It's endlessly annoying to me that the em-dash has become the canary in the coalmine of AI writing because I've always used them extremely liberally in my writing.
Honestly, this might sound elitist, but I suspect it's because it's an "advanced" punctuation that is not known by most people, so is not commonly used. But the training corpus of these models puts more weight of academic writing or published books writing where the em-dash is much more commonly used.
What I think is shocking is that 99% of the software engineering world these days would have zero ability to comprehend this explanation. In my opinion, you could not be a real programmer without the ability to understand what your program is under the hood. You might be able to get away with it, but you're just faking it.
And yet, 99% of the people I've ever seen in the industry have no idea how any of the code they write works.
I used to ask a simple interview question, I wanted to see if potential hires could explain what a pointer or memory was. Few ever could.
What you're describing doesn't exist in Switzerland, which you could tell by doing a quick Google Maps view.
Nothing in Switzerland is cheap, least of all land. Practically nothing in Switzerland is flat either. What little flat land we have is used for agriculture and cities.
Turns out south-facing mountain slopes are nearly ideal for solar panels. From a quick Google Maps view, the country is about half that kind of terrain.
And nobody is going to convince me you can't find the same square footage as, my god, some radio dishes! somewhere in Switzerland.
I used to buy gold bullion as a sneaky way to get credit card points on the cheap (and then use them for first class flights around the world). You could usually do the trade profitably and quickly and quite safely with insured shipping via USPS. $50k at a time. It was a bit sketchy to have that much in bullion at home, and I quickly got bored of it.
Somehow when I was about 13 I ended up buying about 2k worth of silver in various places when spot was about $15 USD. One place was even an antique coin shop in my hometown. When spot went up to $20 a bit later, the same vendor bought it all off me at market price. Precious metals are a strangely easy thing to liquidate.
One of the strangest financial anecdotes of my life. To this day I wonder what the vendor thought seeing a literal child buying bars of silver bullion, then selling them at a 25% markup later.
There are various precious metal trading companies that will buy the bullion from you at close to spot if it's kept in its original assay and has documentation. If not in assay, they will have to test its purity and potentially remelt it so that adds to the spread.
Did the same with those $1 US coins when the mint was allowing you to purchase them for $1 free shipping. We would get as much as possible and then turn around and deposit into the bank.
why would you pay $1 each for $1 coins and turn around and put that in the bank? I mean what's the purpose? I could see if you were keeping them as collectors items that might be worth more in the future, but once dropped in the bank you're back to where you started??
It’s called manufactured spending and the idea is to be able to buy something and liquidate at the same price with no risk. The intent is to rack up points on credit cards for free travel or to manipulate credit scores.
So I'm basically reading this as putting blame for Iran's reprehensible regime and its crackdown on its citizen yearning for freedom on Britain and the US.
No… let's stop with this rewriting of history. The only party to blame for the awfulness in Iran is their evil regime.
Honestly, this might sound elitist, but I suspect it's because it's an "advanced" punctuation that is not known by most people, so is not commonly used. But the training corpus of these models puts more weight of academic writing or published books writing where the em-dash is much more commonly used.