Exactly. This is why my blood pressure spikes whenever I see some damn kid (#GOML) squeaking that "comments are a code smell."

The original point has been lost, corrupted into cargo-cult stupidity.

The "de minimus exemption" isn't a loophole or cheating, it's a choice by virtually every collecting tariffs to only collect tariffs from large cargo shippers, not one-off purchases, because it's a waste of time and money to do the import duty paperwork for every single little item shipped. The whole system globally, for all countries, does the same thing because they don't want to charge a typically $50 or so processing fees (to cover the manual labor and processing fees for doing the paperwork with the various governments) in order to collect a few dollars in tariffs, they want to focus that work on tariffs for bulk shipping containers, etc., not wasting their time on tens of millions of individual items. In response to the US cutting the de minimus exemption dozens of countries have stopped all shipments to the US as they're not prepared to process an increase of several orders of magnitude in the volume of bureaucratic paperwork, so other than letters and gifts under $100, which aren't tariffed, they're cutting the US off.

But a body of text, taken from the book, including the equations in exactly the format in the book (when there are 32 ways you could choose to arrange the terms if you were doing it from scratch). That's not ok.

Citing "So and so in the book xyz derived the following equation ...." would be fine. Copying and pasting with neither attribution nor rephrasing to make it fit the narrative of the chat is copyright infringement. More importantly they clearly have absorbed my book into their model without paying for it.

I saw a chatgpt conversation directly copying equations from my book - The equations for computing SCC from pattern counts which appear only in my book as far as I am aware.

I haven't seen them or any lawyers or publishers offering me money for this blatant copying.
 

And then all the other contributors. I first installed it 31 years ago, probably on a DX-something-slow processor PC. Slackware something or other. Currently mainly use flavours of Ubuntu on VIM4 SBC computers and in Vagrant (on a Mac, because the year of the Linux desktop was/will be too late for me). Here's to the next 34 years.

Her government sold off the resource. In order to make short-term profit. To enable tax cuts for middle-class. In order to cement her party in power. Without making any investments in the future. Yes, I'll blame her for it. She, with Ronny, gave the world Neo-liberalism and other parties have run with it.

After she'd sold Water, the parties had nothing to do with building reservoirs etc - it was a corporate decision from then on driven by profit. Until this year, when a Labour government stepped in to build reservoirs: https://www.gov.uk/government/...

So once again, yes I will blame Thatcher. She did irreparable damage to the country I once called home and enabled much of the later damage that her colleagues got away with.

Change 'as' to 'while' and it would not have been ambiguous.

Privatise a public good, reap the rewards. She (Mrs Thatcher) sold off the family silver for short-term gain (and after she'd hamstrung the old water authorities by denying them access to loans for infrastructure). Now a bunch of water companies "compete" to make the most profit, by raising bills and reducing investment. Yay. Another bit of right-wing nonsense the country gets to enjoy.

People have been worrying about AI for a while now. Now, at least when the AI goes haywire and starts taking things over, we'll have a little blue one who can save the day.

Detecting the supernova as a black hole did not cause it to explode.
The blackhole caused the star to explode. Detecting it doing it was probably not the cause. Unless you apply some weird quantum interpretation of measurement causing things to happen.

It’s still a bot accessing content requested not to be accessed by bots. It’s alsonot identifyingitself as a bot.

Yeah, it's just bad "UX" on top - the "internal" drive icon looks more like an external drive than the "external" drive does.

Execute "Reindeer Flotilla"

Hey Internet pedants, that's how you correct someone's spelling. Well played.

Yes. People will ignore the email and carry on oblivious until they find all their passwords are lost.