I now have two computers, a Mac mini that stays home and a laptop I travel with. I need the cloud to keep them in sync. I also have a physical hard drive backup

Hmph. If there's no hell, we'll invent one.

@89th said in The dancing clown Bill Burr: I said stop at 1:20! I've never been good at following instructions. Just ask my wife. I really liked Bill Burr's response. This is what everybody should do.

@LuFins-Dad said in 21 random but fascinating scientific facts: So… Did anybody actually try the honey in the pyramids? They did, and expired shortly afterwards due to The Curse of King Tut. Or possibly food poisoning.

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Nice Jon! I just got back from a 4-day trip to a waterpark in the middle of Wisconsin where it snowed a bit while we were there, so you know... basically the same thing.

@Horace said in Biden lied. Imagine that ...: @Deep-Fakes jon thinks you're GeorgeK, who used to write that phrase. I'm pretty sure it's Tom Cruise.

The carrot is of the Trump Administration's own making and imagination. It holds little, if any, credibility outside of a few minds in Washington and Budapest. The Kremlin however immensely enjoys the black humour of the tragicomedy theatre it offers.

Whatever works for him. He'd gotten in pretty bad shape.

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@jon-nyc said in What are you listening to - Podcast Edition?: There are independent thinkers, and there are contrarians. The latter consider themselves the former but it’s really just another style of groupthink. I'm sure you'd allow that Bari is in the former camp, and I'm sure you won't listen to this interview to hear how strongly she disagrees with your characterization of Jay. And I'm sure you don't actually know anything about Jay, including that the former NIH head who called him fringe and dangerous, eventually apologized.

"Remain single" or "currently single"? That's a big difference.

By deal you mean imposition?

It's gonna happen...

@Axtremus said in The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Their War Plans: Gmail ... https://www.axios.com/2025/04/01/mike-waltz-signal-gmail-security Much ado about nothing.

Mark Cuban dropped his new Skynet Skylight app today as an alternative to Tik Tok. It is in beta mode and lacks some of the features of Tik Tok - but it also permits people to use such triggering words as "kill" as opposed to "unaliving". The content is neither as youthful (teens dancing videos) or instructional (oil industry news) so far - but we'll see where it is in a week.

@Mik said in Better And Faster: Tutoring is an excellent use of AI. I've seen a lot of videos of people being queried about basic knowledge questions - e.g. New York City is in what state? Hawaii is in what country? And a personal favorite of if something costs 65 cents, how much change would you receive from a dollar? There are oodles of people unable to answer those questions. Scary as hell. AI may supplant the need for these voters people and even the people who can answer the questions. I love that AI can tailor things to a specific person. A lot of college students are using AI to not only succinctly summarize notes - but come up with flash card like means to help study. In college, I both learned and later taught statistics - where a lot of the time was devoted to derivation and calculation. A generation later - all of that was unnecessary as software allowed one to focus on the more important issue of interpretation. Now, even that is being supplanted.

Thanks Kluurs. Argerich remains my top favourite living pianist. I have yet to be disappointed by any of her solo recordings out there. Interesting what the article has to say about her relationship to Schumann’s music. I would have never thought that.