So sad that we continue to voluntarily give Microsoft Github this power.

I have been citing this factoid for years, also to general incredulity. But the facts check out.

PS: I see two reasons for the pushback this is getting (apart from the fact that this is social media, where rudeness and cynicism are the norm, even here alas):

• cognitive dissonance: the putative fact is surprising and counter-intuitive, and most humans are irrational and respond badly to that
• you phrased it slightly incorrectly: even if French is somewhat likely to be the “most spoken”, it’s unlikely ever to be the “most widely spoken”

Recently I used it (some free-tier DuckAI model, not Claude) to write a Python script for pasting PNGs into PDFs (complete with Tk interface) while applying a whole bunch of custom transformations. Simple enough, but a total chore with all the back-and-forth of searching for relevant unfamiliar libraries and syntax checking and troubleshooting. Inevitably it would have taken me the whole afternoon by hand. With AI I knocked it out in 25 minutes. That was my epiphany moment.

Since then I’ve noticed a general problem with AI coding. It almost always introduces too much complexity, which I then have to waste time untangling (and often just understanding) before I can proceed. Whereas if I had done it “my way” from the start I might have got there earlier. But I figure this problem is kinda on me.

Interesting. By couching your skepticism in very dull (but no doubt accurate) legalese, you managed to avoid getting brigaded for effectively dissenting from the (also very dull) jaded-US-progressive groupthink in this community.

Great write-up! This is YSK premium content.

Amazing. Never thought of this explanation but it makes sense.

What the hell is this completely random news article doing here? Seriously. Moderation needed.

Useful. As much as I’m comfortable with the general movements of Earth and Sun (i.e. seasons, latitudes, and so on) it’s always been a bit of a mystery what the Moon is doing.

This makes things a bit clearer.

Ha. Actually I believe there are hundreds of thousands who do (and good for you!). It’s a great model IMO. Foundation status with an endowment, free to access and beg banners saying “Pay so that others don’t have to”. Of course, the quirky status was a bit of an accident of history.

Reminiscent of dumping on the Washington Post because Bezos.

The reason that quality independent journalism is so hard to find is that nobody much is paying for it. Including you, probably.

I listen to Politico’s EU Confidential podcast and it’s pretty good. The EU’s national medias are too parochial to cover Brussels, with Politico at least somebody’s doing it.

Or how to smuggle US politics into literally any community.

This is not a “YSK”, it’s just yet another post about (US…) politics.

Seriously, this problem ruined !showerthoughts@lemmy.world and it’s ruining this community too.

PS: very pertinent ongoing discussion

A spicier take still: I personally have found DDG’s AI summaries useful even without further clicking. When one’s query is purely technical (vs politics or whatever), I don’t see any need to click dutifully.

Finally, a YSK which is actually a YSK.

As I recall, a major reason it didn’t take off was very simple: the new “Sunday” only came every 10 days instead of 7!

The best bit about it was definitely the evocative month names.

13! A prime number indivisible into anything. Ugh!

Always the final resort to “you’re arguing in bad faith”… You have no more idea what motivates me than I have about you, so why bother making this unfalsifiable accusation? Anyway. You have expressed what you don’t understand about my argument, just as I’ve already expressed what I don’t understand about yours, as well as I possibly can. Nobody else is listening. Let’s just leave it there.

Obese means fat, not just overweight. The fact that there are twice as many non-obese among the poor does not make them thin! Unless it’s that people get fatter and fatter as they get poorer, until they get really poor and they suddenly they become skeletal, is that what we’re claiming? This whole talking point makes no sense and you seem rational enough to be able to admit that.

How can there be “huge swathes” of Americans who are “poorer than” the Americans who are so poor that they can only afford junk food and thus explain America’s obesity statistics. This whole talking point makes no sense.

Tell me that you haven’t read 1984. “War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength”, and today “obesity is hunger”, apparently.