You do mean "capitalism", of course?
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- Tue Oct 03, 2023 2:36 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The declining quality of our supply of extremely rich people - a rant
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3597
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 2:33 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Dream sharing thread
- Replies: 218
- Views: 291225
Re: Dream sharing thread
Two recurrent nightmares of mine: 1. I’m back in high school and I have basically done none of my calculus homework for the entire year. 2. I’m back in university and there’s some problem where I can’t graduate unless I pass this one class that I keep failing (Symbolic Logic, which I did actually h...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:01 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029322
Re: Venting thread
(Yes, I'm mainly thinking of people who call everything bad in politics "fascist".) Yeah, there are numerous forms of authoritarian politics and lumping them all into fascism is careless if understandable. It feels good to characterize your opponents in the harshest terms possible, but yo...
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 1:59 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: What fonts do you use?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3473
Re: What fonts do you use?
Comic Sans and Palace Script. All others are abominations unto the LORD.
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 4:10 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 734
- Views: 137881
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
A gentle reminder that convincing malloc that his fears are not related to the real world has never worked. <sarcasm="very heavy indeed"> But surely AI will improve someday to the point that it will be able to do even that? </sarcasm> More realistically, I think that when AI creativity do...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 2:27 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 734
- Views: 137881
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
So you would argue that software engineering is fundamentally much harder and more complicated than art or literature, such that automating it the same way is simply not feasible? "ChatGPT, write me libraries in three unrelated computer languages, with full documentation and fully comprehensiv...
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 2:41 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Virtual Verduria's banner has two slightly different shades of green?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 394
Re: Virtual Verduria's banner has two slightly different shades of green?
It's actually the computer equivalent of one of those optical illusions where the same shade of grey looks darker next to white than against black.
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 2:39 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Unusual collections of things
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1572
Unusual collections of things
This is not about established collective nouns, but about things which don't have them yet. In British political discourse it is common to hear about "measures" coming in "packages", or sometimes on "rafts"; what other such things are there?
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:56 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
- Replies: 998
- Views: 3638665
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 5:20 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029322
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 2:17 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029322
Re: Venting thread
My father died peacefully yesterday after getting steadily worse for a few years.
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 2:30 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 15029322
Re: Venting thread
Flew down to Exeter for a week's holiday. Flight was delayed by an hour, meaning an extra hour of hanging around a busy and noisy airport. Minor but annoying issues with the hire car. All this while suffering discomfort after an ME episode. Result: a nasty attack of anxiety and the first day ruined,...
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 4:18 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 734
- Views: 137881
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
I cannot imagine that generative AI would actually accomplish anything non-trivial (i.e. beyond doing what people used to do manually, i.e. searching StackOverflow) as software development goes any time soon if it cannot write a working factorial function on the first or second try. A few months ag...
- Sun Sep 10, 2023 4:51 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 734
- Views: 137881
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Oh, I disagree with malloc, but lots of people are worrying along similar lines. I've had similar debates a few times IRL. It's time to come "out of the AI closet", as it were: the ZBB member you know as "alice" was actually replaced by an LLM several months ago, and none of you...
- Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:01 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The future direction of Welsh???
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18392
Re: The future direction of Welsh???
It looks like the answer is number 3: alice's Welsh is lacking.
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 2:19 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3734
- Views: 453049
Re: Random Thread
I think it will survive as a medium for writing, and in its softer and more absorbent forms for wiping and cleaning.
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Uses of the octothorp. (#)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1289
Re: Uses of the octothorp. (#)
BTW, for more uses: # is sometimes used in phonology to mark word boundaries, which is why I support that in the SCA. I did actually already say that :-) For those who were confused by zompist's reference to the "typewriter", it was a mechanical device somewhat like a laptop with a built-...
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:55 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Uses of the octothorp. (#)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1289
Re: Uses of the octothorp. (#)
Programming Languages: - heading marker (in markdown) (Maybe this is derived from IRC too ?) - comment marker (in some programming languages) Also in shebang lines in Unix scripts. And comments in Unix scripts generally. Also: - C and C++ preprocessor directives - catenation in C macros - length op...
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 7:57 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The future direction of Welsh???
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18392
The future direction of Welsh???
I noticed this bilingual description of a programme on S4C in my EPG: <names of presenters> sy'n crwydro tref lan mor Fictorianaidd Llandudno y tro ma. <names of presenters> explore the VIctorian town of Llandudno this time. Now my Welsh is not up to much, but I do know that (1) Welsh is typically V...
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 4:34 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 716914
Re: Happy things thread!
And when he has done that, to find out how to turn a pearl into a ruby, and then how to make a python rust.