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You're in support of life imprisonment as punishment for somebody who gets into a couple fights?

People who get uptight about swearing irritate me. I understand getting upset about racial slurs or other actually loaded language, but getting upset about the word "fuck" but not …

That removes a lot of the content. Much of this is inside clickable menus that reader mode doesn't capture. For a site that is apparently for people with disorders, the accessibili…

Sometimes you can't help it, sometimes you are related to those people, and sometimes they also can't help it. If I'm out with a friend who has a severe disorder that means he can'…

In state parks, but I haven't seen it really enforced in most of the US. The point is that litter isn't the primary problem with plastic. Most of the issues with it have nothing to…

Verizon in particular. My Pixel 3 is still more than capable hardware-wise, but it's years out of software support. I could get much more use out of it, but the bootloader is locke…

I don't see a problem with taking the phone, as long as it's returned by the end of the day. The school should have your phone number on file and can reach you in an emergency. The…

It's not well established at all. I don't think a single study has conclusively and causatively linked pornography use to lower testosterone levels.

Throwing plastic on the ground instead of in a bin is already illegal, and often carries $1000 fines if you are caught. And putting it in a bin already is just kicking the can down…

You're misreading the comment. It's not that "for your safety" always implies tyranny, it's that tyrants always prefers to say that they're doing things for your safety.

Ah, I've never really been able to discern. There is obvious LLM text, but it's harder to tell the difference in short samples, and with some prompting to get it to write in a part…

I thought so, but the rest of the comment is worded quite reasonably, so I decided to not interpret it as hyperbole or irony.

Everything involving any kind of coordination, cooperation, competition, and/ot communication between two or more people involves politics by its very nature. LLMs are communicatio…

The problem is that for the vast majority of use, LLM output is not revised or edited, and very many times I'm convinced the output wasn't even fully read.

I agree with you. I think it's a bit wasteful and dumb, I just don't find it either sick or confusing.

I agree with you, and I'll put it slightly stronger. Ruby is a better language than Python in every way except the very most important two: - Imports in Ruby seriously suck compare…

I think they would have to here, to support native modules. Jython (and I believe IronPython, but don't quote me) does not support native CPython modules. CPython modules explicitl…

Thanks for pointing this out. It looked weird to me, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why.

Eh, it's still a numbers game. Changing your chances of contracting terminal cancer in the next 5 years from 1% to 0.5% is still significant. In this case, the specific percentages…

We can and do, all the time. And all puzzles are a "waste of resources", really. I'm not into crypto and I do think Bitcoin is stupid and wasteful, but I don't find it "sick" or al…

The point is that many (maybe most) of us didn't even realize that "soup" was part of the company's name. I always assumed something like "Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup" was by th…

> Killing copyright because you dont like Microsoft would equally kill things like Free Software (because it would invalidate the freedoms enforced by the GPL.) Without copyright, …

I think you're overestimating LLM usage.

The article addresses this: > Computer people adopted a term in use for more than half a century and brought it into the digital world. The wording in the Harvard log book—“first a…

Maybe it's because I'm working a lot with V8, but that looks quite a lot like most C++ generics I've been looking at lately. Especially when working with concepts, it's easy to end…