Maybe don’t ask LLMs for translation help. Apparently because many of them are programmed in English, they still follow English structures when writing in other languages, resulting in products that are grammatically incorrect.

We have gone from reasonably-okay translation programs to “intelligent” systems that are flat-out incorrect. And somehow people believe that the incorrect ones are better.

I look forward to this particular hype train running off the rails sooner rather than later.

It does get better.

It’s not my favorite show, but I don’t regret the time I spent watching it.

Season 3, episode 12 (“One Day, One Room”) is probably the closest to that.

It isn’t all House in the clinic, all the time, but I think he only works clinic cases in that episode.

I feel like one of the things he said was that he blacklisted people who “regularly post things normal people don’t want to see” (or something along those lines). I assumed that was a blanket statement to cover Violet and anyone else whose posts have made him feel uncomfortable.

That makes me sad for those people. Life is too short to spend it in the company of miserable assholes.

I wasn’t born into a family I enjoy spending time with. It took me a while to find “my people,” but I’m so glad I did.

It sounds like you dodged a serious bullet there. I don’t know many people who started their marriages with huge debt who are out of debt or living happily at this point. Most of them are divorced. The smart ones kept enough paperwork to prove their spouses came into the marriage with debt, so they should not be held jointly responsible for it.

OMG, the flashbacks I just had from your mention of BaseCamp …

My company didn’t use it, but one of our clients did, and stipulated that we had to use it in order to work with them. Fun times.

Where I live in Colombia, we can get eggs in dozens, but it’s more common to find packs of 15 or 30 in the supermarket.

If I shop at the mom-and-pop tienda on my block, they’ll sell me exactly the number of eggs I ask for.

Same here. It’s better than bad; it’s good!

This is exactly my experience with companies that say they’re a “family.” They typically want you to work all hours and come in on your day off to “pitch in.”

The ones that have mutual respect for employees and healthy boundaries don’t usually describe themselves that way.

That was such a trend at a previous job that I started responding to my supervisor’s requests in writing with, “I am currently working on X with a deadline of Y. You have asked me to pivot to Z today. Whatever time I divert to (new request) Z will directly affect delivery on X. Please confirm the order of priority for X and Z.”

If the supervisor’s confirmation was verbal, I would reply with, “Per our conversation, I am <whatever I was told to do>.”

At least then I had receipts in the meeting about why X was behind schedule.

Those are all literally the current standard postal abbreviations, just not in all caps.

Yes! The photos of that setup were crazy, but the sound is definitely unique.

And yes, apparently we are besties now.

… and that’s why I even know Bösendorfer as a brand.

At least one of her touring pianos is a custom job that has extra keys on the bass end.

Marie Clay and Lucy Calkins

And then when Bush Jr implemented “No Child Left Behind,” schools had to use certain research-backed curricula if they wanted to keep their funding. So they trusted that the “research” about whole-language reading curricula was true. It took decades to see that it wasn’t the teachers’ implementation that was flawed, it was bad research. The approved curriculum reinforced bad reading practices.

Journalists have always used the old postal abbreviations. It’s part of the Associated Press style.

The NYT has its own style guide that doesn’t always match the AP.

I assume that if it isn’t already happening, future models will have instructions to maximize token usage.

You’re not wrong. Male CEOs do not get asked how they balance work with fatherhood.

They didn’t, though. The US government took over Argentina for a reason.

Please stop reminding me how old I am.