33 arty, wow. Still hitting logistics hard too, by the look.

Just need to get AI on that.

damn

Among other issues that’s going to make it harder for them to do other stuff.

goes down with distance by an exponential factor
(1/x^3)

Umm… those two things are not equivalent. b^(-x) would be exponential, x^(-k) is inverse-power for whatever k

It has been a pretty short trip from “Don’t be evil” to “The cutting edge of late stage capitalism”

face, meet leopard

Then delete and start over, or don’t use data you don’t have explicit permission to use. in the first place.

It’s like a thief saying “well, I already fenced most of the stuff so it’s too hard to give any of it back. So let’s just call it quits, eh?”

or bloody universal healthcare

I guess it depends on where you live. It’s not true of the whole world.

Waiting for 100% oral exams to make a comeback.

The headline’s confusing. If a losing bet is backfiring, does that mean it’s now a winning bet?

Well, that’s something I hadn’t seen before.

I expect a lot more authors will go this (crowdfunding) route; if Kelsey Dionne can get over $1.3 million for a fairly niche TTRPG product (albeit that it was a very well done example of its particular niche), publishing straight up fiction books via crowdfunding has to look pretty damn attractive.

(edit: added a missing word)

heard that one earlier today …

Because of the Norman invasion. 1066 and all that. (edit: specifically, after a time the peasants spoke English and looked after the animals, the nobility spoke french and named the food, so we got the English words for the animals and the French words for most of the farm animals were used for the food made from them)

https://xkcd.com/927/

That’s a bit like asking “twitter or reddit”; different tools, different purposes. A single person may prefer one or the other, or use both in approximately equal measure.

Even a little button wear would be enough to pick between those three, so in a lot of cases you’d just need to try one of them.