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I agree that both individual and progress of humanity relies on technology. Considering the state of the planet currently, it's essential to support the population count. To clarif…

For me this culminated to a deep belief that technology =/= progress. This has shaken my core to re-evaluate who will ever be allowed to benefit from my skills and time, but ruined…

Recording the game start and end time server-side to perform a plausibility check of submitted score vs. time played would help, but this would require tracking individual users ga…

Fantastic game! I miss the old iOS version. My suggestions: The predictable congestion gets a bit tedious and makes the game impossibly difficult quite quickly. It guarantees needi…

Baby monitors fundamentally need to be safe and allow parents peace of mind. Knowing they can constantly hear the baby and communicate verbally to soothe, as if you were in the roo…

Yes, raw PCBs that size are usually closer to 1EUR/unit. DHL shipping on these slightly larger than average boards would be 3EUR/unit. Are you talking about fully assembled (pcb + …

I'll die before I go without my curvy yellow lumps of mush.

They make a bunch of money off the videos, same as uploaded copyright material (before eventually taking them down).

Considering the brain functioning as prediction machine, we are constantly correcting the error between sensory perception and our inner reality. This is classic (closed) control l…

I've been wondering if imagination is the closest thing to free will we have.

This is what humanity will inevitably end up trying to do with computing, and a great argument for why we could be in a simulation.

It can misread, but meters cannot actively generate an incorrect output based on user expectations.

If this problem can actually be solved (requirement for both anonymity and ID in different spaces online without AI infiltration), it appears to be a long road to get there...

I do too. The idea that any one pronunciation is more correct based on the letters is quite amusing, given there's examples that work all ways.

How do you pronounce giraffe?

The human species. "We" doesn't include everyone and doesn't necessarily imply the process happens through collaboration and planning (conspiracy). The race to automation is happen…

The whole company is like that. If things were as amazing as advertised, they wouldn't even need to advertise. Or to release models to the public at all.

> Being able to be brutally honest with each other about our misunderstandings Being specific to misunderstandings is an element that's overlooked. This advice tends to be taken on…

Aside from the poor tone of this style of writing, short declarative statements don't convey the same information and leave a confusing message. Without knowing how you arrived at …

Ban reason and the moderator name were public on Something Awful, which allowed the community to respond (actively or passively), and for more senior moderators/admin to take publi…

Locks on bathroom doors are for privacy, not security.

First we would run into the spam-filter problem no different to email. Then we have to choose: do we concede to viewing the world through a lens of WhatEverAI, or train it locally …

We break eggs into the known confines of a pan. We don't spray egg all over the place unless we want to end up with it on our face. Even if it did make sense to "move fast and brea…

The smug, non-informative, confidently wrong tone these LLMs have learned from such comments drives me mad.