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AFAIK the transponder kind of turns itself on when powering on the plane, you'd have to explicitly disable it but then you'd have weird discussions with the airport tower guiding y…

I mean, it's an obvious difference in the primary use cases - if you explicitly want an isolated answer, you might clear context and start from scratch, and if you explicitly want …

The key missing step which breaks the loop is that while indeed a larger and larger portion of the web is written by language models, that data isn't being used to train new models…

The Iran war was one of the biggest economic boons Russia could hope for; the disruption of oil and gas exports from Middle East with the associated spike in global prices brought …

The root cause of identity theft in USA and some other places is the lack of "proper" national identity and the associated use of various personal "secrets" (not that secret) for i…

The current bills (e.g. NY one at https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8102/amendm... ) require age assurance that goes beyond mere assertions, so when creating your (a…

That would be a violation of the copyright law or the GPL licence - you aren't permitted to take GPL code and redistribute it with some extra restrictions added on to it. If it's n…

What I'm confused about is how the proposed bills would apply to servers. Like, in general, a software change to add an "age class" attribute to user accounts and a syscall "what's…

The key parameter for swap size is "how memory-hungry things you want to run", which isn't easy to measure, but paying for installed RAM is a somewhat usable proxy metric for that.…

where do you see this goal post moving? From my perspective, it never was "The AIs will never do this." but rather even before day 1 all the experts were explicitly saying that AIs…

Abstractions are inherently a tradeoff, and too much abstraction hurts you when the assumptions break. For a major example, treating a network resource like a file is neat and eleg…

If you discard all major video streaming sites (including adult entertainment) then you probably can get most of the way there; you're probably mostly interested in text communicat…

The "Keep America Beautiful" ad campaign with a Native American character (played by an Italian actor?) who's sad about the polluted environment.

This shouldn't be a major issue because of Forward Secrecy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy ) principles built into modern TLS protocols, which ensure that even if t…

It's just that out of these two claims only one is interesting and worth talking about (and that's the one mentioned in the title). Thank you for your testing! That's a bunch of ef…

One report ( https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/america_ad_blocker/ ) indicated that more than half of Americans use an ad blocker.

It's interesting that I just read an inteview with YouTube CEO ( https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-youtube-ceo-n... ) who mentioned that YouTube fully intends to start…

I'd probably be OK if all the content which doesn't get made without sponsorship wouldn't get made at all, and the people who work as content creators stopped doing so. There is an…

Well in your example it didn't write less secure code (wich is the core claim of the article, and something new), it refused to provide an answer about Falun Gong, which the articl…

Technically (and legally) the USSR also had the same three branches of government; just all controlled by the same party.

All the US megacorps tend send me emails saying "We want to change TOS, here's the new TOS that's be valid from date X, and be informed that you have the right to refuse it" (in wh…

At least historically it used to be the case that you don't ever want to use the browser API directly for compatibility reasons but always through some library that will be a do-no…

FHE solves privacy-from-compute-provider and doesn't affect any other privacy risks of the services. The trivial way to get privacy from the compute provider is to run that compute…

The parent point isn't that shitty code doesn't have defects but rather that there's usually a big gap between the code (and any defects in that code) and the actual service or pro…

If a LLM (or any other tool) makes so that team of 8 can get the same results in the same time as it used to take a team of 10 to do, then I would count that as "replaced 2 program…