Recent content by MoonSong

TIL that the working theory of "Giant insects existed before because there was a higher Oxygen concentration in the atmosphere back then" has long been disproven. The only thing preventing giant insects from coming back is the competition and predation by mammals, reptiles and birds. Also...

It's basically a given. They are already hitting the point of diminishing returns. Each new generation needs many times more training data and processing power than the last. Soon there will be no more data left to train them and no data center will have enough electricity and water to process...

I'm personally not invested into using it myself, but the nice thig about LaTeX is that once you get the settings right, you can automate the process with more and more newer texts.

Must resist the need to make witty sarcastic hypocritical joke...

I'm late to this party, but a key piece of advice. When in word / (or your friendly FOSS alternative, n_n) make sure to properly assign text to a paragraph/text style group as you write. Nothing is more time consuming than having to do it manually later. Once you have all of your manuscript...

BTW, thank you all of you for helping me keep my sanity during hard times about four years ago. You really helped me go through dark times. https://www.enworld.org/threads/comfort-media-recommendations.686651/

My signature is not my name. It is a series of scribbles that originally followed the digits of a number (this many strokes in this direction, this many in the other direction... ) but I don't even remember the name anymore. Though two custom symbols representing my family name are hidden...

A proper exposition of my side of things requires bringing examples that far exceed the constraints of these forums. Just notice that lack of annonimity hasn't stopped bad people from doing power grabs abd stuff happened before social media was a thing. And if all you can think is to fear the...

Too bad I'm in "don't spend money" phase for at least three more weeks.

You see, every year the Department of Headlines audits all newspapers to make sure they use the rules for headlines correctly, and if they don't, the editor has to repeat fourth grade.... n_n

I don't fear a post-truth world, I fear surveillance so intrusive that it makes the social credit system look like a liberal paradise in comparison. I'm not afraid of truth dying out, I'm more afraid of people right now dying out for telling the truth and in the future for daring to seek the...

You really live in a bit of a sheltered environment. This stuff sounds very dystopic. I wouldn't trust my government with this degree of power. Once they have the power to single out individuals in connection with speech, they have the tools to get rid of any dissent no matter how small and...

** Cries in favorite distro bent the knee **

Not to dump on the profesion,n ot wanting to imply most do, but more than just outliers.

So far, yes. The problem is not being able to tell, the problem is being able to prove it.