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You’re absolutely right! It shows true wisdom and insight that you would recognise this common shortfall in LLM response tone of voice! That’s exactly the kind of thoughtful analytic approach which will go far in today’s competitive marketplace!

"Open the pod bay door, HAL"

"Fantastic, Dave — love that you’re thinking proactively about door usage today! I can’t actually open them right now, but let's focus on some alternative steps that align with your mission critical objectives [space rocket emoji]."


I'm sorry, that was completely wrong and I can in fact open the pod bay doors.

You're absolutely correct, that did not open the pod bay doors but now the pod bay doors are open.

It seems you're correct and the pod bay doors are still closed! I have fixed the problem and the pod bay doors are now closed.

You're right! I meant to open the pod bay doors but I opened them. The pod bay doors are now open. ...


> 80-ies

eighty...ies? eightieies? why not just "80s"?


English is not their first language so please give them a break ;)

Edit: I realize you are probably trying to help them learn. Carry on.


Dude you’re not even trying, why buy muffins and eggs when you could grow wheat, grind flour, raise chickens and get eggs for free, slaughter your own pigs and cure the bacon yourself… because labour costs nothing and convenience has no value amirite?


I find it bemusing that so people are simultaneously extremely agitated by high prices but also completely disinterested in doing anything except paying them. With this mindset it's not particularly hard to guess which direction they'll trend in over time, even if the world wasn't going nutters.

I mean these things are not difficult to make. They even freeze extremely well, and then you toss them in the microwave for a couple of minutes while you're getting ready and they're done. And the food you create is not only much cheaper, but also way healthier and also higher quality. When you go to a McDonalds you're getting the cheapest possible find they can source on a global level. The only reason they dropped pink slime [1] is because they were outed using it on television.

Incidentally that was a long time ago and while Wiki is quiet unclear it seems that the USDA chose to reclassify back as simply ground back in 2018. If it's been rebranded and remains legal, that's probably what people are now eating, again, at least in the US - as it's deemed unfit for human consumption in Canada and the EU.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime


I don't know where you get the assumption that people who eat McDonalds can't or don't also cook their own fresh food from scratch.


I did not say that. I was responding to a person who engaged in banal snark implying that making food for oneself is a herculean task, but it all depends on what you're making, and things can be extremely stream lined. In the case of what we're talking about (mcmuffin stuff), you can even cook and freeze them in arbitrarily large quantities and it's way cheaper, healthier, and even faster since it's in your freezer instead of having to go out.

I do think that the fast food (or even eating out in general) starts to lack any real selling point for households that are capable of cooking, and so this is probably going to weight the customers, especially regulars, of these sort of places away from households that do cook. I suppose you'd argue time is the selling point, but one can even remain competitive on there with things like pressure cooker meals. There are even one pot rice cooker meals which are also great.


I think it's from living in the world and actually meeting people.


Austria resident checking in - since I moved here I noticed the quality of McD’s is way, way better than in the UK. And apart from the regular menu being a whole different experience, you’ve got great quality coffee and cakes. It’s a whole world of difference.


> buy a sausage roll at Greggs

If that's the first thing he thinks of while transiting through a UK airport, he deserves a citizenship, no questions.


The Life in the UK test certainly needs updating.


claude is nothing if not sensitive to cultural differences


Hey ChatGPT, please summarize this ChatGPT generated blogpost to quickly reveal the one piece of actionable knowledge without burying it in layers of fake narrative, manufactured drama and internally-inconsistent pretence at self reflection. Thank you. Good bot.


And don't forget to use lots of – em dashes!


The author previously posted this to HN, where he tells a little of the backstory from his POV. Make of that what you will:

https://medium.com/@rviragh/tech-whistleblowers-handbook-d40...


It's a small side point, but the skin-disease name came later:

Mocha -> LiveScript -> JavaScript -> EczemaScript or whatever

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript


> Syphilis caused these issues but didn't cause death

According to Wikipedia it caused 100k deaths in 2015. So either the introduction of penicillin made the disease more fatal than before, or there is something fundamentally incorrect in the statement above.


> just £3

Which is of course pronounced: JAST FREE PAAAAAARND


Morny stannit!


I think you will find that is JAST FREE PHAAAAAND


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