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SeanDav
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Comment #48918430
By all means argue with your boss, but: Do it respectfully and accept the decision if it goes against your advice. Your boss is either aware of issues you are not, or might otherwi…
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Comment #48223747
OpenClaw. Vibe-coded and one of the most rapidly successful and popular pieces of software ever developed.
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Comment #48222384
I am far more relaxed about the actual or potential use of AI to help with delivering an article. As long as the content is accurate, then why care? There are several valid reasons…
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Comment #48168372
I would hardly define allowing your child access to the internet as neglect. Like anything else, like crossing the street for example, there are dangers that can be mitigated again…
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Comment #48168302
It has always been the responsibility of parents to raise their children "properly" (whatever that means). What is special about internet access that now requires the government to…
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Comment #47705156
Humans are quite capable of bankrupting financial companies with coding issues. Knight Capital Group introduced a bug into their system while using high frequency trading software.…
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Comment #47697653
This is likely the first step, and in itself is not much of a concern but only if it stops there, which it almost certainly will not. The next step, where the government argue that…
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Comment #47691875
This has got very little to do with children - that is just the excuse that sounds good. "Think of the children" is a rhetorical tactic that anyone who wants to get unfettered acce…
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Comment #47688119
Sure, for now... I simply don't believe it will stop at "simple attestation", because we all know that simple attestation is practically useless, but once the various distros accep…
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Comment #47687977
Except compulsory age verification in Linux is now becoming a real threat. Some Linux distros are actively against this but many are not seemingly interested in fighting it: CachyO…
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Comment #47687906
This is worrying on many levels. So Microsoft force you to create an account to use Windows and then they reserve the right to block you from your own account, thereby potentially …
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Comment #47456966
The earth was too scared to have him on it anymore...
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Comment #47415074
With the increasingly intrusive legislated age verification and content monitoring being forced globally, I can easily see this as a catalyst to drive the Gemini protocol past crit…
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Comment #47311122
I assumed that leap seconds could be determined algorithmically, it appears I assumed badly. This is a bit of a can of worms...
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Comment #47220175
Remember, it is for the children. /s
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Comment #47023421
Even a face scan is a hard no for me. I have no desire to make it easy for companies to start linking me (the person) to anywhere else, directly via my face metadata.
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Comment #47023338
I think we might have different risk/reward levels. For me, using VR can make me feel sick and vaguely disorientated for many hours afterwards. Almost nothing is worth that. I love…
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Comment #47015142
I.Don't.Care. I enjoyed the narrative. It was true. Who cares if it was written by a ghost writer, an AI or anything else.
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Comment #46134705
Right, no insider trading going on here at all /s
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Comment #46046947
I hate the flat, borderless, barely visible scroll bar mess that is Windows 11. Just try to determine where one window starts and another ends with multiple overlapping windows ope…
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Comment #45898543
Until you hit a knot in the wood and get kickback, which leads to exciting times... j/k I get what you are trying to say.
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Comment #45886339
It is not a lie it is just apparently familiar notation that actually has an entirely different meaning. It is not an equation, it is an assignment. X := X + 1 is perhaps less conf…
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Comment #45886130
I am just wondering when the next "We-Love-Haskell" cycle is going to start!