wonderingwanderer

you’ll see that the equation was solved using preexisting theories and formulas. Ergo, humans had already manufactured every individual piece of the puzzle, and had used them in other contexts that the AI could be fed and then reuse.

That's exactly how humans solve problems too. We don't need to create entirely new languages and numeral systems, then write completely novel proofs for all the most basic theorems of math, before we can get credit for a new application of existing theorems that we discovered.

When MC Hammer (rather, his producer) sampled Rick James for “Can’t touch this”, did he become the bass player? No, that was still Rick James, they just took his song and altered it to make theirs.

And yet people to this day know it as the riff from Can't Touch This...

That’s a lot of information to swallow.

I'm fucking dying 🤣

Passkeys are actually better for situations like this

Is that like when you have a really long unique string of random characters stored on a flash drive and you use it to unlock your computer instead of a password?

I think those can be beneficial cause if there's a data breach and all your passwords are compromised, they wouldn't get your passkey, right? It would require physical access to the USB.

But the downside is then you have your passkey on a USB, and if someone gets their hands on it they can copy it and use it.

So I think a hybrid approach is best (when it's not overkill), and have your passkey on an encrypted, password-protected flash drive so that it requires both physical access and knowledge of the password.

But unless you're in government, healthcare, or deep in some industry where absolute confidentiality is supremely critical, it's probably overkill

I guess if it's assembled with slave labor then they could probably sell it for the cost of parts. I'm not saying it isn't overpriced, but suggesting it should only cost as much as the parts is kinda ignorant.

The R36s is pretty affordable if I remember correctly

Or, if you have a soldering iron and are into DIY, you can make a retro handheld console with an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi.

You can also 3D print the case and buttons (if you don't have a printer, check if your local library does).

If you want to get technical, they're archaeo-galacto-imperialists, because they still worship the Old Gods from Afar, and continue to serve the unbroken dynasties that sprung from the Old Gods' loins in the days when humanity was still just a bunch of single-celled organisms cruising through space on frozen asteroids.

Of course, they serve as deified emissaries of the Old Gods, giving them a position in the universe incomprehensibly far above us lesser beings who have never even heard of the Old Gods and have no clue where "Afar" even is. But it is a service they render with great pride and deference!

In order to zoom in all the way and search for specific locations, you need to download the map for the region you'll be in because since it's all stored locally on your device it doesn't download the whole world by default, that would be enormous.

Also the data is crowdsourced so if a spot you need isn't on there, feel free to add it yourself and upload it to OSM

Your company is stupid for that.

Yeah and they make it a hidden file too for maximum security!

Well your company is stupid for not letting you use a better password manager than an excel spreadsheet

....although it's Microsoft so a text file might be better.

Looks inside. Also microsoft.

Dude just get keepassXC... it literally creates an encrypted vault for your passwords and it's all stored entirely locally on your device.

The only potential inconvenience might be that it doesn't integrate with browser/apps as far as I know, but you can copy/paste from it and it can even generate random strings for you to use when creating new passwords.

Literally just one password to remember, to open the vault, and all the rest can be stored securely. Two passwords if you use a different one for your desktop login, but that's still manageable.