Conversely I hate the trend in English language to keep the original pluralization rules when adopting words from other languages. Just anglicize it to “alumnuses” or “alumnis” (if you want that to be the singular). Rules of the original language don’t matter any more when you use it in English.

imo, permaban should be reserved for bots and spam accounts. and people committing crimes using the platform.
everyone else max 30 days, but no limits how many times you can get banned if you keep repeating the bad behaviour

Chat GPT is wonderful as a search engine for SO. It regurgitates the answers in a format easier to incorporate into your own project.

The thing I’m worried about is a lack of new answers. You need data to train an LLM, what to do if nobody is producing it?

brilliant student in school, studied law, moved to China, learned the language, always very high achieving and motivated to succeed in what ever she chose to do, seemed like she was aiming high career-wise,

Burnout is a bitch, speaking from experience. One way out is to radically change your lifestyle. Whether it turns out good or bad in the long term is very individual

Depends on what you define as a religion. Violently forcing beliefs onto others - yes we would definitely be better off without that. Hierarchical structures of power - also yes.

Trying to explain the universe around us by anthropomorphizing natural phenomena? I’m not so sure. It could be seen as useful in the sense of philosophical exploration.

As inspiration for art - it was immensely useful.

Miss:

1. Sheer number of users giving rise to lively niche communities
2. Searchability

Not miss:
Asshole business model

a few races of human

Ew, are you like a racist or something ?

For a split second that website looked convincing 🙂
Would try if it was real.

It’s supposed to be a good practice … in theory. In practice nobody knows what exists and who’s in charge of what and there’s exceptions and exceptions to exceptions.

Speaking for software engineering perspective. I see in other comment you’re doing process engineering, I assume the term is used in a similar way

In Spain: Goiko.
It’s decently good even in absolute terms, not just for a chain

For real, dead animals taste amazing when you grill them

Despite trying to avoid it I end up using Amazon occasionally, for maybe 10% of my non-recurring purchases. Small electronics, accessories, and dietary supplements mostly. The convenience of pick-up lockers is hard to beat, and not all delivery companies offer it.

I agree, the amount of damage car infrastructure is doing is severely underestimated. All that concrete needs to be made, regularly maintained and disposed of in the end. Not to mention heat absorption in hotter parts of the world. I don’t know how people in desert areas handle it it seems like hell.

If you need a car, EV is a better choice. At least it doesn’t spew fumes directly on the street, although it’s far from ideal since electricity generation and lithium mining are also polluting. In balance slightly less harmful than ICE.

Choose whichever connector is the most standard where you live. CCS2 in Europe, NACS in North America, CHAdeMO in Japan, the standard in China is usually listed as GB/T. No idea what is used in South America. The point is to make sure you’ll be able to resell the car easily in the future.

I’m chronically online, and have seen the way anyone not in the “urban progressive” crowd is talked about in American politics discussion. Would you vote for the option which continually insults your appearance, origins, dialect and arrogantly dismisses any legitimate concerns you may have.

He’s good at providing hope. False hope, but that’s hard to admit if all other candidates seem hopeless.

Especially for the blue collar working class and the rural poor who were forgotten by Republicans, actively hated on by Democrats. Also pretty much disenfranchised by the winner takes all electoral system.

He didn’t manage to destroy the country in the first term due to the constant opposition from Democrats. That not obvious at first sight. If you were completely new to US politics he’d just seem loud and vaguely innefective.

As someone also not American I can think of some good reasons. But I’d rather hear Americans, they are the ones who vote for him

Then you miss out the unmentioned part of the work - idle thinking. Not only the time spent typing something on the keyboard is work. All the time spent thinking how to solve a problem is also work.

Yep, just slapping a “communist party” sticker on the property owning class doesn’t make a difference

Not me