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simbolit
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Comment #38772699
What is your point? You didn't make a point yet. You claimed I misunderstood, then quoted a sentence that starts with "if".
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Comment #38772662
Obnoxious? Yes. Opposite of what I claim? No. "Samsung Electronics informed its executives and employees that data entered into ChatGPT is transmitted and stored on external server…
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Comment #38772657
Yes, they used it. Did you read any further? "These actions clearly put confidential information at risk, prompting Samsung to warn its employees about the dangers of using ChatGPT…
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Comment #38767435
"everyone"? What are you talking about? Have you ever worked in any sector that has security policies? Even if you haven't, perhaps spend 2 minutes using a search engine? Here is a…
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Comment #38766910
They don't have to match the market leader, they just have to be "good enough". There are oodles of use-cases where sending your data to an outside provider is a complete no-go. In…
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Comment #38766837
No. They are not like us. Fundamentally not like us. If you ask them to reason, then their text-prediction works differently, because it now predicts text containing reasons. They …
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Comment #38766727
I am not objecting to the finding or the show, I am objecting to the casual use of "prove" where something has merely been plausibly suggested.
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Comment #38766702
I just love the "plus the two missing legs". Made me actually lol.
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Comment #38766661
Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but "proved" is a strong word for a two-day experiment of a single waitress with no control of outside variables.
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Comment #38766641
Tipping is great, if it is optional. I feel in many parts of the US it is now expected, if not demanded. This is bullshit. If your business model doesn't work without tips, you nee…
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Comment #38766568
...then in a few years, people won't even notice that they're simply scanning a code on their devices and adding them to whatever home control system they wish. The sentence you (p…
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Comment #38764845
The sub-headline says everything you need to know: "Gadget makers, unsurprisingly, are hesitant to compete purely on device quality."
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Comment #38763314
I have heard bad things about the keyboard, compared to legacy Thinkpads. How is your experience?
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Comment #38759166
One of the early customers was the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, so, wild guess, they probably used it for medium-range weather forecasts.
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Comment #38759138
Elena Buckley can write; this was a well written text. But I didn't find anything much interesting in the writing. Sad. I think this will be the only bit I remember: [Fifteen-year-…
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Comment #38759040
If they aren't qualified, then you have to train them. If they don't have your values, you have to integrate them. That is complicated, takes a lot of effort and costs a lot of mon…
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Comment #38759024
a higher birth rate (aka make having children more attractive) is the only long term solution. well, it normally would be, in our situation the climate likely will interfere with a…
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Comment #38754217
the "significant societal changes" are immigration. as you can't change the birth rate overnight, and even if you could, it would take ~20years for the kids to begin earning, there…
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Comment #38754168
In canada physician-assisted suicide is legal, basically everywhere else it is not.
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Comment #38754154
What do you mean by "waste of the spec"?
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Comment #38752624
I really don't know, but I _suspect_ it will accept 2TB cards. I had the same with a _much_ older device, which accepted 2gb, even tho it said otherwise.
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Comment #38748691
This only works with gmail, with outlook coming soon. So it is not comparable at all. Thunderbird is an email client, this is an interface to proprietary email services.
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