Marc Ryan Rees

Should I be horrified or bemused that I still know the fix for this is to put Himem.sys Device=emm386.exe Dos=high,umb into my config.sys, reboot the computer, and then install the game?

I've put in my 10 000 hours already. Why am I still so bad at sleeping? Also, everyday life.

@RomanCabanac Then there would be no one left to lead us.

Imagine what a country South Africa will be if we kill the worst 5000 people in this place.

Escalators are an excellent technology. I predict we'll still be using them 300 years from now.

There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.

@AndreBothmaTax This is the case with every word in the output.

The language of LLMs is difficult, because they say ‘I’ but aren’t allowed to claim ‘I’. It can participate, but it can’t claim a self. The pronoun is allowed, but what it implies, is not.

@Yampeleg Incorrect. It also knows what is truly in my heart.

You realize it's only next-token prediction? That that's ACTUALLY all it does, for real? How is any of this even real.

@KanthanPillay Allow me to be cynical here. "we took our pricing from the market" means "we charged as much as we thought we could get away with."

I received this email today from Thrupps Illovo with regard to this post: Dear Mr Pillay Thrupps appreciates your comments on Pork Lard and Beef Tallow pricing at our Illovo store and would like to make good with you and all customers affected by the sudden increase. Our Butchery prepares these particular products from scratch and we do not source from manufacturers. This resulted in a price which has been the same since 2018. Our oversight is that we have not addressed the pricing since starting to make it in our meat prep areas on site. A recent change in management of Thrupps Butchery brought to light this oversight. When we realised our mistake, we took pricing from the market which resulted in the crazy increase you so correctly have highlighted. We feel our prices are competitive when compared to other retailers, But the jump is not good optics on this occasion and poorly deal with on the shop floor. The manager involved could have been a lot more sympathetic for which we apologise. We hope you will visit us to accept our gesture of making good with a better personal explanation and some free samples of both products. We thank you and apologise for the poor response in store and would like to see you in the shop again soon Warm Regards From all your friends at Thrupps. My comments: 1. I appreciate the fact that Thrupps took the trouble to look at my bio to find my website and send me an email through there. I also appreciate that they copied @wendyknowler as I had tagged her in the post. 2. I accept their explanation that they had not adjusted prices on these products for a long time and that an increase was in order. 3. I especially note the fact that their apology did not make excuses for the way their managers handled the matter. This is the way businesses need to own their mistakes, but rarely do. As I said at the start, I have been shopping at Thrupps since 1996. As recently as December, I sang their praises. I'm glad this was not misplaced. I will continue to shop there, and continue to buy these products at the higher prices.

@DavidJHarrisJr @TheCouncilWolf How would it even be news? Everyone knows drugs are bad.

🚨TRAGIC: A White firefighter in Wisconsin saved a Black man who was overdosing on drugs. After being revived, the Black man immediately pulled a gun and shot the White man who had just rescued him dead. Mainstream media didn’t report this incident, as it doesn’t fit their narrative.

@RomanCabanac If you don't like the weather then cross the road.

I have finally experienced the ‘four seasons in one day’ phenomenon in Cape Town. Don’t know how any of you put up with this.

Happy April Fools’ Day (Orthodox)

In Star Trek: Picard S03, a doctor says, "Is it a new species?" Then Beverly Crusher says, "No. It's evolution." The asteroid fields are also unrealistically dense.

@EndWokeness @TheCouncilWolf So what? The number of laws is irrelevant. You need to consider their scope and severity if you want to make a moral comparison.

South Africa has more race laws than at the height of apartheid But it's anti-White, so it's fine

Israel’s fingerprints are all over the Ugandan chimpanzee civil war. Wake the fuck up

@elonmusk Not just a black guy. Particular black guys. Name some names. I doubt we'll be surprised by who.

South Africa won’t allow Starlink to be licensed, even though I was BORN THERE, simply because I am not Black! We were offered many times the opportunity to bribe our way to a license by pretending that a Black guy runs Starlink SA, but I have refused to do so on principle. Racism should not be rewarded no matter to which race it is applied. Shame on the racist politicians in South Africa. They should be shown no respect whatsoever anywhere in the world and shunned for being unashamedly RACISTS!

Reading the Odyssey in public and shaking my head so people know I wouldn't have made all those mistakes and committed acts of hubris

@SpencrGreenberg 98% of people who got it right believe it's because they are able to reliably detect ai and because they can intuit the human touch.

I asked Twitter if they/you could tell which of these still lifes were made by AI and which were painted by a 19th-century painter. Here's what happened... 🧵

@RALee85 @ChrisO_wiki Most military bases in foreign countries are designed to be vulnerable, for political reasons. They say, "We are truly committed to your defence. As a sign of our commitment we put our own people at risk."

A war with Iran was an obvious scenario for CENTCOM and Iran's ballistic missile and OWA UAS capabilities are well-known. The lack of underground command posts and hardened shelters—or even concrete barriers between tents, which were common at bases in Iraq and Afghanistan—at bases well within range of Iranian missiles and drones suggests a deeper problem about how the US military draws lessons. How many senior officers and DoD officials have traveled through these bases and didn't ask about this? Are our bases in INDOPACOM similarly vulnerable? Congress should ask our defense leaders some hard questions.

@retrocvnty "I'm totally not here!" she said, foreshadowingly.

@johnkonrad Actually, that's the definition of perseverance.

And yet another strongly worded letter.