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Why is this different? Why is pestering a doctor to give me a medicine they don't recommend a good idea?
I hope the great product continues.
Low-level English is normal and accepted.
On the job, I never speak above the level of a 13-year-old.
AI generated English is hated.
Consider using English, not software translation.
We’d all prefer cross platform programming, but if you’re going to do platform specific, I prefer open source to closed source.
Thank you NVIDIA!
Librarians try to “market” books based on what they think the public wants or needs.
They try to assure a variety of books put forward, with a special emphasis on “good for you” books.
Books deed as “not good for you” are likely to be shelved in the back.
in practice, libraries use the Dewey decimal system, but that excluded the many “exhibits” of “good for you” material.
I don’t mean “good for you” in a good or bad way. It’s simply what the librarian believes will be most helpful to the readers.
There are currently some very real and important controversies in public libraries that have no clear solution.
At least Amazon is clear we don’t own the book.
I could have easily gotten a refund, but there was no way for me to say “I received the product!”
So bizarre.
I’m used to dedicating time to dealing with being screwed by random companies. But this doesn’t fit that description- so I don’t go too far out of my way.
The crime wave of the 80s and 90s really messed up urban architecture.
Parks got a similar reputation- even now there’s still a “good park”/“bad park” mentality.
Mass surveillance has its downsides, but safer public spaces is not one.
The Republic of Venice, Holy Roman Empire, and Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth were all still around when America was founded.
Malta was still under the control of the Crusaders. Mongols still occupied Crimea.
The modern European map really comes from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Many European memories of nationhood are quite fake, and often deliberately so.
Same with drinking, etc.
Ideally there were would be well moderated sites for children, but that’s not practical.
Saying “let’s move kids out of this area so we can do grown up stuff” is totally fine. It protects children while not infringing on adults freedoms.
That’s why Microsoft no longer sets it as default, and it is expected to be phased out by institutional consumers.
Calibri served its time. But it’s time is over.
It encourages them to make it durable in the first place. If the manufacturer of an aircraft carrier has to support it throughout its whole life, it will be a much better designed ship.
The problem is they’re saying “we don’t trust the military with our secrets.”
I’ve seen this attitude at many firms. Keep things so secret even the clients/regulators don’t know what’s going on.
There’s a huge cultural lack of openness, which strongly contrasts with our history of free inquiry.
Are we going to be fertile our entire lives? Interesting the topic doesn’t come up much. But let’s say we are.
My parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents (etc) are still alive and producing more siblings, aunts/uncles, etc.
The phrase aunt/uncle would no longer have age implications. In terms of caregiving, my wife, mom, and grandmother might all be pregnant and raising kids at the same time.
In practice, the family tree would be flattened.
Organizations would have similar issues. I’d have to compete against developers with 500 years experience. Even with respecialization, some skills transfer.
If Shakespeare were still alive would we have an Oscar Wilde? Would it matter, since Homer is around too?
In that regard, what language would we be speaking? There are quite a few Ancient Greek speakers still kicking I guess. But Enheduanna is still here too, chanting her Babylonian Hymns to Inana on the synth I guess.
One character has an entire island of populated exclusively by herself.
They never go into why it’s illegal. I think it’s implied they know a copy isn’t the original, but they don’t want to think about it. Too unpleasant an idea.
There is some truth, but this is how you get a crappy-ass intelligence agency.
Good intelligence agencies are focused on gathering intelligence, not performing random tasks that benefit from secrecy.
At best, you go back and forth between no privacy, a heavily condition privacy. At best.
Let’s take privacy back, but that’s a big process.
If you haven’t internalized surveillance, start working on it!
It didn’t work very well.
Some schools have these rules, but unless they are practically enforced, kids get around it.
I worry these laws will result in the worse of both worlds.
We need really well moderated forums for kids, along with practical bans for everything else.
I’m not sure how that happens.
The question was something like: “how reliable is the science behind misinformation.” And it said something like: “quality level is very poor and far below what justifies current public discourse.”
I ask for a specific article backing this up, and it’s saying “there isn’t any one article, I just analyzed the existing literature and it stinks.”
This matters quite a bit. X - formerly Twitter - is being fined for refusing to make its data available for misinformation research.
I’m trying to get it to give me a non-AI source, but it’s saying it doesn’t exist.
If this is true - it’s pretty important- and something worth discussing. But it doesn’t seem supportable outside the context of “my AI said.”
I’m sure I’m idealizing it, but at least I’m not demonizing it like folks did back in the day.