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Holy shit, I can literally just copy and paste the text?!?

Loads fine for me. Maybe their servers were taking a beating when you tried?

I've been somewhat avoiding the news (for my sanity), but I have heard that some of the PDFs turned out to be badly redacted and the original text is accessible programmatically. Do you happen to have a link to one? I'm a developer and have worked with PDFs extensively in the past. I'd love to delve into one and un-redacted it.

If I won that, my very first thought would be, "I have to get rid of most of this as soon as humanly possible."

I like that you called it poison because all options are bad, but I prefer the one I consider the least bad: Angular.

His main mistake is that the child in question is Eric.

React sucks. I'm sorry, I know it's popular, but for the love of glob, can we not use a technology that results in just as much goddamn spaghetti code as its closest ancestor, jQuery? (That last bit is inflammatory. I don't care. React components have no opinionated structure imposed on them, just like jQuery.)

I'm required to use it a little bit for my job. (I'm a software developer). I do the absolute minimum I can with it, then don't touch it the rest of the day.

Reasons:

• It's an ongoing environmental disaster.
• It's a giant plagiarism machine.
• If you're trusting its output, you're being foolish.
• The business model for them being profitable doesn't exist. I don't want to depend on a technology I consider a dead end.
• They make you stupid. If you get hooked on using them, then when the bubble finally pops and most of these bullshit purveyors fold, you'll have already forgotten how to think and research for yourself. The imaginary "convenience" of being confidently and convincingly lied to by a large language model isn't worth it.

Ask one how to cook a turkey, it will give you convincing and unsafe instructions. Ask it if any mammals fly airplanes, it will gaslight you into thinking none do (humans are mammals). Ask it to do any task involving parsing the letters in words, and instead of honestly telling you it can't, it will give you utterly incorrect responses.

These tools aren't fit for purpose. They're shiny and fast and wrong in both obvious and subtle ways.

Then once everyone subscribes to that store, change it so there is AI slop in it anyway, just in a "limited form," and you have to raise your subscription to the "Premium Plus" model to get rid of it.

He's in Australia. It was already the 15th there when he posted that, but the person you're responding to isn't in Australia and the blog they copied and pasted from probably compensated for time zones.

Edit: Or it's a typo from a stressed and frantic person.

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

But it's well in line with their other traditional focus: Bribery and corruption