Was it sourceforge or ThinkGeek that had the code snippets?

Have we pinned down the emdashes source yet? ;-P

I think it's because LLMs tend to obsessively write in a this-therefore-that kind of way, where an emdash is often the most semantically fitting punctuation.

Apple devices produce a ton of emdashes; "Smart Punctuation" is enabled by default on iOS and iPadOS, maybe Mac as well - and it's at least a decade old.

I've had to disable it on all my iDevices bc it breaks some Markdown parsers. How big a % of training data was produced on an Apple device? Ehhhhh probably small.

Radial annoyance declarations only!

just have it count how many times del cmd runs successfully /s

Claude, is that you?

The good old Aqua Regia test.

I'm sure there's a super trimmed down linux pdf reader that could be ported over

Just like print-to-pdf is (one of many) peeves of adobe's

Exactly. Anytime you can leverage a universal OS protocol, you instantly bypass the proprietary gatekeepers. Building on open standards is always the smarter architectural play.

What if the mansion had balloons and the jet was grounded? /s The point of shows like SP taking on targets like Gore were their eco-shaming angles; these people we know of and hear of are polished products of Corp. Inc. and if they have a green angle it's accompanied by green-washing, which will have anti and pro groupies alongside stirring up discourse that is both helpful and non

If Gore had built a floating castle in the sky, a one off magical house, I’d say, he’s alright

Hindsight and all that; there are always[sic] people who blame [prior person] for [current problem] all the time (insert blanket statement here)

The whole point is it wasn't "hindsight". They took obviously wrong, easily refuted positions on some very important issues, like climate change and political choice, and abused their platform to promote that nonsense.

Impressionable baby techbros here on HN still quote them on that stuff, so the consequences of their multiple fuckups haven't finished playing out yet.

"Hindsight" would be recognizing "oh shit, I'm a fucking idiot and I didn't realize it." But they haven't actually reached that level of hindsight yet.

Essentially, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are enthusiastic heralds of the idiocracy.

Well, when people get their news from entertainers, that’s when things are wrong. One should not be informed on important topics by people who have little understanding of things but have a lot of feelings about things in the world. If you give entertainers that much credibility then you get good along with bad.

You shouldn’t do a lot of things. Yet people do. Feels like you are talking past each other

Are you talking about South Park or Trump here?

Even this one's overrun with bots, and because I'm already a dick I don't have a downvote

"The ceiling blocks my view of the sky, and the roof doesn't let me see my TV from outside; we don't need framework or anything to keep the weather out, it's sunny!"