You mean a secretary who lives at your house?
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By "self-hosted personal assistant" you mean LLM?
That person doesn't need to leave WhatsApp completely right away. They can just talk to some people on Signal and others on WhatsApp.
What I want out of a Discord-a-like:
- Screen sharing / game sharing
- Voice chat
- Text chat
- Video chat (voice + camera)
Do your bots and plugins make that possible?
Still, the sun is white. Sun light is white.
That's why I said "appears to be yellow".
Are you saying the blue light is removed from the spectrum when it’s passes through the atmosphere?
The light from the sun is made up of a whole variety of wavelengths. You can see that when there's a rainbow and every wavelength from red to orange to yellow all the way to violet is represented. This light arrives in a continuous stream of individual photons.
When short wavelength photons (blue wavelengths down to violet wavelengths and below) hit the atmosphere, they're more likely to be scattered by air in the atmosphere. Because of that, they still hit the ground, but they're no longer coming from a direct line from the sun. That's why when you look up at the sky you see it as being blue, because photons that weren't originally heading toward you were scattered and come towards you from a random direction.
The longer wavelengths, from green on up aren't as likely to be scattered by the atmosphere, so they mostly come in a direct line from the sun to your eye.
As a result, if you look directly at the sun (which you generally shouldn't do) it will appear to be more yellow than it actually is. Astronauts above the atmosphere see the sun as appearing fully white. But, on the surface we see it as white minus all the blue that was scattered. The result is that the sun appears to be yellow when you're on the surface with the atmosphere scattering things.
At sunrise and sunset there's even more scattering. Now even larger particles are involved, and there's more atmosphere to shine through. The blue is removed, but so is a lot of the green and yellow, leaving only the red, which is the least likely to be scattered since it has the longest wavelengths.
So, at sunrise and sunset the sun can appear reddish. At noon it can appear yellowish. But, if you go above the atmosphere so the blue doesn't get scattered, you'll see that it's actually white.
From that article:
Lilly doesn't know "how present my transness was in the background of my brain as we were writing" The Matrix.
They weren't consciously making it a trans allegory. And, the studio would never have accepted it if that was all it was. In retrospect it's obvious that that was a major influence in the story they were telling. And, they're happy that in the present people are interpreting it that way. But, it wasn't as intentional as people like to claim, and that's far from the only possible interpretation.
It has been ruthlessly coopted by people who want to see it that way and refuse to believe that any other interpretation could possibly exist.
I freely admit that the the fact that the writers and directors later both changed their gender makes a good case that that was an element of the story.
But, this was also a huge budget action movie produced by a mainstream Hollywood studio in 1999 when the world was far less trans-friendly than even today. There's no way they would have OK'd a movie that could only be interpreted as a trans allegory.
I really preferred the workflow(?) / pattern(?) that only existed for a few short years when pagers were common and cell phones weren't. Someone would page you. You'd get it, decide if you needed to call them back, decide when to call them back, and where to do it.
You could do it from a payphone, you could wait until you got back home, or to your friend's house, or to work, or whatever. If you wanted to stay out of touch, you could do it.
It's the same reason that the children these days prefer to text rather than call. A text doesn't have to be acknowledged instantly. You can think about your response if necessary. If you want privacy for your communication, you can arrange for that.
No, it's well known Raleigh scattering. Red and green have longer wavelengths than blue. Just past red, in the "wavelengths too long to be seen" direction is infrared which we feel as heat, and which just makes things warm. If you go the other direction into "wavelengths too short to be seen" direction, past violet, you get into Ultra Violet or UV, which is ionizing radiation, and that's why UV is a skin cancer danger. The short wavelength blue light gets scattered, the longer wavelengths don't, so the sky appears blue, and the sun appears yellow.
Floor plans are one of the best ways of exposing the limitations of AI.
AI knows patterns, it knows X is found next to Y. It knows that the label X tends to go with furniture that looks like Z. But, it doesn't know why for anything. It can't even ask the question Y. It's just a pattern matching and generating machine.
So, it doesn't understand the purpose of a door, or a hallway, or a bathroom. It won't tend to put the laundry machines in the living room because that's not a pattern it has seen, but it's not because it understands why that might not be ideal.
It's actually the same with software, it has just been trained on a lot more software, so it is better able to make something that blends in and looks correct at first glance.
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The reason the sun appears to be yellow is the same reason that the sky appears to be blue.
Blue light is scattered more by the air in the atmosphere than other wavelengths. Remove blue from white light and you get yellow. So the light coming from the sun that isn't scattered and dispersed through the sky (making the sky look blue) is yellow.
Getting out appropriately would have been reversing to the place where it entered the flex-posted area, not simply smashing through them.
Remove Teslas from that and now what are the stats?
As usual, anything Musk touches turns to shit, including self-driving cars.
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We used to have that adage about how anonymity made people worse on the internet
Many of us have been saying that's untrue ever since people started claiming it was real.
All you need to do is go to Facebook to see people being horrible under their own names.
If you compare it with Gold
Which you shouldn't do because gold is a very volatile commodity. It went down from 2012 to 2018, then up from 2018 to 2024, then it went up extremely quickly since 2024. Gold is just something people put money in based on FOMO, or based on fears of stock market crashes, or based on other "vibes".
In addition, a lot of the world's gold is simply held in the form of jewelry in India. It's not even used as a direct "investment", it's just a pretty, shiny metal.
the USD moved in lockstep until the US left the Gold [Standard]
You'll never guess why that happened... although if you look at the name of the standard, it might give you a clue.
which is why a single blue collar salary that used to be enough for a good house, a car and the expenses for a family of 5 in the 60s
In the US. You know, essentially the only industrialized country that escaped from WWII with its manufacturing infrastructure intact, and was, as a result, supplying the entire world while everyone else was rebuilding.
The UK was another victor in WWII along with the US, but their workers weren't living in luxury. Rationing of meat ended in 1954 in the UK, nearly 10 years after the war. If you want to know what it was like in the UK in the post-war period, just look at stories of the early lives of the members of the Beatles.
In the US, the post war period not only followed the war, but also the great depression. The great depression ended with the New Deal, which shifted a lot of power from the rich to the workers. Workers from 1945 to the 1970s or so greatly benefited from those policies.
So, this 1960s family with 5 kids, a car and a good house on a worker's salary wasn't typical. It was probably the best off that workers were in the world since European workers who survived the black plague -- and all it took was a devastating world war that destroyed the infrastructure of most of the world's developed countries, other than the USA, plus a devastating depression lasting a decade that forced the government to institute programs that gave workers benefits.
(Oh yeah, and it only applied to white Americans.)
AI art is currently free because it's subsidized by the AI companies who are spending investors' money to try to buy marketshare and mindshare. When that subsidy ends, you'll have to pay for it too.
I'm not sure what public displays of affection have to do with anything.