And to think the date mentioned in the story IS in 2026 feels almost surreal...

> This seems like finding spelling errors and using them to cast the entire paper into doubt.

Well, to be fair, I did encounter this from actual human peer reviewers before the whole LLM thing. People do that.

We need to integrate how Singapore and Japan do oral English into our writing I guess.

Joking aside, as a nonnative English speaker who spent quite a bit of time to learn to write in English "properly", this trend of needing to write baad Engrish to avoid being called out in public for "written by an LLM" is frustrating...

Native Asian, bouncing between Taiwan and Japan. Kagi works quite well for these two locales. Even for gov docs, medical docs, and for some rather obscure Taiwanese language things.

Well, except for local shops and pois in Taiwan. Which is reasonable. Google map also sucks for less-populated Taiwanese areas. I kind of have to rely on my good old legs for that.

Couldn't think of any applications of this outside of doing actual magic. But this is awesome still!

I get similar things on Facebook too. The problem is, my Facebook profile clearly stated that I'm an asexual female, but the recommendation engine obviously didn't pick that up...

I can't imagine how terrifying it will be if I was on Taipei 101 during this quake...

You shouldn't be.

Tall buildings (> 40 floors) are one of the safer places to be in an earthquake.

1) They're engineered.

2) They're already designed for side loads from wind.

3) Their fundamental frequency is well lower than the peak of the earthquake spectrum, so they don't amplify the motion. Good rule of thumb is that period = floors/10, so fo a 50 story building you're looking at a 5 second period. Earthquakes have most of their energy in ~1 second period waves. So effectively, the base wiggles and the top just floats along.

The place to be terrified is in a 6-10 story unreinforced masonry apartment building.

> 1) They're engineered.

Famous last words.

They're more engineered than a 6 story apartment building.

(civil engineer by training, though never got a PE because startups)

There's no building I'd rather be in during an earthquake in all of Taiwan.

Scratch that - a TSMC fabrication facility is probably safer.

Before clicking into the actual article, I wondered (just from the title alone) if bloomberg suddenly started to cover shadowsocks or something.... lol

This is pretty fun :D

.... and at the same time endearing (?) to see all these fictional civilizations make similar mistakes ours did in the past...

After the presidential election in Taiwan earlier this month, many important political figures (current president, next president, opposition leaders, A LOT OF parliament members...) suddenly got on Threads and started posting there actively. Their followers naturally also followed them there.

As for the reason... I still don't understand why lol