Person 1: "The earth is flat"
Person 2: "That's kind of a stupid take."
Person 1: "Whenever I see anyone responding with a personal attack (even an indirect one), I see a tacit acknowledgement that the point cannot be questioned on its merits."
Some assertions are so dumb, they require no refutations, because only dumb people believe them. Honestly, the reason the internet has gone to shit is because the cost to post a stupid thing is vastly lower than the post to thoroughly demonstrate why it's a stupid thing.

I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.

#SaveWaterWithGoatse

"scraping" is maybe questionable, but there's no question that an AI is accessing your website.

Unlike, of course, the rest of us.

How about deporting him for lying on his citizenship application?

He entered the US on a student visa, didn't enrol or undertake studies (the purpose behind being on a student visa) and focused on his start up instead.

Clear violation of his visa terms. But because he's famous with money and has been perceived as an entrepreneur he's been able to avoid the same consequences as other people who have violated similar visa terms, i.e. citizenship stripped (as it was fraudulently obtained) and deported.

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I have no dog in this race though as I'm not a US citizen, nor do I live in the US. In fact it's quite funny to see the US speed run an empire collapse. I just hope it happens without an all-out war outside US borders.

I had kidney stones when I was living in the UK.

At just past midnight I went to A&E with excruciating pain in my abdomen.

Within 2 hours, I was in an MRI machine where they noticed a kidney stone blocking the ureter.

I was then scheduled for an ultrasonic procedure to break up the kidney stones to take place later that morning should my condition not improve.
Fortunately, my kidney stones dislodged themselves and my kidney was able to drain into the bladder and I was subsequently able to pass urine. The actual surgery for removal of my kidney stones took place later using a keyhole surgery.

Total cost of everything: £13 for a taxi in the middle of the night to get me to hospital.
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Several years later, I'm living in Australia,
Find my self with a nasty viral infection in my throat. After a couple of bouts of very strong oral antibiotics not improving my condition, my GP told me to go to a local hospital for treatment. I stayed overnight, with intravenous antibiotics, had a MRI while I was there. Discharged the following day having improved massively.

Total cost of everything: $0.00

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Funny how these examples of socialised medicine cost me nothing, and yet, both of my treatments involved same-day use of an MRI.

Why do 30 years of government service not count as actual qualifications and, you know, work experience?

One minor correction: The 787 family was announced in 2003, but the first commercial model of the family -- 787-8, much like this one -- went into operations in 2011, some time later.

No, I'm going to say that it is very much an American thing. They have to lay the perfectly flat layer of perfectly green grass because otherwise the little dictators in the HOA will put a lien on their property and force a sale because the grass was 3mm too tall, or not green enough in the summer heat because it wasn't watered enough, despite massive droughts.

For some reason, the nation that likes to beat its chest about its perceived freedoms from the big scary Government, seems unnaturally eager to run towards the neighbourhood oppressive dictatorships that HOAs are. All because they're scared shitless of a local municipal government taking out the trash

OpenSSH is the best known OpenBSD project, but they also makes pf (used in pfSense, OPNSense, etc.), OpenBGP, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenIKED, LibreSSL, etc.

Came for this comment.

Gotta tell you, it's reasonable to accuse me of TDS -- I think that dude is the worst, and a wannabe genocidal fascist who seeks to end Democracy -- but even I'm sitting here going "yeah, that's actually a reasonable call, to eliminate the penny."

A new shiny thing after cryptocurrency wound up as a commodity traded like so many others, and not the civilization-changing invention envisioned.

AI looks like it'll be hampered by power generation and delivery (or rather the lack thereof).

On the upside, there'll be ungodly amounts of money spent upgrading and expanding the power grid.

For the Irish language course the recordings of native speakers were taken offline in 2023. The AI replacements are nonsensical.

This story is about AI generated courses, not voices, but my post was still (accidentally) on-topic: when they previously used AI to increase volume of content, they were ok with quality being thrown out the window.

The AI generated courses might be low quality, and the original (English) courses might also go downhill because the type of exercises they produce may now be restricted to the type of things that their AI is able to reorganise for other languages. E.g. it might go further in the direction of vocabulary memorisation.

Isn't it that they call it "español" in Latin America, and "castellano" in Spain?