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Reducing the portion size for junk food is probably a good thing. This is a rare case where shrinkflation may actually be beneficial to all parties.

The article clearly lays out that the take-home test was not a test of memorization, but a test of students' understanding of the class material and ability to reason about how dif…

> Any semblance of capitalism we have is a shambling corpse barely getting around. Do you know who pulls on all the strings of our economy, gives out student aid loans to kids who …

> There's a huge difference between being shaken down highway robbery style "versus" pre-emptively paying the toll in advance for safe passage. We've seen the shakedown of Anthropi…

I think you're take is a bit off for multiple reasons. First, people need transportation, not cars. For the vast majority of people, if you truly need a car, it's because your infr…

Bikes actually deliver a lot of packages and food in areas where car infrastructure hasn't made other forms of transportation practically impossible, and they do it much more cost-…

> You can’t jump up and down screaming how amazing, powerful, and dangerous your new tech is and then act surprised and annoyed when the government shows up looking to regulate it.…

> would we trust a Software engineer, which in general don’t always obtain the mathematical foundation to understand deep learning in the first place, on the trajectory of AI? Vali…

> Websites are still inferior to Flash of the early 2000s. It's taken decades and they can only mimic a fraction of its power. Is this a troll? What could an application do with Fl…

Maybe I'm looking through rose colored glasses, but software that writes itself seems like a pretty big breakthrough to me.

Are you suggesting that performing a specific task without unnecessary abstractions is indicative of poor quality?

> Having an account on a company's platform is a privilege, not a right. Businesses can lose a lot traffic by not being present on Facebook and Instagram, so being unjustifiably ba…

Yeah it's bad, but AI isn't required for this type of thing to work. My anecdotal experience is my Facebook account was compromised several years ago after TOTP 2FA was disabled. D…

Yes this is Google helping vendors block access to their APIs by using hardware attestation. I recently hit the same wall trying to directly my garage door opener's API (MyQ). I'd …

I'm not a handyman, but I am a man who happens to be handy. I have done quite a bit of painting and caulking for a guy who's not in the profession. I despise both with a passion, t…

> What are you talking about, it had the option for nuanced responses The prompt allowed for exactly four valid outputs and explicitly disallowed explanations and qualifiers. > Out…

True or mostly true could easily be argued from a statistical likelihood perspective: life exists on Earth and, based on what we know, Earth doesn't appear to be all that special i…

> It's a weird fact claim, because the ground truth is "nobody knows for sure" and that's not one of the available options. It's even weirder to suggest that the disagreement is in…

> They are not coerced (stupidity is not coercion) into it They are coerced in the same way as any other gambling: the false allure of easy money in a society built on financial st…

I tried with a couple other AI search tools and got much better responses. Google sucks here. Bad title? Yes. Real issue? Definitely. https://scout.yahoo.com/chat/share/019e50d7-01…

> The current state of AI affairs is a lot about outrightly selling some one else's intellectual property. Blocking archiving in a flailing attempt to keep AIs away is extremely sh…

And this new thread was just demoted from the front page despite a lot of activity and upvotes in a short time.

Some people -- many people, actually -- use em dashes in their writing. Real people even use contrast to make a point on occasion, believe it or not. It's not AI writing that bothe…

Similar situation here. I primarily bounce between TypeScript, Python, and occasional Java -- all very well supported by JetBrains IDEs. I occasionally try switching editors, most …

> Also Jetbrains IdeaVim plugin is the best vim emulation I’ve seen. Nothing comes close with vim plugins support, vimrc, and what have you. Once every year or so I get annoyed wit…