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psud

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  • People with little mechanical sympathy definitely have less luck with equipment

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  • Having worked in tech support for a system that I knew very well, I often saw problems vanish when users attempted to demonstrate them with me present

    People would say my tech aura made it work

    Really though people just take more care when an expert is present, and so avoid whatever error their earlier carelessness caused

    I wonder if people who experience the opposite encourage less care among those around them

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  • In the stone age and during an ice age

  • Calculatable

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  • I originally learned qwerty and touch typed at 60WPM, during a really boring job before smartphones and before we had internet to the desktop at work and I entertained myself learning to type again, but on dvorak

    So after 3 months I was back to 60WPM

    I really like that dvorak has all the vowels on the left of the home row, and t and h are on the right of the home row right where finger tapping cadence works for "th"

    So my speed hasn't increased, but my fingers don't need to move as much for common words. I don't think it's worth it if you play games on the computer, many games don't map keyboard controls well. Eg Minecraft moves everything to whatever key is in the same place as the qwerty key; 7 days to die doesn't change anything, so you need to choose keys for everything, or if you're happy with the defaults, just change the ones that conflict when you fix "wasd" to ",aoe"

  • Federated social media from before it was cool

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  • ISP around me had policies like "we can provide Usenet except for the binaries trees"

  • We need have a vexillology community!

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  • I see zero subscribers, zero posts. I'm not breaking that streak

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  • If I must

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  • Although dictionaries will show words that significant parts of the population say are wrong, I'm still going to say octopuses is also correct because octopus is an English word and English usually pluralises like that

    Octopusen is not common since octopus is too new to get that style of English plural

    Of course significant parts of the population spell "than" with an e, or "then" with an a, and/or don't know the difference between it's and its

    Would you care to pluralise octagon?

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  • There are workflows using LLMs that seem fair to me, for example

    • using an LLM to produce a draft, then
    • Editing and correcting the LLM draft
    • Finding real references and replacing the hallucinated ones
    • Correcting LLM style to your style

    That seems like more work than doing it properly, but it avoids some of the sticking points of the proper process

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  • LLMs can't cite. They don't know what a citation is other than a collection of text of a specific style

    You'd be lucky if the number of references equalled the number of referenced items even if you were lucky enough to get real sources out of an LLM

    If the student is clever enough to remove the trap reference, the fact that the other references won't be in the University library should be enough to sink the paper

  • Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying, Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters

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  • Legal eagle has a video spelling out which laws are broken. Note that there are specific laws against paying people to vote

  • Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying, Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters

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  • Use a throwaway email, drop it as soon as the promotion is over

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  • I can't say I have ever considered myselfgender fluid due to my gender perfectly fitting the shape of its container (ie me)

  • Goodbye [System32 Comics]

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  • Occasionally my phone recommends an article to read that I find interesting, I click it and it opens in the built in chrome based browser and is a sea of ads. Fortunately there's an "open in Firefox" button so I actually can read the article

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  • I don't think any wild animals other than humans have obesity problems

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  • Bees are a symbol of labour. You couldn't make them work harder if you tried. European honey bees collect far more nectar than they will ever eat, it's like they're planning for fimbulwinter

    So what exactly is the problem with using honey?

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  • Insects

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  • Before the before times (given that the before times are 2019 and earlier

    Ah that's what you wrote

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  • I'm hanging out for when ITER is operational. There's every chance it runs at or just over 1:1