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Apparently, Google's new AI-based search is quite honest.
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If a person cared only about money and regularly injured or killed people to get it, would you say they are good, evil, or just "indifferent"?
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Apparently, Google's new AI-based search is quite honest.
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If a person cared only about money and regularly injured or killed people to get it, would you say they are good, evil, or just "indifferent"?
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Shrodinger’s Megamind
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It's an analogy, the specific case doesn't matter. It demonstrates that infinite does not mean literally everything, it's possible for some item to be missing from any particular infinite set. In a box of infinite apples you won't have an orange; in a box of infinite fruit you won't have a chicken; in an infinite multiverse you by definition won't have a universe which isn't part of that multiverse.
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Does your country celebrate Halloween?
Scotland here, we do have a bit of an Americanised Halloween but there's definitely elements of traditional Samhain celebrations.
Turnip lanterns > pumpkin lanterns.
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My only regret is that this joke gets closer to reality every year.
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he doesn’t save his own skin like any IRL capitalist would
Doesn't he? After essentially destroying the cure he freezes himself so he can survive.
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What are the most mindblowing things in mathematics?
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Most of the time, but only as long as the shuffle is actually random. A perfect riffle shuffle on a brand new deck will get you the same result every time, and 8 perfect riffles on a row get you back to where you started.
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Timeline of our world
There's no year 0, it starts at year 1 CE (Common Era, you may also see this written as "AD 1", Anno Domini 1). The concept of zero is relatively recent, it didn't exist in its current form when this year numbering system was established.
If you go back one year from there you hit 1 BCE (Before Common Era, also written 1 BC, Before Christ) and start counting up one for each year you go back.
So, 2022 years ago is 1 CE; 2023 years ago is 1 BCE; and 2024 years ago is 2 BCE.
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Why lemmy instead kbin?
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Community is descriptive though, they're literally communities centered around some topic. Magazine only works in a much more abstract sense.
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Rule of being a free speech absolutist
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"Non-gay" is an accurate way to describe straight people but we still have words for straight. We also have words for non-red-haired; blond, brunette, etc. "X and non-X" is a much harsher separation than "X and Y".
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That's an interesting question and not something I think I can fully answer, but it seems likely.
AD did come first when the year numbering system was first created in 525 CE since the system was based on an estimate of the birth or conception (unclear which, there's some debate) of Jesus Christ; hence the name "anno domini" ("in the year of the lord"). I'm not sure when BC was first used since that's English rather than the original Latin.
CE (originally meaning "Christian Era") wasn't popularised until ten or so centuries later. It's more popular now in part due to the fact Common Era is less overtly Christian-centric.
Interestingly, ISO 8601 (objectively the best and most correct way to write dates, fight me) doesn't use AD or CE, the standard just counts normally. So you'd go from year +0001 (1 CE) to +0000 (1 BC) to -0001 (2 BC). I guess that means I'll have to change my original answer; there is indeed a year 0 in the Gregorian calendar depending on the way you represent years.
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What trait instantly makes you despise a person beyond belief?
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I don't follow, are you suggesting it's impossible to own a single apartment in a block? As someone who lives in an apartment I own without owning the entire building, I can tell you that's definitely false. You don't need a landlord to make high density housing to work.
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can we please keep this community about technology and not Twitter/X and elon news?
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Joining a community centered solely around content you want to avoid seems counter-productive.
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How many Lemmy users are non-technical background?
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A server is just some computer somewhere that other machines can connect to. You can get specialised hardware and network setups and other technical stuff, but you can also just use your personal laptop as a server by allowing people to connect to it. A server essentially boils down to someone leaving their computer on.
Wifi is just radio waves. You can think of it like people talking on a two-way radio, except instead of humans speaking it's computers.
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Does your country celebrate Halloween?
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If you're in the US you'll probably know them as rutabagas, it's the standard turnip around here and a bit bigger than a white turnip. You carve them out just as you would a pumpkin, a bit more difficult but the end result is much better imo.
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Rule of being a free speech absolutist
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I'm not sure you're making the point you think you're making.
Brunette means brown hair (ie not redhead), straight means attracted to the opposite gender (ie not gay), cis means identifies as gender assigned at birth (ie not trans), but none of those are binary options. You could be blond, you could be bi, you could be non-trans-identifying non-binary. The existence of terms for one state does not imply a binary, but "X and non-X" is literally as binary as you can get.
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1% rule: 1% of users actively create new content, while the other 99% only lurk.
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If your home instance allows community creation you could set one up yourself.
Also, if drag-and-drop really was the future of programming we'd all have switched to Scratch years ago. Visual and no/low-code programming has been around almost as long as traditional code-based software development
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What trait instantly makes you despise a person beyond belief?
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The people who own the apartments. Individual units have individual owners, shared areas have shared ownership by whoever owns the units unless specified otherwise. Maintenance of common areas is the shared responsibility of all owners.
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Where I am you can buy part-baked bread and "well fired" rolls.
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Rule of being a free speech absolutist
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I'm not sure how many more examples you need to understand this, it's not exactly a difficult concept.
Two is not one, "not one" does not mean two.
Blue is not red, "not blue" does not mean red.
Cat is not dog, "not dog" does not mean cat.
USA is not Canada, "not Canada" does not mean USA.
Water is not air, "not air" does not mean water.
I am not you, "not you" does not mean me.
Brunette is not redhead, "not redhead" does not mean brunette.
Straight is not gay, "not gay" does not mean straight.
None of these are binary options, just as you yourself have acknowledged the existence of non-binary gender identification. Boolean logic only makes sense for binary options.
Trying to enforce "trans and non-trans" as the only two terms is trying enforcing a binary that you have admitted does not exist.