I've noticed that GPT-5 is rather confused about languages. I asked it a few questions today, in spanish, and it kept answering like "a spanish speaker that learned by reading things in english on the internet". So it doesn't know the technical word in spanish for the thing. It doesn't sound "academic" anymore (someone who learns in university will tend to use the terms in spanish instead)

Which can be good or bad because I'm a native spanish speaker and I learned by reading things in english on the internet, so very often I don't know the word in spanish for some technical term.

But also it seems since it's spitting things out in "technical spanglish" it starts using english terms more and more as it goes.

The thing is... there have been plenty of outspoken and highly visible survivors of school shootings for decades. How the hell do we exorcise this gray paste of untruth?

In English, "IA" is usually understood to mean "Internet Archive." Only "AI" means "Artificial Intelligence."

YouTube kids content has no comment section either and for a child profile it won't display other than kids content

Well, if each book has its own docker container...

Hmm. Yeah. You're right. Editorializing by Slashdot commenter fuzzyfuzzyfungus, then!

You're not wrong, but first we must all take two minutes out of our days to laugh at the misfortune of political canvassers, whose methods should be illegal.

No primary source suggests that the effect would be partisan—that's editorializing by Daring Fireball writer John Gruber. The GOP letter, which is somewhat internal to the RNC fundraising effort, simply provides an estimate of their own lost revenue.

If you're an unknown sender, you go into the bin. Simple as.

For what it's worth, simply painting a normal gun to look like a toy has been attempted before, too. But I agree that conversions like this must be pretty spooky if you're in law enforcement. Still, toy gun form factors needn't be the only gimmick; consider the chaos a briefcase gun could unleash without scrutiny. The sky is the limit for designing concealed weapons if one is sufficiently imaginative and determined.

I think you're already plenty concerning just on your own!

Are you OK? You don't seem OK.

It's time to learn about the REU!

"Penultimate" isn't a synonym for "ultimate"—it means the thing before the ultimate. Likewise we have penumbra for the blurry edge of a shadow (umbra). This results in some truly special words like "antepenult," meaning "the thing before the thing before the final thing," commonly used when discussing where the stress/accent falls in a Greek or Latin word.

"Invaluable" does indeed mean "not able to be valued" when analyzed morphologically, but the standard usage of it is indicating something is beyond value, i.e. infinitely or inestimably valuable. A value of zero is still a value, after all.

"Inflammable" however actually means "able to be inflamed," as in "put in flame" or "set on fire." The confusion comes from assimilation of the Latin preposition "in" (which we have as "in" or "on") instead of the more typical prefix "in-" (which demarcates negation.) You don't have to look very far for other words where "in" doesn't mean "not": indicate, inherit, imply, investigate, indict, involve...

I have a friend who used to work for a call center. Specifically for Visa. He told me they have idiots on the line because most clients are just idiots.

I asked him why the fuck whenever i call the support number i have to listen to my statement read by a computer. Your total is x. Your minimum is y. Your statement due date is z. Your available credit is $, and on and on and on. He said, it's because 90% of our calls were people asking for that information. They made it skippable, so people skipped that part and insisted in asking the same to a human. So they made it unskippable and still, a few people get through and ask for the questions the IVR just answered.

So yeah. Support is very expensive if all of your agents have to be qualified, knowledgeable, and able to help, because 90% of the clients don't need that. They need a human that will spoonfeed them the same information they can get over the IVR or an app.

I have a problem with this statement.

Americans don't really "demand" cheap goods, it's just that professional services are too ridiculously expensive. YouTube is full of videos showing you how to repair your fridge and your washing machine. parts are easily available online.

the problem is that a technician will charge you $400 in labor to replace a $5 part, so people will prefer to buy a new one and toss the old one.

I see folks on YouTube doing plumbing work. replacing a hose bib will cost at least $200 in labor. that's just ridiculous. this means a plumber in America is making in two calls more money than a person makes in undeveloped countries in a month

I'm not saying plumbers don't deserve to get paid. rather, I say that $400 to have a washer fixed is not only ridiculous in comparison with the cost of a new washer, it's also a lot of money given that the median income in the USA is under 40k

for the case of washers, there are quite a few videos in YouTube of people showing their second hand Speed Queen washing machine, how reliable it is, and how it can be repaired. the problem is that there's quite a bit of capital investment for one of those, even if used.