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The more competition the better right? Even a generation behind (at relevant prices) would still be worthwhile to a large segment of the market, right?

You also get to write off the interest on your taxes, if you deduct. So the total “current dollars” is actually lower. It seems negligible, but is a real number to those with high incomes and high cost of living.

This might feed the “Shakespeare was not one person” theory

The first of Shakespeare plays predate the first published English documentary. It was uncommon for spellings to be inconsistent or change between writings to be easier for a particular audience (in this case, actors) to be able to read.

I’m still making my way through it, but reading a history of shakespearean/elizabethan england, the first written publications of shakespeare’s plays that were accessible to the general public weren’t written by the man himself (if indeed he was singular).

There were entire efforts put towards pirating the plays by writing them, mostly from memory. It’s believed that someone in the crowd creating a stenographic copy would’ve been noticed so this is a less likely explanation. The memorial effort likely involved both audience and actors. “Official” versions meant to direct the stage productions might have been smuggled out or lost and found.

I haven’t gotten to the part yet that connects to the standard versions we have today. Some official versions were released to correct the record on bad pirated versions. Sometimes theaters would sell official versions to shore up funds.

Maybe this would explain the multiple shakespeare theory as well as writing inconsistencies?


You wouldn't download Hamlet's pirate story!

I guess you mean:

first published English dictionary

and

It wasn't uncommon / It was common


Yes, I was rather tired and typing on my phone required more correcting of the autocorrect feature than I could manage.

Yeah; frankly, in almost all languages, some early works of literature tend to be THE thing that establishes canonical spelling. A lot of this is simply that they act as an argument-settler when two people can't agree how something "ought to be" spelled. In fact, sometimes they go so far as to warp pronunciation, cementing little verbal quirks that only some speakers had.

I just boookmarked this into a “figure out where to put this later” folder, then realized the irony of that action.

Went to my para system "0 - Inbox".

Crypto as in keys, not crypto as in coins?

Can’t believe I have to ask that these days


I saw the use case yesterday of using LLMs for spreadsheets and I paused myself to think “would I ever be foolish enough to trust the output?” I’d have to check everything myself, so what’s the point?

If o4 can’t go beyond 4x4 accurately, then anyone using LLMs for business spreadsheets or science is a serious mistake


Ads get viewed (fraudulently) by bots.

how are stockholders okay with such a fraud-laden business model?

Those are generic enough you could argue they already occurred last year or this year?

They have both occured and not occured every year for the past 10 years

There is a lot more detail in the article that makes not generic

How often does this happen? I’ve consulted lawyers for an hour who refused to support my case , and was billed nothing

At the lowest end of the industry it’s common to get free consultations because it’s too much expense for individuals otherwise, but in corporate law or higher end services I believe it’s much less common.

I would have expected one of us programmers to make a joke about Types here, but missed opportunity! My dad jokes are too poor to try

Functional vs object-oriented?

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