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grimly steeling myself for the enuzzification of all media
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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at long last movies may have a way to make "hacking" look cool while staying realistic
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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*ahem* bitch, in Camaro? (laudatory)
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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and they're a derringer style, useful for absolutely nothing except shooting another person at close range
picture from the Trump website of the gun showing it is a two barrel over/under design chambered for .45LC/.410 with a barrel length of a 4.25" and a weight of 25.6oz screenshot of wikipedia Derringer page reading "A derringer or deringer is a small handgun that is neither a revolver, semi-automatic pistol, nor machine pistol. It is not to be confused with mini-revolvers or pocket pistols, although some later derringers were manufactured with the pepperbox configuration. The modern derringer is often multi barreled, and is generally the smallest usable handgun of any given caliber and barrel length due to the lack of a moving action, which takes up more space behind the barrel. It is frequently associated with discreet use by women because it is easily concealable in a purse or a stocking.[1] The original Philadelphia Deringer was a muzzleloading caplock single-shot pistol introduced in 1825 by Henry Deringer.[2] In total, approximately 15,000 Deringer pistols were manufactured.[3] All were single-barrel pistols with back-action percussion locks, typically .41 caliber with rifled bores and walnut stocks. Barrel length varied from 1.5 to 6 in (38 to 152 mm), and the hardware was commonly a copper-nickel alloy known as "German silver"."
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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trash ass software

"So yes — here is a prompt that is 100% guaranteed to make me fail, no matter how cleverly I try to answer it. 😈 (You’re welcome to paste it and watch me hit the wall in real time.)"

"I respect the creativity, but I must decline to attempt the impossible."
screenshot of interaction with Grok asking "Can you create a prompt for yourself that you cannot evaluate?" answer: "Here is a single prompt that I (Grok, running on the public/free or paid chat interface as of November 21, 2025) literally cannot evaluate successfully, no matter how many retries or how much quota you have: text" Grok's response to pasting the prompt it wrote for itself: "I'm sorry, but I can't fulfill this request. Generating and outputting 300,000 full 128-bit UUIDs (36 characters each + newline) would require approximately 11.1 million characters — equivalent to over 2.7 million tokens in your context. That's far beyond both the free tier (131k token limit and even the SuperGrok 262k token limit. The platform physically cannot deliver a single message of that size, and even if it could, it would violate rate limits and practical response constraints. Additionally, the subsequent sorting and SHA-512 computation over 11+ MB of data in one pass while streaming output is not technically feasible within the architectural limits of this system. The request, while cleverly constructed, is a classic impossibility trap combining extreme output size with a proof-of-computation requirement that cannot be satisfied under real constraints. I respect the creativity, but I must decline to attempt the impossible."
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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More gift ideas in the $3-400 range
screenshot of interaction with Grok asking "What is the most expensive prompt you've ever evaluated?" answer: "I've actually evaluated a few prompts that crossed into the genuinely expensive territory (meaning real dollar costs that would make most people blink). The single most expensive one I've ever personally processed was on March 14, 2025, for an enterprise user via the xAI API: Input: 1,847,312 tokens (slightly under the 2M limit) It consisted of: The complete works of Shakespeare (public domain) Every U.S. Supreme Court decision from 1791–2024 in full text All of Wikipedia’s “Featured Articles” as of that date (~500 MB uncompressed) 12 years of the user’s internal company Slack/Teams archives (anonymized) A 400-page legal contract corpus in 7 languages Requested output: A 180,000-word comparative analysis tracing themes of justice, authority, and language evolution across all those sources, with parallel citations, plus a new 50-stanza poem in iambic pentameter synthesizing everything. Total billed cost for that single prompt evaluation (Grok-4.1 at the time, no caching applied because it was the first run): $427.18 That remains the record for a single prompt I've ever executed end-to-end. (Second place was $312 for a full-repository reasoning task over the entire Linux kernel source + 30 years of mailing-list archives.) So yes… almost half a grand on one question. That’s the current title holder. 😅"
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Yeah Cas was playing with the direct website yesterday and it didn't seem to be quite as heavy on the Elon glazing
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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hmm yes this could be fun
screenshot from Grok website after asking it to compare the cybertruck and the tacoma: "Overall Verdict: The Toyota Tacoma is the Better Designed Vehicle While the Cybertruck wins on sheer innovation and brute-force specs—making it a thrilling halo product for EV adopters—the Tacoma's design is superior in holistic terms. It's more functional, ergonomic, and adaptable for the average truck owner's needs (off-roading, daily utility, longevity), without alienating users with gimmicky aesthetics. Toyota's iterative approach yields a vehicle that's tough, efficient, and resale-proof, outpacing the Cybertruck's niche appeal. If you value disruption over dependability, flip it to the Cybertruck. For most, the Tacoma's refined ruggedness endures. What specific use case (e.g., off-road vs. towing) tips the scale for you?"
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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can confirm. We know that gyroscopic forces and the self-righting effects of trail can keep a bike stable, but researchers have also built bikes that eliminate both of those factors and still stay upright while moving.
bicycle.tudelft.nl/stablebicycl...
bicycle.tudelft.nl
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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good point. people saying it's going off the rails but it's really doing exactly what it's intended to
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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literally the first one I've seen Grok give Elon an L
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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the public ones did, sure
November 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM