Dave

That's racist!

I'm currently reading A City on Mars, by that web cartoonist guy and his wife. So far they are strongly arguing that stages 1, 2, and 3 are not actually feasible and that we should wait until technology is there and jump straight to 4. Basically the only reason the ISS works is because it's next to earth, you need way more support around the crew (i.e. way more people) if you can only launch a rocket there in a launch window every two years, it takes 6 months to get there, and it's too far away to do live comms.

It's been quite good if you're into that stuff. It has a chapter on space sex, and I just read a section on how the NASA tampon thing wasn't really about how NASA engineers don't understand women, but then gives an example that shows they definitely don't but it's not because of the tampon thing.

They also specifically address the single rocket landing then add more rockets to make a city thing.

Microsoft (via third parties) absolutely do audits of companies as part of licencing conditions, but the result of noncompliance is not jail, it's a bill.

If you're looking at the customisable/upgradable thing, then Frameworks are great for that. You can buy them without (or with) a Windows licence, you can buy them without RAM or a hard drive if you want. But they are on the more expensive end of the scale. However, in future you can upgrade the guts without replacing the case/screen/etc.

I can't believe Eric stole years of my life!

If he thinks all these free content updates will make up for it, well he's probably right.

To be fair, if you don't know about how gravity works, you would just hold up a rock, drop it, and say obviously things can move without someone moving it.

"Reddit, except it's mostly leftist trans Linux users."

I can't remember! It was probably a year ago, but knowing me I probably tried random starting numbers until I got the answer I wanted.

It was a question like where I knew the answer and needed the correct value to put in the equation to get that end result. I wish there was a better way to search previous chats because it would help if I could remember the context. But anyway, the first time it got the maths right from the starting value to the ending value, but it didn't actually answer the question because the ending value was not the one I asked for. It was as good as if it gave me a random answer.

I pointed out that it hadn't answered the question, and that's when it just changed the last step to make it the answer I was looking for. It was supposed to adjust the starting value to make it have the correct outcome.

I've asked ChatGPT to explain maths to me before. I can't remember what it was but it was something when I knew the answer and was trying to calculate the starting value.

It told me the answer and I asked for the explanation. It went something like this (not actual, just a tribute):

• Step 1: 1 + 1 = 2
• Step 2: 2 * 2 = 4
• Step 3: 4 / 8 = 0.5

Me: Uh, the answer is supposed to be 9,000,000.

ChatGPT: Sorry, it seems you are right. Here's the corrected version:

• Step 1: 1 + 1 = 2
• Step 2: 2 * 2 = 4
• Step 3: 4 / 8 = 9,000,000

I also think it would be many years if at all that Google could get a site going that is popular enough people filter their search results by it like I do with Reddit.