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My news feed recommended me an article about it on my lunch break a few hours ago and it was the first I'd heard of it... shame...

I kinda like 8. 2 would be acceptable. The rest I don't really care for.

Indeed, I tried to tell him that, but he's very pig headed. He's an English professor, so his take is usually "it's right, it's just not as right as a human who knows what they're talking about". He doesn't know anything about numbers, not even enough to know ChatGPT would be giving him wrong numbers.

Sorry, my comment was unclear. I meant he was specifically thinking ChatGPT could do it indeed. And true, ChatGPT can do them. It can do them wrong.

He specifically meant ChatGPT. Should have specified.

Hell, I'm an adult. I have a friend who's a professor. He's generally pretty reasonable, including his stance on AI, and his stance on students using or not using AI. However, he personally thinks AI is capable of doing his taxes if he asks it... it's such a dumb proposition I wasn't able to convince him otherwise other than "no, trust me, that's a bad idea, don't do it".

Yeah, it took me 5 minutes of sitting here struggling to remember what it was, so no sweat. It's such a sneaky exception it's hard to even recall.

I agree in broad strokes with the poster here, but will say there is kind of one very specific exception (though maybe it's just me, I guess we're about to find out). Using 'scheme' related to decorating/art, like 'color scheme' still seems perfectly normal, for some strange reason. Like that's just what you call an assortment of specific colors picked to go well together, just like how animals all have crazy names for a group. Every other time I hear 'scheme' though it does indeed seem nefarious though.

In addition to the examples listed already, there's a few more, hard to remember them all really. The key point though is generally the successful shut down or ejection is overshadowed because whatever problem isn't solved. The threat/disaster (assuming whatever caused the warp core to become unstable) is still happening, AND now you're without main power. Just because the warp core didn't explode doesn't mean you're out of the woods.

For the Holiday weekend they let us out of work early today (with pay), and in my extra time, 5 years in game, I managed to to conquer both Black Marsh and the half of Skyrim I didn't have as the Empire of Cyrodiil (got really lucky usurping some top tier titles then using my massive diplomacy/prestige to just vassalize everyone left). It'd be a real shame if the next version dropped before I take out Alinor and House Indoril led Morrowind haha.

Upwards of 80% of my CK3 hours are in Elder Kings. I'd love to get back to AtE if not for the fact that by the time I'm done with this (my most successful ever) run it'll probably be time for Elder Kings to add all the latest features once more.

It's actually fairly common I think. My company has one. I have it set up so like $20 a paycheck is automatically deducted to pay into ours, and it's for like employees if their house burns down or something like that. We're a fairly large company, so if enough people do it, it adds up, and I'm pretty sure corporate contributes quite a bit as well.

This particular school is known for being high quality in the education department (as much as a jr college can be), but not so much in the administration department. This was circa 2010, and my brother was going as well, and there were constant problems with their online/hybrid offerings at the time. One of my brother's required classes was online and didn't unlock on whatever system they were using to teach due to a bug, so he like physically couldn't access the classwork. It was a bug on the school's end like "you do not have permission to view this class" or something like that, and by the time they got it fixed the professor was like "too much time has passed, I'm just going to mark you incomplete". We had to threaten small claims court to get a refund on that class.

Not relevant to what's going on here, but I like to share the time the junior college I went to for my first two years held my diploma over 24 cents (must have been a printing fee in the library after the last billing cycle). Wouldn't have been an issue except they refused to discuss accounts over the phone, only in person, and the letter they sent didn't say how much I owed. Went to their office and stood in line with my parents who assumed I was in big trouble only for the clerk to suddenly become much more apologetic when the debt turned out to just be 24 cents.

Yeah, one of the things that's still wonky today is that while our location clearly "won", and won 20 years ago, for the "right" to use this address, and nearly all web tools etc will show our house if you type it in, if you take a different approach and look at the official maps of where zip codes lay you can get from USPS, it shows we actually are in a different zip code than we are (as are about 15 of our neighbors, not many, but it's a large area, because this is rural), so something *somewhere* is still wrong. It just hasn't really caused a major problem for 20 years.

Back when 911 addresses were first put in place in our area, my address actually existed in two locations, because the zip code extends over county lines (the county line is the side street a stone's throw away from where I'm sitting right now). At the correct address is my house. At the same address, different county, there's just an empty field North of town. For a few years we'd have packages just get sent to that empty field more often than not. It's been fixed for a long time on the vast majority of databases by assigning that empty field to a different zip code, but every once in awhile I still find evidence of the address existing twice, and we do still seem to have more trouble getting packages delivered than most people.

Reading this thread I just had a similar memory. A lot of things happened that day. I'm across the river on the Illinois side 100 miles or so, went to school in a town of about 2000 with nothing really except an underwear factory. I was in 5th grade. A few of us were absolutely panicking that our factory was going to be next, because, you know, we were 10 year old kids with no sense of perspective, and the teachers just didn't have the energy to calm us down. They just kinda gave up and kept watching the TV they rolled into the room with the news on it. Retrospectively I get it and don't really blame them.

To be fair, they certainly had some recourse against Fred, though killing him was probably too much.