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Long long ago, pubs didn't have names but they just had signs. People would call the pub whatever was on the sign. "The King's Head" for pubs with a portrait of a king, "The Wheat Sheaf" for ones with a picture of some wheat or barley, etc.

Lots of old pubs displayed the Stuart coat of arms as a show of loyalty to King James I/VI and his heirs, which is a heraldic red lion. Hence why so many pubs have the same name even though they're all ancient and unrelated.

You can't spell "public transport" without "trans"!

They'll be queuing up on the docks ready to get the first boat back, mark my words.

Imagine trying to dust that. Just think of the cobwebs.

Maybe I'm just tired at the end of a long day, but I'm also completely unable to parse that headline. Somebody's mum is fingering what now?

maybe turn the three sisters

Two of the three precogs were boys, by the way.

Even the US he ce why Vauxhall exists.

Not to detract from your point (because you're completely correct), but just an FYI that Vauxhall/Opel has been European owned for some time now. General Motors sold it to Peugeot back in 2017, and it's now part of Stellantis.

Ford had (and still has) essentially the same arrangement, only in their case they use the same brand. Ford Europe and Ford USA are pretty much entirely separate companies, owned by the same parent; hence why their European car lineup looks mostly nothing like their US lineup.

That's encryption in a nutshell. A message is encrypted until it reaches its destination, and then by necessity is unencrypted in order to read it. Once your recipient has the unencrypted message, you don't have any control over what happens to it.

Fundamentally, if you don't trust the recipient (or their system provider), no amount of encryption will protect your message.

“Species concepts are human classification systems, and everybody can disagree and everyone can be right,” she says. “You can use the phylogenetic [evolutionary relationships] species concept to determine what you’re going to call a species, which is what you are implying… We are using the morphological species concept and saying, if they look like this animal, then they are the animal.”

"If they look like this animal then they are the animal" really doesn't sound like a particularly useful (or scientifically rigorous) position.

Not least because there are lots of animals that look alike but aren't the same species.

In the spirit of Britishness, there's also: https://sheffieldknives.co.uk/

I'm not an "outdoor knives" sort of guy, but I have and greatly enjoy a couple of kitchen knives from them, and they have a full range of outdoor knives that...er...look like knives to me.

FFIX is my favourite FF game (yeah, fight me on it), which means this news is either very good or very bad depending on how the remake ends up.

In my limited experience experience, Gemini responds better with flat, emotionless prompts without any courteous language. Using polite phrasing seems more likely to prompt "I can't answer that sorry" responses, even to questions that it absolutely can answer (and will to a more terse prompt).

So I think my point is "it depends". LLMs aren't intelligent, they just produce strings based on their training data. What works better and what doesn't will be entirely dependent on the specific model.