This matches my experience. When ChatGPT started going viral, I started getting a lot of PRs from juniors who where trying it out. Pretty much every single one was using depreciated API calls or best practices from 5-10 years ago. I'd ask why they chose to use an API that is scheduled to be removed in the next release of whatever library or system we are using.

ChatGPT does have it's place. But you need to understand the tools you're using. It can't be great for a first spike or just getting something working. But then you have to go and look at what it's doing and make sure you understand it.

Family names are almost never used expect in legal documents or formal setting. It's common for people who have been friends for years to not know each other's family names as they are so rarely used in day to day life.

It's also common also for friends/coworkers to not know each other's given names -- though less so than family names. Especially as you would never call someone you're friends with by their given name as it would be a bit rude. Usually in offices (unless very old fashioned) or with friends and family you'd use nicknames exclusively.

Well this is disappointing. It's no harder to curate other languages. You're just say you don't care.

The ADL hasn't taken any legal action against X; it's just made some statements and maybe, if you believe Musk, lobbied advertisers. Which really doesn't have anything to do with section 230.

Not really. Yes, China is starting to experience demographic decline but it will be a long long time before it affects them economically. They could still absorb every North American job and still have people left over. That's just how big China's population is. Demographic decline will eventually bite them but they have a very long runway. China is very different from Japan's case.

As for policies, again, not really. It's more that about 10 years ago most low cost manufacturing shifted out of China because cheaper regions caught up and were able to provide better value. China has been been talking about this trend since before Xi and a big focus has be shifting to a service economy built on internal demand. This is the part where policies come into play. The shift has not gone as well as they hoped. And again, it's not really about Xi messing up Deng's work. The world, and China, is different from Deng's world. Deng's approach would not work in a world where low cost manufacturing has moved overseas. If anything, it's more of an issue that Xi has stuck to closely to Deng's approach and not adapted to the changing world.

Smell. To keep the smells of cooking from overwhelming the rest of the house. In the process of building a new house and it will be a separate kitchen. Well, technically, a wet kitchen that is closed off and a small dry kitchen connected to the dining area for dealing with things that aren't strong smelling. This setup is pretty standard in here in Asia.

Given the history of Canadian mining companies, I wouldn't trust any Canadian mining company listed on the TSX to give to shits about human rights.