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Comment #49092510
AI has useful features but the majority of use cases are not useful but are thrust upon us as an excuse to extract more data. Even if the worst happens in the AI market some uses w…
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Comment #48987468
> LLMs are very convincing and persuasive. The goal of LLM's, as they are marketed now, is to drive engagement and stickyness of products. A wrong answer is brushed off with a "Hey…
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Comment #47418313
Glad someone else felt the same. Discovery started well but the whole "burn" thing was... stupid. There are a million narrative devices you could use to break the ability for ships…
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Comment #47281832
On top of this Ellison is likely to have to sell off the dried husk of Cerner in order to fuel his circular AI transactions with NVidia.
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Comment #47259019
That "Smoke on the Water" MIDI tune playing through speakers at the computer shop... I cannot explain how amazing that was.
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Comment #47258803
> Perhaps aesthetic - both Windows 1.0 and 2.0 were (to me at least) very ugly. But it was amazing for those of us used to black and white/green/amber screens in DOS. You could put…
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Comment #46773018
I was doing tech support through the Windows 95/98/ME period and it was hell. Everything either crashed the OS or required a restart if you touched it. When Windows 2000 rolled aro…
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Comment #46538971
The exploit of this vulnerability is so fucking trivial it defies belief. It's not a bug, it is an undocumented feature of the system.
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Comment #45777945
Because I had two work calls and a child interrupt my viewing.
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Comment #45715232
> It could be that simply slowing down and clearing my mind for that time would do the same. Certainly I could not watch this in one, unbroken, session without interruption.
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Comment #45444030
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Comment #45443770
This should be a strike against MS's trustworthiness, if true. A lot of workplaces are hesitant to utilise AI models due to privacy or sensitivity concerns.
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Comment #45327103
So we outsource the serial calculations to the cloud but handle branching on our cpus?
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Comment #45206602
> I think people need to recognize that in many aspects what's happening is connected to societal issues that gun control and gun regulations will have very little impact on - reme…
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Comment #45164503
Selling Rams to people who do not require a huge vehicle, on the basis that the vehicle is loud and intimidating to other road users.
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Comment #45163853
> other than admission to defeat compared to Chinese EVs Or, to put it in another way; better and cheaper options for consumers. > in every country that doesn’t have domestic car i…
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Comment #45163803
> There are already cheaper, better vehicles being produced in China that American consumers cannot buy due to exhorbitant tariffs. As an example, Australia has lifted many of the …
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Comment #45097529
> perhaps Amazon shouldn't require them in their recruitment and performance review processes They are selecting for people who will "play the game" or, even better, will believe p…
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Comment #44546399
> That hardly applies now. I respectfully disagree given the basic fragility of the Suez Canal system along with the fact that Egypt is not growing into a major world power on the …
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Comment #44527818
Nations holding the region of Turkey are historically very powerful. My guess is that historical forces are reasserting themselves and that we may could see a much more assertive T…
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Comment #44001327
It was confirmed by Grok so....
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Comment #43608557
> but a couple of important ones If this was the first "mistake" made by the new administration and DOGE, then these items would be understandable. Or the second mistake. Or the th…
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Comment #43325889
Gollum took back the ring after Frodo - possessed by the spirit of the ring and in its voice - cursed him with death if he should ever break his oath. Gollum did so the ring did, b…
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Comment #43279193
I think the problem is that the FBI are infested with these fools.
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Comment #43260009
> Hallucinations are present, but usually they’re pretty minor (screwing up gender, years). And if all hospitals were doing was having doctors treat patients, this would be ok. But…