Counter argument: corners make it easier to pour accurately. If it’s a thick soup, you’re going to get strips of soup stuck to the container between the spoon strokes either way and a corner can act as a soup staging area that makes it easier to get the soup out instead of just pushing it around. And a spatula would make quick work out of either shape.

Though note that I’m picturing a rectangular container with rounded edges.

Makes sense. Get it into an adversarial kind of context and it will predict more text that goes against other rules “established” in the context.

There will be other paths to do this. Like a context where there’s a lot of suspicion for other parts of the context would be one of my top guesses. Given the way they work, you could gaslight the shit out of them, since they aren’t an entity that has any memory of its actions. You can even edit the context to modify its responses, which will affect the tokens it predicts going forward.

Though I’m curious how this will be handled by companies that expose access to claude to anonymous people on their website, like ddg.

Lol, I gotta admit that there’s something adorable about that approach to capitalism. Like they are actually adding some value in their attempt to attract sales (both this and the Michelin star system), unlike these days where it’s more of a race to the bottom and someone doing something shitty to their product is an excuse for their competition (or “competition”) to do the same rather than a chance to capitalize on having a product without that shitty aspect (or both, brag about being better while they develop the version that isn’t better and then never mention it again).

I’ve only been to one Michelin star restaurant, but it was easily one of the best meals I’ve ever had and I only ever knew about it because I decided I wanted to see if there was anything to the fuss about those stars. Though ymmv as a friend of mine who has been to a lot more of them says they can be hit or miss; better than average on average but can still have bad days.

Though what was their angle? Credibility for their advertisements or was there something else?

Oh come on now, I don’t wear wooden clogs! They are entirely inappropriate footwear for the finish on my home bowling alley!

You’re underestimating people’s ability to text on those old number pads. When it was all that was there, people got good at doing it. They were physical buttons so it was easier to touch type on them than today’s touchscreen phones. It was just a different layout that needed to be memorized, but it was a pretty simple one, if annoying to use.

Seems kinda wild to me that numbers are that low still, considering just how contagious measles is.

“She took me back to the hotel” could mean two wildly different outcomes. I can’t tell if you mean she ended the date immediately or you two had sex in a hotel and then she ghosted you.

Though either way, her deciding on her own that she didn’t want anything to do with you was a bullet dodge, considering she not only used police resources to try to look you up but even scolded you about it, making it clear she either didn’t think there was any problem with it or didn’t think she’d face any consequences.

Yeah, personal preference also. I think I rank beef below chicken, pork, and turkey, but above lamb in general, but specific dish can change that.

Though I was talking about steaks, maybe a better comparison would have been to say that I’d take a beef lo mein or a decent (beef or whatever) hamburger over a steak any day.

Good choice. You can tell it’s potent because you can taste it as soon as you open the bottle.

Thank you for this comment as it allowed me to upvote This is America twice.

“Pterodactyl? … Absent again!?”

I wonder how many of them are actually gay and blame wiping their ass as a kid.

Yeah, in hindsight, I’m not really sure why I assumed it would be from scratch.

Control Rod Freeze or Infinite Uranium Fuel Rod Blast?

Yeah, and I think that’s what they were going for. Just “I programmed this artificial being that feels emotions like happiness, fear, and frustration, has his own wants and desires, and can calculate the odds of arbitrary things on the fly” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. It feels similar to a kid building a computer out of spare parts (reasonable) and then programming his own OS and software for it (less reasonable).

But, to be fair, maybe it was more of a case of he found modules with those different languages on them and plugged them into a standard but customizable protocol droid program and is referring to that configuration as “programming” rather than the act of writing the software itself. Kinda like how flashing a new ROM onto your bios can be called programming it, despite the lack of coding.

The best kind is when it’s just a piece of chicken with breading added to it. I’ve had schnitzel before but can’t say that I’m familiar with how the meat is prepared before the coating is added. Breaded chicken is usually drier on the outside than what I’m used to for schnitzel, but I don’t know if I’ve ever had high end schnitzel, which maybe is similar. It (the chicken) can be fried, deep fried, air fried, baked, or BBQ’d.

I’m not talking about the fast food or frozen version that is basically just chicken meat (and whatever else they add to the grinder) processed into a paste then moulded into whatever shape. It’s not bad tasting (chicken tendies are a meme for a reason) but nowhere near as good as a good moist piece of breaded chicken.

Lol I started writing this comment in one place, finishing it at a good chicken place.

I had a similar experience with steaks and pork chops growing up. My dad liked his steaks well done.

I’ve cooked some steaks with the understanding that they can be better and they were, especially the one that I accidentally cooked perfectly. That said, I still don’t get the hype steaks can get. Yes, it’s better when cooked perfectly medium rare, but still not even close to a good curry or a perfectly cooked piece of breaded chicken (if you’re thinking like the frozen stuff, you should try eating at a restaurant that makes its own chicken wings or strips, holy fuck is there a difference there, too). The perfectly cooked steak was even better when I put the 2nd piece in a sandwich.

Problem is there’s no such thing as immutable rules unless you’re talking about the laws of physics. Any system only exists because the (sum of the) people in it allow it to exist. Laws only matter because there’s the hard power of force backing the soft power of the courts and branches of government. The unfortunate truth of this reality is that might does indeed make right, not so much in a moral sense but in a “what are you doing to do about it?” sense.

Though he does get asked to go back to middle earth and fix it after dying, and the task was a bit more… involved than the typical printer maintenance job (though a laser printer does have some high voltage dangers tbf).