I asked ChatGPT to generate a Seinfeld episode for me. It generated a story where Kramer starts to collect mustard sauce, and becomes obsessed to find the perfect one. I thought the idea was hilarious. But then I asked it to generate the dialogs, and they were crap. (But, then again, it was a Seinfeld episode, maybe the dialogs were on point).

That's how Joshua Wars II started.

When I taught programming at college, I actually had to teach students to read error messages. Not once or twice, but multiple times every semester.

I tried it to see what kind of results I could get with it. It happens that I have some different implementations of the Fast Fourier Transform that I use to benchmark these kind of things. What I found out is:

It doesn't implement every Python module. I couldn't get the array module to work. But this might be in their future plans.

It can get a little picky with variable types. For example, multiplying an integer with a complex won't work, or trying to print an integer using a floating point format. Maybe they're working on it too.

It can take some time to compile and run.

While the scripts indeed run faster, it was nothing close to 10x the speed, much less 100x. In general, I got a 2.5x speed up. It was outperformed by Pypy in every test I made.

Just for the record, I have the same algorithms implemented in C, and Pypy performs comparably to C. Disclaimer: they are not optimized, instead, I made an effort to make the same operations as much as possible, with the intent of comparing speeds. Also, not a scientific assessment, so take it with a grain of salt.

Happening here in Brazil also, we already have #1 and #2. #3 will never happen because the Brazilian media always preferred to blowjob the government as long it keeps taxes over press paper zeroed, pays media companies' debts and prevents competition from foreign news services.

Exactly. As a Brazilian, Paulista and Paulistano I also second this.

I find strange that: 1) corruption in Brazil, for these people, has just begun on January 1st, 2003 (when PT started their government) and 2) the corrupt people only are on PT and not on PSDB/DEM/name your right-wing party. Meanwhile, here on Sao Paulo state (where the same political group holds the power since 1982), we got massive corruption schemas that were never investigated: the Alston train affair, the irresponsible water management of Sao Paulo's metro area (look for "draught" and "Cantareira") and, last but not least, the case of school meals ("merenda") affair, where the food for the classmates has been sent everywhere but state schools. Mind you, the food that should had been sent to schools has been found at a deposit on a barbecue restaurant of Jundiaí (a city ~50 km from Sao Paulo).

Moreover, the opponent of the right-wing coalition which lost the presidential elections in 2014 has also been denounced on the very same operation that is targeting Lula nowadays not less than 5 times by 5 different people, and absolutely nothing has been done against him. He has also his share of scandals to be investigated - for example, an airport built besides his farm with state money - but the media just does not give a fsck about it. Dilma's government is mediocre at best, but Aecio and his party (PSDB) have been very keen on putting out the fire with gasoline.

After the Plasma 5 fiasco, which wasn't ready for production, really, I took the plunge and switched to Kubuntu 14.04 LTS. It sucks to update your distro every 6 months, and it sucks even more to update distros having the feeling that one is in permanent beta. Nowadays I don't care about "beautiful desktop" and bells and whistles in general, I just need a stable and working environment. Still thinking what to do with wifey's notebook, though. But I'll probably go through the same route.

Meet the Schürmanns. They circumnavigated the whole world - twice! - while raising their children aboard their boats. One of them stayed on board for 10 continuous years, something that didn't keep him from graduating in the USA. Their daughter, Kat Schürmann, has been adopted from a Australian-Brazilian couple who died of AIDS - she was HIV-positive herself, and that didn't keep them from traveling around the world. Her mother wrote a very emotive memento about her life with Kat, which unfortunately is only available in Portuguese.

Thanks for posting this- I've actually been wondering for years.

I must have signed up in 1999. I was.... thirteen. Now I'm 26.

Half my life!

In Brazil, there is a door manufacturer called "Fuck". This is their page, but they seemed to have changed their name by adding SA to the end (which, in Brazil, means a private limited company). They have nice door models -- every single one of them with women names -- Catarina, Cecilia, Polyanna, etc.. So, when you want to buy a door, you just ask to "Fuck Catarina", or something like that. I'm pretty sure it's intentional.

One in a million. We're doomed.

Here is mine:

Just like every other woman with whom I chatted before. Sounds perfectly human to me.

And then he threw a chair.