It’s safe as long as you aren’t in daily constant contact with it or eat it.

Let me hit you in the head with a 5kg chunk of U-238 and then tell me it’s safe.

Throw 'em fast enough, they won’t have time to melt. 🤷‍♂️

Which one?

Pym, I’d assume. I mean, the guy beat his wife, created Ultron, and is generally even more of an asshole than Stark…

Like this?

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The index is there (the NTFS file system maintains it automatically) and is fast (as programs like Everything Search demonstrate)… Windows Search is simply not using it anymore, probably so it can shove sponsored shit in the results, or maybe due to lost knowledge due to lay-offs.

Yes, but no.

The NTFS file system does maintain an index, and software like Everything Search or WizTree can use it to produce almost instantaneous results (probably faster than back in the XP days, even with larger discs).

The problem is that Windows Search stopped using the damn index for some reason (probably to provide sponsored web results and whatnot instead of whatever you were looking for).

Just get Everything Search and you’ll be able to search just as fast as you could in XP, and with no Bing spam messing up the results.

Funny¹ thing is that Everything (and similar programs like WizTree) can be that be that fast because Microsoft’s own NTFS file system has a built in file index, which is what Windows Search used back in XP; the search programs practically don’t have to do any work, NTFS has already done it for them.

Of course, though, that’ll give you the results you want, not the results Microsoft wants, which explains the change in later further enshittified versions of Windows.

1.– And by funny I mean not funny at all. Sad, in fact. Tragic, even, maybe.

You’re not taking into account the fact that LLMs are an obvious dead end.

Once that bubble bursts it’ll take decades before anyone invests in AI research again and for anything attached to the term “AI” to not be seen as a scam (LLMs are obviously not AI or anything close, but they’re being sold as such and that’s what the term will be associated with), not to mention we’ll need decades to clean up all the LLM slop spillage before proper research of any kind can proceed.

What you said was valid before the well got poisoned.

Now it’s extremely unlikely we’ll survive long enough to get back on track.

LLM peddlers murdered the future, in the name of short term profits.

We were on track for it, but LLMs derailed that.

Now we’ll have to wait for the bubble to burst, which will poison the concept of AI (since LLMs are being sold as AI despite being practically the opposite) in the minds of both users and investors for decades.

It’d probably take a couple generations for any funding for AI research to be available after that (not to mention cleaning up all the LLM slop spillage from our knowledge repositories)… but by that time we’ll almost certainly be extinct due to global warming.

The LLM peddlers murdered the future for short term profits, and doomed us all in the process.

That seems like a tripping powermod problem, not a user problem.

Users can block other users. Mods are unnecessary and harmful. A redundant point of failure.

EDIT: Oh, wait, if it’s the user doing it just block that asshole, it’ll save you the frustration.

It’s usually mods powertripping, though.

Because spez is a greedy little pigboy, that’s why.

Skyrim Nexus is a dark place…

I don’t know, this sounds more like a Loverslab kind of thing…

The ginosaji.

I’m sure I could survive 24 hours being hit with a spoon.

Humanity.

Hey, I was a fucking kid, OK. I eventually learned.

There’s a remote possibility that the glue might have been on the wall or the pigeons for some unrelated reason and they got glued to the wall all by themselves when they landed on it, I suppose.

In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld the wizards of the Unseen University built a possibly sentient supercomputer out of an ant farm (much faster and more powerful than previous druid-built computers based on standing stones, which were mostly limited to calendar calculations and required regular human sacrifices).

The Agathean Empire at the edge of the disc has little boxes with little imps inside which can paint a picture of what you point the box at in mere seconds.

Later, some Ankh-Morpork entrepreneurs trained imps to paint even faster on highly flammable nitrocellulose reels and, moving them very fast and lighting them from behind with excited salamanders, invented moving pictures (and promptly accidentally almost let the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions enter the disc).

Even later, some other Ankh-Morpork entrepreneurs created a continent-spanning network of semaphore telegraphs, even managing to send pictures through it.

All while some Dwarves in Ankh-Morpork invented movable type, while getting in trouble with the wizards, who’re well aware that you can’t use that to print magic books, for the type will remember…

And, all along, deep under their mountains, the Überwaldian dwarves have been digging up and using ancient Devices to power whole cities…

You don’t want guns in a spaceship. Don’t want to poke a hole in a wall and open it to space.

Swords make a lot more sense when fighting inside a spaceship. (Granted, short swords, probably, due to the limited space, but still.)

Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.

— Pratchett, maybe…?

No, the point is to prevent real democracy by being “democratic enough”.