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Comment Re:That's just RAG. (Score 1) 68

From the standpoint of wanting something reasonably factual, I am pretty sure it would be dumb to rely on any AI that's using Tweets as the main part of its training data set.

Training an AI on X content is the ultimate goal to which the computer science phrase "Garbage in, garbage out" has been moving for almost 70 years.

We can finally close out that phrase and move on to the next frontier in CS.

Comment Re:If you want to remember a site... (Score 1) 116

Even without bookmarks, there's no need to keep tabs open. Just hit "Ctl-H", then enter a word related to what you want to go back to. You'll almost always find what you're looking for in your own history list within seconds.

I could never understand why anyone would keep more than half a dozen tabs open at any given time. The WWW was designed to be stateless: "Ctl-W" is your friend.

Comment Re:Astonishing (Score 1) 28

Which came first? Government or a human's ability to be productive enough to sell the fruits of their labor?

That works if you're a prostitute. Without a government, it doesn't scale much beyond that.

Never had an employee that was critical to business operations, eh? I was one 10 years ago. I said "fuck you" and quit.

Cool story, bro.

Comment Re:Astonishing (Score 4, Interesting) 28

And what? Let government dictate how a business is run?

Why not? The whole concept of a "business" is nothing more than a fiat defined by the government.

There are all sorts of rules regarding businesses. One is that customers that owe you money have to eventually pay, and if they don't, you can run to the government for help. In this particular case, large employers have to treat their employees somewhat like human beings, and not just totally upend their families' lives with no warning.

Are employees required to continue working until I can find and train replacements?

Maybe if employees routinely quit en masse without warning, that would be an issue. But it's not an issue. How do we know? Because almost all businesses use an "at will" work policy if they are allowed. This means that being able to unceremoniously dump employees than is much more important to them than the risk of some employees suddenly quitting.

Comment Re:False (Score 1) 88

Correct. It works both ways -- it depends on how the merchant set up the recurring charge with the credit card company. So that means if one isn't sure (which one usually is not), if one can tolerate one more month of charges, then try the new card number thing first, and if that doesn't work, cancel the card account. Note that this will negatively affect "average age of accounts" on one's credit score.

Comment False (Score 4, Insightful) 88

This is false:

it's a myth that canceling a credit card will definitely stop your recurring charges

Canceling -- that is closing -- a credit card will definitely stop recurring charges. The article is really talking about what is admittedly the more common scenario: asking one's credit card company for a replacement card and number. The article is correct that in that scenario, the charges will still keep coming.

Comment Re:Don't finance Experimental electronics. (Score 5, Insightful) 148

This is nothing new.

40 years ago, I had friends blowing big chunks of money they didn't have on things like new high-end stereo equipment, scuba gear and souping up their cars. They went through the same home economics classes and go the same parental advice as everyone else, but they just chose to ignore it. I'm sure the exact same thing is happening now to a similar subset of the population.

Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 82

Indeed, I needed DOS 4.0 to run my 1GB full-height 5.25" Maxtor hard drive for my ST/Amiga/UseNet BBS, Hallucination (named in a reverse-domain name kind of way, starting with the randomly assigned phone number and reverse engineering something that spells the number).

In DOS 3.3, the maximum partition size was 32MB.

Comment "without expelling mass" (Score 1) 259

"without expelling mass" is not the same as "not consuming mass". Electromagnetic effects can be massless in terms of expulsion, but due to conservation of energy (which the researchers mentioned), mass would need to be consumed, unless a super-capacitor could store all the needed energy.

Comment A warrant was not required. (Score 1) 146

I was thinking the same as, but I RFAd and read the case. Under Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. 348 (2015), the Court ruled that a search warrant was required. However, he was a parolee, and as a part of his parole, he was subject to warrantless searches. His condition of parole included :

"You shall surrender any digital/electronic device and provide a pass key/code to unlock the device to any law enforcement officer for inspection other than what is visible on the display screen.

This includes any digital/electronic device in your vicinity. Failure to comply can result in your arrest pending further investigation and/or confiscation of any device pending investigation.

Comment Re:Just let them use AI (Score 2) 115

I don't think that the point of writing assignments is to produce documents as a product. It's to have the student go through the process of gathering, analyzing and understanding the material, in order for them to learn it. If they skip that work, they learn little or nothing.

In the real world, being effective in directing a computer to produce a bunch of text that you know nothing about is not a worthwhile skill. If someone comes back with issues related to the AI-generated content, how would you address the problems if you're mostly ignorant about the topic at hand?

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