There’s not really a stock Android though. Every manufacturer has its own flavor, so unless you go out of your way to build AOSP for your device, it could be anything.

Kinda disproven, but it’s also a question of what a word even is. Most of those snow words might not make it into a dictionary, but they will get their separate entries in a glossary for a book on snow, because the general sense of the word can be extracted from the parts, but words take on more precise meaning when they’re used more often.

However, we shouldn’t single out Inuits and snow, because the general principle is “words are created and forgotten according to need”. Carpenters have a lot of words for wood. Barely anyone still knows a lot of words for stone tools.

And sure, people who spend a lot of their life in snow will have a lot of words to describe their experiences with snow. But every human language can be used to describe any experience, even if you need to combine some words in new ways to do it. So when we say “Inuit have this many words”, we ignore that people don’t really communicate in single words, but saying “Inuit have this many sentences” makes it immediately obvious that it’s a silly thing to say: all languages have infinite sentences.

Nulls are useful, but you can’t work with them in Java. Anything can be null at any time without warning, even when you have absolutely no reason to ever allow a null. Null safety as a language feature gives you the choice to allow nulls when they make sense or guarantee a value when needed. It saves you checking for nulls in the core of your logic when you already ruled them out at the boundary and enforced it at compile time.

It was JFK Jr, he crashed a plane in the ocean in 1999, the year after Seinfeld ended.

The episode is S04E10 “The Contest”, “The Sponge” is S07E09 and Elaine is in a steady relationship with Puddy around that time, so who knows what she was using with Kennedy.

The real child abuse is in the Shein supply chain, will the French authorities investigate that too? Or are they busy protecting the feelings of dolls?

A spokesperson for Google said that? Who even asked them?

What? Of course you can, the entire Holocaust was about that. Unless “settler” in your mind is morally equivalent to “invader”, even when they’re third-generation German “settlers” in Brazil, a state that already existed for 200 years before the first-generation Germans even arrived.

Note that Germans in Brazil were not exterminated in any way. They were forced to assimilate during WW2, which is a form of genocide, but kept enough of their cultural identity that millions currently speak Riograndese Hunsrik, a German-Portuguese hybrid language.

The hogs there are so organized, they shaped their territory in the letters of their gang sign.

What’s this flattened piece of metal doing on the table? Wait a minute… Are you Superman in disguise and the bullets fired from a silenced gun bounced off your invulnerable chest and landed on the table? …What am I saying? If that were true, Superman obviously would have eaten them to hide the evidence.

The actual Nazis were nothing but hypocrites themselves. Propaganda did a good job of only showing the elite troops, but not every Nazi supporter looked like a buff soldier with a strong jawline. Most of them looked like normal people living normal 1930s lives, bad teeth, malnourished, scarred by measles and what not. They were telling themselves that their Aryan ancestry made them superior despite their obvious flaws, it’s the traditional Nazi coping mechanism.

And keep in mind it wouldn’t make their ideology any more right if they all looked like demigods. The problem isn’t them not conforming to their own ideals, it’s the violent oppression justified by those ideals.

The weird thing is, they estimated these numbers based on the population and the per-capita birth rate. They didn’t even take the raw data, they took the corrected data and uncorrected it.

The Good Place is unspoilable, I enjoyed it much more when I knew some of the plot points beforehand.

Like Sword in the Stone Merlin on vacation?

Picture for reference:

Isn’t this that map that Hank Green just made a video about? Don’t Trust Maps Like This

I wish I was anime
I wish I looked anime
I wish I had an anime name
I wish I could go to an anime school

I think the problem with the marble run is the constant “rrrrrrr tick-tick rrrrr tick rrrr”, but aside from the noise it’s a great toy and a core component of any child’s toy box. It’s also the start of many Rube Goldberg machines running through your living room.

That pun went over my head. He doesn’t look like a coot though, but geese and ducks look alike in Duck-style, so maybe coots do too.

I think this is completely missing the point when it’s talking about “the minutiae of art”. It’s making two claims at the same time: art is better when you suffer for it and the art is good whether or not you suffered. But none of that is relevant.

When Wyeth made Christina’s World, I don’t know if he suffered or not when painting that grass. What I do know is that he was a human with limited time and the fact that he spent so much of his time detailing every blade of grass means that he’s saying something. That The Oatmeal doesn’t draw backgrounds might be because he’s lazy, but he also doesn’t need them. These are choices we make to put effort in one part and ignore some other part.

AI doesn’t make choices. It doesn’t need to. A detailed background is exactly the same amount of work as a plain one. And so a generated picture has this evenly distributed level of detail, no focus at all. You don’t really know where to look, what’s important, what the picture is trying to say. Because it’s not saying anything. It isn’t a rat with a big butt, it’s just a cloud of noise that happens to resemble a rat with a big butt.

I thought it was at least named after a Duck, like the McDuck family. But Rosaverse says the founder is called Cornelius Coot and he named it Duckburg for no particular reason.

Side note: Cornelius’ beak looks much more like those of confirmed geese like Gladstone Gander, so I’m not even sure he’s a duck at all.

Second side note: It’s weird that Donald’s family tree is filled with waterfowl of all different species, but no dogs (which seems to be 80% of Duckburg’s population) or other species. Do they have egg groups like Pokemon?

Exactly, this isn’t a difficult problem to solve. If it’s even a problem in the first place, because a sensible layout with good signage is enough for 99% of customers. A website to navigate a store is probably not even worth it in terms of net time savings, but it’s convenient for customers and makes them more likely to go to your store if they can see something is in stock before they even leave their home, which is where the real return on investment is. An LLM can’t give you live stock updates, so that’s half of the value proposition gone.