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Being deported if you get fired is a basic job requirement. Keeps people in line. Americans can't compete with that.

The measure was clearly stated: the life style of that one guy's dad. He's the official consumer well being canary.

I don't really see that happening here. Microsoft doesn't have any trust to lose, and they won't be gaining any by this move. That is the one advantage they have in all of this. Th…

I keep hearing "this is the worst it's going to be" as if we can expect a monotonic increase in quality and value generation. Meanwhile, search was better in the past and is at thi…

This only remains true so long as open weight models lack significant utility. Access to compilers was almost as controlled as access to LLMs to prior to the GNU toolchain and Linu…

Perhaps there will be a lot more people who can write software as well as I can weld metal. Welding is peculiar in that becoming a professional welder takes a great deal of time an…

It's an extension of pretending that developer productivity can be measured in lines of code per day, as well as the managerial blindness to the fact that code can have negative va…

Interesting. I am glad you commented. It's nice getting grounding from someone with a real background in the area. With that said, if it is a hallucination (and it sounds like it w…

I would agree with all of that. Searching for information is inherently an adversarial process. You want your attention in one place, other actors in the system want it in another.…

Bugs get fixed when systems are iterated on. They also tend to be single results from single mistakes, not compound end results of the implementation. Design features tend to persi…

It's a great question, and is tough to answer intuitively without speaking a native language that actually has such a word. I would agree that "boiling milk" and "boiling oil" are …

I am with you on the literal definition there. I wonder if the connotative association is exactly what we are trying to capture here though, and if those other phrases also fit in …

I tend to agree. The definitions overlap perfectly. At the same time, I am having intuitive issues seeing "hot dog" as an idiom, vs just an ordinary noun. It certainly seems to fol…

This will be a hard argument to make. The decision makers who are the target audience for these metrics value "objective" data. They value the appearance of being quantitative, but…

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All of academic publishing has fallen victim to Goodhart's law. Our metrics for judging the quality of academic information are also the metrics for deciding the success of an acad…

I wonder if the term "published" as a binary distinction applied to a piece of writing is a term and concept that is reaching the end of its useful life. "Peer reviewed" as a binar…

"Steam" is very definitely the gas phase of water. Water vapor is too. If we are talking about chemistry they are essentially synonyms. If we are talking engineering, the term stea…

Do you think this comes from a gradual internalization of a real linguistic concept? Or it more a familiarity with common (if unspoken) conventions of the puzzle makers? I suspect …

More to the point, how to German dictionaries handle this? Is there a distinction between words that get enumerated and compound nouns that do not? It does seem, though, that Germa…

There seems to be a lot of overlap between this compound word concept and idioms. Both are largely atomic, defy analysis via individual word definition, and fairly language (and cu…

This is a great comparison. We're arguing about the definition of "word", and attempting to expand it to include edge cases where two words with separate meanings have a different …

The difference between phrases and "words with spaces" is addressed. The confusion might be that this seems to be a spectrum rather than a binary phenomon. We have single words at …

A single word for boiling water would be like the single word "slush" we have for ice in water. It likely could apply to other liquids in the same mixed state, but would be assumed…

A dictionary is an enumeration of words. A thesaurus is a mapping between existing words. Every word in a thesaurus belongs in a dictionary.