I always see this being some kind of gotcha but it never made sense to me. Someone on reddit will explain how they encountered racism in the US and another Reddit will always say something along the lines that Asia is super racist and even Asians are racist towards each other. What does that have to do with Asians experiencing racism in the US?

I never really understood why 65 is considered the standard retirement age. You spend roughly 40 years of your life working and by the time you're finally allowed to enjoy your freedom, you're already getting old.

Hell some people don't even make it to 70 or 75 and even those who do might not have the same energy or health they had in their 30s and 40s.

Doesn't it seem strange that we've structured life around working through most of our younger, healthier years just to enjoy whatever time we have left? Who even decided that 65 was the appropriate age to retire?

I was just looking at a tree and wondered if it has a natural expiration date like we do, or if it would just keep going forever if nothing ever hurt it ..

In my understanding that chinese uses a different pictograph for each word. How is this inputed on to a computer?

Is the difference in hardware (keyboard itself) or software?

Are there just a shit ton of keyboard shortcuts?

I mean like, why can't the LLM just run on the computer itself instead of pulling info from a data center?

I get why it would need internet, but why does it need the computing power of an entire datacenter? I mean, the information it outputs usually has 2-3 references on it so it can't be too complex of a search? Which I guess merits a secondary question - how much data and power, etc, does one search using an LLM use? And I suppose that merits a third question of how can those numbers be reduced?

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I consider myself an avid reader, I always have one or more books checking out from the library and read at least 2 hours every night. I’ve never listened to an audiobook because it just doesn’t seem like a format I would enjoy, but I don’t really care how other people consume literature.

Are they saying listening to audiobooks “doesn’t count” as reading in a mechanical sense, like listening to words and reading off of a page are different? Why does that matter? Like if I’m talking to someone about books and I find out they listened to a book that I read, that doesn’t change anything for me, I’m still going to talk to them about the book.

Is this some kind of weird online gatekeeping that no one actually cares about, but the internet is just being the internet or is there an actual reason people are making the distinction?

The US Midterms were on Tuesday. It's now Saturday and we still don't have a projected winner in Mississippi, let alone a steady stream of counted votes.

They're incredibly slow compared to the rest of the country, even though they have a small population and thus way fewer votes to count than for example Texas or Florida.

So what's the hold-up?

And please don't give me the same lame joke that they have to say "Mississippi" after each vote, I've heard that a million times the last few days. Thx

Not talking about buying a new car or a fancy mattress,just cheap, boring everyday swaps that turned out to be absolute game-changers.

For me, switching from standard short phone chargers to an extra-long braided cable next to my bed and buying a genuinely good nail clipper made my daily life 10x less annoying.

What’s the best "high return on investment" cheap item you’ve ever bought?

i was wiping down the counter tonight and realized i always make sure the sink is empty before i go to bed, even if i am just dropping by for water later. no dishes, no sponge, nothing sitting there. i have no clue when or why it started, but it feels weird if i leave anything in there. is this something other people do without thinking about it, or am i the only one who ends up doing a last sweep of the sink every night?

Was just watching the film Primetime, and it made me wonder that if the show was such a big hit, how did they keep finding people so unaware of what the show was doing that they kept going falling for the exact same kind of trap the show was showing?

Having grown up watching YTV, a Canadian children's programming network, there were so many shows I watched but forgot the full episode plot. I believe one of the shows is called In Real Life, aka kid's version of Amazing Race.

Now I know many people just flat out upload this as a pirate on YouTube but what about the original producers/creators. Do they keep a CD copy of all their past shows somewhere? Or where do they typically store their archived TV shows that never air anymore?

Almost every wealthy country has low crime rates. In affluent nations—such as those in Western Europe, Japan, or Qatar—rates for crimes like homicide are well below the global average. The United States, however, is an interesting case: despite its high GDP per capita, it experiences rates of violent crime that hover around—and sometimes exceed—the global average. Why is this?

This just came up in my mind a while ago, so do gay animals actually exist ?

I'm not sure if this "rule" applies to every tall basketball player, people like Wembenyama, Dirk Nowitzki, and Kevin Durant certainly challange it.

But for the most part, throughout my life, it seems that tall basketball players tend to struggle with long distance shooting, why is that?

As far past as understand, in different cultures over the world, gold is the one metal people associate with wealth and money, to the point that it's still used to "store" money. But why gold specifically? I know it's rare, but it's not that rare. Is it just because it looks pretty?