Oh and to answer your original question, I don’t think any modern denomination “believes” that stuff. Aquinas is considered an important theologian, but his ‘scientific examinations’ or whatever he called them are generally regarded as a product of their time.

I’m assuming by “minister” you are referring to some manner or Protestantism. That would make sense - the Protestant Reform was fairly recent compared to the Aquinas and Pseudo-Dionysus, and happened after the printing press and during the Renaissance. People were much more disposed to leave behind that sort of mythological baggage when starting their new religion.

It’s pretty wild shit, honestly. Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno are both theological classics and they honestly read like high fantasy works at times.

We needed the Star Trek Computer but we got the sycophantic talking doors from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

I think that’s like, Thomas Aquinas level stuff and older. I think Aquinas systematized the beliefs, but they originated earlier with Pseudo-Dionysus and others.

That means it’s old school Catholic. But like, really old school, like 5th century Early Church stuff, hundred of years before the Great Schism. Seems likely that the ideas maybe were borrowed or influenced from even older religious ideas, but that’s just speculation on my part.

Humans, and most of nature, are really just a bad design all around.

It’s one of the most obvious reasons to believe a creator did not make these things. An intelligent designer would have designed things intelligently.

Drop Bears are no joke

Check out this harrowing encounter a reporter had with a really viscous Drop Bear.

I could work an extra hour if I want. If that would cover 12 sandwiches, I would do it, too.

What’s a cookie banner?

I must have Element Zapped it the first time I saw one and never seen one since

This same behaviour happens to me, but only once in a while.

I don’t think it was being ironic. Perhaps a bit cheeky

Yea but you definitely can’t say fuck

My soul burns with the wickedness of a magnesium fire. Baptize me at your own peril

I talk to his dad, and you should too. His dad is everywhere, you just can’t see him. Also his dad is him, and he is his dad, but they are not each other. They are also a dove, which is a spirit.

I said could not would

What does the “video games cause violence” crowd think about this?

How do you use the search bar in youtube? I put in topics or keywords, which seem to work just fine.

Are you putting in whole questions? I’m not sure the search function is designed to worked like that

It’s not a secret. Just nobody in any leadership position seems willing/able to do anything about it

And yet they won’t even consider taking a second look at the other things “liberals” are speaking sensibly about, like abortion and Second Amendment. Even questioning those positions is anathema… but she’s big enough to acknowledge only the one thing that is so obvious that it materially affecting her. And rest assured, she would not be saying “this is not the man I voted for” unless Trump’s ‘policies’ are directly hurting her and her family.

But when your boss tells you that you have to keep doing it this way, then you don’t have much choice in the matter. You either keep asking AI for new code and hope it gets it right, or you have to actually delve into the code and spend your time correcting it.

The 1 million lines of code is just untenable, assuming they want code that actually works.

LLMs are - by the nature of how they work - only able to achieve 90-95% accuracy. That’s the theoretical best they can do, according to the people behind OpenAI. And worse, it will be presented as 100% accurate, even going so far as to make up sources wholecloth.

That’s an insane and completely unacceptable error rate for any system even pretending to be mission critical.

Can you imagine sending people to space with a system that has a 1 in 20 chance of just being completely unfit for service?