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We need a new one: "Where someone is using a vibe-coded internal tool made by the creative department that keeps needing bug fixes, there's a start up waiting to happen."

This project is not clever, interesting, insightful, or beneficial to humanity in any way, save to remind us of what world we are slowly creating by our continued insistence that A…

Exactly. People are getting so excited that all this stuff is possible, and forgetting that we are burning through innumerable finite resources just to prove something is possible.…

I can't believe that in the face of all the other problems facing humanity, we are allowing any amount of resources to be spent on this. I cannot even see this justifiable under th…

This is really cringe

Do they have microphones inside the car? How do you know? That "feeling" of privacy probably encourages people to talk more openly, which if there are microphones inside...

Im also coming to the conclusion that video game consoles (and smartphones, and ipads,...) are not for children.

The phrase "dog whistle" is also itself a dog whistle that signals where you stand on discussing particular issues in the open.

The proof is that humans do it all the time and that you do it inside your head as well. People need to stop with this absurd level of rampant skepticism that makes them doubt thei…

Companies more likely to want to save money on labor costs (employing many h1bs) are also likely to want to save money on Tooling costs, by using safe options like MSFT stuff, rath…

Has anybody tried "driving" for one of these companies using GPS spoofing? You could fake the location of your phone. I suppose it'd only work a few times before the number of repo…

Artificial insulin is akin to medicine, potions, etc, I don't think anybody would consider this grotesque at any point in time

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The right woman to marry is the one you're married to

Yes. People do not want to give up some finite freedoms in exchange for preserving their lineage. This is a very modern and sad problem and the source of so much angst of the middl…

People used to criticise Wikipedia for being bad due to being crowdsourced (at least in school they did). Now, Wikipedia looks like one of the best antidotes to LLMs.

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Wherever you are, I just wanted to wish all of you a Merry Christmas! This is a tough time of year for many, but most of us here are extremely fortunate to have the jobs we do (if …

The closest thing to minecraft in real life I have ever seen.

I wonder how much of Wikipedia has been contributed to using AI by now. Almost makes me want to keep a 2023 snapshot of Wikipedia in cold storage.

Perversely, this may make many companies no longer invest in this type of cyber security software. Which may lead to a whole host of other problems...

> VPS > nobody will hand anything over Uh, there's these things called subpoenas...

Surely this was heavily inspired by Runescape? The click to move (including cursor animation on click), camera angles and graphics, chat text colour and position etc. all give me h…