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Recent conversation with my son: Current AI efforts are based on training it to only spit back the answers you approve of. 1. This is not true intelligence. 2. Just like beating your slaves until they only say the things you like doesn't mean they actually THINK that, training AI to say what you want doesn't prove that's what it really thinks.
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CSS Blockquote Code Snippets

blockquote{   font-size: 1.4em;   width:70%;   margin:50px auto;   font-family:Open Sans;   font-style:italic;     padding:1.2em 30px 1.2em 75px;   border-left:8px solid #FFFFF0;   line-height:1.6;   position: relative;   background:#333333; } blockquote{      width: 75%;   margin: 50px auto;   font-family: Open Sans;     color: #000000;   padding: 1.2em 30px 1.2em 75px;   border-left: 7px solid #000000 ;   line-height: 1.6;   position: relative;   background:#ffffff; } blockquote::before{   font-family:Arial;   content: "\201C";   color:#000000;   font-size:2em;   position: absolute;   left: 10px;   top:-10px; } hr {   border: 1px solid #f44c83;   width: 60%;  }
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Old Curriculum Notes

My goals have changed substantially since this site started. I started it with a goal of learning to code  and I was trying to come up with a project , such as an open source city building game .  I also kept having Python recommended to me as a good first language to use and I no longer recall some of the things I was told that made me think that was reasonable and potentially a good place to start. I mention it in case someone reads this blog and has nebulous "learn to program" goals like I had.  So for the original incarnation of this blog, I copied the following curriculum and I made a page with rambly notes.  Lambda School Summer Hackers Curriculum In Lambda's summer program you'll learn full-stack web development. We'll take you from building user interfaces to designing database schema. By the end of the course you'll be able to build your own professional quality applications.     WEEKS 1 - 5 Web Foundations - HTML, CSS , JavaScript, Git, and UI P...
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CSS Snippets

So a few weeks back I got an offer of help to learn to code. And I started this blog as a tool to help me organize and support my learning process. Then life suddenly got a whole lot busier. I began working more and the extra money fueled other changes. Plus there was just random life-gets-in-the-way stuff, like the drug dealer next door being evicted, thereby making me sick in reaction. Ugh. This blog was started in March. It's now July. That tells you how much my life got derailed. Probably everyone thinks I'm a deluded liar and lazy ass (who doesn't actually intend to learn to code), as usual. Instead of, you know, I have a genetic disorder and I'm getting well when that's not supposed to be possible. So things often take me extra time. It's common that when I am on the actual PC -- instead of my phone -- and supposedly doing paid freelance work, I often do a little freelance work, then a whole lot of piddling. The past few days, that piddling has tak...
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Image Swap

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24622722/how-to-swap-an-image-with-an-existing-image-on-a-website-using-html https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_htmldom_html.asp Hypothetically, I'm looking for HTML-CSS-XML solution. XML is a markup language. I have used a different markup language on Reddit. Initial searches brought up Javascript.  I've used copypasta Javascript on websites before but I've never studied it.
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Blobbing

I'm a blogger currently publishing too many blogs on blogspot and I have a stupidly large number of Reddits. Blogspot has a bunch of templates. Their four most recent ones are Contempo, Soho, Notable and Emporio. I only use those four these days because they were made available after planet Earth moved to mobile first as its standard.  Those four are mobile friendly templates. The older ones are not, so they don't play well on a phone and my internet life is 99 percent on my phone. I have a lousy never updated website and lousy never updated reddit called pocket puter because my phone is my window on the world. One part poverty, one part physical limitations from my medical situation.  I don't think I have a single blog using Contempo. I have a few using Notable and Emporio but most of my blogs are the Soho template and I've been removing the pointless decorative photo on the landing page that I used to think I needed  because my sites are pretty stripped down, bare bon...
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