The unease doesn’t come from the word itself being a grave insult but, for example, from being bullied for being “weird”.

Also the guy who fixed GTA Online’s ridiculous loading times.

They belong to the king!

(The king of cats, not the other guy)

Things I want from Firefox/Mozilla, in no particular order:

• Just hire the uBlock Origin guy, Chrome doesn’t want him
• Dissolve the Mozilla Corporation, start a Patreon or whatever
• Foxkeh plushie

I am willing to compromise on the “unreasonable” ones 🦊

It’s also worth noting that the bourgeoisie doesn’t just compete for power with the other two classes (proletariat and petit-bourgeoisie) - it also competes internally. And for that, different factions within the class will seek external support from different groups, and align their discourses to those.

And if someone were to ignore that and view them as a single-minded monolith it can easily be explained as divide & conquer tactics.

The penguin must scream!

There’s a basket with fresh fruit right there in the break room!

I am, only reason I’m dealing with Powershell is work.

vi is the way it is for very good reasons, I don’t really see that with VS Code. Even gVim has menus. You can have both accessibility and flexibility/speed.

I would still try to adapt to it, but the PowerShell experience I had a couple months ago put me off it (and VSCodium) for good. Install IDE, install plug-in, hangs forever until you figure out that the useless error message means you need to install some additional .msi from Microsoft. Blergh.

I agree, thought Atom was kind of a fun text editor but silly for being an entire Chrome browser, then it mutated into this intentionally held back IDE where not even developing PowerShell or C# can be done without mucking about first.

There is barely any functionality without add-ins but not because they want to keep the base program light. And it siphons all the data it can get, of course.

It’s pretty clear to me that they don’t want it to be better than Visual Studio proper, so you don’t get a sane menu structure or out of the box functionality. Microsoft made an editor that is somehow more opaque and unintuitive than vi, not because of necessity or for practicality reasons but because it has to be different from the flagship product.

I’d much rather work with Spyder, Netbeans or Eclipse. Or some Jetbrains product. Or Notepad3 + Terminal and a browser.

He’s not saying “I wish someone would go out and kill Trump”, it’s “if a bullet was already flying towards Trump I wish it had hit him, especially instead of a random crowd member behind him”.

He said “don’t miss Trump next time”.

The “sovereign citizen” in Russia seem to believe that they are citizens of the Soviet Union, funnily enough:

A Russian movement of conspiracy theorists, known among other names as the Union of Slavic Forces of Russia (Soyuz slavyanskikh sil Rusi), or more informally as “Soviet Citizens”, holds that the Soviet Union still exists de jure and that the current Russian government and legislation are thus illegitimate. One of its beliefs is that the government of the Russian Federation is an offshore company through which the United States illegally controls the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement#Russia

Every country seems to have their share of those crackpots. In Germany they think pretty much the same, except it’s the Reich (the WW1 one) that’s still totally real.

Depends, “creepy” has been so over-used in some circles that it can mean anything someone doesn’t find attractive. Like being a bit weird.

And, after the rebranding: “Someone looked at your BONTO! profile! Want to know who? Get BONTO! Premium and send them a BONTO!-Gram! Remember, this could be the beginning of something wonderful! Get it now for only $9,99 (first 6 months, conditions apply)!”

“You have 17 messages in your Slorp-box! Click here to log in”

German-language media says that she claims to not have known that she was pregnant, her Internet search history showed she likely did. Defense said that she was traumatized and had suppressed that she knew. Psychiatric evaluation says she was fully accountable. It’s kinda obvious that there was something very wrong going on, though.

https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/heilbronn/mordprozess-landgericht-junge-frau-lauffen-saeugling-aus-fenster-geworfen-100.html

Never left school, mentally and physically.

Brother, you get a bunch of nerds into any subculture and it’ll turn sexual fast. I’m sure there were plenty of spock eared sex parties.

Case in point:

It is commonly believed that slash fan fiction originated during the late 1960s, within the Star Trek: The Original Series fan fiction fandom, starting with “Kirk/Spock” stories generally authored by female fans of the series and distributed privately among friends. The name arises from the use of the slash symbol (/) in mentions in the late '70s of K/S (meaning stories where Kirk and Spock had a romantic [and often sexual] relationship)

All fair points, my issue is mostly with how this is advertised and that I would not want to learn anything from an inherently untrustworthy LLM. Would have liked to use something with quick access to both human-made explanations and a built-in dictionary/thesaurus when I was learning English myself.

The way the ad is presented makes it look like there’s something wrong with the original (❌) and that the mangled version is better (✅), as if it was actually improved.

The tool removed all the subtext from the original by using this very neutral, matter-of-fact language. There is actual information lost there, not just rigmarole. And that’s the example they chose to put into the ad.

LLMs will also make shit up or completely misinterpret what’s being written, I wouldn’t trust it to get through an entire book without grossly misleading the reader or flipping out. They can’t parse that much text at once right now so all interpretation of a chunk of text will have only a very broad, short and possibly wrong/irrelevant summary of what came before for context.

I don’t even want to know what this would do to something like a Pratchett novel or a textbook.

As far as accessibility tools using machine learning go, wouldn’t a text-to-speech reader app be better for dyslexics anyway?