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Comment · 14 hours ago
They sift all the dirt they remove from the site. They also typically sample it for pollen and such, which they can learn a lot from as well.
Comment · 1 day ago
Nowadays they don’t in fact brush off artifacts immediately upon extraction, just clear them of large clumps of dirt. Precisely because the fragile remains of paint and whatever else might have been stuck to them can often teach us more than the artifact itself.
Comment · 4 days ago
There are also a lot of issues currently with AI being used for fraud, impersonation, and more in remote hiring.
Comment · 5 days ago
It’s probably dead because it’s clearly the C&Ped result of feeding this question to an agent. If OP wanted an LLM’s answer, they’d probably have asked the agent themselves.
Comment · 7 days ago
I mean… the origin of that analogy is selling shovels to gold miners in the 1849 gold rush. Most of those miners found absolutely nothing.
Comment · 8 days ago
Clarity and coherence.

Next question?

Comment · 10 days ago
Not the ones we had at my school and home in the 80s. Nor the outdated DOS machine I inherited to write school essays on when my dad got a new Dell with Windows 95. Just a power button or switch, depending on the model.
Comment · 14 days ago
What are they protesting?
Comment · 14 days ago
Yes, we used to do that, back in the dinosaur (286-486, DOS and Win3.1) days.

“Have you tried turning it off and then on again” became such a common response to Windows 95+ being kind of crap that they started to include the option for convenience.

Comment · 15 days ago
Not surprising it died out, and probably quickly. Birds trained to sing Fur Elise would probably be at a disadvantage in attracting a mate imprinted on a more typical song.
Comment · 15 days ago
You’ll get a kick out of the concept of nominative determinism, then!
Comment · 18 days ago
There are also traditional small business loans.
Comment · 19 days ago
> the best place for DDD is a big ball of mud that works but an absolute pain to deal with

So a vibe-coded codebase?

Comment · 21 days ago
Nor would most of us.

You seem supremely confident that that will be the outcome, though. A lot of us see a lot of other possible ways this could end up, and that seem more likely considering the way the people who have the most influence have been behaving.

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