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I don't fear the AI that can pass a Turing Test.
What terrifies me is the one that chooses to deliberately fail it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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There are days when I'd fail the Turing test.
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Is a pronoun a naming word that has lost its amateur status?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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What would clause that notion? Did it comma up in a bad dream? You know you can colon your CP family in such times of need.
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Is a count noun one step above a baron noun?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I bought my current car second hand 4 years ago - let someone else take the big chunk of depreciation, that's my motto - and I was really, really surprised to find that it's worth more now than when I bought it! And a big chunk too - about 50% more than I paid.
Apparently, lockdowns and chip shortages due to the pandemic mean demand is at an all time high, and that obviously drives prices spirally upwards.
But that's silly - it's not a collectable or anything, and I've used it for four more years since then.
Mind you, it's like rising house prices: good in theory if you are looking to sell, but since you'll have to pay more to find a replacement as well it's irrelevant. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I think there's a lot more to it than coronavirus.
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Yup. Had been shopping to replace 1998 car when Covid hit. A month ago, when I realized we had only filled the gas tank once since then, we decided to get by with one car. When I sold it, the price had more than doubled in the one year. Good time to sell, bad time to buy. I think houses are doing the same in some locations.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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OriginalGriff wrote: chip shortages
chip shortages are not due to the pandemic. This is a China/mineral issue. This issue has been in the works way before COVID-19 was ever a thing.
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Unless you have not to pay for a replacement 
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I think there is also a flip side to the situation, if you get really lucky ...
The good lady needed a replacement car back in March and I thought that even if I didn't need to change, I would in the not too distant future. We thought, as you say, let someone else cover the depreciation and buy 2 x second hand.
Then, after some research I came across a great offer which prompted me to fire up Excel and compare all the associated costs for new vs second hand over a period of a few years.
Long story short, replacing with single new car was cheaper and we very rarely both need it at the same time. The car had been bought and registered by the dealership just before lockdown. So I'm guessing it was going to be used as a demonstrator but now it was just money tied up on their forecourt. It had under 9 miles on the clock and several thousand pounds off the normal price. I checked every other dealership in the country and couldn't find a price anywhere to match it.
Even got them to include a couple of extras we weren't expecting like 30 months roadside assistance!
For once, it seems an offer that looks too good to be true, wasn't. It's running just fine.
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...and I'm absolutely clueless as to how to configure SmartGit (or similar) to use the new authentication process. I created a personal access token, but I still get warning emails.
And this page[^] and related links are rather useless or unintelligible to me.
I feel like an idiot, but I have no idea what I'm actually supposed to do, and how to do it?
Any suggestions?
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I went thru this too and wrote up how to get it set up with a PAT (Personal Access Token) on StackOverflow : Authenticate with GitHub using a token - Stack Overflow[^] .
Figuring it out was inscrutable to me and I couldn't believe it when I finally figured it out.
It makes me feel better that someone as smart as you had trouble figuring it out too.
The main docs on it are really terrible. I couldn't tell my PAT from a hole in the ground. 
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Thank you! Both for the validation and the awesome post you made on SO!
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I wasn't aware of this problem until now. I've always used SSH keys and, according to the link you provided, seems those are still good to go:
Quote: You may also continue using SSH keys where you prefer.
My combo is TortoiseGit with PuTTY/Pageant for SSH authentication. Would something like that work for you?
Mircea
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Snaaaaaake, a sssnaaaake.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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thanks, i needed that belly-laugh to loosen up the muladhara chakra !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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No worries.. and you got Magic Mushrooms where you come from these days! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: you got Magic Mushrooms where you come from these days!
I'm mystified by this; perhaps you've seen a story about Thailand ?
Personally, I use no intoxicants/stimulants/alcohol/tobacco, etc. ... except (Praise the Great Bean !) caffeine.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I guess I was under that impression due to some one of those silly holiday movie...
In fact I have been to Thailand once and didn't see anything like that!
I went Ayathusa though.. and then saw the replica in Overwatch, yeah!
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Hi Mate,
At first read, my weak eyes saw 'Ayahuasca' and then interpreted 'Overwatch' to be a movie about some air-headed new-age seekers in Columbia drinking a hallucinogen, and barfing, to shamanic drumbeats
Then, i got focused, and realized you must have meant 'Ayutthaya' ...
i'm still lost in the woods about what 'Overwatch' is 
i'm afraid these kinds of missing references in my mappa mundi are an artifact of how i have (by choice) "dropped out" of many aspects of contemporary western culture for over 15 years. Note: in my little saga, "turn on" did not follow "drop out, tune in" 
Or, maybe, my brain-fog is thicker thanks to trying to serialize a DataTable with a circular reference using the .NET BinarySerializer ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Haha.. you spotted Ayathusa, which is good enough!
Overwatch is (one of my favorite) video game by Blizzard which is set in a near future Earth. And it has multiple map from places on earth. One such map is in Ayathusa! And it has many Thai statue from that place!
It's multiplayer, player versus player, though.. And I struggle, at 50.. when put up against all those salty arrogant aggressive young kid, hahah!
They have some cool short animation though, every now and then, to build excitement
Overwatch 2 Announce Cinematic | “Zero Hour” - YouTube
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