And I have a hard time believing that there isn’t some solid or liquid (or maybe some other exotic state of matter, due to the heat and pressure) inner core way down in there, even if it’s relatively tiny compared to the size of the planet.

Even if it was entirely made of gas when it formed, surely some materials would have fallen in over the eons that could stay solid/liquid at the pressure/temperature of a gas giant’s core?

Ah, but what if you brought a large balloon, inflated it, and flew a helicopter inside the balloon?

Sure. 25% --> 37% … as long as you (for some arbitrary reason) only consider 8 “places” in the solar system.

7 of those are planets, but Titan is a moon. If we’re going to include moons, then there’s going to be a whole lot more than 8 “places” in the solar system, so the percentage of places where helicopters can work is going to be greatly reduced. If we get really pedantic and consider any orbiting body in the solar system to be a “place”, then there will be hundreds, thousands of them where helicopters can’t possibly work, once you start tallying up asteroids and comets.

Also, why does the list include 7 planets, not 8? What? Are you not interested in trying to make a helicopter work on Mercury? That’s quitter talk!

That’s just because ZFS’s disc cache shows up as application-used memory, instead of disc cache memory. (Disc cache memory is often reported in system monitor tools as ‘free’ memory, because it can be freed up as soon as you need it. ZFS’s disc cache works the same way, but it’s not reported separately to the OS, so that makes it look like ZFS is using a shitload of RAM.) If it bothers you, you can set a maximum amount of RAM for ZFS to use, and that will clear it up. It will mean that your performance is slightly worse, though, because ZFS won’t be able to use disc caching optimally.

They’re only starting now?

I generally don’t approve of necrophilia, but on the other hand, I am kind of curious what it would feel like to fuck a neck-hole…

True humor transcends language barriers. If you have difficulty being funny in a different language, it means you’re relying too heavily upon puns.

On one hand, maybe we as a society should move past child abuse being played for laughs.

On the other hand, a ham-fisted government ban is probably not the right way to accomplish that.

Obviously. That’s why they’re called parental controls.

If she asks, tell her Fox News went out of business. Very sad.

No, grandma. I’m not going to be an enabler for your Fox News addiction.

Luigi did.

“You don’t need a gun, the government will protect you” sounds pretty damn shitty when you look at the current government.

Most places are not urban.

but you’re not gonna feed your family meat/potato/milk farming the Wendy’s game.

Not with that attitude.

But once you turn the botfarm loose on it…

Please get the fascists out of office before you disarm the populace.

People used to challenge each other to duels in Congress.

Works great with noscript, though. Noscript gives me a fairly distraction-free article, black text on white background, just broken up by some pictures.

Not doubting your experience. Just hoping more people will start using noscript.

That’s really a flawed analogy, though. In this analogy, the man isn’t passing the Chinese Turing Test – the program is passing the Turing Test. The man is just the hardware that the program is running on.

It’s not a question of whether the man (the hardware) has any understanding. What you want to know is if the program has any understanding. Honestly, it seems like deliberately muddying the issue by proposing this hypothetical ‘intelligent hardware’ and using it to distract from the actual question about the software’s intelligence.

If I’m running a supposedly ‘intelligent’ AI on my 3090, you can’t refute that by pointing out that the 3090 is not intelligent on its own, without software.

You gotta send separate emails with only one point/question in each email. Leave them nothing else to respond to.