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Comment #48763765
I'm having a hard time even grappling with how that could be true? I always assumed that intellectual property was invented in order to protect against a specific use case: If rese…
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Comment #48751410
Honestly, this is how all AI should be used, in most non-trivial scenearios
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Comment #48534495
Trump released Iran's frozen assets, in return for them opening the straight and thereby dropping oil prices before the midterm elections. Reminder, the reason Trump hated the Obam…
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Comment #48534195
According to the NY times, its a 60 day ceasefire on all fronts, and a return to pre-war status on issues like the (blockade, tolls, nuclear program, sanctions) starting this comin…
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Comment #47954666
There are ways to dodge it. A friend of mine did this for a shady company that turned out to be a 1 person company, that then dodged the fine basically by not paying and disapperin…
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Comment #47953128
Not legally enforceable, but absolutely something that it would say in order to dissuade you from going to small claims court
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Comment #47849815
yeah, and this has the advantage of both being deterministic, and only updating things that are actually linked as opposed to also accidentally updating naming collisions
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Comment #47492151
Some one should let Douglas Adams know the calculation could have been so much faster if the machine just lied.
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Comment #47491758
I see this sentiment repeated so often, and its so surprising to me that people have this train of thought. If our society was organized around the needs of workers, and existed to…
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Comment #47249491
Counter-point, developers that get used to not caring about function implementation, are going to culturally also not care as much about test implementation, making this proposed i…
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Comment #47184026
I have literally never seen a correct google summary. Maybe y'all are searching for different things than i am, but at this point I've started taking the viewpoint that if I don't …
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Comment #47132775
Maybe. And then win the contracts to do this and have sufficient bankroll that they can be successfully sued and recover damages if they screw up? No. Someone like accenture might …
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Comment #47132768
This is the first thing that occurred to me. The people above suggesting a cobol to python or go update confuse the heck out of me. Why not just convert to vanilla jacascript at th…
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Comment #47123872
Yeah, I've been saying for years that LLMs are a technology that basically unlock three major new technologies: 1. Automatic shaping of online community discussions (social media, …
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Comment #46815467
save it from the ai bubble collapse?
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Comment #46797147
MacOs is extraordinarily opinionated about how everything should work and frequently attempt to predict your workflow. Linux/Windows (historically) were straightforawrd, each tool …
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Comment #46739631
Ai hype is predicated on the popular idea that it can easily automate someone else's job, because that job they know nothing about is easy, but my job is safe from ai because it is…
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Comment #46639981
Your calculator doesn't charge per use
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Comment #46541732
> For example, in a situation where you can strongly benefit from the Napoleon technique, and all the potential negative outcomes are minor and unlikely to occur, you will almost a…
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Comment #46529452
It is everywhere, but SF really brings it to another level. Its wild.
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Comment #46445094
You and I see the tiktok slop. But as that functionality improves, its going to make its way into the toolchain of every digital image and video editing software in existence, the …
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Comment #46316837
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think you're right, and I think the reason for it is because Google has historically had an extremely effective astroturf marketing team for Ch…
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Comment #46178079
I have always been in favor of changing the definition if incorporation to ensure that over time ownership transfers slowly but increasingly to the employees of the corporate entit…
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Comment #45982622
Its so nice to see this echo'd somewhere. This has been what I've been calling them for a while, but it doesn't seem to be the dominant view. Which is a shame, because it is a seri…
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Comment #45957678
This is my wife starting up a 20 minute conversation the moment the first actor shows up on the screen xD Don't worry, I love her anyway. But yes, we're restarting the movie becaus…