I see zero subscribers, zero posts. I’m not breaking that streak

If I must

Although dictionaries will show words that significant parts of the population say are wrong, I’m still going to say octopuses is also correct because octopus is an English word and English usually pluralises like that

Octopusen is not common since octopus is too new to get that style of English plural

Of course significant parts of the population spell “than” with an e, or “then” with an a, and/or don’t know the difference between it’s and its

Would you care to pluralise octagon?

There are workflows using LLMs that seem fair to me, for example

• using an LLM to produce a draft, then
• Editing and correcting the LLM draft
• Finding real references and replacing the hallucinated ones
• Correcting LLM style to your style

That seems like more work than doing it properly, but it avoids some of the sticking points of the proper process

LLMs can’t cite. They don’t know what a citation is other than a collection of text of a specific style

You’d be lucky if the number of references equalled the number of referenced items even if you were lucky enough to get real sources out of an LLM

If the student is clever enough to remove the trap reference, the fact that the other references won’t be in the University library should be enough to sink the paper

Legal eagle has a video spelling out which laws are broken. Note that there are specific laws against paying people to vote

Use a throwaway email, drop it as soon as the promotion is over

I can’t say I have ever considered myselfgender fluid due to my gender perfectly fitting the shape of its container (ie me)

That’s “parent” not “adult”

I with no kids at home have excellent sleep

Teens are the ones (after new mothers) who suffer the most, with natural sleep cycles starting around midnight or in the early morning and wake times in the late morning or early afternoon, but school schedules that force them to be active at school from 9am

My sister got told off regularly for reading after lights out

As adults my mother told me that after they found books for me I liked they pretended to never notice the light leaking through my doona, they were just happy to see I was reading

It’s not like the US manufacturers anything anymore, and Hollywood has forgotten how to make movies

It’s like you don’t even try to export your culture anymore, when I was a kid everyone watched Sesame Street, now all the kids in all the English speaking world are watching Bluey

I don’t think any wild animals other than humans have obesity problems

Bees are a symbol of labour. You couldn’t make them work harder if you tried. European honey bees collect far more nectar than they will ever eat, it’s like they’re planning for fimbulwinter

So what exactly is the problem with using honey?

Before the before times (given that the before times are 2019 and earlier

Ah that’s what you wrote

Gen X here. I agree torrents are for legit uses only

Usenet is the best for piracy

I’m hanging out for when ITER is operational. There’s every chance it runs at or just over 1:1

Yeast in sugar is going: I’ll just convert this to poison (ethanol) to keep everything away, then whenever I’m hungry I’ll break that poison into acid

Humans: hold my… Wait a minute let’s make beer!

Parrots: tasty tasty poison

Fruit flies: bonanza!

I really wonder about fusion. Most of the news of energy production higher than energy input is about non-electricity fusion - the big tokamak fusion systems are not yet producing more power than they take to run, but scientists working on them are expecting good results soon

Like when I was a kid fusion was 20 years away and would always be 20 years away. Now it looks like it’ll be 5 years away for a while

CSR, if I recall correctly

Perhaps it was the number I misremembered. There definitely is no violet in the spectrum