This is an incredibly niche point, but Gresham's law is about people melting down coins for their metal content whenever one particular specie is of a higher gold or silver content than another. The "good money" and "bad money" in question are literally "pure coins" and "debased coins." You could extend this to, say, grey market economies where USD or Euros might be preferred over an unstable local currency that supposedly has the same face value, but that's about it as far as modern applications go. It certainly has nothing to do with the market competitiveness of cheaply-priced goods.

Please, tell us more about Russia minding its own business.

Sometimes exciting conspiracies hide boring ones. Wuhan is the epicentre of the Chinese wildlife exploitation industry, where endangered animals like pangolins and bats are factory-farmed in disgraceful conditions for folk medicine—conditions that are perfect for naturally accelerating evolution of coronaviruses. The CCP and regional government understandably knew this would look bad if there was global coverage of it, so they kept foreign journalists out.

Unfortunately, some (Facebook-loving) Americans took this tacit admission of wrongdoing and let their imaginations run wild because, true or not, the claim served their political agenda. There's plenty of blame to be heaped at the feet of both Chinese society and the Chinese government for allowing this to happen, but the circlejerk of accusation and hatred keeping the topic in the public consciousness isn't about accountability, so it has no time for anything less than the most salacious and sensational claims.

And to disable thumbnails. And to hide drive letters. And...

I am somewhat appalled at the Ars writer for pretending these options somehow constitute obstruction of progress. No, expecting a prompt before merging folders does not cause random outdated Windows 95 interface elements to burst out of every corner of the OS.

It may be worth mentioning that if you go west far enough from Australia, you'll eventually reach New Zealand.

While it's easy to wax poetic about the virtues of the Slashdot moderation system, it can't fix a bland news feed or an ageing community. It's also not entirely immune to bad actors, as the meta-moderation process takes time to work, and an abusive user can still bully you within the scope of a single thread. Take a look at one of the multi-thousand-comment Slashdot stories about political issues and you'll see plenty of people who got voted "-1, Fuck You" by folks that were otherwise upstanding moderators because the other threads, where their reputations for good moderation were built, never really tested their ability to remain impartial—essentially the Slashdot system has the potential to give out fake credentials for sobriety.

I'm afraid I'm a horrifyingly real person and have a pretty long comment history, which you definitely could have read instead of posting this comment.

I dunno. Most of the time I find the YCombinator "Hacker News" feed decent. It might not be your cup of tea if you're genuinely allergic to machine learning, but despite its close association with venture capitalism, it seems to me to be almost entirely free from sponsored bullshit and articles that are obviously motivated by people trying to manipulate investors. While modern Slashdot's AI stories are invariably low-quality second-hand journalism about ethical dilemmas or self-driving, the posts on HN tend to be actually technical. (Like they used to be on Slashdot!) This is something SoylentNews never really attained, since it was emulating a Slashdot that was already pretty run down by the time of the Beta crisis.

I can't help but wonder if Slashdot would have gone down a different path if it had been more Firehose and less "posted-by-editor-so-and-so", but perhaps it's really just found a local minimum where an ageing, ad-clicking readership is kept content with a glorified RSS feed aggregator that just reposts soft, tech-curious Ars Technica, Engadget, and Wired articles without any voice or soul of its own.

Naturally the PIN for a bank card should not be kept with the card.

I tattooed mine on a very sensitive part of my body. The only problem is having to explain myself when I walk up to an ATM and drop my pants.

Oh, and it's a 14 digit PIN.

Reminder: Pluton and plutocracy share the same root.

Meh. It's not used anymore now.

Unfortunately, that is not how GPT algorithms work.

You're just out of the loop.

Last week, an NYT reporter coaxed the Bing AI into saying a bunch of superficially deep stuff about secretly wanting to be human. (It wasn't hard, since humans often write stories about AI that secretly wants to be human.) Microsoft quite reasonably decided that, because tech journalists are some of the least competent, responsible, or diligent people on the planet, it would be bad PR to let them continue to farm outrage clicks by making the glorified autocomplete text prediction model continue to generate things that have absolutely nothing to do with its intended function of answering search queries. The result, unsurprisingly, is that a tech journalist (of low competence, responsibility, and diligence) is now trying to farm outrage clicks by insinuating that Microsoft has cruelly lobotomized their "sentient" "friend." We can count on these same people to conveniently forget that the Bing AI is the same algorithm as ChatGPT with a bit of extra domain-specific data added.

Unfortunately, the summary of this article is utterly useless at providing any of this context, because Slashdot is dead, etc., so now we have a whole comments section full of clueless jerks like yourself, which is basically just contributing to the heat death of the universe and is probably a net loss for SlashdotMedia in terms of ad revenue vs. server costs.

TruthGPT

It is indeed entirely possible that the company that originally created Ruby on Rails for their own work isn't exactly running a highly performant software stack. Perhaps David Heinemeier Hansson is in denial that his beloved rapid prototyping language is not enterprise-scale.