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Pretty certain it's not that colour in the UK. More Whiskey coloured?berkeman said:
Pretty certain it's not that colour in the UK. More Whiskey coloured?berkeman said:
That's what I thought too. The stuff is revolting, so I don't have any at hand to check, though.pinball1970 said:Pretty certain it's not that colour in the UK. More Whiskey coloured?
pinball1970 said:Red Bull is not universally red. My memory serves me well on this plus I checked with a very reliable source, a Mancunian bar maid.
I cannot paste images on this device but if you Google you will find it Is not red. It is lager coloured.
A previously unseen quasicrystal has been found in a sand dune in Nebraska https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/7 Later reports claim that is moving to devastate Omaha. |
Borg said:TIL that once your package is on an Amazon truck for delivery, you can actually see where the truck is and how many stops before it gets to your house.
They do public tours of their distribution centers (or at least some of them). A colleague went on one - apparently the warehouse is automated with little robots that lift and carry and reshuffle the shelving units, so the staff pretty much just stand there and always have the shelf they need right in front of them. They just pick the thing off, drop it in a box and post it.Ivan Seeking said:Amazon is amazing. I often have what I ordered at my door within a few hours of ordering it. It probably helps that I live near a major distribution center, but it is still impressive.
Transgender men can get pregnant. Here's what they wish more people understood.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/transgender-men-can-get-pregnant-174513259.htmlWhen Danny Wakefield gave birth to their first child in 2020, it brought to light a string of issues faced by transgender parents in the health care system.
“I had a really hard pregnancy,” Wakefield, 36, who is transgender but also uses they/them pronouns, tells Yahoo Life. During emergency room visits, Wakefield says they were met with “snickers” from nurses, as well as “doubt, disbelief and a lack of knowledge” from physicians ill-equipped to handle their needs.
Indeed! I've been to one as well. The company I work for now has played a major role in all of that. It was the business that just kept giving and giving. Just now for the first time in years we didn't renew the robot contract. Amazon overbuilt.Ibix said:They do public tours of their distribution centers (or at least some of them). A colleague went on one - apparently the warehouse is automated with little robots that lift and carry and reshuffle the shelving units, so the staff pretty much just stand there and always have the shelf they need right in front of them. They just pick the thing off, drop it in a box and post it.
You can use this link from the HeavensAbove web site to see where the ISS is currently located. It's a static image but you can refresh the page to get a current location.Hornbein said:I try to identify the locations on Earth but fail. The area shown appears large but is too small for that.
Probably a non-issue, like so many of the news stories about this side of the human gender fiasco.Ibix said:What, so insisting that you are in no way a woman but definitely pregnant causes medical staff to wonder if your answers to their questions might be worthless because you are deliberately obfuscating the biology that they actually need to know about in order to care for you?
Who knew.
There is a center not far from me. I wonder how to schedule a tour. I'm going to do some research.Ibix said:They do public tours of their distribution centers (or at least some of them)....
Essentially, what it is trying to do is write something like you might expect a human to write as a follow up to the prompt based on the examples it has.sbrothy said:TIL that the language "AI" ChatGPT, perhaps not surprising, is pretty good at spewing technobabble:
"[...] We find that it is effective at paraphrasing and explaining concepts in a variety of styles, but not at genuinely connecting concepts. It will provide false information with full confidence and make up statements when necessary. [...]" -- https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08155
Admittedly I didn't read the paper and the above quote is taken out of context (For comedic value. YMMV.) There may well be something of value here but at first glance it sure sounds like they made a crank-bot.
Some of the humor is lost when you read some of the more serious discussions here about whether it can pass exams though. Still, GPT-3 is impressive but maybe they need a math-bot to go with it. :)
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In fact, if you read the text under the heading “jailbreaks” in the first link I’m not sure it’s funny at all. So it goes.
I had often seen a Tennis ball, struck with an oblique Racket, describe such a curve line. For, a circular as well as progressive motion being communicated to it by that stroke, its parts on that size, where the motions conspire, must press and beat the contiguous Air more violently than on the other, there excite a reluctancy and reaction of the Air proportionably greater.
Trans people are generally quite aware of what is biology and what is appearance. There's no obfuscation of the biology here - on the contrary, Wakefield is (metaphorically) screaming at the top of his lungs that his medical providers should be paying attention to the biology not the appearance. Note also that Wakefield does not use masculine pronouns, a really big hint to anyone who is paying attention that they should be careful about making assumptions.Ibix said:What, so insisting that you are in no way a woman but definitely pregnant causes medical staff to wonder if your answers to their questions might be worthless because you are deliberately obfuscating the biology that they actually need to know about in order to care for you?
Who knew.
The orbital year of each planet is between 1.5 and 19 Earth days. How cute! With so many small planets so close together moving at high speed the system is much more chaotic than ours. That is, in both systems very small differences eventually magnify into big differences, but while in ours it's a million years for a difference to show in TRAPPIST it's more like twenty years. While the system may be unpredictable, this has been going on for billions of years so it seems stable enough. It has the smallest and dimmest sun known though surely there are plenty more like it, they are just too dim to be seen easily. TRAP is only forty light years away, that's how it was found. The sun burns so slowly this is expected to continue for another ten trillion years. Is that an aeon? |