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g3f32r

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    Comment #49160304

    > "Check that the software works as intended" is not going to cut it, as AI are very, very good at obeying the letter but not the spirit of the ask. Surely you don't think that he …

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    Comment #48416746

    > Yep. And that's good! That's freedom of choice. Is it? Was it actually her choice? Or was she propagandized into being a fully-available consumer? Was she fed a steady diet of an…

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    Comment #48416470

    > Gradual population decline empowers lower-income workers. Remember this line the next time immigration/H1b debates heat up. The same mathematics are at play.

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    Comment #48412577

    > learn multiplication tables I think sibling comments are taking issue with `learn multiplication tables` versus `memorize multiplication tables`. I find no value in the latter in…

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    Comment #48412325

    > students required more time studying, had worse exam scores and ordered more unnecessary tests compared to traditionally taught students. While I didn't do any additional looking…

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    Comment #48235890

    > and the banks demand a bailout. Which will certainly be granted and thus Better Days *WILL* Come, at least in the localized "I'm taking practically no risk" sense.

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    Comment #48055056

    Private torrent trackers have been doing this for a while. If some number of your downstreams act like shitheads - you get nipped and so do your other downstreams.

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    Comment #48050562

    > You wouldn't trust an engineer a bridge that an engineer vibe-engineered would you? If it was as easy to stress test/battery test/materials test/etc a bridge as it is to test cod…

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    Comment #47546379

    ... just force the data into a structured format, then use "hard code" on the structure. "Generate the following JSON formatted object array representing the interruptions in my da…

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    Comment #47326657

    I suspect this is going to be an iteration of the Simpsons meme soon, but... Black Mirror did it first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_the_DJ

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    Comment #47280216

    > to my Boomer uncle it's incoherent, if not an outright attack. These are separate things. If he's interpreting it as an outright attack, he _is_ hearing it correctly. But incoher…

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    Comment #46504802

    Of course you can ask an LLM if the content is AI-generated. It's easily at least 50% accurate too.

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    Comment #46037211

    > take any meaningful action to implement UBI I hear this all the time, but to what end? If the input costs to produce most things ends up driving towards zero, then why would ther…

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    Comment #45682703

    We had a "smart person only internet". Then it became financially prudent to make it an "everyone internet", then we had the dot com boom, Apple, Google, etc bloom from that. We _s…

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    Comment #44798846

    I think the comment was showing that the project takes 9 weeks either way, but coming to that determination was much more confident and convincing with a functional demo versus a h…

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    Comment #44759404

    What's the minimum quantity of money a server can be paid after a 1 hour shift? If it's the same in both cases, that's his point.

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    Comment #44675462

    Isn't that a bit of a truism? A _past_ calorie restriction is associated with a _current_ calorie surplus. Obviously if the calorie restriction were being continued, one wouldn't b…