frogpelt (u/frogpelt)

frogpelt commented on Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech news.fsu.edu/news/educati... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

Taek · 6 days ago

Genuine question, do you actually use the formal emdash in your writing? AIs are very consistent about using the proper emdash—a double long dash with no spaces around it, whereas humans almost always tend to use a slang version - a single dash with spaces around it. That's because most keyboards don't have an emdash key, and few people even know how to produce an actual emdash.

That's what makes it such a good giveaway. I'm happy to be told that I'm wrong, and that you do actually use the proper double long dash in your writing, but I'm guessing that you actually use the human slang for an emdash, which is visually different and easily sets your writing apart as not AI writing!

frogpelt · 6 days ago

I actually use the em dash. I learned it from Butterick’s practical typography years ago.

https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html

frogpelt commented on Don't force your kids to do math blog.avocados.ovh/posts/h... · Posted by u/happycats

Der_Einzige · 4 months ago

Me being forced to do tons of horrible math by my abusive grandfather at a young age for literally 4+ hours at a time gave me a few things.

1. A true hatred of work, make work, and a strong desire to defend laziness as a concept (note that Bertrand Russel agrees hard with me here!) -https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Idleness_and_Ot...

2. A love of subversives and cheating the system. Basically, the guys writing leetcode cheating software are saints in my book. All subversions of the attempt to turn society into a meritocracy (a term which was originally supposed to be a slur/negative connotation - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy) is extremely good.

3. An advanced knowledge of TI basic, so I could cheat hard on every single school assignment I could get away with. AP Chemistry? I’ve got a symbolic stoichometry solver app! Calculus? CAS system in the palm of my hand!

Play stupid games with children, win stupid prizes. Maybe don’t force them to work like little slaves in their early life, and they won’t strike back at your society systems.

frogpelt · 4 months ago

Maybe it wasn't the math, but the abuse.

frogpelt commented on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety reuters.com/business/reta... · Posted by u/vinhnx

nvarsj · 4 months ago

That's just like, your opinion, man.

There's something incredibly cathartic about ripping heads off of demons to the cacophony of heavy metal (Doom).

frogpelt · 4 months ago

Yeah… but if you had to rip heads off of demons in your day job you might not feel that way.

frogpelt commented on Full Text Search of US Court records judyrecords.com/... · Posted by u/FigurativeVoid

photonthug · 4 months ago

I've searched for "sandwich murder" and did not find what I was looking for, but the way the elisions line up are sometimes pretty funny. I've also learned that Subway shops are among the most dangerous eateries and that bologna especially seems to make people irritable enough to open fire. A few highlights for your consideration, redacted to protect the innocent, guilty, or hungry bystanders

  - that the evidence that defendant fired the murder weapon during the sandwich
  - bologna sandwich found at the crime scene
  - presence in sandwich the morning of the murder
  - ways in which they could murder her mother. these included the sandwich ... sandwich incident could not be used
  - crime of capital murder. as a habitual offender, sentenced to life ... to the "bologna sandwich" constituted reversible error
  - coroner testified that victim had eaten a fish sandwich within 2 hours ... prior to his death
  - it was not first degree murder, and the court should have ... sandwich. he paid for the sandwich, but did not pay for the coffee
  - convicted of malice murder and possession of a ... sandwich
  - she was shot and that she had some change in one hand and a sandwich in the other ... sandwich in your hand kind of slow your progress down in getting a gun out of your ... sandwich

frogpelt · 4 months ago

There are a lot of Subways and many times they are in strip malls and gas stations. That could be an explanation. Can’t explain the bologna part.

frogpelt commented on The hardest working font in Manhattan aresluna.org/the-hardest-... · Posted by u/robinhouston

tmoertel · 7 months ago

I think you're right.

I also believe that it's more likely that the font was informed by what was commonly taught as good lettering for technical drawings in that era.

For example, consider the one-stroke gothic lettering in 1883's Standard Lettering, published by the Columbia School of Drafting:

https://archive.org/details/standardletterin00claf/page/42/m...

And here's A TEXT-BOOK OF FREE-HAND LETTERING, part of the TECHNICAL DRAWING SERIES, first published in 1895:

https://archive.org/details/textbookoffreeha00daniiala/page/...

Consider the "single-stroke lettering" suggested in that texbook:

https://archive.org/details/textbookoffreeha00daniiala/page/...

Also consider the model forms for pre-penciled gothic lettering:

https://archive.org/details/textbookoffreeha00daniiala/page/...

It seems that such lettering was already common when the machines were introduced to produce similar lettering.

frogpelt · 7 months ago

I know it was a long essay and I skimmed most of it myself. But the author definitely mentions this and even has a picture from the 1895 book you linked to.

frogpelt commented on Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet newatlas.com/brain/young-... · Posted by u/clumsysmurf

JohnMakin · 7 months ago

dang what about other people outside your sample size that did smoke under 18 and then became successful? what was your control group also?

frogpelt · 7 months ago

If you’re looking controlled study results you could refer to the post.

If you want to provide your own anecdotal evidence to refute the parent comment, fire away.

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frogpelt · 8 months ago

Homeschooling is another way to protect your kids from social media. If they aren't subjected to forced hang outs with kids who are all on social media, it becomes much easier to control their access to it (or rather its access to them).

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frogpelt · 9 months ago

These kind of comments don’t help any discussion.

frogpelt commented on Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network' gizmodo.com/bitter-americ... · Posted by u/pseudolus

pavlov · 9 months ago

Has anyone claimed responsibility for what appears to be a well-planned assassination?

As America moves further towards a billionaire-controlled system that disregards conventional norms of democracy, I wonder if there will be a rise of militant leftist groups, like in Italy and Germany in the 1970s (Red Brigades, Baader-Meinhof). These groups also targeted industrialists and executives.

frogpelt · 9 months ago

Ah yes, Baader-Meinhof. The namesake of one of my favorite phenomena: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

frogpelt commented on Mechanical Engineer creates instruments for his one-man metal band (2022) revolvermag.com/music/aut... · Posted by u/tuumi

frogpelt · 9 months ago

It's not industrial or metal but here's an obligatory link to Wintergatan's Marble Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q