lukesci, zephyr mage

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@starbright @nonphatic yeah that's me
@starbright @jordyd yeah that's me
@nonphatic that sentence is no good, but i don't know how to fix it
@jordyd this is like when you pretend to be someone else on the internet and also act really modest while subtly bringing up your (fake) accomplishments, I suppose

@AOL I mean, the halting problem also demonstrates that humans aren't capable of debugging, right? It may be the case that ML will never match human ability in debugging, but the halting problem doesn't show that.*

*(I'm taking it as an article of faith that physics, and therefore human behavior, is computable. If we ever find any non-computable physics it'll be fascinating, but for me it's in the same category as polytime algorithms for NP-hard problems: "ignore 'em until we find 'em".)

TIL that in the US, you can get advertisers to stop sending you physical mail by telling the post office "that you, *in your own discretion*, believe [the advertisements] to be 'erotically arousing or sexually provocative.'" (Emphasis mine.)

USPS and the advertiser are not legally allowed to contest this.

So if you tell them that CreditOne mailings just make you *too horny*...

https://about.usps.com/publications/pub307/welcome.htm

Publication 307 - Stop Unsolicited Sexually Oriented Advertisements in Your Mail

I was late to a lecture over taking this photo. I was floored. (birds)
the most powerful enemy in factorio is your own trains actually