So, this joke works only for natives who know that calf is not cow.

Are there any games that teach automation like Factorio but that don't have that depressive dystopian magnasanti feel?

> Fandom is tremendously worse, since its SEO efforts drown actually useful websites.

This cannot be emphasized enough.

A clean, no-cookied, location-off search for "Doom wiki" (no quotes) returns the terrible, low-information, awful-layout, often-outdated/incorrect Fandom Doom Wiki as the first result.

The actual Doom Wiki, better-designed and far more content-filled - which is called "The Doom Wiki", and with a domain that is literally just "doomwiki.org" - comes in second.

Or "had a flag waved at them", like football assistant referees or F1 peoples.

I don’t think the parent was saying that everyone’s intentions were pure until recently, but rather that naked greed wasn’t cool before, but now it is.

The Internet has changed a lot over the decades, and it did used to be different, with the differences depending on how many years you go back.

I tread carefully with anyone that by default augments their (however utilitarian or conventionally bland) messages with language models passing them as their own. Prompting the agent to be as concise as you are, or as extensive, takes just as much time in the former case, and lacks the underlying specificity of your experience/knowledge in the latter.

If these were some magically private models that have insight into my past technical explanations or the specifics of my work, this would be a much easier bargain to accept, but usually, nothing that has been written in an email by Gemini could not have been conceived of by a secretary in the 1970s. It lacks control over the expression of your thoughts. It's impersonal, it separates you from expressing your thoughts clearly, and it separates your recipient from having a chance to understand you the person thinking instead of you the construct that generated a response based on your past data and a short prompt. And also, I don't trust some misandric f*ck not to sell my data before piping it into my dataset.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: when messaging personally, summarizing short messages is unnecessary, expanding on short messages generates little more than semantic noise, and everything in between those use cases is a spectrum deceived by the lack of specificity that agents usually present. Changing the underlying vague notions of context is not only a strangely contortionist way of making a square peg fit an umbrella-shaped hole, it pushes around the boundaries of information transfer in a way that is vaguely stylistic, but devoid of any meaning, removed fluff or added value.

> Obviously this is very subjective and hard to benchmark.

I agree, but it also feels very obvious once you've been exposed to it enough times. The internet is filled of written or spoken AI slop that can generally be spotted with ease by trained eyes and ears.

Not a direct solution to your problem, but people should definitely consider Apache over MIT when reaching for a permissive license. In addition to being more robust about things like, notifying users of modifications that have been made to the original source code, it also explicitly requires that forkers maintain the NOTICE file in its entirety, and distribute that file to users receiving copies of the software (whether source or binary copies).

Even if megacorp does nothing else for you, that NOTICE file can at least contain information about who you are as the original author, links to your website, etc.

> He and his cohort had to decide which health-insurance plan to choose, how much of his salary to devote to saving for retirement and other financial details. “Every one of us went out into the hallway and called our parents,” he admits. “We were graduates of really elite schools, and we still didn’t know what to do.”

That’s not because you are a child or an idiot. It’s because you know your parents have EXPERIENCE, and that is something you will never acquire from a course.

That doesn’t really make sense to me.

The market cares about dollar returned vs dollar invested. If some piece in the middle of the chain goes up and end customer prices go up as well, that doesn’t directly affect investors at all.

The way it could and likely will affect investors is if people start buying fewer shoes, but that is a different process than what you are describing.

If I’m off base can you help me understand what you are saying?