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Comment #49208379
I don't really agree. Many top-down parsers find an error at an unexpected token. That token is often not the error. Quite often something is missing at that point, or there has be…
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Comment #49208329
> If this fine remains, and Meta pays out to the affected parties Did you even read the first line of the article? "A New Mexico court has ordered Meta ... to pay $567m into a fund…
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Comment #49198919
5M? On a population of 340M? 3.6M children are born yearly. Do they all graduate at a university? The web says 864,457.
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Comment #49185974
50k/year is not enough for a country the size of the US. Belgium produces about that number of graduates yearly.
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Comment #49183139
Ah, sure, they train enough people to serve all needs. What a load of poppy cock.
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Comment #49179387
> Ethics, morals and whatever people call only exists if economy is stable. Dire economic conditions increase crime, that much seems true, but as long as it is profitable, there wi…
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Comment #49179348
You'll have to pay for it anyway. Games will get more expensive, there'll be more micro-transactions, etc. The investors as well as JP Morgan want their money back.
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Comment #49172108
Nor USB devices, nor the screen size, nor ... They can access way too many parts of the OS. But almost nobody cares, as long as they have their shiny feeds and videos.
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Comment #49169284
I got the news via https://safedep.io/keyv-npm-supply-chain-compromise/
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Comment #49167920
The drug dealers, i.c. Meta and consorts, do and will oppose regulation strongly. Didn't they get the blooming president of the USA himself to intervene on their behalf? That will …
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Comment #49167831
I'd hazard changes in taste are more random than technological progress.
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Comment #49167750
I wonder if the date was chosen at random. Hiroshima is august, 6, after all.
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Comment #49166953
First, it is notoriously difficult to regulate such things. Second, why bother? Media generation has a small number of barely beneficial use cases, and a whole bunch of large to po…
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Comment #49145860
Cause chaos and let society fall into disarray, and upgrade an old game with some trifle, or not having either of those? Tough choice. > They don't take away jobs from artists In t…
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Comment #49145819
Why do people keep making these models? Don't they care about the effects this has? It's either that, or they do it on purpose. Just let people push clips about foreigners eating d…
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Comment #49145006
What does that mean? The form suggests disagreement, but the content doesn't connect.
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Comment #49144993
That's even worse than saying: fentanyl helps me overcome pain, so it should be felt available to everyone. You're either a hardcore contrarian or a hardcore libertarian. Or living…
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Comment #49142163
A smart phone is a human right, according to you? Of course you can ban them. The addicts will have to wean off, but after that, there's no disadvantage.
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Comment #49133248
Speed limits work nonetheless. A few hefty fines and most of it will stop.
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Comment #49133222
> incredibly hypocritical If that's all... If anything, it's lenient for AI. You can still spread all the mind poison you want, you just need to label it. > full on populist It's n…
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Comment #49127745
If air is so valuable to you, why don't you pay premium for it? Not that it's comparable to books, but it has the same presupposition as your question.
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Comment #49122345
Live exam, perfectly fine. You can use an LLM as support while you study, no problem, as a glorified search engine. On steroids. From the future. Then you prove you understood it. …
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Comment #49121159
Nero probably even enjoyed seeing Rome burn. I think other people might have been angry. Don't be Nero.
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Comment #49121131
And how is the PhD student trained? By doing research and writing about it by him/herself. > we don't claim that undergrad education has been blown to bits But it has been. People …
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Comment #49121102
> something we don't observe That's just lack of observation. Which PhD candidate is going to say "Chat wrote it for me?" We know a lot of academic articles are AI written. And a v…