these conditions have occurred, and yet many programming languages ignore them entirely or make it hard to access them. Rust at least has the quartet of saturating, wrapping, checked, and unchecked arithmetic operations.
The trick is to get your ALUs to do some of the math for you. Oh I miss the days of the 68020 fast barrel shifter and the 68030 byte smears. Tricky stuff lost to the silicon/sands of time.
Compromises. We had BCD for finance, binary for games, and floating point for math. I wrote a sample 'make change' using floating, BCD, and integer( normalizing by multiplying by 100). The integer ripped thru it, but surprisingly BCD kept up with FP, and with compiler optimizations, in certain edge cases and unit tests was significantly faster.
You get surprising things with common place problems.
> If you take an LLM that makes 10 tool calls in a row for an evaluation, any reduction in unpredictable drift is welcome
why use an ambiguous natural language for a specific technical task? i get that its a cool trick but surely they can come up with another input method by now?
