They’re too rich to worry about books. They have people for that. As long as you have enough money to buy a degree and pay the people who actually run your company, you don’t need to learn shit.

Holy fuck my sides, that’s so good.

I hope that horse is okay, though.

I mostly let my hands air dry when I wash them, just shake 'em out real good and it only takes a few seconds.

I do wash my pants after each wear, if that’s what you mean. Not jeans, because denim breathes, but like khakis and stuff. All of these stretchy clothes with artificial fabrics get real nasty after a single wear.

Edit: Should also add that I at least won’t be the smug Brit that replies because I used the word “khakis” instead of chinos.

…Do people not wash towels after each shower?

You mean…we’ll be able to download more RAM???

I think that’s the wrong way to look at it.

Let’s frame it this way. English is not the world’s best language. It’s pretty bad, honestly. It makes little logical sense, pronunciation is all over the place, and it’s inconsistent even between native speakers. Yet like 2 billion people speak it, even in places where it’s not the native language, because the UK spent so long as the dominant world power and just saturated all international discourse long enough to make it the most convenient common tongue. And so English becomes the most commonly used language for international discourse in the EU, despite the EU having just one member state (Ireland) where English is the majority, because it’s too inconvenient to switch to anything else.

Programming languages can fall into the same trap. LLMs today can have the majority of their code trained on a small set of popular languages. They’ll be likelier to produce that kind of code reliably, which in turn motivates vibe coders to prioritize those languages over other options that may be more purpose-built or appropriate for the need.

A new programming language that is massively better, more efficient, and easier to use can come about, but an LLM might never excel at it. Basically, a new language precludes itself from success with LLMs. The LLM will suck at it because there is substantially less training data to reliably model from. There will never be enough training data because fewer people are using it. Fewer people are using it because shitty vibe coders just rely on what the LLM can do well. The cycle repeats.

Artificial scarcity is definitely nothing new. Look at the diamond industry, for example. Diamonds are common as hell, but they regulate the supply so severely in order to sell these cheap chunks of carbon for thousands of dollars.

If there’s no competition in a market willing to race others to the bottom in terms of price, there’s no incentive to actually produce a reasonable amount of something people want. You can just withold supply and charge way more.

Articles I’ve read mention that it tends to taste pretty bad, basically an earthy, watered down type of taste.

Or the origins of the lost mines of Moria.

Just make sure the steam d*ck is inserted into the right port.

It’s an international assessment of academic performance. They test students around the same age range and compare their results to other countries and to performance of previous years.

The graph shows that performance is dropping relative to previous years (presumably a global trend, I don’t see a specific country listed), but whether the metrics are meaningful is something I’m not qualified to say. Assessments like this are always debatable.

The parents would be mostly Gen X in this graph, I think. Gen Z are kids born in the late 90’s through early 2010’s. So early Gen Z started graduating from high school around 2012, with the last of Gen Z graduating right about now.

This graph ending at 2022 would place that last cohort around the testing age rage still, I think (Wikipedia says that the test is intended for 15-year-olds, so in 2022 that would be kids born in 2007).

Might be a bit optimistic, given Europe’s continuing slide into fascism.

And, accordingly, how large Brazil actually is, which is not quite as distorted for its location touching the equator.

It wasn’t defederation, just migration. But they never asked the community whether they agreed with that or not.

It was a disagreement between a couple moderators and an instance admin, with the users caught in the middle left wondering “wtf is going on?”

The part that was most abrasive to the users, I think, was that they initially closed the 196 community on Blahaj, ostensibly to not confuse people about which community was now in use, but causing the exact opposite reaction (since again, they never consulted the users before making this move).

Why fix it?

The ones that seemed more explicitly prayer-like appeared to be referencing Islam more than Christianity, too.

Caiman on a…layman?

Yeah that [insert your username here] is a real character, right?