Do you have a date, location and source for that? Thanks.

Literally no idea who you are talking about. I’m simply saying that only innumerate imbeciles with abysmal comprehension skills would think that the claimed efficacy of COVID vaccines was 100%. My comment applies to the AC whom I replied to, along with any other groups regardless of country or political persuasion that might think that. This whole “The scientists lied to us, my Uncle Jim had the vaccine yet he still got covid” or “Some people were vaccinated yet they still died of Covid” is the dumbest fucking thing ever. JFC.

Where in the actual did you get that idea? Only innumerate imbeciles with abysmal comprehension skills would think that the claimed efficacy of COVID vaccines was 100%.

I know youâ(TM)re probably half joking, half serious. But you may be interested to know that Iran has accused Israel and UAE of stealing water via cloud seeding west of their territory.

Hyphens and dumb apostrophes and quotes look like kack. Especially if one is used to reading professionally published books.

Every professionally-typeset, published article of literature or non-fiction in the English language over the last several hundred years uses em dashes — or occasional en dashes, depending on house style — for parenthetic clauses. The vast majority of this is predates AI writing or proofing.

* patience

Yes I’m aware of that, thanks (genuinely). But editing on Slashdot is already a such a royal ballache, having to manually enter html markup codes for paragraph breaks, parent quotes, italic and such, I don’t really have much patient left for tap-hold to select 1970s low-ASCII characters to babysit this crappy website.

Slashdot doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode, the most common standard for text on the Internet. Nor does Slashdot support iPhone, one of most common devices used to access the Internet.

Actually an em dash is one em wide, where em is a printing unit equal to the size of the typeface. For example, in 12pt font an em (and em dash) is 12 pt wide. In some fonts an uppercase M is a similar width, but not all.

I agree with almost everything in the article and the whole project sounds incredibly stupid. But the quote “You do realise the earth is spinning?” does not make any sense as a criticism of a building project — unless it is say a space elevator incorrectly built not at the equator.

In a (non-inertial) rotating frame of reference at the Earth surface, the sum of centrifugal force (and I use the term accurately, see https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F123) plus actual planetary gravity force equals a constant (in the rotating frame) apparent gravitational force (per mass), or equivalently an apparent gravitational acceleration. The direction of this vector defines the local “down” (in the rotating frame) in all practical senses, including building and architecture.

It is the reason objects do not fall exactly towards the centre of the planet, and the reason they fall slower at the equator than the poles. But it is not a valid criticism for what is (otherwise) a profoundly stupid construction project.

That sounds like an unsafe workplace. You should bring that up — oh wait.

Are we talking about the same ALDI? In London some do not take cash and only take contactless payment. They also use automated checkout based on camera tracking of customers and products.

It sounds like Nvidia is once again in a strong position to sell shovels, just as it did during the gaming, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence rushes.

Source code is the what/how, whereas documentation, manual pages and other records are the why/who/when/where.

Probably not relevant given the pedigree of who was working on the source, but with low quality source code or very “clever” source that is written in a “read-only” style, information from supporting documentation or design / implementation notes can be more useful.