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How old is the oldest building in the town you live in?
  • it's a bit hard to tell. of the buildings still standing and in use, the cathedral comes to mind, with was consecrated in 1238, but it stands on the site of the old mosque. this was torn down apparently in 1262, at which point construction on the cathedral began, but it would take centuries to finish everything.

    there is another church that was named a parish in 1245 and so was probably already standing then, so perhaps that building is the oldest? I don't knoe how much of that original building is still standing though

  • Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions
  • I mean, this is also a particularly amateurish implementation. In more sophisticated versions you'd process the user input and check if it is doing something you don't want them to using a second AI model, and similarly check the AI output with a third model.

    This requires you to make / fine tune some models for your purposes however. I suspect this is beyond Gab AI's skills, otherwise they'd have done some alignment on the gpt model rather than only having a system prompt for the model to ignore

  • Anon is a physicist
  • But it does affect the downward force acting on the object. Given two objects of the same shape but with different masses, one will indeed fall slower than the other. This is because the ratio of weight to surface area differs a lot between the two. Here's a calculator from NASA you can play with, and a relevant passage from the same page:

    If we have two objects with the same area and drag coefficient, like two identically sized spheres, the lighter object falls slower. This seems to contradict the findings of Galileo that all free-falling objects fall at the same rate with equal air resistance. But Galileo’s principle only applies in a vacuum, where there is NO air resistance and drag is equal to zero.

    https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/beginners-guide-to-aeronautics/termvel/

  • Microsoft opens a "high priority" bug ticket in ffmpeg, attempting to leech the free labour of the maintainers
  • It's one thing to just use the software, it's another to open bug tickets that you expect the maintainer to prioritise. It's free software, the maintainer doesn't have to do anything for you. If they want tickets fixed with high priority, they should work something out with the maintainer.

  • [Moldy Monday] I Have Friends Rule
  • Wow, you just completely ignored what he said, and quoted the same short sentence you quoted before as if it settles the issue.

    I hope you're trolling, in which case: A+ effort, well done

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