> For more than 80 years, the principle of "the surface of an object must be smooth" has been the basic premise of aeronautical engineering Tell that to golf players, they've been playing with dimpled golf balls for over a century. In fact, the first patent for them was filed in 1905.

The issue I always had was homework time wasn't coordinated. A bunch of teahcers could give a bunch of homework one day, and barely any the next. Some teacher's respected this by almost giving homework but not if the students talked about getting a bunch of homework already, but the fact is there was no coordinated system for how much time a student was expected to spend on homework after each day. In addition to that, the school I went to didn't really have a study period where I could work on homework without going home.

There's something comforting about AO3, a website build by a community for the community. It's like the classic internet.

I always thought that searching through data is one area where AI actually might be useful. In a sense this has been happening for a long time with Google, but at least with search results you don't need to be 100% accurate with every result.

I don't think he's lying, ads for them literally are a last resort, and that's exactly why they're using them right now.

*Good* programmers have long since taken responsibility for their own actions. They know pretty much every piece of software out there has a way to screw you over and you've got to protect yourself and your data well in advance. Yes this is terrible UI, but terrible UI is everywhere. Also ChatGPT is still a relatively new product that's still trying to evovle. As such "not completely unexpected" isn't so much giving them a pass for bad UI design, but more an accurate assessment of the situation. But yeah, it does suck for the user, I hope the guy recovers from it okay, it should be fixed (the article may encourage that to happen), but for most programmers the lesson is less "this specific company should improve this specific piece of UX design", it's "never put all your reliance on a single piece of software, ESPECIALLY when its cloud based, and DOUBLE ESPECIALLY if it doesn't have regular backups."

"accepting the house offer as long as there's also monthly money paid to her" A counter-offer is legally considered a rejection of the original offer. By asking for more, she was rejecting his offer to give her the house.

You asked about things you knew and immediately fact checked the answer. If more people did this, the painful limitations of AI would be more widely known.

Ah the old "Failure to respond will be considered resignation." Twitter tried that thing in Ireland too (specifically sign a new contract or we'll consider it your resignation), it did not go down well given you're not legally allowed to do stuff like that.

It's more like Trading Cards, which have been around a long time. American Baseball Trading Cards, for example, had many cards that could command a fortune. I heard a lot about them growing up, but not so much these days, so I guess Pokemon is this generation's Baseball to a lot of people.

I talked with someone who had a firm principal at work: If the meeting didn't have a clear agenda explaining its purpose and what it would be covering (usually emailed around beforehand), he wouldn't go to it. If the organisers didn't put in the work to clearly communicate what the meeting intended to achieve, then the meeting was not worth the time he'd spend attending it.

Eliza was 60s program that acted like a therpaist. Apparently, despite being incredibly rudimentary (only responding to the last thing you said and usually turning it into a question), a lot of people got weirdly attached, and the creator of the program was shocked at how easily people trusted the computer with moral issues that the program hadn't a hope of understanding. He wrote all this in his book Computer Power and Human Reason (1976) if you want an old fashioned take of a very modern issue.

Grew up watching Round the Twist which was great and a deranged kids show in just the right way. Soaps like Neighbours and Home and Away were mainstays. My niece grew up watching mermaid show H2O. Also been some good Australian films. Also, more of a sketch comedy group that got a season on Netflix, but can't forget the awesome Auntie Donna. Australia really does have some good talent and I hope this encourages more of it. Living in Ireland, I'm not sure what the situation is but I hope there's more investment in the arts here too (there is Bodkin I suppose).

If you read the article, donations were 40k + 40k + 50k = 130k