... Florida does not have a problem with invasive Python scripts.

As a software developer in Florida, I can tell you that Python scripts are definitely invasive. Twenty years ago, there were practically none, and now they are all over the place! They gobble up precious white space and unused braces just fall from the brace trees to rot, uneaten. They've driven cute, innocent Perl and shell scripts almost to extinction! It's quite a problem almost no one is talking about...

I have this contract I'd like you to sign....

That was what killed real D&D. (Well, really it's successors did.)

I don't know the licensing policies of the "stock image" sites, but it's not unreasonable that they might have a license to use stock images, rather than that particular stock image. In which case it could have been left in by mistake. I believe lots of companies use lots of stock images for a variety of different purposes.

Now if they licensed that particular image, then he's almost certainly lying rather than just probably lying.

I'm not saying you could do that with one of the public versions of ChatGPT. But I think an LLM could be custom trained to do it. I also think it would take a *LOT* of time and effort. Probably enough to make this a silly idea.

It *is* possible that his silly explanation is the truth. That they just accidentally left a "fill in later" image in place. (There's a reason text users frequently use "lorem ipsum" for that kind of purpose.)

This strongly depends on which AI and what environment it's operating in. I do suspect that an AI could be trained to follow "organization policies", but I also suspect that with current AIs that would require LOTS of custom training.

How recently did you suggest a new story?

(Slashdot has NEVER been good with news. That's not really what it's about. It's about commentary on news stories.)

Possibly, I've never played paintball. That might be a synonymous derivation...or perhaps in that context it has a different meaning. If people are understanding it from different original metaphors, it's likely to mean (slightly?) different things to different people. E,g,, I could have derived it from titrating from an acid down to a base, and that would have LOTS of different associated meanings, even though the "touch" part would mean (metaphorically) the same thing.

Elon Musk: "Remote workers pretend to work!"

Workers: "What do you think we do in the office?"

How do I know you didn't really send it in utf-8?

It's a metaphor you need to guess at in everything except baseball. Sometimes the metaphor is fairly clear to the listener. Other times it's only clear to (at most) the speaker.

Miller actually isn't the worst.

Are the jobs really there, or are they just being advertised? I've read a lot of comments about "ghost jobs".

In the US, bus rides take far more time than driving because of the very frequent stops. Where I live, many urban bus lines stop every two blocks, suggesting that there's some underlying requirement that a passenger need not walk more than a block to the bus, which I find to be an absurdly low bar. Frequent stops not only make the bus ride take longer, they shatter any hope of the vehicle being efficient, importantly including the metric of particulate emissions from brakes and tires.

The subway, where I live, when underground, stops every half mile or so. When above-ground, it starts to act like a bus, again, which, again, is absurd, and deleteriously impacts both service quality and efficiency.

Until the number of stops for buses and trams is reduced, there's no possible way to make above-ground public transportation time-efficient for passengers, even with dedicated lanes on the road.