jake_and_fatman

To get back to the essay's point, car know-how has traditionally been a blue-collar preserve. YouTube and a bespoke forum for each make and model changed all that. Fixing and maintaining a beater is a source of pride, particularly for the well-heeled who, like Zuck's bow hunting foray, will go out of their way to simulate a more rustic existence.

For practical questions, I always prefer Claude's answer to a human's. Non-narcissistic and to the point. For entertainment, I'm less impatient, although unsurprisingly, most people view reading as homework and are happier to blow through a book written at a YA level. Brandon Sanderson a'int the king for nothing.

Yes! Reading all samples really drives home the study's conclusion that “people generally prefer predictability, because difficult material requires more brain power.” I could blow through the AI generated versions as I do Brandon Sanderson or JK Rowling because my brain was saying "yada yada yada, yeah I get it, how many sentences do you need to say the same thing."

I'm not going to argue. If enough people think I'm mistaken and want to go the portable dumper way, I will resign right here and now. It is very easy to convince me to step down, because I hesitated to take this job to begin with. -- lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-11/msg00640.html

Bruv would run the same guilt trip maybe once every couple years, the last time being the c-ts-mode snafu of his own creation. That time, someone snarkily replied, "Please do [resign]!" Bruv hasn't done it again since. This emacs thing is all he has.

As the Techlead says, only if you're time is worthless.

We should be so lucky. No, sadly, bruv has repeatedly enticed handing over the keys over a silly dustup like the portable dumper, the long line mishandling, or the c-ts-mode incident where he could not bring himself to admit wrongdoing, then invariably back out hoping no one will remember his tantrum. This emacs thing is really all he has.

Reading is going to Whole Foods. Writing is living off the land.

"Bob can be blunt but at least he's honest." Words can have positive or negative connotations for the same notion.