I nearly bought a “Mouth Face” branded backpack in Thailand once.

I actually thought it was a cooler name than North Face.

There were lots of knockoff Birkenstocks for sale too, but I don’t think they’d bothered to change the branding. Twirkenstock might be a good one though.

One day Tarzan was swinging through the jungle when he saw Jane down below, sunbathing naked in a clearing.

Jane called out “Tarzan, come down here and make sweet love to me!”

“Tarzan only fuck hole in tree!” he called back.

“Come down Tarzan, you will enjoy this much more. I am warm and soft and beautiful.”

Tarzan swung down onto the forest floor, walked up to Jane, and smacked her between the legs with his club.

“Aaargh! Tarzan, what the fuck?! Why did you do that?!”, screamed Jane.

“Tarzan always check for squirrel first.”

Point taken, removed that bit 👍

Regarding nappies: you can start ‘potty training’ pretty much as soon as they’re born. It is babies instinct to try not to soil themselves. This is why it’s so common for parents to get peed on the moment they take off their baby’s nappy. You mostly just have to give your baby lots of opportunities, be attentive to signs they need to go (usually wriggling or squirming), and associate a word/sound/gesture, for them to communicate it to you. I can count the number of times our daughterhas shat herself on one hand, and she’s nearly three years old. For a lot of parents and babies/toddlers it’s a daily occurance. It’s crazy when you think that you have to ‘potty train’ children precisely because you’ve taught them to soil themselves in the first place.

Hope this proves useful to someone. Feel free to AMA about any of this. Parenting is intense and things have a tendency to get blasted out my working memory before long.

Is this a particular breed of cat? Been getting one that looks just like this showing up in our garden and bullying everyone. Real nasty piece of work. It even attacked a rake.

Bramleys are the best cooking apples.

I had a friend who started doing this all the time and I can confirm that it is very annoying.

Another friend decided to try to figure out how to sing on the inhale, while I was stuck in the house with him all day. It literally sounded like a pig squealing.

Email is pre-installed with YUNOhost (Debian-based server distro), in case anyone is interested. I have it installed on a cheap VPS and highly recommend it.

When I was about 14 my dad got me my first computer from a local place where I’d been buying Warhammer. They were the only people in the area that sold either computers or Warhammer, and they sold nothing except those two things.

I remember it wouldn’t turn on one day and I asked my dad to take it back to them to get it fixed. Nearly all of the data on it turned out to be irretrievable and it came back with nothing left on it but the operating system and two or three 144p porn clips I’d downloaded. I seem to remember backing those up on a floppy disk afterwards, so they might even still be at my parents house somewhere!

Happy times.

I’m no expert, but if my understanding of LLMs as ‘probability calculators’ is correct, then if you prompted one properly to produce code which does x (a Photoshop function for example) and it had only been trained on one example of this (the Photoshop source code) it would reproduce the PS source code because that has the highest probability of that being the correct ‘answer’.

Sounds great! Where do I find a capitalism like that?!

And seemingly

“If the bank owes $100 billion, thats the taxpayers problem”

Yeah, my understanding is that once bankers have bet more of other people’s pensions and life-savings than they can cover if they lose the bet, they are in line for a bailout.

In effect, the more catastrophic your bet is, the less personal responsibility you have to take for it.

One of the many hypocrisies and perverse incentives of capitalism.