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I was trying to trigger the same output from Bard, and it answered correctly; they probably addressed that very specific case after it got some attention. Then of course I started messing around, first replacing "elephants" with "snakes" and then with "potatoes". And here's the outcome of the third prompt:

My sides went into orbit. The worst issue isn't even claiming that snakes aren't animals (contradicting the output of the second prompt, by the way), but the insane troll logic that Bard shows when it comes to hypothetical scenarios. In an imaginative scenario where potatoes have legs, the concept of "legless" does apply to them, because they would have legs to lose.

It is kind of the same suffix but the story is a mess.

That -ario and all words using it are reborrowed* from Latin. And originally it was two related suffixes, fulfilling two purposes:

• masculine -arius, feminine -aria: transform noun into adjective. Like "a be ce de" (ABCD) into "abecedarius" (alphabetic).
• neuter -arium: noun denoting a place for another noun. Like "dictio" (saying) into "dictionarium" (dictionary, or "where you store sayings")

Except that Latin allowed you to use an adjective as if it was a noun (Spanish still does it), so that "abecedarius" ended as a substantive again. And Spanish merged Latin masculine and neuter, further conflating both versions of the suffix.

*the inherited doublet is the -ero in llavero (place for keys) and herrero (related to iron - professions took the suffix and systematised the re-substantivisation).

Coincidence. The word backtracks to Greek ᾰ̓́βᾰξ / ábax "board, slab", it doesn't have to do with ABC.

Good for Fedora, and I hope that other distros follow fashion. Relevant link.

This might sound bad, and it is kind of bad, but there's a silver lining:

You know, all those codemonkeys who give jack shit to optimisation, because they expect you to upgrade your machine every two years or so? This is slowing down alongside Moore's Law.

...and eventually some tech breakthrough pops up, that allows computers to get even faster without relying so much on increased transistor count.

I don't think that it's weird; it's a personal choice, and I think that it should be respected. I said that the soda is for the kid because he got to choose it and from earlier experiences he's the only one who drinks it.

I'm celebrating it in family. 4 relatives, me, 2 cats, and probably 1-3 uninvited (but still welcome) guests. It'll be:

• Snacks - 2 types of chips, mozzarella with olive oil and oregano, salsicho (local sausage, nice to eat with some sprinkled lime), olives.
• Booze - beer. Sis is bringing something else too but I don't know what.
• Soda - for the kids. Or rather the 16yo "kid". And likely for the adults to mix with the booze.
• Main meat - one of those big chicken breeds with fancy names, locally called "chester" or "fiesta". If I were to choose it would be mutton, but I'm the only one who eats it so... I'm still glad that it isn't turkey. At least Kika (cat #1) gets some chicken breast as a treat.
• Siding #1 - white rice otherwise there's a bloody revolution here.
• Siding #2 - a yucca meal farofa. I wasn't in charge of it, so I don't know what's in.
• Salad - a salad with everything and a bit more: ricotta, arugula, bacon, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, croutons, and a yoghurt-based dressing. Siegfrieda (cat #2) gets some yoghurt as a treat.
• Dessert #1 - a fake tiramisù with pasty cream instead of zabaglione + mascarpone because it's how my family likes it. 22:00 yesterday and I was still preparing it.
• Dessert #2 - sweet french toasts with syrup. I'm expecting the sweet teeth in the family to drizzle its syrup over the tiramisù.

It's theoretically for five people but we're expecting 1~3 more to come in, and leftovers always become part of the Christmas breakfast and lunch, so we give ourselves the luxury to go a bit overboard. Plus three pairs of hands to cook, fuck yeah.

(Happy Christmas for everyone here!)

Pretty much. English borrowed it from Latin because it's posh. And Latin borrowed it from Greek because it's posh. But at the end of the day it's in the same spirit as "the ABC", or Latin "abecedarius".

says the web megacommunity is on a roll.

"Outside, pretty viola; inside, rotten wood."

I don't interact with Reddit any more so it's plain as day for me to see, when I do visit it, that the place changed considerably from the APIcalypse to now. It's the decadence from the last ~5 years, except on steroids; brain drained, bots going rogue, users screeching at each other based on assumptions and mods doing nothing to handle it. Those trashy and large subreddits are fairly active, but it seems to me that activity for smaller subs went considerably down.

As cofounder and CEO Steve Huffman explained to The New York Times’ Mike Isaac, the company was concerned by how AI giants such as OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft were mining the wealth of knowledge in its discussion threads to train chatbots, thereby creating new competition for Reddit while it footed the bill.

And based on how he handled the third party apps, he's likely omitting critical concerns.

And also, you know...

• [User] I made something!
• [Reddit Inc.] You made something? [snatches it] It's mine. My precioooous!

“Reddit is an open platform, and we love that,” he told me. “

Holy shit, Greedy Pigboy's ability to lie with a straight face never ceases to amaze me. It's almost like he's telling the interviewer "you're gullible trash, aren't you? Yes, you're stupid, so are the things reading your article. I'm going to smear some bullshit on your snouts and you're going to swallow it, like the filthy animals lacking human-like reasoning that you are."

Sorry folks here for the tone. I can't be bothered to read it further.

Potentially hot take: perhaps it's time to punish Reddit Inc. and Greedy Pigboy, isn't it?

I'm not sure but I think that it's also to keep the prisoners slightly malnourished so they're easier to control.

I shouldn't be talking about politics, but...

In a statement to the Guardian, Meta acknowledged it makes errors that are “frustrating” for people

Yeah. It's "frustration", those users are "angry". It's all about their fee fees.

Just like Meta's participation on the genocide of the Rohingya. It was just "user frustration", some users got all pissy with that, the situation did not totally involve crimes against humankind. /s

I got something similar-ish... low tolerance towards assumptions about things that one cannot reliably know. It includes assuming what I'm thinking, but also more objective matters.