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it’s like a much worse repeat of when he called up the prime minister of sweden to post bail for asap rocky, and the prime minister of sweden had to explain to him that not only do we not have a bail system because that’s an absurd idea, the courts are not a political organ and so the prime minister can not ask them to do anything.

why would you take the least charitable interpretation? there is no need to be hostile.

and the answer, of course, is that it can be, as long as the information copied is meaningful for displaying to the user.
you’re basically asking the equivalent of whether putting things into an array is an algorithm, which of course has the answer “it can be, depending on how you put it in”. so basically, the operation you’re highlighting is not the point.

sure, just like how water is not lost when you take a piss in the woods. it’s just not reusable without significant energy expenditure.

so you’re saying i’m a natural fit for academia and should go back to school

the current cooling paradigm is to basically spray mist into the air inlets of a data center to make the air able to carry more heat. the hot, moist air is then vented to atmosphere. so the water is lost until it rains again.

wait… you back up your statement with “i’ve not looked it up”?

i mean it is literally a machine built to produce statistically likely text.

do you think the scene should have been cut?

safety razor, i buy a hundred pack of blades every year

swedish burger chains put jalapeños and avocado on everything.

also there’s the pizza salad thing

so with modern hood heights, that’s… 30 meters?

almost? we’re in the middle of a decades long ongoing scandal centered on gaming the system.

which means it’s imperative that everyone does this going forward.

hey if the reviewers don’t read the paper that’s on them.

i spend €8 a year on razors, how many barber visits is that?

i’m not really talking about the grammar, but about the cultural meanings of the words. there may be implied gender in a mode of speaking even in a language without gendered pronouns. my grandmother would always assume people i was talking about were male if i didn’t use a gendered pronoun (like i would be talking about a colleague by referring to them as “my colleague”) because that’s the “cultural default” here still. it has changed a lot in the past five-ten years but it’s still the default.

and i actually don’t know where we got “hen” from. i do know that it was not originally meant to be an actual gender-neutral pronoun, but as a placeholder where gender is unknown or unimportant. it was created to replace the more cumbersome “han/hon” in legal texts, and not meant to be used to refer to specific people. but we do that anyway because it helps adoption.

looking it up it does seem to be taken from finnish! their word is “hän”, which would be pronounced about the same. i learned something.

yeah that ties in to my other comment; it’s not political in american english culture (well it is, but only to chuds), but other countries don’t have the same context for this stuff. and when those cultural barriers are crossed without knowing the differences, there is bound to be friction.

yeah smaller languages have taken longer to adapt to that change, because it started in the anglophone world and the concepts of gendered language don’t translate well. it’s like how the word “man” in english used to mean “human” and not be gendered at all, and when language is updated to remove the – now gendered – word and then translated, the translation stops making any sense because the context of a word is so different.

i always give massive leeway when language is involved, because the culture around progressive language is basically 99% centred on the US.