Semi-Hemi-Demigod @ Semi-Hemi-Demigod @kbin.social

I'm just this guy, you know?

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Not just Little Ben, but also Medium Ben and Not-Quite-As-Big-As-Big-Ben Ben

Intermediate? Nah, junior. They're cheaper after all.

But senior devs do a lot more than output code. Sometimes - like Bill Atkinson's famous -2000 line change to Quickdraw - their jobs involve a lot of complex logic and very little actual code output.

I think the reason they're useful for writing code is that there's a third party - the parser or compiler - that checks their work. I've used LLMs to write code as well, and it didn't always get me something that worked but I was easily able to catch the error.

Good! I only want free-range, hormone-free, grass-fed global elite

You're absolutely right. If my kids were living in Finland or Japan then practicing the language they experience every day would help to form the connections that make a language "stick." I'm reminded of the only good scene from The Thirteenth Warrior where Antonio Banderas explains how he learned the Viking language with two words: "I listen."

That being said, it's far better than my education in French. I took four years in high school and three semesters in college and can barely understand it. Plus I didn't have nearly as much fun as them.

My kids were big into Duolingo, one learning Finnish and the other learning Japanese. So I didn't mind paying for extra stuff because, hey, it's educational.

But then I'd ask them to say something in Japanese, or what something says - we watch a lot of anime - and they wouldn't be able to. So I don't pay for it anymore because it's not actually educational.

Interestingly, I'm watching this great video as I type this which compares Duolingo to a casino, and I don't entirely disagree.

favored increasing revenue from ads instead of user experience and functionality

That just makes sense. Companies want to make their customers happy, and users aren't Google's customers

Exactly. Which is why I discount polls that measure national approval ratings and such. We don't elect presidents that way, so they're not valid.

Speaking in terms of the percent of the population doesn't matter because we don't use the popular vote to elect the president. We need to see how many of them are in swing states. There's a good chance the war in Israel will turn Michigan red.

Didn't that data breach also uncover that the site is 99% men, with the remainder being bot accounts or scams?

Nobody is going to re-certify a plant built on 1960s technology

Yeah, that's why they're re-starting one built on 1970s technology

I wouldn't build a new power plant, but reactivating existing ones makes sense and is cheaper per GW than solar and reactivation has insignificant emissions.

I don't think nuclear power was killed by NIMBYs, at least not entirely. In the 1970s and 80s the financial world started taking a much more short-term view. Nuclear power plants have such a huge up-front cost that you aren't going to see returns for decades. When the market wants numbers to go up every quarter they're not going to finance something that won't make a profit for 20 years.

There are a few stations near me that have E85, "88 octane" (which is just 12% ethanol), diesel, and three grades of gasoline. Since you can't mix those other fuels with gas the pump has four hoses and you still have to select the grade of gas.

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they’d have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. It had never heard of Salt Lake City, of course. Nor had it ever heard of a quingigillion, which was roughly the number of miles between this valley and the Great Salt Lake of Utah.

Yeah, but that's not the decadence they're talking about. They mean things like "feeling like yourself" and "having good sex."

True, but my car needs 92 octane

These higher-paid workers used to be promoted to senior management or even executive roles. But since people are working longer than ever, those roles aren't available and people are getting stuck.

I didn't know this before and it adds credence to my feeling that it's better to let my tank get below 1/4 full before filling it up, rather than continually topping it up.