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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Because it's not a small thing to change. You're basically overhauling everything if you wish to transition from a monarchy to a republic, because it's rooted in everything.

The names of the governmental positions, and possibly their responsibilities would need to change, as would official documentation, the money, the flag, the national anthem...

You could hardly call yourself a republic if your passports are still carry the authority of the monarch, and your national anthem prominently features the King.

It only gets more complicated if you're a former colonial power, since they may also be affected, and have to change everything as well. If the UK decides to ditch the Monarchy and become a Republic, Australia and Canada would need to follow suit, since it would be silly for them to have references to a monarch that no longer exists, or a GG who's meant to be representative for a position that no longer exists.

Either that, or there will be a political/legal headache deciding whether they become the new inheritors of the monarchy, since the parent is gone, or would they be also need to make the same changes (see above).

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

After 2029, the plane is to be transferred to the trump library, presumably refitted back to civilian spec, air force paying all costs.

There is no way in hell that the US would let Trump walk away with that gear.

10 years ago, we might have said much the same about the former President of the USA keeping most-secret classified documents unsecured in a bathroom of their resort.

Who knows what may actually happen.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Boo. Currently in the mood to cuddle the cats, except that they hate being picked up, and I'm virulently allergic.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Sometimes it's both, where you mask to seem like the first, while being the second.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Only for some things, though. If you host your own e-mail these days, chances are, you're going to have a very difficult time sending them anywhere without risking them being deleted, or automatically thrown into spam folders.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Especially since Epic doesn't really have much to offer over Steam, other than its games and exclusives.

It wasn't all that long that where Epic Games had the infamous issue with the store. Since their store didn't have a shopping cart, if you wanted to buy multiple games at once, you had to buy them all in separate transactions, but the store flagged that as suspicious purchases/fraud, so more often than not, if you found a bunch of games you liked, and bought them all, your account would get locked.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes, but in this case, you can see what the model is doing, and it is running on your actual computer. Whereas a lot of LLM providers tend to run their models on their own server farms today, partly because it's prohibitively expensive to run a big model on your machine (Deepseek's famous R1 model needs at least a hundred GBs of VRAM, or about 20 GPUs) and partly so that they have more control over the thing.

AI isn't a black box in the sense that it is a mystery machine that could do anything. It's a black box in the sense that we don't know exactly how it's working, with which particular probability vector/tensor is responsible for what, though we have a fairly good general idea of what goes on.

It's like a brain in that sense. We don't know which exact nerve-circuits do what, but we have a fairly good general idea of how brains work. We don't think that if we talk to someone, they're transmitting everything you say to the hivemind, because brains can't do that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Remind me in 3 days.

Although poison pills are only so effective since it's a cat and mouse game, and they only really work for a specific version of a model, with other models working around it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

A lot of ADHD Symptoms are things that regular people also do, but turned up to a level where it causes problems. It's fine to be a bit distracted when you're bored, it might be something more if you're always distracted, even if it's something that you find interesting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People have just been doing dumb things for reputation since forever. We had the cinnamon challenge back in our day.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Can unfortunately confirm. Am useless in and our of a crisis. I can have all the steps for what to do laid out in my head, but be inexplicably incapable of doing anything with them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I was envisioning "improvised heart surgery" as in a stabbing with a knife, as opposed to any surgical function.

But generally, if a someone is having a medical emergency and is brought into the ER, or is having a medical emergency in the ER, they will be triaged, and put ahead of a lot of people whose care isn't as urgent, for good reason.

 

Why is there a mother-daughter thing in the first place?

 

Voyager takes after the Apollo app in this regard, where if the app is closed while text is being edited, it'll bring back the unsaved draft, but it'll pop that into the next reply window you open, even if it is a different thread entirely.

Being able to reopen the same thread and resume editing would make it much easier if you're switching to another app to look up a reference or a link, and Voyager gets destroyed by the OS. It'd also help refresh your context if you can't remember what it was you were writing and why.

 

While kbin.social's site mentioned that they were migrating to a new provider, and as a result, the site might be experiencing some issues, kbin.social has been serving up a similar HTTP 50x errors, and that migration message for well over a month, if not more.

What happened?

 

While ordering a crew cut is easy, since it's on the menu, what about other kinds?

Can you just go "I'd like a men/women's haircut" and leave it at that, or do you need something more specific, like saying you want a Charlestone done by a No. 3 to the sides, and a 4 up top?

 

In our world, the police going to a spirit medium for the DL-6 case, and being ridiculed might be logical, since spirit channelling isn't a real thing, but in the world of Ace Attorney, it is.

Not only is it a known and established practice, with detectable physical effects, but the monarchy of at least one country is specifically sought out for their spirit-channelling powers by other governments, so that they can commune with the dead, and receive advice that way.

However, it also seems to be disbelieved, and ridiculed as a pseudoscience, despite that.

 

I've been using "mechanoid" as a classification (similar to humanoid, etc), but a friend pointed out that it's both too generic, and that said inorganics might just consider it biology, with organics being the weird outlier.

 

You wouldn't start off an e-mail with "My Dear X", or "Dearest X", since that would be too personal for a professional email, so "To X" being more impersonal seems like it would make the letter more professional-sounding, compared to "Dear X".

 

Doctor Who zips all the way up and down through time, popping in at any time and place. If you don't have a time machine to follow them around with, it should be impossible to keep track of which incarnation was where. And yet, the Doctor's enemies somehow manage to do just that, with the Daleks being accurate enough to determine he was on his last regeneration on Trenzalore.

 

One of the options for students enrolling into Hogwarts, if they come from a wizarding family, is that they have the option of using a hand-me-down wand. But short of wands being damaged beyond repair, we don't see many people replacing them, even though it happens enough that hand-me-downs are a valid option for new students.

So how long does one last? Does a wizard normally use one wand in their lifetime, or is it the kind of thing where an old, worn-out wand is fine for schoolwork, but you'd need something newer/better for adult life?

 

What caused the shift from calling things like rheostats and condensers to resistors and capacitors, or the move from cycles to Hertz?

It seemed to just pop up out of nowhere, seeing as the previous terms seemed fine, and are in use for some things today (like rheostat brakes, or condenser microphones).

 

You often see people in fitness mention going through a cut/bulk cycle, or mention one, with plans to follow up with the other. Why is it that cutting and bulking so often happen in cycles, rather than said person just doing both at once, until they hit their desired weight?

 

While we hear of the TARDIS having engines that are implicitly essential to it working, we've also see a TARDIS work without the rest of the machine.

"The Doctor's Wife" and "Inferno" show that a TARDIS is capable of operating as just the console, which would seem to imply that they're just a power source to allow the console to do its thing and move the whole ship around, or to allow for the pilot to do silly things like tow an entire planet one second out of phase.

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