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froggit

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    Comment #49111952

    They actually said: >Make sure existing and future "non-kid" hardware can't access those kids-only sites. Which is the inverse of what i suspect they meant.

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    Comment #49048091

    > ban computers or at least require an official government-controlled license to get access to one People seem to be ok with needing a license to operate a motor vehicle and those …

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    Comment #49048006

    Cut off enough branches and the roots die.

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    Comment #49046799

    Is it still lying if they just lost track of where all the debt is hidden and stopped caring about those little things? They're seriously like 2 months out from achieving AGI and m…

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    Comment #49046735

    > This is wrong IMO. You should have a serious conversation about your products security with someone who is actually trained on that subject. LLMs are useless if you don't already…

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    Comment #49044924

    I've really enjoyed how this started happening on windows that some pop ups steal focus during full screen gaming; extra satisfying is that "game mode" is set to prevent that. It's…

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    Comment #49044863

    If anything, they've already gone above and beyond by allowing users to even make inputs while an app is launching.

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    Comment #49044811

    > May not be applicable to most, but this can be solved by multiple devices. It cannot. You've seemingly misunderstood the problem. > If it were me, I'd just use the gaming PC as a…

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    Comment #49044743

    It's been fairly well known for years that nvidia only supports linux gaming as an afterthought. In fact, if you'd read the whole post you'd have seen where they said: "I'll probab…

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    Comment #48623720

    > yes! and we need to add the death penalty to the list of punishments for children, because what matters is not the size of the crime, but the harshness of enforcement, that's the…

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    Comment #48618640

    I'd prefer a grumpy teacher over one that cheerfully gaslights me.

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    Comment #48618502

    > I also disagree with the essentialist position that the best education possible must be pure-human provided. Maybe if cost is no object and you have a 24/7 human tutor on speed d…

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    Comment #48617744

    I remember that whole "expect 30 to 60 min a night" nonsense. I always assumed that was a scare tactic or something. I mean, in high school i was awake until around 4 am playing ga…

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    Comment #48617478

    > The net outcome there is going to be highly negative. Agreed. With the way LLMs often are quite artuculate and confident sounding, it's only a matter of time until kids will be s…

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    Comment #48617010

    > 99% of security experts I know use ad blockers. 100% of security experts I know find ads annoying and know ad blockers reduce how many they see.

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    Comment #48411052

    > belch out thick black lib-ownin' ball-crushin' smoke, damaging their own engine in the process. The black smoke belching is caused by a fuel rich air mixture that leads to incomp…

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    Comment #48410628

    NASCAR has a tendency to fight changes to the drivetrain technology, so a hybrid might take a while still. The regulations banned fuel injection up until 2012, required transmissio…

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    Comment #48410323

    > What's destabilizing the industry right now isn't vulnerabilities AI introduces into new code; it's a flood of sev:hi vulnerabilities in existing code, not introduced by AI but d…

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    Comment #48061683

    > I understood your comment perfectly fine. I'm asking which graduates of which colleges you were referring to. They are referring to MOST graduates of MOST colleges. This is a del…

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    Comment #48028153

    > Yeah, so unclear why yer again everyone is so quickly running for the pitchforks & torches. Cause everyone loves a good bonfire and a fresh hot roast.

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    Comment #48028098

    > 4GB, $0.10 (whatever the HD price) that is the equivalent of a High School level intelligent brain that can perform many cognitive tasks for free? This is better than my current …

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    Comment #47487984

    > I don't think so. I know for a fact that search terms are a minefield of gotchas and hacks caused by product decisions that reflect ad-hoc negotiations with partners and sellers.…

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    Comment #47487473

    Not sure you're aware but you initially sound like you disagree with the post you replied to, only to follow up by enthusiastically reiterating that author's words as if in agreeme…

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    Comment #47331777

    "if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project" The tried and true techni…

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    Comment #47312503

    > [0] farmer, construction worker, plumber, machinist, welder, teacher, doctors, etc The reason AGI couldn't do these is the lack of a suitable interface to the physical world. It …