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It was fine until "the adpocalypse", when advertisers pulled their ads because they were being shown with offensive videos.

While YouTube has been trying to fix the problem the quality of the ads has reduced. So many advertisers now only go through sponsorship, which doesn't give any share to YouTube.

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"

The door lock failing should just disable the self cleaning mode

I don't think cheesecake is difficult

Mix ingredients - how long? Until they are mixed. If a thing needs stirring for a length of time the recipe will tell you

Beef doesn't go golden brown when you sear it

Golden brown is the colour of cooked wheat flour products - things toast to golden, they don't sear to golden

Framework still don't have open firmware

For me if Christmas eve is a Monday we usually get the whole Monday off, if it's later in the week we only get a half day. We get from Christmas eve 12 noon to January 1 off normally

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

RIFTS is set in the future, 300 years after an apocalypse brought magic back to earth

It's fantasy + sci fi

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

If I must

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?

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

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

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

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

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

His parents were not all that well off. They invested $300,000 in his new company. That's within the ability of many middle class workers

His parents were employees, not business owners.

Amazon: people like books; people like next day delivery of stuff; people and companies like making stuff and running stuff in Amazon web services

Minecraft: Marcus Persson owned the game studio (and wrote quite a bit of the game) that made Minecraft, lots of people like it, Microsoft was willing to buy it for billions

Kiran Mazumdan-Shaw made beer, people like beer. They then used beer making processes to make biotech medicines - people like being alive and will pay a lot to stay alive, or even just a bit healthier