jhbadger

No, because it is a historical novel. You have to blend fact and fiction in that, not because you are trying to deceive people, but you have to recreate conversations that were never recorded, get inside the characters' heads to figure out what they were thinking, etc.

>The irony here is perhaps missed by many. He didn’t grade homework in the first >place. He paid assistants to grade. This is common practice among tenured >professors with grant money to spend and graduate students beholden to them >(I’m not making a moral statement, just noting this is common practice).

Grading is part of what it means to be a TA, and being a TA is not some awful exploitation, it's what gives graduate students living money (I was a TA in the 1990s). It makes no sense (except maybe in a small liberal arts school with no graduate students) to have professors grade.

If anything, art history defines "modern" later than the real historical meaning ("modern art" starts in the 1860s after the invention of photography). In history modernity starts in the 1500s - in Western culture history is divided into ancient (dawn of civilization to fall of Rome), medieval (fall of Rome to the Renaissance) and modern (Renaissance to now). You'd need a fall of civilization or something to justify a new era.

I remember when Arthur Andersen Consulting (a software consulting firm that had split off from the accounting firm) renamed itself to "Accenture" in 2001 a few months before the Enron scandal. Although they already had split from Andersen legally, I wonder if somebody in the software firm knew what was going to happen with Enron and realized they needed to dissociate themselves with the name.

Probably because an LLM couldn't write in his style (which reminds me of Arthur Whitney's (kdb+, etc.)

The analogy of a shepherd to his flock gets used a lot in literature and religion, but it doesn't really work in the way it is normally intended because shepherds aren't doing it out of altruism but because they want the wool and flesh of the sheep to use and sell.

Except there are always going to be many more sheep than wolves because how predators live. Just like how billionaires need the masses to support their predation.

There's the traditional German rabbit/hare stew Hasenpfeffer (literally "hare pepper" as hare or rabbit and pepper are the main ingrediants). You may remember it as the dish at least one of Bugs Bunny's foes wanted to make from him.

Even the original UK article just says "the President". Things may change as the US may not play the leading role in this century as it did the last, but despite many countries having presidents (although not the UK), it is still understood that "the President" means POTUS.

It just seems intentionally unpleasant -- as in the insult "Piss off!" You don't say "Urinate off!" or "Pee off!" just like you don't say "Make love off!"

What's wrong with "urinate" or "pee"?

A lot of places claim things for "security" and violating them is grounds for firing because truthfully or not, they claim circumventing them is exposing data. We used to be able to choose our e-mail client as they had IMAP access. A few years ago they decided to only allow Microsoft's own protocol to enforce Outlook use and disabled IMAP access.

I preferred Skype (which Microsoft bought years ago but only killed last year) -- it also, at least in its final iteration, did the share screen thing well and just seemed snappier than Teams.

I wonder when we will move onto harder tasks -- I remember around 2007 people were using Crysis (also a first-person shooter) as a test of new computers as when it was released hardly any computer could run it without turning down all the settings. These days I'd expect most (although not all) low end hardware could run that well.

Butler also wrote a famous essay "Darwin Among The Machines" (1863) before Erewhon, which treated this concept not as fiction.