> 21% of Americans are functionally illiterate according to the University of Alabama.
This was false. University of Alabama said this was according to the National Center for Educational Statistics.[1] NCES said 21% of US adults had low English literacy. This meant could not participate due to a language barrier or a cognitive or physical inability to be interviewed, below level 1, or level 1. Their definition of functionally illiterate in English was below level 1. This was 4.1%.[2]
Independently of literacy, I think many people desperately yearn for someone else to write or speak for them.
"Putting their name on documents" or "speaking publicly" is just an excruciating requirement to keep cashing checks, and each time it comes up the first thought bubbling up from the autonomic system is "how the fuck do I get out of this".
Looking at the AI-generated image, the vibecoded visual design, and the constant use of these phrases in the text, this isn't one of the exceptions to the rule.
Sometimes! But when the cost of generating pages upon pages of bombastic text is near-zero, I have to apply quick heuristics to decide which text by people I don't personally know is worth my time to read in detail, and this article doesn't pass.
100% agree with this. The irony of this article critical of AI development culture is that the author used AI to write it.
The 'not a, not b, but c' writing style used to be _effective_. If someone wrote that way I paid attention because it was good writing. But because it is everywhere now, it has ceased to be effective, and it has the opposite effect. My mental heuristic sees this and zones out now.
Plural. The fact that the multiple universities admins think it a good idea to invite those speakers shows how out of touch a whole class of people is with society. As of yesterday evening there were three reported booing events on commencement speeches, all having AI as topic. In one case they let AI read out the name of the students to enter the stage for their diploma and the AI forgot a couple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFCNd61FCzY
The core loop of new friend formation is repeated casual contact.
School is naturally good at forcing this, since we are filtering in and out of different class groups.
If you want to recreate this in post-school life, you have to join high membership interest groups, like casual sports groups (kickball, tennis, golf).
Game nights at the local pub work well too, since there will be a rotating cast of characters to make friends with.
Basically, you have to seek novelty and regular re-occurance to make "natural" new friends.
Yeah I get it, I'm into cars (drive fast, don't change my own oil) and started talking to a guy at work about his car, had me sit in it (Porsche). Pretty sick. It definitely helps to have a shared interest.
"curl is currently 176,000 lines of C code when we exclude blank lines. The source code consists of 660,000 words, which is 12% more words than the entire English edition of the novel War and Peace.
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curl is installed in over twenty billion instances. It runs on over 110 operating systems and 28 CPU architectures. It runs in every smart phone, tablet, car, TV, game console and server on earth."
curl is dealing with the complexity of HTTP.
Even doing a simple basic request to some website, is going to cover a lot of code paths to deal with all sorts of response codes (redirects, etc.), headers, etc.
It's likely that new Rust code would introduce more bugs, while curl is extremely well tested at this point.
> would 100% expect a commencement speaker to be hyping me up
That’s what this speaker was trying to do. The problem is it was stupid and dishonest. It could have been done properly. But none of that will rise to the level of a roadmap. If you’re looking for a roadmap at commencement, you were failed at multiple steps before.
You can see if people are in there and actively talking before you join and that alone encourages spontaneous drop ins.
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