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How did you reach the conclusion that it is a PR project? Since Elon Musk is pushing ahead to colonize Mars - and Martian cities will probably be built underground - it is just as …

No, it's not. You sound like a biology textbook, not a human being.

I usually take one picture of an occasion. And there might be one or two events that qualify as occasions each month. That way, some trigger for the memory is created, but picture-…

It's not "over" greenery. Land is entirely cleared of vegetation before panels are installed, including the occasional forest. Thousands of larger birds are killed by wind farms. O…

If diseases manifest differently for different races and genders, the obvious solution is to train multiple LLMs, based on separate datasets for those different groups. Not to mutt…

Calling Plato a dualist seriously calls into question the author's philosophical credentials.

I've found that AI has saved me time consulting Stack Overflow. It combines thorough knowledge of the documentation with a lot of practical experience gleaned from online forums It…

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You can have homework for practice. That is obviously very useful. What I mean is that any unsupervised work will stop counting towards final grades.

The most likely eventual outcome of ChatGPT (and similar software) will be the elimination of graded homework/coursework, and a renewed emphasis on traditional in-person tests and …

Usefulness to society is only meaningful if a society is going somewhere. Modern societies don't have any collective goals, they are just drifting agglomerations of individuals, mo…

I used this method to learn Latin during the lockdown. But I found Anki more trouble than it was worth. Instead I went old school and used handwritten bits of paper. Worked just fi…

Technology also moves into dead ends. Not every change is progress. You can only tell a posteriori which paths were fruitful and which were not.

Why fly at all? Why not hold meetings over the internet like other working people? Or organize the conference in Bradford or Blackpool, instead of some tropical paradise, and see h…

Good puns. Just out of curiosity, is your name a synonym for sh*tpost?

When you miss something, you're not referring to the original experience, but to a memory of an experience. Memories being mental artifacts, it's perfectly feasible to miss an imag…

> why do diamonds cost so much when they're just old rocks? Seriously? Economics 101: supply and demand. Or is this a rhetorical question, with some kind of social justice slant?

Exactly. What the OP is saying is: my users are getting in the way of my programming. This is nonsensical. Giving business users good tools to do their job is the whole point of so…

Yes, I have handled a situation like that once, in which the client refused to pay and cut off all communication. It was a remote cross-border gig, and there was no way I could aff…

There is already a C# REPL built into Visual Studio, called C# Interactive. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it's not bad at all.

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Your metrics are wrong. The measure is not so much how many houses are occupied, as how many houses are occupied by local working people (as opposed to tourists / hippies / anarchi…

You know, sometimes things look good on a macro scale, but not at the personal level. Both perspectives need to be considered. I live in southern Europe. If I look out of my window…

That's true. The buyers of real estate on a large scale are often transnational investment funds. And they sometimes sit on empty properties for decades, waiting for them to accrue…

Calling parents "stupid" reveals a deplorable lack of parenting experience on your part - you don't know what you're talking about. Children spend 8 hours per day or more outside t…