Home Depot, many many years ago (20+), used to hire people who were experts to work departments. Best Buy used to have concierge experts to help you with phone, camera, electronics purchases. I really wish that stores would do that again. The only differences between stores that sell the same items now are price and availability. Actually focusing on service would easily set a store apart.

That’s just God telling you to go to the bad gateway.

This is apparently a thing he does, and this will be a “walk in the park,” so to speak:

In 2019, he became the first and only person to make the 80-mile round-trip hike to Mount Everest Base Camp without shoes. Two years later, he set the 2021 Guinness World Record for the longest barefoot journey after hiking 1,875 miles on the Australian coast. Now he plans to break that record by walking 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to New York City, entirely barefoot.

… willful idiots we had this time …

Oh, there were plenty of those in 1918, too.

I am right now sitting on a Steelcase Series 1, and while it doesn’t have great lumbar support, it is far better than any shitty $150 “gaming” chair, and is right in your price range brand new.

Why have I never seen this before?

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Ellen Pao.

That’s so reddit.

This is especially true if a simulated universe is indistinguishable from base reality - so perfect in all its aspects that it is identical.

You can also get into the fact that we do not and can not objectively experience reality, simulated or not. Our experience and perception is based on the senses we have, which are inaccurate, and the brain that interprets the inputs, which makes shit up and is wrong all the time. Yes, we can use tools and measurements to enhance our perception and make it more accurate as far as understanding is concerned, but we actually each live in a universe manufactured by our own mind.

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I don’t think it will die, it will probably just fade into irrelevancy.

I don’t find the distinction particularly useful. We seek to understand more accurately how our universe works, with disregard to whether it is direct reality or simulated reality. The increased accuracy that we discover may result in our knowing whether we are in a simulation, or it may not.

Either way, something is base reality, whether it is our universe as we observe and experience it, or some number of simulated levels “below” it. Our own state as simulated or real doesn’t change that. There is isness.

Not since they shut down API access. Now it’s obvious why they did that.

Bring a second bike along with you, and lock it with a $10 combination lock chain.

The only way Microsoft or OpenAI would know this would be to spy on chatbot sessions. I’m sure the terms of service—if I bothered to read them—gives them that permission.

Well there’s your problem.

I have to wonder if you said the same things about Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP.

I was looking at the picture and the headset and device were both the same purple, which made me think it was “all one thing.”

I wonder if there’s something about it having to pass some special testing to qualify as a medical device? DS has wifi, right? Which means that with a DS, there is a pathway to “hack” into it without physical access. (I know, not really, but I would understand why you wouldn’t want to wifi-enable a device that anaesthesizes children.)

Is your girlfriend Guy Fieri?