The distinction is that before Trump decided to hijack it for political purposes, the US government put a lot of thought and work into official names.

For big things like the gulf of Mexico, or lake Ontario, there shouldn’t be a lot of confusion. But what about the little creek by your house? A series of inlets on a coastline? What if you have dozens of places with the same name; how do you differentiate? What if you have regional local names that differ from the name that outsiders use? What if you have competing names in general parlance? When you type it into a gps, where will it send you?

The U.S. Board of Geographical Names handled all these issues and more, and had been a trusted authority on place names, that mapmakers, businesses, and other governments all trusted to do a good job.

Still today, you can check out the GNIS and find out all kinds of cool stuff. Try searching for “Sugarloaf” to find all the mountains people named after a common thing, or “Denali” or “Washington”; you can find a lot of cool stuff on here, including alternate names for places. (https://www.usgs.gov/tools/geographic-names-information-system-gnis)

It is disgusting that the republicans are destroying years and years of slowly building trust and doing good work that helps all Americans because (check notes) it would be funny if he decreed the name were stupider?

Yeah, obviously not. It’s all just statistical auto correct.

That’s awesome! Do you have any videos you’d recommend for someone getting into it?

Do you have to see if the application you want to host is supported, or is it pretty compatible?

There are some windows softwares i want to run, but they don’t work in wine.

That the ai could produce text claiming that it has elected a ceo. I don’t know how else to restate it. Throw me a rope here.

Which part is confusing?

Typo, fixed

That’s almost surely configurable

But the ai could generate text to that effect, if it was statistically likely.

How does winboat work?

Blender is world class, but the CAD softwares are leagues behind, unfortunately.

I would want it for Google Earth or similar

They should have programs that support them and do outreach, not bans.

Best case scenario : uber loses so much businesses that the taxi companies can roll out a unified ride hailing app and pay drivers decently.

Blorp is having trouble with webp. “Task Panicked”

I disagree. A big LLM might get a mundane question right, but it might not. To call it reliable is laughable.

What it is is confident, and if you don’t know the answer yourself, it will seem plausible.

I am not sure why it would be full of anything; if it was full, i would wash it and empty it, and then it would be empty again. If it wasn’t full, I’d put some dirty towels at the top and run a load. Also why would I be dangerously low on towels all of a sudden? This is also how I approach dishes in the sink.

I have a feeling that the people who are very concerned about not blocking the resource (i.e., the sink) have to deal with more randomness in their routines, maybe because of sharing the resource with other housemates or family members, or having a more unpredictable schedule, and I can respect that.

Why though, if it isn’t necessary? It just adds unnecessary work.

That makes a lot of sense!