So if the new data is correct, there's no heat death or big rip, no? Everything just crashes back into itself.

Collaboration comes with it's own challenges and inefficiencies

modern science isn't intended to minimize inefficiency- it's intended to maximize the rate of stochastic discovery.

Independent concurrent discovery might be better than independent confirmation.

survivorship bias

> Why call it Peng?

> Peng (traditional Chinese: 鵬; simplified Chinese: 鹏; pinyin: péng; Wade–Giles: p'eng) or Dapeng (大鵬) is a giant bird that transforms from a Kun (鯤; 鲲; kūn; k'un) giant fish in Chinese mythology.

Just a funny coincidence, in British slang, a bird is a woman, and being peng means being attractive..

I was curious. Seems like peng the British slang has Jamaican origins, maybe.

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/66906

It's also the sound a gun makes when it's fired (in German). There's a pipeline-related joke in there somewhere.

I'd just assumed that "Ni" and "Neee-wom" were already taken.

Oh huh, my brain went to peng 碰 for 碰到 first, meaning "to collide."

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3125 contains a fun keypad to reverse engineer. I thought I could simply extract the password from the text but the author lightly obfuscated it (which makes more sense knowing that he has a programming background). I wonder what's the intended way of finding the code -- perhaps it's in one of the later stories.

edit: Oh, I saw it right after posting the comment. It's quite literally in front of your nose. Such a fun series.

It comes from wanting the law to behave like physics and be universalizable. It is not at all like that in practice.

> it never has before.

Look up the Digital Markets Act.

Yes but a human brain needs years of training to to get the basic skills, and further needs to refine on a specific style which can take anywhere from days to months/years depending on prior experience. There are also social connotations that apply to humans that come with copying another artist's style. AI can do it 10x-100x quicker and the copier can remain completely anonymous much easier. This changes the dynamics.

> Some of us are isolating because y'all refuse to mask up and we can't risk going anywhere.

disclaimer: you may have an autoimmune disease in which case your decision is reasonable.

"y'all" is about 95%-99% of humanity right now. That percentage is not going to go down. Are you planning on staying inside for the rest of your life?

> Unless you are able to stay within an extremely narrow range of behaviours (in terms of not being weird, basically speaking expected thinks in expected tone of voice and body language), nobody wants to associate with you.

I'll agree on the lack of on-ramps but this is a pretty limiting view. There's all kinds of people, many who will share some of whatever you think your weirdness is. If you only want to associate with a certain slice of society, it is not so weird that only certain slices of society want to associate with you.

How many of them are both geographically close enough and discoverable enough tho?

You need to live near a population centre to find them, that's true. It's the same reason other minority groups such as homosexuals urbanized so quickly.

I feel like the deskilling of web dev is that the web dev in this article doesn't feel competent enough to learn HTML, CSS _and_ Javascript at the same time.