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Nice of her not to divulge the science of it and just say it's a lot of iterations.

That would not make me hate writing less.


With a little practice you too can write a short essay on an interesting topic while not actually saying anything meaningful or useful!

Works for ChatGPT!

Didn't sound like any science was involved. There were no observing, hypothesizing and testing steps to be found. Can't have science without those.

Science is like that too, it's mostly very tedious and repetitive work.

Generally someone comes out with something other than keep trying from a scientific experiment though, right? Like an hypothesis and a test and stuff like that

You can divorce sentencing from understanding what legalities apply to determining guilt.

You can also deterministically ask what characteristics or traits have been considered when applying sentencing and give the precedence for that.


The rest of the best of the business is paying for it

My house is twice the size of my last apartment and my utility bill is half. apartments just generally don't have as good insulation or as efficient HVAC at least where I live.

The person also discounts the impact of horrible neighbors, stomping and barking at all hours of the day. That can happen in houses but they are not right next to you


I mean my heat is included in my rent, it doesn't change no matter how much I use it. I pay 650/mo in rent including heat and water and I have it like 75F in the winter...

Tldr: Someone discovers how to raise the bus number to 2.

The AI overview has made Google search usable again for me.

I often use Perplexity for more complicated questions though.

In both cases, I really like that. I can actually ask a complicated question and get a reasonable answer.

For example, check the answer to "what is the source of vertical straw in the movie The sixth Sense with the flying taxis and all?"

(I said sprawl but the voice to text understood strawz so I left it)


There's a time and a place for assembly language programming. Of course, I knew someone who would say there's a time and a place for machine language programming (improved it by reprogramming a device by flipping the 17 switches on the front panel)

He looks like he plays a lot of golf

"China is building for the future, "

Meanwhile, the USA is paying for its past excesses, with interest on its debt being the number two most expensive line item in the budget.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...


If you look at total debt instead of just national government debt, then China is even worse off than the US.

Article in Fortune: https://archive.is/53Vu0


In the last 40 years, China has been building while the US has been wasting money and lives fighting wars. Can we learn to really put America first for once?

40?? America has been messing with other countries during most of its life.

Sure, taking out the Tunisian pirates was a good thing for most of the world, but it's a bad precedent...


Yea, I really don't see how much longer the US economy can hold on. The baby boomers are working overtime to rob multiple future generations of opportunity to feed their profits now.

The formerly "fiscal conservatives" that I know are working overtime explaining how the debt isn't a bad thing and we can just move numbers.


> The formerly "fiscal conservatives" that I know are working overtime explaining how the debt isn't a bad thing and we can just move numbers.

Sounds like they're just catching up to what Democrats always used to say whenever a Democrat was in the White House and some Republican would complain about the national debt. "A government isn't a household, debt doesn't work the same way, you don't get it."


That's interesting, because I thought it was common knowledge that Republican presidents actually add more on average to national debt...?

"In addition to missing lowercase, ASCII 1963 and the Model 33 lacked { } curly braces, | vertical bar, ` backtick, and ~ tilde, and they had ↑ up arrow instead of ^ caret and ← left arrow instead of _ underscore."

explains why Smalltalk used the up arrow and left arrow for fairly reasonable punctuation for return and assignment.

Up arrow was replaced much later by caret and left arrow was sadly replaced by :=


Some BCPL dialects/implementations used underscore instead of := for assignment. MUD 1 was written in such a dialect, see e.g. [0]; also, note that it allowed the use of "." in identifiers.

[0] https://github.com/PDP-10/MUD1/blob/master/MUD3.BCL#L96


Left arrow was replaced by _, which (in Squeak anyway) is actually an assignment operator, with := as an alias.

Some computers going into the 80s, for example the Commodore 8-bit line starting with the PET and going through the Commodore 128, still had ↑ and ← for ^ and _.


hang about, the smalltalk return operator is why objc block syntax uses carets, isn't it? how did that only just click for me?

Hard to tell from a short comment, and maybe you already know, but a lot of obj-c is derived from smalltalk.

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