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Comment Re: I know people who use Twitter (Score -1, Flamebait) 59

I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.

Reddit is equally a shithole.

Heck. /. used to have a good libertarian minority and today it's nerds defending their trans kids here.

Comment Re:Are we part of Israel now? (Score 1) 169

"Literally" has taken up a meaning as a signal of linguistic register. It doesn't mean "figuratively." In this meaning the register is the tone of someone who wants to appear smart, without actually having knowledge. The word is used without regard for the metaphorical character of the phrase, so it's more appropriate to use the word "obvious" as a definition, rather than "figurative." The user is usually unable distinguish between literal and figurative. The use of this register has risen recently as people who are smart appear to have higher status.

Whereas you are able to distinguish whether a statement is literal and figurative. Your use of the word is because you want to fit in, not because you want to appear smart (because you actually are smart). Thus, when you use it, you aren't even achieving the correct register.

Your analysis of Nazis is a polemic rant, filled with motivated reasoning, which is altogether below your capability; inasmuch as you are actually capable of analyzing a situation in a scientific way, searching for facts to disprove your own hypotheses. For example.

Don't be an idiot. Republicans are idiots.

Comment Re:Need a new name - Artificial skill? knowledge? (Score 1) 69

The strong do as they will. The weak do as they must. 5-th Century BC Athenian commons vs Militians

The quote is "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must," and it was the Melians not the Militians, and it wasn't Athenian commons, it was an Athenian commander.

Comment Re:ChatGPT is not a chess engine (Score 1) 139

ok, here is the sentence you seem to have had a problem with:

Chess is a problem where you need to be able to tell the machine "these are the rules" and have it follow them. Humans can do that, the LLM can't.

I don't know why you have a problem with that, but I think you are an idiot.

Comment Re:It isn't "dying"... go make new stuff... (Score 2) 180

Dark is less predictable.

It's really not.

I thought for sure tom cruise's character would die. He didn't. Totally ruined the movie for me. It felt like such a waste of time.

lol sounds like "unpredictable" isn't what you are looking for.

Time for some introspection, see who you really are. Which isn't someone seeking unpredictability.

Comment Re: was this (Score 1) 42

yes, that's exactly the problem. The CODE was rolled out slowly; but that didn't matter because that path was not in use at the time. It began getting traffic hitting that bug all at once. That should not have happened

You don't understand the problem. You can't understand it from the report (I can't understand it from the report either), because the report doesn't explain it. Your mind tried to fill in the blanks, but it shouldn't have.

"Cut in." Not my fault slashdot has no edit function

It's your fault you didn't proofread in the preview stage. Blaming others is the root of all your problems.

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