Yarr... It's hitting me nuts.

I'm new to these puzzles, so I'm unclear on the definition of "mate". The best that I've been able to do with this one is a forced stalemate. Is that a valid answer, or should it be a checkmate?

Edit: Nevermind, I'm an idiot, it doesn't force the stalemate anyway. 😛

Hickey, not Hickley

I would just like to call out that the distinguishing properties of this (possibly) emerging species are emergent properties.

As a former worker at a big tech company filled with morons who thought that "emergent" was a synonym for "emergency", it delights me when the word can be used correctly.

I can't wait for the .corn TLD.

Specifically, I think it's a reference to Dean Browning.

So when you zip some files and then unzip them, some of the bytes are missing? Really?!

While the headline makes it sound like three different airlines banned her, this is actually just one company, since Alaska already owned Horizon, and then Alaska and Hawaiian merged last year.

Incidentally, as a gold member of that of that company's loyalty program, this news makes me even happier that Alaska is my go-to airline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms

In this case, they're talking about being in the natural numbers club, and applying the "successor" (or "succ") function.

It's a wonderful comparison going back at least thirty years: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1994/07/15

For people who don't know Dutch, the pronunciation is kind of like "noiken in de koiken".

I'm going to hazard a guess that it might be Romanian. Romanian has the letter ș, which is an "s" with a comma beneath. Wikipedia. It wasn't part of the Unicode standard until 3.0, so people used ş, which is an "s" with a cedilla.

I have the modern Romanian keyboard on my phone, so I can easily type ș, but not ş. I can see how that would have broken during the changeover to Unicode 3.0.

Was John Kellogg also the one who convinced Americans that male circumcision was somehow medically necessary, again as an effort to cut down on masturbation? I think I've heard that before.

Go to CVS. Buy one item. Hang receipt to cover gap.

They installed efficiency modules to reduce biter expansion?

Shoulda known better than to drive [Private] to Publix. That's how they get ya.

I loved when he said "It's anakin' time!"

Based on context and the mention of a rider, I think this was a motorcycle accident.

Having been to Bengaluru (or Bengalore as is more common in English), the roads do suck, a lot.

The bigger problem for this community (IMO), though, is the general absence of sidewalks. I tried walking to a restaurant ~1km from my hotel and needed to walk on the road the whole time, dodging cars and motorcycles (and those three wheeled things that are like cars).

My understanding is that he did do the work of creating the AI. This isn't just someone using ChatGPT.

In this case, it's not that he's trying to claim copyright for himself based on coming up with a prompt. He's spent years applying for patents and copyrights with the AI listed as the creator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DABUS

The sound of a dog drinking from a sprinkler?