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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • That’s wrong on both counts.

    The complaints about NFTs were also that they were unethical - consumed a shitton of electricity for no reason, sustained themselves mostly by scams and rugpulls. The chief use case of crypto has always been crime and money laundering.

    The complaints about AI are that it fucking sucks and results in a truly insane waste of resources towards something that doesn’t solve literally any problems, like NFTs squared. The unethical aspect of it all is just a cherry on top that makes using LLMs a no-go even if it happened to kinda work for your problem.






  • It’s a stupid thing that

    • exists only in English as far as I know, every other language puts it after the number,
    • is not used consistently (since you still write 25¢ and not ¢25),
    • doesn’t follow the way you read it (it’s “five dollars” not “dollar five”).

    It’s one of those places where yes, the spelling rules say otherwise, but the rule is fucking stupid so anarchy it is.

    I’m more irked by “less”, the noun there is dollars so it should be “fewer”…