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If you check "jealousy" (instead of "jealous") on MW, you get this editorial note: Depending on who you ask, jealousy and envy are either exact synonyms, totally different words, o…

An aged uncle of mine (who loved his wife very much) once said, "I hope she goes before me. I'd never want her to face the pain of my leaving". Such love.

They may be equivalent in common parlance, but that’s a bit like saying it is ok to use ‘your’ instead of “you’re” just because it is so common. We say “jealously guarded’ not ‘env…

Is it easier to say 'non-profit' compared to 'not making profits'? But seriously, can someone explain why openai went this route?

Vint had an interview?!! Who had the gall to suggest he needs to come in and be evaluated?

"for now"

Nicely done.

You still used AI, even if the results weren't correct.

Not the first result. The AI summary generated by gemini.

This feels so quaint today. How I'd like to be back in that timeframe.

Anyone who does a Google search gets a satisfactory looking answer as the very first entry. I daresay most people don't go beyond that, not even the entries on the first page, let …

What a beautiful explanation. Wow! This is hands down the clearest exposition I have encountered. Kudos.

The level of corruption is staggering.

I wasn't aware of this. The first edition came out in 1991. The 4th ed came out in 2012, by which time Perl was no longer the duct tape of the internet. Perl 6 had muddied the wate…

That’s not true. I wrote the Panther book, Advanced Perl Programming, and easily made way more than 100k. Of the 25-30 or so dollars the books cost, I got 10% per copy, or $2 after…

Doesn't anyone here have _one_ kind word to say about its features? Every one seems to be starting with "on the other hand".

Uh, dayumm. I don't know how I got that wrong.

Many of you might know of Noisebridge, a beloved hackerspace in San Francisco. They had (have?) a juggling workshop every saturday called "Juggling with Judy", taught by Judy Pinel…

We have to evolve ways -- or bring back ways -- of making our agriculture less petroleum dependent. But short of a shock of this nature, we are not going to do any research in that…

Oracle and OpenAI centers getting hit, oil shortages forcing the world the move away from fossil fuels ... my cynical ass feels hope.

You are right to some extent. But there are huge differences between all the wars the US has fought and is currently involved in, and a China-Taiwan war. Taiwan is only a couple of…

Sure, they will find out it is a good military. No doubt about that. What the US has found out repeatedly but fails to acknowledge is that the opposition proves to be a match. Viet…

Reminds me of Abraham Wald's survivorship bias. What of the millions of others who like me who want to live in world without AI?

I didn't know Hesgeth posts on HN.

Ah! Sorry!