I guess that wouldn’t sell in today’s news climate.

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No. That would be too easy. This was discussed extensively in the archives.

Right, I suspect this is voicing a much older consensus about effective storytelling and good art:

If you want to send a message, use Western Union. — Frank Capra (director of message-heavy films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It’s a Wonderful Life)

Given his filmography, it’s pretty clear Capra didn’t mean that politics should be avoided when telling a story, just that the story should come first. The idea is that any “message” a writer might convey will naturally be embedded in the stories they tell, whereas writers who attempt to construct a story around a particular message tend to fail at delivering either.

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Well-outside my wheelhouse mate, but since it’s been 3 days I’m likely all you’ll get…

Patellar reflex.

It’s a [muscle] stretch [-correction] reflex (sympathetic response) which occurs in the bones protecting the spinal cord (vertebrae depicted in OP) of many animals that have them.

Your doctor activates this reflex on purpose by gently striking an exposed tendon beneath the patella (the knee bone) to observe the strength of the response.

A lack of it (the joke above) is always abnormal and merits further investigation, as it could suggest neuropathy or injury to the central nervous system.

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Someone’s been around the block

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Jack Nicholson nodding gif

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Oh my

And anyone with a badass tree fort

Pro tip: many that ship with an SD inside will have the factory firmware and device-specific keys still recoverable on the card (secure erase is too slow for production I guess) so before turning the device on for the first time, remove the card and image it for maximum chance of recovering the FW intact.

lol dude I acknowledged it was too obscure and paid the due explanation. They’ll refund your ticket at the door.

Yeah missed opportunity to work in a deeper fundamental concept. Application to door funnies denied!

νίκη!

E: too esoteric, sorry. Translation: “we did it R*****!” but with reference to the heavily romanticized legend of Thermopylae which commonly include the messenger/runner dramatically shouting “victory” (nikē) before collapsing as the 300th casualty of the battle.

Oh for sure. I was just answering in case you wanted to know.

Future versions of AI tools will likely use routing to do a variety of tasks more efficiently and accurately. But until then? It’s a jinn to those who would wish away every single chore they lack the patience to comprehend including, unfortunately, information security.

While “routing” of prompts between specialist models and traditional APIs does offer more efficient and reliable outputs, it also

A. requires more elbow grease than one massive generalist model, and

B. doesn’t help you avoid paying API licensing fees by obfuscating their outputs into the blackbox weights of your proprietary model

Uh, no. It’s 100% expected and advisable to use condoms for hookups, and push back on the request would be a deal breaker for me.

lol and with that you’re a better friend to the begonia’s than I