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The key difference is that the internet is a fuckload more useful than what's being sold as AI.

Apparently patched. I just tried this out:

[Prompt] Explain the origin of the English idiom "when the cracker breaks".

[Output] I can't explain the origin of the English idiom "when the cracker breaks" because this idiom doesn't exist. It's possible you're misremembering or combining parts of other idioms.

Perhaps you're thinking of:

• "When the cracks show": This refers to when flaws or weaknesses become apparent.
• "When the ship comes in": This means when a long-awaited fortune or success arrives.
• "Crackerjack": This is an adjective meaning excellent or first-rate.

If you can provide more context or clarify the idiom you're thinking of, I'd be happy to try and explain its origin!

This hits another problem - I know the idiom doesn't exist, because I made it up. However, the bot has no way to "know" it, and so it shouldn't be vomiting certainty. (Or rather, what a human would interpret as certainty.)

I hope this growth snowballs from now on; larger market share → developers release Linux versions for their software → users have less reasons to keep Windows → larger market share. Basically, a network-like effect.

If Linux reaches ~25% we basically won; the only advantage Windows has at its disposal is that network-like effect - Linux is cheaper (literally free), less encumbered by anti-user restrictions, and you can run it even in a potato.

Looking forward, analysts predict Linux could hit 7% by 2027 if trends continue, driven by AI integrations in distributions like those from Canonical

Or rather, by their optionality. Some people want those tools, some don't want to touch them with a 3m pole; Linux can appease to both, unlike Windows is doing.

Likely - they didn't get any promising result fast enough, and kids be damned. That would explain Alder's abrupt transition into the standard orthography.

Caesar was a major slut before he became fabulously wealthy (or bald, for that matter), so I guess that gilded tongue had uses outside of the political arena 😏

Sadly unlikely. Cunnilingus was seen as degrading for the man.

I'm not a native English speaker, I don't have any experience with this ITA crap, nor any emotional investment on it. However I studied enough Linguistics to smell the bullshit from a distance.

I'm sceptic on claims that ITA hindered or helped those people to learn English. It looks like fluff; not specially helpful, but not specially harmful either. At most you could claim it wasted time that could be better spent teaching something else, but that's it.

The hardest part to teach someone to read in an alphabet is not to teach them the value of the letters, but rather the idea behind the alphabet - that those lines in a paper are related to some abstract segments of their speech. And that "idea" is trivial to transpose, if you need to relearn the former; for example, if you're learning a second alphabetic script.

Now look at the personal anecdotes being shared. I'll emphasise some parts:

And then, at A-level, I’ll never forget my English teacher said to me, ‘You’ll never get an A because of your spelling.’ That was crushing. English was the one subject I loved – I felt so aggrieved.”

I know plenty people around her age who can't spell Portuguese for shit. As in, "eçeção" tier. Even with a more transparent spelling system, and no Initial Teaching Alphabet. But just like her, they had shitty teachers really, really eager to put students down.

For Alder, the abrupt transition from ITA to the standard alphabet felt like a betrayal. “It was like they said: ‘Right, we’ve told you a pack of lies for the past two years, now this is how you’re actually meant to read and write.’ My disgust at being lied to, that loss of trust, that stuck with me. I was never interested in English after that.”

"We're going to teach you this, but you'll never be told why."

Is the issue really ITA? Or primitive didactic methods of those times, that treated students as stupid little things instead of rational human beings? I'm betting the later.

Only if I sleep belly up. If I sleep on the side, I don't.

The one actually noticing this was my ex-fiancée, we typically spooned when sleeping and she never complained about snoring, but once I was too tired to wait for her and slept first - belly up - she woke me up, worried because I was snoring.

What I want (for Civ 5; I don't care about Civ 7) is semi-auto exploration: let me tell the scout the rough area I want it to explore, then ask me again once it's done. It's enough to reduce micromanagement, but it allows me to set up my priorities, that might be different from one playthrough to another.

This is amazing - thank you!

You mean Ø? I accidentally inverted it, but it should be easy for people to flip it. Here's a full list of what I've tried to represent:

ABCDEFGHIJ
LMNOPQRST
UVXYZ!?.,"«»
ØİKWYÐÞŁ
БГДЖЗИЛПЦ
ШЩЬЮЯФ
1234567890

I didn't include Ч because it's easy to sub it with 4, Volapuk style.