There’s a very good opinion news article I remember reading about somebody working in the government who investigated room and pillar mining disasters and worked out some benchmarks to determine whether a mine was safe and ended up saving lives. I was about to share it here, but I can’t seem to find it again.

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Yes, there’s a huge debate about it.

This post foreshadowed today’s AWS outage.

What you call cute, I call the rape of the natural world.

Is this a copypasta or AI generated? It’s several orders of magnitude better written than basically every Lemmy comment I’ve ever seen.

The most powerful force in the world is the one that makes you delete a draft comment hours into writing it because you know with certainly your comment will contain at least one mistake and you’ll receive replies from the many people much smarter than you eagerly, dutifully correcting you and never recover from the embarrassment of your comment being revealed as an archetypal instance of the Dunning–Kruger effect and you an imposter.

Andrew Wiles has taken offense.