However, both have alternative meanings as the other part of speech.

Affect as a noun means emotion or disposition, and is mostly used in psychology. Your psychologist may say you have a depressed affect.

Effect as a verb means to bring about. You might say that a successful protest effected change in society.

As a verb, in addition to “have an impact on,” affect can also mean “to pretend to have,” like “she affected an air of mystery,” although this is less common.

I’d much rather read someone’s imperfect writing than the soulless regression-to-the-mean that LLMs produce. If you’re not a native speaker or don’t have confidence in your writing, I’d urge you to first ask for an edit by another human, but if that’s not an option, to be extremely firm in your LLM prompting to just have it fix issues of grammar, spelling, etc.

From the article:

> He sent the final memos to the other board members as disappearing messages, to insure that no one else would ever see them.

> Others were uncomfortable sharing concerns about Altman because they felt there was not a sufficient effort to insure anonymity.

> [...] to insure that the technology was deployed safely

All of these work just fine with that definition of "insure." Your comment that it's "incorrect use of English" is wrong.

The bit you quoted says there’s substantial overlap between the two. The New Yorker style is to prefer “insure” in cases where either could work.

It's incredibly frustrating, but maybe a silver lining is that it will help me write more authentically, I don't know.

I have not read the article yet, because I get the physical magazine and look forward to reading it analog. I therefore only have an inconsequential question.

I love the New Yorker’s house style and editorial “voice,” and I have always been curious about the editing process. I enjoyed the recent exhibit at the NYPL, which had some marked up drafts with editor feedback and author comments.

Did you find that your editors made significant changes to the voice of the piece, and/or do you find any aspects of their editing process particularly notable or unusual?

Can’t wait to read this one, and hope the HN crowd treats you well.

I've also been very happy with sourcehut for most of my personal projects for some time. The email patch submission workflow is a tad bit unfamiliar for most, but IMO in today's era raising that barrier to entry is mostly a good thing for OSS projects.

I also strongly prefer a simple CI environment (where you just run commands), which encourages you to actually be able to run your CI commands locally.