And so I wake up in the morning and I look outside, and I take a deep breath and get real high and I scream at the top of my lungs “What’s going on?”

Woot. Woot.

Wish it had more details about what actually happened and why that restraint. Wondering because I’ve never felt like that kind of restraint left room for falling out of it, even if I positioned myself such that there would still be room to move a bit after the attendant pushed it down. Though I’ve also only ridden rides with this restraint that were just a series of parabolic hills, which would probably be fine with just a lap belt, since the riders and train are pretty much both just following a ballistic arc.

Was this a mechanical failure that caused the restraint to release mid-ride? Unusual leg/pelvis geometry? Was the guy actively trying to get out, maybe not thinking he would succeed? Did he shit himself or something which added enough lubrication to slip free? What was the ride doing when he fell off, like just a parabolic hill or did it have something like a reverse bank on a turn or an inverse loop that creates forces away from the car?

Only had one on my device, but I disabled it. Even if this one isn’t openly compromised like the others, it was a big sign that the company is either incompetent or corrupt (or both).

Your brain continues developing throughout your whole life, otherwise no one would be able to learn new skills or information after whatever the cutoff point is and things like strokes and TBIs would not be recoverable.

That study said 25 because that’s the age the cohort was at when it was cut off.

I’d say a bit of both. People who are fine with having a DOM worth of overhead don’t give me much confidence they are selecting algorithms well, which can absolutely affect performance and efficiency regardless of what language they are written in.

Hell, even with the optimal data structures and algorithms selected, how you set them up can make a huge difference.

Like I once had essentially a data translator that, in order to be generic, used keys in a dictionary to replace the hardcoded data structure that needed to be updated any time the spec changed, even if we didn’t care about the new values.

The first version used an array of dictionaries and was slow as fuck. Each line of data would get its own dictionary and just parsing the data into this scheme took a couple minutes IIRC. Since the data was guaranteed to have the same keys each line (we were worried about changes between versions, not lines), I changed it to a dictionary of arrays, where each line would have the same index across the dicts, and it brought parse time down to several seconds. Huge difference even though big O notation would have simplified to the same expression for the two methods.

But if you pick something with a worse big O expression, it gets worse on a whole other level.

Yeah, that’s fair. And it’s also fair to just ignore those calling things you make slop and keep doing what you’re doing, though it sucks that there’s another polarizing issue like that dividing people for no good reason when they are actually on the same side (assuming they actually care about real content and aren’t just using it as an excuse to troll).

Might have more luck if you switched to the lazy em dash that is just two normal dashes.

I think that the people trying to call out slop are doing more to hurt those competing with AI than AI itself.

Like someone using AI to produce stuff might get annoyed at being called out but then will probably just think “ok, gotta prompt it to avoid these signs” or waits for a newer model or just dgaf that people notice it’s AI.

But people producing their own things and being accused of it being AI must feel pretty fucking discouraged that not only do they need to compete with something that can output things in a fraction of the time, but even when they do, some people accuse them of being what they hate.

For text content, IMO it should be taken based on what is said rather than who (or what) said it. If it’s useless slop, there will be things to push back on other than the formatting. Plus, it wouldn’t surprise me if you could just add “format it like a low effort forum post” to the prompt to get it to avoid some of the more obvious formatting tells.

Also, if people religiously call out AI slop when they see it, that could be used to automate training similar to what I’m sure happened to drastically improve programming capabilities, which will accelerate the speed at which they can become indistinguishable from things produced by real people.