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Piling on. Why? Are class sizes that different? US and China have many more professors too, is it not proportional?

I heard the old batteries, when giving high current would depress voltage long enought to trigger the shutdown, plausibly long enough to mess up the processor if it didn't shut dow…

"size of a machine divided by the smallest critical engineered component of the machine" Computer processors probably take that cake.

"BotXPTO has been trained with the entire internet circa 2026" is arguably attribution enough.

As I understand it, the anti-AI stance of open source software people in particular has nothing to do with AI learning from code bases, and everything to do with AI slop clogging a…

This is conflating two entirely different claims pretty hard: - The old point that AI speech isn't real or doesn't count because they're just pattern matching. Nothing new here. - …

Might be a tool against them. Note that Mt. Everest isn't on the list. If the Earth was flat, all the tallest peaks would be seeable from one another unless a specific peak taller …

Semantically, it sounds like anyone who develops for a big company, normally an employee or contractor.

Okay, I'm more then halfway through and still don't get what DSL is an acronym for. Any light?

Hum, I remember it as "What about now, Mr M?" ("E agora, Mr. M?")

It wouldn't, but, if the vendor somehow made it require one, despite the very impressive technical feat, I'd feel cheated. Robbed, even.

My toilet doesn't officially support crapping without an internet connection either. I'd argue that in both cases it's implicit unless very explicitly disclaimed.

Turning it over seems unnecessary. Good point overall, though.

Might be a hardcoded date and time. Does the legit pager messaging network give the time? If not, continually powered digital clocks drift slowly.

I'm an English learner, and I like to have subtitles to aid my hearing comprehension in movies and series. In both Netflix and Amazon Prime, I often (always?) have a single option …

Very cool concept, congratulations! I do have two bugs to report. 1) I only see static until I fiddle with the mute button, which makes the image work besides working as expected. …

Startup idea: online text editor that logs every keystroke and blockchains a hash of all logs every day. If you're accused of AI use, you can pull up the whole painstaking writing …

I find it contentful enough, but yeah, it doesn't get into the "how" of science and engineering at all.

Crap. Most of the substitutes have a bigger ecological footprint, even if you don't care at all about cost and comfort. Those reusable shopping bags need to be actually reused , se…

Sounds unappetizing. Would you want to eat packaging if not for the - for now inevitable - digestion issues?

One can be surprised by the traffic increase. "When I moved here 25 years ago, there was one flight in the morning and one in the afternoon. Now it's every 5 minutes from 6 am to 1…

I'd classify that as "broken, but easily repairable". Maybe I'm a spoiled desk jockey, but if I'm "dismantling" anything that size and weight, I ain't just cleaning it.

Sex toy. Definitely sex toy.

How would you decide which hopeful customer gets it? A line? Draw sticks? Willingness to do chores for you? Ostensive praise? If I really want the widged but really can't stand in …

Videocalls. Straight out of The Jetsons.