There was a fatal crash at Bonneville a couple days ago.
Huh. I’ll have to ask my dad if he knew the guy. He used to race at Bonneville and it’s a pretty small community.
That damn salt gets everywhere. Even after three washings, salt deposits were coming out from between my car’s body panels.
I was once there in the line, close to the front and waiting for my dad to race. Racing was paused due to high winds. Suddenly, a Port-a-Potty passed by laterally at about 40 mph, sliding easily across the wet salt. About 10 seconds later, a pickup passed by, chasing it down. I never did find out what happened or what they planned on doing when they caught it.
Kinda like a dog after a car.
Sometimes when you got to go, you really got to go.
May be it was occupied…
If ever there were a time to sarcastically quip “Well, it didn’t go past me…”
Nothing gets past our @Dr.Strangelove!
This is one of those problems that you’d naively think a computer could do an exhaustive search. After all, for an N-dimensional hypercube, there’s only N2^{N-1} edges, each of which is either occupied or not, giving 2^{N2^{N-1}} possible states. How fast can that grow? 
Aren’t all psychological experiments technically “thought” experiments?
“You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word ‘delve’. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.”
I’ve always used a lot of em-dashes and am disappointed that ChatGPT is sort of ruining them.
I downloaded my SDMB user archive the other day and found that my posts contain 7,761 em-dashes. I’m mildly surprised it’s not more. Sometimes I’ll find that every sentence in a paragraph contains one.
Not all that long ago I started using em-dashes because the Alt-code is reasonably easy to remember (150) and I just took it into my head that it’s useful to distinguish dashes from hyphens.
I just use a pair of hyphens. Most computer contexts nowadays automatically turn that into an em-dash, anyway.
Yes. And actually I found that I have more than 14,000 em-dashes in my archive if I search for both dashes and double-hyphens. Some double-hyphens got converted and some didn’t. And actually it looks like a portion are en-dashes, too, which can be hard to distinguish (and it’s not always clear if the double-hyphen gets converted to one or the other).
I’m more concerned that Randall has obviously been lurking here to get inspiration for this comic and a few other recent ones.
I think not. He’s obviously been delving here.
But he delved too deep.
That was my first thought, too—especially considering the time and effort I’ve spent carefully writing and editing some of my posts.
(Hey look—an em-dash! And another one snuck in too!)
Some years ago a first time poster asked a question about elves in a Tolkien thread. Our favorite JRR-scholar, QtM answered with three long paragraphs then blithely finished with, “I’m at work now. When I get home I’ll have my references available and can answer deeper.” The question-asker responded with,
Oh
My
God.
I posted, “A little bit frightening, isn’t he.”