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> When openAI made its Nov 2022 chatGPT announcement, why did they try so hard to hype it in anthropomorphic terms? Same reason they hyped up how worried they were about "safety" o…

> Willing to work for less than an American, but somehow doesn’t drive wages down for Americans. Yeah, they obviously do. That's plain bullshit. .... ooooon the other hand, we've n…

Option+shift+dash, on a default English Mac keyboard. Easy to remember—"modify [option] the dash [dash] to make the biggest common form of it [shift]", or else you can think of it …

Yep, this is all (MAGA's rapid judo-flip and complete capture of the entire Republican apparatus, that right-wing authoritarian nationalism is popular at all, the legal and bureauc…

I fully expect to see them take on more and more roles that e.g. the FBI traditionally performed. The strategy appears to be to expand, empower, and control them as the "MAGA law e…

I don't entirely know what to make of a very-small number of companies' valuations going sky-high that fast (and a few completely without any apparent connection to the fundamental…

The book Impro treats extensively of what it calls "status games", in the context of building believable, natural scenes of dialog for the stage (or other dramatic purposes) and as…

I Found No Peace by Webb Miller, published 1936, which is an autobiographical work by a reporter and war correspondent. I actually got the dates slightly wrong, this would have bee…

> I’m still of the opinion that iOS 6 was peak iPhone. You’re not alone. The release of iOS7 basically took us from having one OS that didn’t constantly confuse the non-tech-savvy,…

The idea of avoiding work by taking a shit, though. Like I could entirely see Julius Caesar’s Gallic Campaign including a bit about punishing some soldier because he always managed…

I wonder what the oldest reference is we can find to this practice. I bet it's very old. Oldest I know of is only the late 19th century, but I bet we could beat that by at least se…

> Hell, the fact that the Supreme Court is a permanent bench of justices versus a rotating set chosen by lot for each case? I've been making noise about this option but it doesn't …

> Charlie Kirk. We'll see what shakes out of the trial, but odds are leaning that way, yeah. > The healthcare ceo. Last I checked the guy's history read as right-leaning and it was…

> Yea in fact the ACA law caps insurers to a maximum of 15% profit. These are plan-by-plan, not on the company overall, and notably this doesn't apply to: 1) Self-funded plans. Nam…

Besides, it also invites the immediate and rather fatal rejoinder of, "OK? So how about we... don't do that?" Any negative response to that must suppose that everyone else would ju…

Solidly in middle age, three kids, plenty of other problems. Still way easier than high school. If next week the world went topsy-turvy and providing for my kids now (for some reas…

> Every once in a while I remember an algorithm for doing something I can include in our app and feel like a God, lol. I can distinctly remember the three times this happened for a…

I own a modal logic textbook used by a course in a philosophy department, and on any given page it looks an awful lot like a math textbook except that the presentation is far frien…

OK, but I've never been anything but complete shit at proofs, and I'm really good at debugging. They don't feel like the same activity to me at all. This "well actually you're doin…

There's perhaps more pressure in a way because you're now responsible for fixing any problems, but kids are exposed to the exact same risks of adult life and employment via their p…

Seconding all this. I'm worry that somewhere out there there are kids hearing adults go "high school has to do [shitty thing] to get you ready for the 'real world', which is even h…

I want to disagree with 2, but OTOH it's also so easy to do that I've just accidentally done it my whole life. 20 year programming career and I've never engaged with math beyond ap…

I hated how much 7 bloated the base installation size (10x or more) versus late versions of XP, but otherwise, yeah, it's by far the best desktop OS they've made. (EDIT: Actually m…

Would a very-small number of people leaving affect a well-distributed and population-wide metric like IQ in a measurable way at all? I'd expect not. What are you trying to get at? …