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So we haven't found a cure for cancer because those silly scientists are too busy farting around with unimportant stuff? That's your take away here?

You also have to consider a ( I would argue large ) percentage of those evangelists are simply lying for financial gain. They see profit, or at least reduced costs, and quite simpl…

Yes? That's a very important piece of information, and I hope would be a thing a doctor asks, especially if there are concerns about weight or nutrition.

How is that useless? You adding the warning tells me everything I need to know. Either you generated it with AI, in which case I can happily skip it, or you _don't know_ if AI was …

So given that the output of an LLM is unreliable at best, your plan is to verify that a LLM didn't bullshit you by asking another LLM? That sounds... counterproductive

Seeing as how this article is talking about the deportation of US citizens, I'm going to question what exactly you mean by "here illegally". Expanding the argument: I've just decid…

Well someone has to shovel in all the coal we need to power those AIs

>Is he (a) legally (b) morally entitled to open fire on them? Given how these "arrests" seem to be done by plainclothes individuals who don't identify themselves? Yes. Legally (dep…

18 USC 793(f) seems to apply here: "Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing ... through gross negligence permits the same to b…

Gogogo - very popular, and pretty extensive coverage [0]. The only problem is the scooters themselves are so quiet they sneak up behind you on the street. [0] www.gogoro.com/gogoro…

Conversely, it's far better to have a slightly more verbose section of code that is immediately readable than a super slick one-liner that like two people can parse. Maintainabilit…

> Nothing prevents the next president from having a radically different opinion. Of course, this is only relevant if they are interested in having a 'next' president, something whi…

> There is a reason no country provides it. While small, Luxembourg is still considered a country. And their public transit is both free, and fantastic

How do they compete for the same role? Nuclear is the definition of base power generation, whereas solar/wind/etc (when backed with massive battery farms) are perfect peaker plants…

I suspect that if you have ever posted copyrightable material online, you will have valid cause to sue them, as they very obviously have incorporated your work for commercial gain.…

Obviously looking at it from today's perspective it's (hopefully) unthinkable, but there is a lot written from contemporary sources which make a fairly persuasive argument. The mai…

That's pretty much what Microsoft tried with the UAC prompts, and that was fairly universally disliked. Not that I disagree with you, running as admin by default is a terrible prac…

SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol, and is a way to directly address not just individual hardware elements, but to access specific functions or methods within that …

The logical decision then is to entrust the preservation to once of the few organizations capable of surviving thousands of years, and forming a religion based on the preservation …

Taipei has single use NFC tokens that people can buy, but they are non-disposable. Instead, they are coin shaped, and are deposited in the ticket machine at the end of the trip so …

>AI reduces the need for low skill humans Except the focus on AI has been replacing _high_ skill jobs like artists, writers, and developers. The end-goal of AI devotees is that hum…

> I don't think we have the correct word for what LLMs do but lie and hallucinations are not really correct. I believe 'bullshit' is accurate, as in "The chatbot didn't know the an…

Wootz (and Damascus) steels for example were of much higher quality than what was usually produced in Europe. I can't say if this is what gave European smiths the knowledge they ne…

Also previous attempts[0] have been bogged down in endless red tape by groups against the creation of such projects. [0] see for example the Cape Wind project: https://en.m.wikiped…

I don't have any inside knowledge, but I believe it was a mix of wanting to simplify things for users, and to keep users within their system. I suspect that the rise of imgur as it…