For "Springfield", is this just based on the Simpsons or is there some other context that I'm missing (coming from Norway)?
If memory serves, they chose that name in the Simpsons because it's an oddly common name, with a small town by that name in 30+ different states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_(toponym)
As it mentions there, "Fairview" and "Midway" are even more common, but I guess there's more of a meme about "Springfield" being very common (sometimes inaccurately said that there's one in every state)
We make efforts with the automod, but it's a fairly rudimentary tool. Mostly a keyword/regex matcher.
So we can have it automatically look for some of the common repeated phrases (relatively few of our human users say "That's a great question"). If it's a weak signal maybe it only highlights them for mod review rather than fully automatically removing them.
But otherwise it relies on the human eye to spot them being weird. Especially when the comments are too short for AI detectors to get a good read on it (deciding what's suspicious enough to run through a detector is itself done by eye).
NB: suspishously good grammer is now becuming an AI sign in itself
I moderate for a subreddit where, despite our best efforts to purge them with holy fire, AI spambots are rife (trying to act inconspicuous and get some karma). In addition to the "suspiciously good grammar and bullet points and em dashes" type, there's conversely also a strain of them that use a gimmicky level of slang.
Where most of the tone of the subreddit is explanatory/informative, and most people are using standard spelling/grammar, they drop in with "ngl bro honestly the vibes are wild fr"
At acknowledged risk of sounding like an evil robot, what's the theory of change that links this action to the desired outcome?
Traditionally the logic of a hunger strike is that it applies pressure to the target because they have sufficient conscience that they don't want to watch you die, or at least don't want to be viewed as responsible for your death, or don't want to create a "martyr". If you openly say from the outset that you don't intend to fast to death or detriment, what motivates the relevant decision makers to change their actions?
My first thought was that the "ground beneath your feet", that might move around more than you initially expected, would be the libraries and dependencies you call on; other people's code that your code relies on. You might see old methods become deprecated in ways that break your use of them - or new methods introduced that you want to switch to, for efficiency gains or other reasons.
Which can be mitigated by some forethought to put in a layer of abstraction that wraps around the library, so that you only have to change how you call the library in the wrapper, without changing the rest of the code. But can also be taken too far (if you put a wrapper around all kinds of really basic functions, just creating extra cruft for no good reason).
Can also suffer from "leaky" abstractions, if your wrapper makes assumptions about the library that don't hold up, or if the code calling the wrapper needs to still know about the underlying library to work right. Not sure quite what the analogy to a building foundation would be there - I guess if you thought your big concrete slab was trustworthy as an immovable foundation, but then it turned out that big concrete slabs on top of dirt behave importantly differently to big concrete slabs on sand.
and we adhere to these principles
Do we though? As a species? I suppose we can claim to, as part of a transmission to try to persuade aliens of our niceness. But if they're able to receive and decode a transmission it seems like there's reasonable odds they'll also have other observations of us that demonstrate our less worthy aspects.
I would be concerned about the risk that details fabricated by the AI come to be confused with the actual organic memory. Memory can be malleable and an invented image could well somewhat overwrite what you remember.
Wealthier people have different concerns and interests than poor people. So any system making voting power proportional to wealth is liable to result in the upper class voting through changes that defund various forms of assistance/subsidy for low incomes. Including things that are broadly socially desirable, but the wealthy aren't using.
Like what already happens by way of representatives paying more attention to wealthy constituents, business owners, and donors—but even moreso by formalising their ability to simply directly vote with their money.
Cool service/feature, but would it be worth defusing the "jumpscare" with an interstitial that explains the function of the button? At least the first time any given user clicks it.
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I make what sounds like a similar lentil/tomato sauce, and freeze it as individual portions in small foil trays (they measure about 15cm by 12cm and hold about 400g or so of food). Those trays can go directly from the freezer to the oven, and 30mins at 180°C will generally suffice to defrost whatever.
Can of course defrost in the fridge overnight then heat the sauce through in a pan, but that requires forethought so I mostly don't. Have at times defrosted a frozen brick of lentils in a pan (adding a splash of water to help moderate/circulate the heat) but it is indeed quite annoying that way.
I have several other meals that similarly go from batch-cook to freezer to oven in the same foil trays, including a vegetarian lentil+mushroom shepherd's pie and a roast vegetable tagine (and also meat-eater options). Can supply recipes if interested.