And I still, to this day, see mojibake from time to time.

The exception that proves its success

Wouldn’t it be close? AFAIK modern network libraries on modern OSs default to IPv6 when available.

The cafe WiFi thing (getting IPv6 only, no ipv4, on a public network) used to happen quite often to me on macOS. I never figured out why, and I haven’t noticed in a while.

That’s indeed what they’re saying, but they’re simply wrong which is obvious from looking at the graph and accounting for seasonal variation.

In my case, yes. I have never used AI to write any prose (including HN comments), and I never will. But I certainly started using them more often since the ChatGPT era began, purely through osmosis. I'm not exactly proud of that, but there you have it.

I use the double dash.

This gets corrected to an emdash.

I get annoyed and put the double dash back in.

Sometimes swearing a little or grumbling “HEY. I typed what I typed” at it helps a little.

I don’t even know how many times in 20-30+ years I’ve checked some box in system or program preferences begging it to knock that off.

This is the real reason I already loathe and avoid the emdash (nitpicking over a personal stylistic preference I won’t relent on even if I’m wrong) but I can’t be the only one this happens to.

Getting piled on and called “AI” really doesn’t ease my distaste for it, but .. do people.. not write enough to understand that it brute forces its way into human copy as well?

and yes. phone posting on HN. will insert them. to my dismay.

The other one that ticks me off endlessly but I’ve finally said to hell with it and just let it go?

Turning " into “.

(Writer. Not a very good one and I’m not here to steer anyone to that drivel. But at least I’m a human one.)

Utter nonsense. There are plenty of good stupid people and smart evil people.

There are stupid people who are harmless (think Forrest Gump). Whether they have the capacity to be "good", I'll leave that up to you.

I stand by if evil then stupid (and thus if not stupid then not evil) with reasoning above, retract the implication that the reverse holds (if stupid then evil). I could use more precise terms than "evil" and "stupid" or qualify more, but I choose to be provocative, so it makes it a bit easier for you to attempt to prove me wrong.

That had nothing to do with AI

I mean, no shit? I was referring to how people are starting to feel powerless and marginalized. And the government, which is supposed to be of the people, by the people, and for the people, clearly doesn't give a fuck about them.

No. That is a draw assuming it is the player with only a king’s turn to move.

Translating your notation to normal chess notation:

White king on h1, black rooks on a2 and g8, black king in some random other place, white to move.

That is a draw, because white is NOT in check, but has no legal moves. That scenario is called stalemate. If white were in check, it would be checkmate and a win for black. Set it up on any chess analysis board website and it will say the game is a draw.

Black can’t move the knight: it’s illegal to make a move that puts yourself in check. Thus black has no legal moves, but isn’t in check, so the result is a draw.

My guess is the vast majority of those are Hispanic Americans who have been Catholic since birth, and not part of the modern far-right Catholic conversion movement (like Vance).

Trump got 48 percent of Hispanic American vote in 2024, a historic high for the GOP. The anti women and anti immigrant parts (in spite of what appears to be cognitive dissonance) of the GOP platform are very popular in that community from what I have seen.