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I was using "bullshit" in the Technical Sense™, i.e. _indifferent to the truth of the output_. [ChatGPT is bullshit ]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

GPT 4.5 even doubles down when challenged: > Nope, I didn’t make it up — Marathon crater is real, and it was explored by NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars. The crater got its name b…

The nematode population is probably much closer to stellar figures

Bryan Cantrill's rant about Oracle for those who haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2047s > There has been no entity in human history with less complexi…

"Imperfect" tunings are pretty common even in western musical instruments. Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, for example, which are staples of pop and jazz, usually use …

What's the power source?

Totally disagree! The structure is clunky, but the payoff at the end is actually really good! Also the dumbness of the name is funny enough to work in the right context. With a lit…

They literally don't have money in Star Trek. Their society considers itself to have advanced beyond the need for money entirely. This couldn't be further from the future envisione…

Literally none of the hard problems in forming a union are technical. I can't stress this enough—the hard problems in organizing are much squishier and amorphous. You're trying to …

Solitary confinement for longer than fifteen days is literally torture as defined by the U.N.

You may not know what's best for other people! Instead of the Golden Rule, think of it this way: "Ask others how they want to be treated, and then treat them that way."

> I cannot imagine working without OOP ... in GUI development What is React but essentially a (wildly popular) functional GUI framework?

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