morgan423

I really do think it’s a mass noun.

I’m not sure why you think that. By definition (which you even gave in your original post) that would mean that data are something that can’t be broken down into individual, countable units.

But there is a smallest unit, which is called a bit. Data can be broken down into smaller, countable units. So the word doesn’t fit the common definition of what a mass noun is.

I think you’re confusing this due to the common incorrect use of “that” in relation to data as if it’s something singular, id est, “Could you please provide me that data?”

Technically this is grammatically incorrect (and yes before you ask, I say “those data”), but I’ve come to understand that people actually mean “data set” when they say this, and are just omitting that word from the sentence.

Since that is all that’s needed to have everything correctly agree again, I can just fix it in my head when I hear it so that my brain doesn’t explode.

The IPA is fantastically interesting.

I don’t agree with people who think it should replace our standard alphabets and syllabarries (it is jarring, at least in my opinion, to essentially read other people’s accents from written text when they don’t match your own), but it can be pretty useful in some situations… where you’re actually studying accents, or the most common ways things are said in other languages.

Do these people even read their own books?

No. I thought that was pretty obvious.

Somehow, the thought of someone raised by AI being the modern day version of “raised by wolves” is hilarious to me.

Correct, I wasn’t saying that they’d put it in one spot.

No. Every single one of them could pull $100,000,000 out of their personal money circulation and just store it in various stupidly safe places that barely return the rate of inflation. For all I know, maybe they all do that.

They have so much money that it’d be almost impossible to lose it all, but if they managed to do it somehow, then they could pull out that safe nest egg and still have more money than they could ever need in a lifetime. There’s almost zero chance that they’ll ever be poor.

“Today I embark on my preparation for my future astronaut career.”

Nothing for the Federal stuff, I guess.

He can’t pardon the state felony convictions he has, though. That’s the case that worries me in this regard.

It seems counter intuitive, but you want as little of this of this floating around as possible while he’s in office. Act like nothing’s pending throughout his term, then reopen this the minute he’s out.

We don’t need him having more motives to try to dictatorially stay in power after his term, and stuff like clearly pending trials and sentencings hanging over him the moment he leaves the WH could give him that extra incentive.

I warned you about what would happen if you let yo mama walk out to the mailbox. But did you listen to me? Nooooooooo.

Which is absolutely wild to me, considering that all natively born citizens received their citizenship involuntarily at birth.

Slavery was about 99% of what drove the entire thing, so it makes sense to me.

Save yourself the PR nightmare that accompanies data breaches! Prevent all outside hacking forever by proactively dumping your data onto the internet yourself!

It’s pure genius!

Like… with a time machine? In a way that was somehow hidden to history?

Okay, now I’m honestly intrigued. More details needed.

Holy crap. That’s insane! I was wondering what prompted the admins to do the sign up restriction. Makes perfect sense now.

The debate shouldn’t be about voting for the lesser of two evils. The entire debate should be focused on opening up more options and the actual ability to vote for third party candidates without throwing your vote away, by implementing a different system, like ranked choice voting.

Continuing to focus on which Sith lord will blow up the country the least if elected is a losing play. We have to do better and focus our attention elsewhere if we have any chance of getting anything reformed.

Pretty sure there have been a few spam bot/latent bot purges over the last month on multiple instances. I remember people discussing them a little while back. And it was a ton of bots.

So part of what you’re seeing is normalization, as the user numbers were always artificially inflated with bots.

This guy. I swear that after he’s passed on, and they’re lowering him into the ground, he’ll somehow, some way, still be commiting felonies from inside the casket.

Connect for Lemmy has a block instances feature. No idea how well it works though

Instantly, completely, and perfectly. I know because I accidentally blocked my home instance (.world), and I had NOTHING on my local page. Took a few moments to figure out how to unblock it lol