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It's endlessly annoying to me that the em-dash has become the canary in the coalmine of AI writing because I've always used them extremely liberally in my writing.

Honestly, this might sound elitist, but I suspect it's because it's an "advanced" punctuation that is not known by most people, so is not commonly used. But the training corpus of these models puts more weight of academic writing or published books writing where the em-dash is much more commonly used.

Are we thinking of a situation a few years back with a certain type of research into bat viruses?

What I think is shocking is that 99% of the software engineering world these days would have zero ability to comprehend this explanation. In my opinion, you could not be a real programmer without the ability to understand what your program is under the hood. You might be able to get away with it, but you're just faking it.

And yet, 99% of the people I've ever seen in the industry have no idea how any of the code they write works.

I used to ask a simple interview question, I wanted to see if potential hires could explain what a pointer or memory was. Few ever could.

What you're describing doesn't exist in Switzerland, which you could tell by doing a quick Google Maps view.

Nothing in Switzerland is cheap, least of all land. Practically nothing in Switzerland is flat either. What little flat land we have is used for agriculture and cities.

With a dish that can be oriented to always face the sun, there should never be any shadows

Is it really that hard to type the word "accessibility" that we need to come up with a silly shorthand version of it?

As a seed VC, I still see a majority of Excel cap tables over Carta. (Pulley / Shareworks is even rarer).

Why does he bother with apostrophes then…

There are various precious metal trading companies that will buy the bullion from you at close to spot if it's kept in its original assay and has documentation. If not in assay, they will have to test its purity and potentially remelt it so that adds to the spread.

I used to buy gold bullion as a sneaky way to get credit card points on the cheap (and then use them for first class flights around the world). You could usually do the trade profitably and quickly and quite safely with insured shipping via USPS. $50k at a time. It was a bit sketchy to have that much in bullion at home, and I quickly got bored of it.

The things you do when you're young…

So I'm basically reading this as putting blame for Iran's reprehensible regime and its crackdown on its citizen yearning for freedom on Britain and the US.

No… let's stop with this rewriting of history. The only party to blame for the awfulness in Iran is their evil regime.

While they use the same script, they are not interchangable. A person from Taiwan would recognize characters in a HK or Japanese newspaper but would not necessarily understands it. A good half would only make sense to someone who speaks Cantonese.

Also, several languages have moved from a script if iconographic characters to phonetic ones: for example Vietnamese and Korean, the former adopting a phonetic western alphabet with accents, and the latter developing a new phonetic script, hangul. Japanese developed two new syllables based scripts, hiragana and katakana, which are mixed with the old word characters (kanji). All these used to use Chinese styles characters prior to the switch.

No reason Chinese couldn't do the same. In fact, it did… pinyin is a formal phonetic alphabet for Mandarin Chinese that's based on the western alphabet with additional marks denoting the tones of the words. It's only hard I'm an educational setting, but you could use it anywhere!

A steak and a piece of fish requires no other ingredients other than salt to be delicious.

Many veggies can be delicious with just some heat + salt; though adding a few spices certainly helps.

I'd much rather eat a perfectly cooked skirt steak with home made chimichuri and a side of veggies than a domino's pizza.