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Comment #49220479
Maybe; if it's a Js / electron app there's a lower boundary though. The main issue is that the web (html/css) is the most versatile UX platform out there, nothing even comes close.…
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Comment #49220453
It's once again a market where there's morbillions of money being invested but no money is being made yet. The next few years will show whether AI becomes established in e.g. large…
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Comment #49182570
We don't fully understand the workings because it is (was?) classified as a drug, making research into it a lot more complicated. Thankfully there are charities and organizations t…
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Comment #49181425
I get why people wouldn't want (steam) trains in their proverbial back yard just as much as they wouldn't want datacenters. Trains may be a net benefit for a region's mobility and …
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Comment #49179884
Nobody's denying that, what is your point? Or are you assuming they're banning LLM code wholesale based on just the headline?
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Comment #49179879
Exactly this. There's plenty of boring software out there where writing the actual code is a chore. That's where AI works pretty well, as long as the people at the controls underst…
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Comment #49179868
I love how your analogy actually works with the real world. You can't fly a jet plane until you've got all the various licenses and logged flying hours in prop planes first.
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Comment #49179847
> What is the correct procedure for this? Get involved with the project before submitting PRs, participate in discussions, etc. But if it's a change you want to contribute, don't u…
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Comment #49179834
I'm amazed that this pattern has been so ubiquitous for uh. Has it been years already? But they haven't tweaked the services yet to avoid these patterns.
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Comment #49179593
> when you yourself don't have the time or energy to. You don't have time, you take time. But what this boils down to is that they propose automating being politically or socially …
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Comment #49179566
How is AI "more powerful than nuclear weapons" etc when they're two completely different things? Please explain to me how AI can glass the planet via mutually assured destruction.
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Comment #49179550
Have you? (I'm trolling, I'm not sure what you're asking or why)
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Comment #49169848
This is (weirdly) in line with behaviour I've observed in iOS's date picker; if you set a block of dates as not available, and the selected date inside of that unavailable block, i…
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Comment #49168610
If we don't do our best to awaken Dead Cthulhu, when He invariably awakens He will know that we didn't do our best and we'll be eaten last by the Great Old Ones upon Their return!
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Comment #49168073
If said billionaire enrichment company was really upset about it, they would be able to detect forbidden words like piracy even when replaced. It's not that difficult, it's a probl…
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Comment #49168050
It allows you to play your games offline though, so if Steam's servers go down you can still play your games. I'm not sure if that's permanent or if you need to reactivate your DRM…
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Comment #49167614
I think Cyberpunk has a good basis but as you say, it's heavy weight; they did increase or tweak crowd density in an update I think, but also it's a PC game so it can be modded and…
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Comment #49167544
I'm transcribing more than 42 hours of meetings and designs into software code; work is work. It's tedious and repetitive maybe but there's always people really into that kind of t…
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Comment #49167529
I'm a fan of the phrase "analog emoji", :)
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Comment #49167507
One level above that is something I do every week - I simply... don't work, for TWO WHOLE DAYS a week. That gives me time to relax, sleep in, do maintenance and cleaning jobs in an…
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Comment #49167499
I've developed a HACK to LOSE WEIGHT and have MORE ENERGY in the morning! Here's what you do: the night before, after dinner, you start FASTING - no eating meals, like, at all! The…
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Comment #49166450
I'm so glad most of my technical interviews weren't about trying to remember things I once learned in college (15-20 years ago now) and never had to use in practice. It's been eith…
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Comment #49166166
I've seen the 'dangle' type in action in the Netherlands last year (I was on the island of Texel for vacation); they were doing a project of mapping underground water if I recall c…
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Comment #49166146
One quote early in the article stood out to me: > Decades of subsequent research by Ranzi and colleagues have slowly revealed remnants of peoples that occupied even the forest’s mo…
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Comment #49166073
Counterpoint, some doctors will zoom in on the most likely problem and misdiagnose. This is in part due to pressure on the health care system (where I live anyway); you can only ge…