The reason I mostly use Python is `python3 -mvenv env`. If I know that everything I might want is part of Perl's built-in modules, I prefer Perl.

While that word does get used to refer to people sometimes, it's afaik always hostile (slur rather than euphemism).

That is very strangely worded, to a degree they I wonder if maybe the wordsmithing was outsourced to either an ai or someone who didn't do English very well. Or if it's meant to be confusing.

But the linked privacy policy talks about making anonymous (aka de-identified) bulk data sets and using them for "lawful business purposes" (aka anything they want that's not illegal).

That would only work after they're done training the ai models.

So like after the alpha and beta phases, when they have an actual product worthy of selling?

If there's anything circa five dozen wannabe-techbro blogposts have taught me, it's that if you wait for a product that's worthy of shipping, you're never gonna ship.

> What I don't get is, why wouldn't Elon just make a good version of Grokipedia.

The way to make your MVP less shitty is to throw time and money at iterating it. Which I understand is what's happening.

I'm sure in a few years it'll either be quite good, or have clearly highlighted some fundamental limitations of language models as a class.

> I have long thought that search engines, news aggregators and social media companies have a journalistic responsibility to favor the original/primary source of every story

This is complicated somewhat by the few that take an already-circulating story and then add their own actual research rather than just rewording and opining.

> If you prevent licensing software to large corporations, small corporations won't use it, either, because small corporations may get acquired by large ones. Such a license would be a "poison pill".

Acquisitions already come with a giant laundry list of IT work to bring things into compliance with internal policies and maybe contractual requirements and such.

Would one more thing that has to be done sooner rather than later really make that much difference?

> can't read the full article

Reader mode seems to work.

what this calls OR-Set looks equivalent to what Monotone uses (used? It's kinda mostly dead now) for merging scalar values (eg names, content hashes) since 2005.

The best current page I can find is https://tonyg.github.io/revctrl.org/MarkMerge.html . Boo link rot.