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Canada is not cutting down trees to meet the US needs, they are cutting down trees because the Canadian government gives the logging and lumber industry subsidies which makes their wood products cheap…

No system makes up for editing mistakes. I originally had gone into how the Romans did not use the backwards numbers like IV, they used IIII and originally started with those examples and elaborated, …

I do not think we can agree on that. I learned to do math in Roman numerals in grade school which is stupid simple and really beats it all into your head, for addition just pile all the numerals toget…

People who are driven to create will not cease being driven to create because AI is about. Unless AI somehow causes teenagers to cease trying to impress others the act of human creation is not going t…

lol. Literature is still safe from AI. It is a bit creepy if you view the parrots as AI but if you do that than you can't help but notice that even AI realizes all it can do is mimic and it cease…

Use what you know, it is the least likely to get in the way. I use vim if for no other reason than it saves me from cleaning up the errant ":wq" and the like which end up scattered throughou…

Then why am I here? If someone wants to use AI to fool people they are not going to bother with trying to convince people that the AI is really a person, they are going to do the same thing everyone f…

I never use slurs so I guess that makes me an AI? I would have to be since your method is foolproof. Or perhaps I just avoid loaded terms which are taken more on emotion than intelligence. Why are you…

That is my point, it is not intelligent and that is how we identify it. A person is aware of consequences and contexts, AI is not, a person avoiding a word goes about it in a very different way than A…

If AI is truly intelligent I suppose that means it can say the N word and understand the consequences of saying the N word. I would also say that intelligence would also require it understanding conte…

The writer of this article seems confused, his examples of "technological criticism" are more about the technological society than the technology but he seems to be advocating for the more s…

Society has been on the brink too many times in my lifetime for me to take it seriously anymore. Worst comes to worst I go on a very long camping trip which I honestly would would not be too upset abo…

Too quote myself "consistent and well defined use is most important," and I have repeated this sentiment in most if not every post I have made in this thread. My point to the previous commen…

>This page lists the curriculum for following this course at the university of your imagination, for four imagination credits (ungraded). Seems rather ridiculous of Cornell to dictate terms for the…

All we can really credit Warhol for in this regard is the term "superstar." The cult of celebrity goes back considerably further and part of what Warhol was doing was commenting on and explo…

That paragraph of mine and most of my posts could stand some editing, I am terrible at editing on a screen and my casual use tends to be comma heavy. I think your edits wonderfully highlight an issue …

It is easy to conceive of uses, having a consistent style which conveys what you want to most any reader is another thing. If you had wrote all those examples without using the text to explain them th…

I realized it on my own in an intuitive sense, my writing before I properly learned it shows this use but eventually I read some things on punctuation and fixed my naive use of the em-dash and other p…

I have a kneejerk aversion to this, the line between a petition and lobbying is rather vague, especially when the petition is signed by CEOs acting as CEOs. But it is kneejerk, we can't just offl…

I gave I look through my books and English is wonderfully ambivalent when it comes to punctuation outside of prescriptive grammars. The descriptive grammars largely (if not completely) ignore punctuat…

Search engines seem to really fail here, they are just giving me more guides like the one here, I can not get them to give me anything about narrative voice beyond conflations of narrative voice and t…

This guide and most guides like it tend to miss the most important and powerful use of the em-dash and make it out like you can use it for anything but really they are just missing the wonderful simpl…

Probably because many words considered profane have contexts in which they are not profane. "he rode an ass," he rode a donkey vs "he rode that ass," still could be about riding a …

Another thing which comes to mind, you can try enabling or disabling p-states, intel_pstate=enable/disable in the kernel parameters for grub. If memory serves if cpu-freqinfo gives you a list of …

There is only one, it allows you to set an explicit frequency from userspace. The cpufreq-set man will answer all your questions. Not all CPUs support userspace, cpufreq-info will list the available g…

Use the userspace governor and set the speed too something like 2ghz and see if the problem happens, read the manpage for cpufreq-set if you need help. Edit: you would probably be fine just setting th…

How is your touchpad setup? Depending on its settings it could be getting confused when you palm brushes it during typing, it pauses keyboard entry while it waits for your to to see what you are doing…

Back in the 80s/90s when I was in public education they largely relied on our natural language skills and I can not remember ever learning about things like conjugation or infinitives, we just le…