There is more than pizza to look for. Think jerky and hotdogs, for starters. And grape soda. There are some crazy exchanges about how absolutely amazing some of Jeffery's various recipes are.

Very unlikely spontaneous discussions on things nobody really ever feels the need to rant about.

"This is better than a Chinese cookie!... let’s go for pizza and grape soda again. No one else can understand."

“Your Pizza Is YUMMY YUMMY!!”

So much pizza and cheese!

This is interesting. But I've always thought including programming language as a feature is very weird. Unless its extensible in that language, but that's not the case here.

End user doesn't care, so long as it fulfills a need. And nobody "needs" a program to be coded in a specific language. It comes across like evangelizing.

It reminds me so much of the 90's arguments about whether C is as fast as Assembly (and whether any Lisp can keep up), so long as you know what you are doing as a coder.

In this case, size is the selling point. Not the language.

I would love to be the person burdened with hosting such a pet heir. Call me!

Exactly. Identical twins don't have the same fingerprints.

That might be good. Not seeing something as the answer to everything often means we are starting to pass the honeymoon stage.

This was a good read.

Mislabeling can happen, but that alone doesn't invalidate the usefulness of the term conspiracy theory. Science can be (and by default, often is) wrong. Some things might genuinely rely on weak or un-falsifiable reasoning. For now.

Every era creates its own intellectual blind spots. We don't know which of today’s dismissed ideas will later look more like actual history.

I don't argue that dismissed ideas are secretly correct. But labels do influence how seriously we investigate them.

I'm just one guy, but I used Fiverr freelance services three times within the past year.

So I'm not making anyone rich. But I assume I'm not the only person who finds it all very useful.

There are some niches that I think they are trying to be "too" professional with (meaning, some tack on fees for things that are a bit too far beyond the person's actual professional level, or the gig purpose itself). But you can simply bypass those users anyway.

Thanks for replying.

I asked the question because I wondered if or how AI-assistance might be used more these days. By either the freelancers in their delivering their services, or by buyers who might be figuring they don't need to hire a freelancer for whatever reason these days.

While I do pay for an OpenAI (ChatGPT) account, I wouldn't ever pay someone to use it for me, so I don't know. Given how it works, I would be only results driven, and if the results I want come easily through AI, I would have already done it that way.

I don't speak for everyone, but I have a hard time imagining someone paying for someone else to .... prompt for things on their behalf. Especially since the prompt I would have to provide you is likely to be sufficient for the AI directly.

I just read earlier today that Justin Bieber's $1.3 million dollar Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT is now worth $12,000. Pretty much what everyone was saying would happen at the time.

Constant false hype, followed by huge financial loss, is what keeps me away from it all.

Maybe you ought to read the article. Or a few of the articles.

At this stage, according to the numbers presented here, Russia would have to increase taxes on oil to about 115% of the exports (not the profit, the total exports) in order to balance the national budget. These numbers are well attested. They've been growing worse and worse for a long while and as the number 115% shows, they are really very bad now.

When did the Russian economy's problem become bad and how much later did they increase from bad to terrible? Matter of opinion, but if you've been hearing about it for years, that's because it took a long time to get as bad as those 115% indicate.

I wish I could read that. But the "press and hold" gatekeeper just keeps starting over again after the green check mark.

It's the only Captcha that my Raspberry Pi doesn't seem to get through. The other ones (like the sliding puzzle piece, or identifying parts of a bike, stopsigns, buses, etc) all work fine. Just not the press-and-hold one.

Thanks. I noticed that it also tries to have a "balanced view" about Trump, which is quite annoying, 'cos it is skirting around important issues that way.