Honestly, it could be because of the age of the hardware I’m working with. Just haven’t bothered pursuing why it occurs since I have a workaround. The surprising thing to me is how simple the install was for both Linux versions. I did not expect it to boot the first time with no issues at all to troubleshoot to get things to work.

My first question was going to be specs, but that’s new enough that there’s plenty of flavors that should work fine. I have a 2009 MacBook that I was able to up memory to 8GB, and that opened up being able to put Linux Mint vs. the Kubuntu it was running but struggling with (mainly due to Firefox needing 1GB sometimes which would kill its 2GB RAM).

Only real issue is every great once in a while Cinnamon acts flaky (garbage characters) but I put a shortcut to restart it that seems to fix it without messing anything up. Being a secondary computer for me, that’s good enough.

Once we get rid of that pesky AMOC, it should cool back down quickly. Or at least make things different.

A habit of mine, to type something into search suggestions that my brain thinks might not be right. First thing that comes up with “amoc” is “amoc collapse news”. Whee.

Could be a type of loss.

Now there are two of them!

It’d be an interesting environment. What if the atmosphere was thin so the winds were fast, but not strong? Lots of variables to consider, and I’m sure if life could start, it’d find a niche to live in.

Using LLMs that way with the knowledge that it is a sort of mirror of yourself works much better than pretending it’s an actual consciousness that understands you. Think of it as a modern journal or diary that you can put thoughts into and then get back more organized, maybe with some ideas to branch from.

The loss is the imagined future that you would have continued to grow in your mind into something that becomes regret for a non-existent thing. Find out if there’s anything there. If there is, great. If not, then you know where you stand and can use your energy for things that have potential.

A bonus for just saying something without expectations is that you’ll be more yourself, so anything that does happen is based on a realistic setting and not some planned outcome that distracts you.

The only thing worse than the mind games some people play with others is the mind games you play with yourself. But you can stop doing the latter.

It’s good that it will have two parts of the mission, the impacter and the observer, but the article doesn’t mention if the measuring probe will get there first and determine any specifics of where to impact based on those readings, or if it’s just seeing the impact and afterwards and scientists will work backwards. Part of an actual deflection mission would be to know the rock you’re moving well inside and out way before doing anything. If this is a rubble pile type asteroid it will give a lot different results (and be harder to “stop”) than something more solid and/or metallic.

Also, “blowing it up” is much harder than it sounds, and if too late it could be in some ways worse than leaving it a single body to impact Earth, as enough large objects all reentering at once could be a major heating event in that area, potentially affecting more over a wider part. The movie version where the two halves split and narrowing miss the planet is total fiction.

“Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

Opens when you press it. Not finds a solution. Never has found a solution.

Explains why it responds/opens so quickly. Tight coding.

Already had one, why else do you think no one has contacted us yet? Wouldn’t you steer clear of this planet?

I’ve tried it, but my mind keeps telling me I need to upgrade my plan.

Did they have a control group where the colors did matter? If there was never a condition of it mattering, why would anyone vary the presses, unless they just liked pressing red a lot, or the easier to reach buttons, or something else. Seems like an experiment that had already determined the result.

Yes, but the new part is more comfortable. Living in a castle sounds great, until you do it.

A rocket might be better than a private jet overall. May depend on the payload and its purpose.

Big Trolley propaganda. Note that they only show you the very near future path, and not what’s really ahead.

Any of his roles are awesome, but I’d hold McCoy up there with the rest. I believed he was the doctor. Criticize the script for lines and actions, but Karl nailed the mannerisms. As he always does. He’s got a Gary Oldman ability to become something different every time.

That can be an effective tool, if done correctly. It sounds like you’re on the right path. Use the LLM as a mirror to your own speculations and guide the discussion to the finer details. You are in a way talking to yourself much like someone would be writing in a journal, however it’s more organized and faster. Just be wary of the hallucinations. I’ve found modifying the system prompt for replies to be short and direct unless asked to go into detail along with a short summary of your overall goals to be helpful in keeping it on track. Also regularly summarize the current session once it gets long and start a new one with the summary to avoid context wandering.

I also found Claude was better for me than Gemini and ChatGPT, but it could depend on the subject (I’m doing fiction).

One example for the detail work is something I did recently. Hammering out the technology and physics aspects of the novel’s universe. We went back and forth, played with ideas, until I had a much better picture of what I want it to be like. And I had to steer Claude away a few times from diverting to other things, even with my system prompt to stay on topic. It’s just what LLMs do.

At some point step away from the LLM and finish the writing yourself. It’s okay to use it even for revision work, but at that point have it develop lists and suggestions for you to work with, not write the text. You’ll avoid a lot of headaches later trying to “humanize” it.