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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 because Opportunity had driven about 42.2 kilometers (26.2 miles — a marathon distance) when it reached that point in March 2015. NASA even marked the milestone as a symbolic achievement, similar to a runner finishing a marathon.

(Obviously all of that is bullshit.)

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 complexity or nuance to it than Oracle. [...] This company is about one man, his ego, and what he wants to inflict on humanity. That's it.

"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 called Stretch Tuning, wherein notes an octave apart are just slightly higher than 2:1 frequency ratios.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretched_tuning

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 little bit of editing this would make a great piece of flash sci-fi on something like nanoism.

https://twitter.com/nanoism

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 envisioned by web3 people, who seem to want to further financialize, marketize, and commodify all of human experience and interaction.

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 get a majority of people to feel like they have a personal stake in improving the material conditions of others. It's not quorum algorithms, it's not apps, it's not encrypted communication platforms. The hard part is organizing people.

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?

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+died+of+star...

ruby

Congratulations!

No

Look, I don't disagree with you. But you're talking about this like power™ doesn't exist. Like, who do you think will have more leverage in this situation you describe? A woman whose employer is a man?

Yes it does

Flagged? Sorry?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6ZVpJLxs

Folk hero, TBH

The solution here is for the US to start enforcing anti-trust laws again.

I can't imagine a clearer example of uncompetitive business practices and platform monopolization than the App Store.

Really missing the point of the article here my dude

It's almost like we need regulations to counteract what are otherwise inevitable consequences of profit maximization!

Buzzfeed News certainly is, yes.

This is also why the best armies throughout history have always executed their own battalions after every successful battle. Read your history books, people!

My thoughts exactly. As is common knowledge, Oracle simply doesn't have any other positions for people with deep knowledge of Java. Once this project was over, there just weren't any other options than to fire the whole team.

Good news! There are 4200 more pages where that came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time

It's almost as if the incentives of capitalism are inherently exploitative