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But wouldn't the text it generates reflect such motivations and emotions that were present in the training data?

Decades later I still have better muscle memory for the Beeb's typical ZX*? ( and ELITE's SX ) than I do for WASD or arrow keys.

A HN audience is so sure to parse "WA" as Washington state that leaving it in the title would be misleading with every second response along the lines of "I only clicked because I …

This mention of verbs reminds me of Steve Yegge's blog post "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" from 2006. https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...

I am happy to anthropomorphise a rock with googly eyes. It is when the rock with googly eyes starts to anthropomorphise itself that I get creeped out.

I often remember something I posted and wish nobody had ever seen it.

I stopped using a mouse when I moved from desktop to laptop computer because I found the touchpad is so much more convenient for keeping my hand near the keyboard. However, doing t…

Common practice was to increment line numbers by 10 instead of 1. Would give a bit of wiggle room to add more lines in later without having to renumber everything else.

WinAmp's yellow lightning icon is still sitting happily in my Windows icon tray right this very moment. Pageant is in there too with its cute little spy-hat :-)

I had SAS/C which came on 5 or 6 floppies and my A2000 had no hard disk at the time so compiling meant lots and lots of disk swapping and I used the RAM Disk a lot. Later, for a pr…

I threw out a 17" Trinitron last year. It had outlived all of the flatscreens bought to replace it and was still working, but after ~23 years the plastic casing was dangerously bri…

Very. In simple terms there's just a lot more of Brazil to deal with. Brazil is a massive 8,514,215 km2 while Singapore is just a tiny 734 km2 island which is very highly urbanised…

Had such inspections before whenever kena red zone here. As well as checking all these things the agent will advise on what to look out for. For example our unused plastic buckets …

Indeed, though I suspect many might first have learnt of it watching Blackadder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rNopZDwahg

I'm reminded of the last page of "Orbitsville" (Bob Shaw, 1975). "In time even the flickering ships ceased to ply the trade lanes between the entrance portals, because there can be…