I definitely practiced raising an eyebrow in front of the mirror. I wanted to be like Spock.

I've mastered the art of raising the right eyebrow, but the left still eludes me.

Idea: make it ice dancing, and have them skate with each other but they can only compete in Canada, and make it a fucking huge-ass political commentary on ISU regulations about pairs events.

SAME

ooh, I love this one!

I learned Pig-Latin from my father, so in my case it was vertical rather than horizontal transmission.

But those things are highly specialised scientific equipment used for specialised purposes. They're not writing your emails or generating powerpoints for you.

There's no use case for LLMs that makes your own life mildly less inconvenient that can begin to approach that level.

Those things -- IF they work and are ACCURATE -- can save thousands and thousands of lives. That's the level of justification that I'll begin to entertain.

(Also, those things are not trained on stolen data!)

ooh, is that the origin? I take it back, then!

wait, 'balls out' refers to some innocent mechanical feature? I have always fully interpreted it as being a reference to testicles. Like you're going so fast you leave your underpants behind, or something.

Interesting one! Most kindergartners do go through a phase of cutting and pasting. So it's not a culturally obsolete term in the same way 'dial' is. It's just a personally obsolete term, because each individual (tends to) outgrow physical papercrafts, and move on to the solely digital version.

So I got my boss, and she checked with the head librarian, and they agreed that I should not photocopy it.

I wonder what the researcher was thinking, who looked through the box and marked those pages specifically to request copies. The label was really unmistakeably clear.