Yea asbestos is no joke, however not every material containing asbestos is an immediate and incredibly dangerous health hazard (provided it’s just sitting there).

Some materials (like the asbestos equivalent of rockwool) continuously release asbestos particles in the air. That is indeed incredibly bad and dangerous and need to be removed asap. Other materials won’t release anything unless you are cutting them or drilling holes in them (and thus releasing particles) or if they are in an advanced state of decay (and thus releasing particles). These normally don’t constitute a health hazard but my understanding is that under certain conditions or given enough time that can change.

This might be the case here. If it was my home I’d definitely get a professional opinion sooner rather than later. Especially since asbestos could also have been used elsewhere in the house, in materials or places that pose a bigger threat to the occupants than the roof cover.

And before you had mail orders

Pope was actually playing 4D chess trying to spur a new wave of conversion to Catholicism.

I’m an introvert, both shy and socially anxious. Not the talkative type either. And I probably have ADHD, focusing on conversations, especially when it’s not a one on one discussion can be extremely hard for me.

My personal experience is that social interactions can be a nightmare but they can also be very rewarding, if only because it often takes my focus away from the demons in my head.

It really depends on what kind of social interaction, who I’m having them with and how often/how long.

If it generally answers correctly, have you tried asking it those questions?

My personal experience is that it’s generally accurate unless you ask it very specific questions about very specialized stuff. Of course, this is the sort of stuff that you couldn’t ask a random guy in the street; they’d probably have no idea what you are on about.

Go ask it questions about specific register bits for a specific microcontroller and I’ve found that it will generally be wrong.

On an another note, I don’t know if it’s still the case but there were people at one point saying that if you’d ask if it is better to walk or drive to the car wash 500 meters away from your house to go get your car washed, it would nearly systematically answer that it would be better to walk. Of course, this sort of prompt is fishing for a wrong answer, but it does show how “stupid” LLMs can be (and of course, we can be similarly stupid when asked questions that attempt to misdirect you).

It should be reminded that the problem regarding LLM accuracy is not only whether it’s more likely to get an answer correct than an average human being, but also the fact that people tend to view them as quite authoritative - after all, even if we know they can output incorrect facts, we also know that they’ve been trained in a more or less the whole of human knowledge. In comparison, we’re a lot more more critical of human sources - you’re not going to trust some random dude so much if you ask him a programming problem as he is unlikely to have any clue of what you are talking about.

In other words, it’s sort pointless to compare your LLM’s accuracy to a random dude on random questions because you wouldn’t go around asking a random dude for his input for most of these questions (or at least not without keeping in mind that said dude probably doesn’t know better than you). Instead you’d look for someone who knows his shit and ask him.

Not to mention that LLMs tend to be a lot more confidently incorrect which is more likely to give people the wrong idea.

Also, 90% percent accuracy might seem excellent, but it does mean that if you ask it 10 questions every day you will learn something wrong every day on average. If google ai search gets it wrong 5% of the time, it will present wrong information to users hundreds of thousands times a day. (all numbers out of my ass)

Also, accuracy errors can quickly start compounding when we’re talking agents. If the agent breaks down your prompt in 10 tasks and has a 10% chance to do each task wrong, it becomes highly probable that the agent will fail to do correctly what you have asked it to do.

Also, if your starting point is that humans often get things wrong, don’t forget that LLMs are trained on first and foremost on human output.

Which brings me to my last point. LLM’s can’t really be more accurate than their training data. If an LLM is generally correct about something it means that the people that have written or said whatever about it have been generally correct.

One of the nice things about a metal chassis is that it conducts heat very well. Now obviously, the screen isn’t metal so closing the lid probably does trap some heat but the metal chassis itself does not trap heat, it absorbs it and then radiates it to the outside world.

This can indeed give the impression that heat generation is excessive in a metal chassis laptop, or that the thermals suck as you say, because the case can get warm or even hot very quickly. But that is actually because the chassis allows the heat to escape.

On the other hand, a plastic chassis will stay much cooler on the outside because it is very effectively trapping the heat and only forcing airflow with a fan allows the computer to stay at an appropriate internal temperature.

In other words; if all other parameters are the same, a laptop inside a metal chassis will have a lower internal temperature and a higher external temp, while one in a plastic case will have a higher internal temperature but the outside of the case will be cooler.

Without giving you your faire share? They wouldn’t dare.

Another theory concerning how useless some higher ups are is that people keep getting promoted until they reach a position where they’re not doing such a good job anymore.

Indeed, this looks very unserious.

Unrealized wealth isn’t a thing though. You’re mixing it up with unrealized gains (edit: an already quite dubious concept) Stock is wealth, just like your house.

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Oh… yea. Good joke 😆

With Chinese characters on one of the carriages?

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I feel it depends a lot more on how many songs you’d be posting compared to the other activity in c/music.

I’d say post some in the main comm, and if you really want to share a boatload with of songs (like multiple everyday for the foreseeable future) create your own community and cross post a select few to the main category.

It might be nice to have a community a little broader than just Chinese music, like for non western music or maybe East Asian music.

Countries can join the EU without switching to the euro.

Now I’m picturing snakes wearing fancy dresses and elaborate masks

The best jokes are still in the comments though

Regarding the other errors, it seems your compiler is simply on strike. This can happen occasionally when compiling french code, and should fix itself in a few days.

Culture and identity has little to do with ancestry or actual ethnicity. It’s strongly correlated but ultimately we are what we were raised to be.

Except that’s not what we mean when we talk about ghosts. Ghosts are meant to be actual beings with an actual existence, if very different from living beings.

The concept of ghosts exist (as does for all things for which we have words). Some people do believe ghosts exists, and some might have seen ghosts (just like someone actually sees a hallucination). All this doesn’t mean ghosts exist, or else the actual concept of non-existence doesn’t exist - which makes the fallacy evident: if we are to consider that all concepts actually exist (further than just an idea), non-existence has to exist.

The way I see it, if you want to be pedantic about it (it being a joke photo, so potentially unintentionally reversed by the camera, of a cake which is in 3d space and can be seen in both directions) you might as well do it properly and acknowledge that different orders exist for bits.

Indeed writing conventions are also a good point, however this is not writing. People actually working at bit level are probably more likely to see bits on a scope (so in both LSb or MSb order) than as 1 and 0s written on a piece of paper or a screen.