porous_grey_matter @ porous_grey_matter @lemmy.ml

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That happened the other way around

Facebook level "humor"

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Climate-wise, 5-10 story buildings are the most efficient, and they are plenty dense enough to support a good level of public transport service etc. It's probably not desirable to go much bigger except in the most constrained areas.

People who previously were at the high end of GPU can now afford used H100s -> they sell their GPUs -> we can maybe afford them

It's much less than a cent per litre anywhere in the US, the quantities used for drinking are essentially free

Sorry, bacon is carcinogenic and not fit for human consumption so we're banning that too.

If I was a high bird I would love a pick your own cherries event

Sure they have; nonetheless the chances are dramatically lower than elsewhere. When they do that, it's news.

The review standards for nature geoscience are pretty high, I think they will have thought of that

This is your brain on American exceptionalism lmao

It's a whole day's worth of maintenance calories for a medium-to-big active male. I sure hope you couldn't eat a whole meal on top.

He is way too much of an egoist for that

Should we just let any old thing that slips into common usage to become the norm?

Yes.

Why not spell it "definately"? It's very common and everyone understands it.

I don't think that quite meets the threshold yet, since most people who do that would still agree that it's not correct. However, it's close, and I wouldn't be against recording it as an alternative spelling.

It's a bit tangential, but English spelling is awful anyway, it bears hardly any relationship to the pronunciation, and I think it's great if it evolves to be a bit less unintuitive.

I suppose you probably do accept the existence of American spellings, even if you aren't from there? So the only difference between us is time, and how many people use a variant. Everyone is a descriptivist, some people just also think they should force their opinions on others, which is wrong. ;)

The squiggly line that spell check draws Uber under misspelled words

You wanted a lecture, here you go:

You can use less for countable nouns, any of them. We've been doing it for literally centuries. In fact, it has never been used only for uncountable nouns (unlike fewer, which has generally only been used for countable nouns). Correct language is determined by what native speakers use on purpose, not what a textbook or teacher says.

At least read the Wikipedia and the dictionary if you want to keep a strong opinion about this:

However, modern linguistics has shown that idiomatic past and current usage consists of the word less with both countable nouns and uncountable nouns so that the traditional rule for the use of the word fewer stands, but not the traditional rule for the use of the word less. As Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage explains, "Less refers to quantity or amount among things that are measured and to number among things that are counted.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less

English breakfast is like the only decent thing to come out of that place

Not just a change of Prime Minister like the last two times (lol), a general election of the whole lower house

Putin maybe, Kim-Jong definitely not. Just Meta's net profit (let well alone revenue) is well over NK's entire GDP. Even if he literally owned the entire country which he certainly does not, he wouldn't be nearly as wealthy as Musk or Bezos.