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ApolloFortyNine
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Comment #49249922
Maybe you should accept 'greatest oil power' as fact? It's this one publications opinion. At best. And it's essentially unheard of.
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Comment #49244532
China = clicks nowadays I guess? The US produces more oil products than anyone else by a large margin [1] and extracts more than anyone else [2]. [1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs…
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Comment #49200070
I don't think OPs argument here was simply that the users aren't qualified enough to approve llm output.
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Comment #49198519
Air Traffic Control is still primarily voice based, and simply up to the user on both sides to not make a mistake. Just bringing it up because you're right, in software that's cons…
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Comment #49127443
>Disabling AUR package adoptions has been like the #1 thing recommended. Do you have a solution to ever reenabling package adoptions? It's pretty much a must have feature for this …
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Comment #49126756
Surely there's a dataset out there with elevator calls for an office building you could test on, instead of the poor random destination case. Surprisingly, claude failed to find a …
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Comment #49064774
This is just a strawman, these aren't equivalent and I'm not going to waste time pretending they are. Might as well just compare ads to nuclear weapons at this point.
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Comment #49064227
The article seems to be muddying the water bringing up grapheneOS itself. Or maybe it's the EFF. >Experts said the legal approach is unusual and may be the first time the law has b…
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Comment #49064157
People want free content online. More than that, they just expect it. Any future law in regards to this will likely just lead to the companies that already got consent (companies y…
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Comment #49064139
What I hate about EU laws is they tend to word these things like this. People act shocked when it leads to unintended side effects, but companies legal teams are just telling them …
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Comment #49064106
How long did it take x user to navigate from x screen to y screen is one of the most valuable metrics for any site, and most people consider this to require consent. Or at least it…
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Comment #49064085
If you did this people would only use the same half dozen sites and competitors would emerge. We're borderline already there today when the cost of switching is typing a different …
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Comment #49064066
YouTube is a site that pretty much everyone has an account already for (and therefore have already consented), but say you make YouTube 2, you can only make money if people allow p…
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Comment #49007137
You can still find articles lambasting the iphone for having a small screen, 'who would want to surf the web on their phone'. The CEO is in large part responsible for picking what …
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Comment #48911493
Heartbleed, one of the worst bugs in terms of exploitability and reach, was a bug that many engineers would be able to spot, if they were explicitly looking for it. That's the risk…
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Comment #48846534
Well at this point the goal is for Iran to stop randomly blowing up innocent cargo ships. Or firing missiles at airports and cities in retaliation. [1] https://www.reuters.com/worl…
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Comment #48846481
Makes sense, drone technology has come an insane distance since these were developed. Probably the biggest learning from the Ukraine war alone is the effectiveness of cheap drones.…
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Comment #48673540
>Hacker news has a lot of owners, managers and what John Steinbeck called "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" (e.g. future failed startup founders). This way of thinking is so d…
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Comment #48663815
>Commercial airlines make heavy use of it, and serious failures are vanishingly rare. Is this a joke? There's a major outage effecting flights at least yearly. The Delta one is fro…
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Comment #48663080
I got one, it's pretty cool that it's small enough to just magnet to the back of your phone. If your someone who needs to use a large font on their ereader to read its certainly no…
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Comment #48651135
I truly don't doubt it's possible for the AI to be 'racist'. >If the AI had recommended Black and Asian candidates at the same rate as it recommended the most-favored group (typica…
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Comment #48648913
>“Our estimate is that about 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century,” the report conti…
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Comment #48634269
You can install whatever apk you want on your Oculus Quest.
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Comment #48614144
The calculus teacher I had had a 4.7 ap test average (it's a test score 1-5). My physics teacher had a 2.2. But even still, these teachers have 20+ students. If you struggle with a…
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Comment #48604005
Honestly, what do you think a teacher does that an llm can't? If you want to learn you absolutely can ask an llm how to _solve_ x and explain the steps and why. My leaving out the …