Comment Re:Why is suicide bad? (Score 1) 108
Yes, as foretold by Futurama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Re:No first amendment protections. (Score 2) 116
Assuming the accusations are accurate, intentionally targeting one political party over the other for spam filtering would be totally unacceptable.
Nothing wrong with Google choosing to blocking fascist spam. If you think other parties' email is worse, you're free to block them yourself.
Comment Re:The Romans (Score 1) 75
Rural folks in cleaner and greener areas...you mean like where coal mines are situated?
Comment Re:Fear is the appropriate response. (Score 1) 89
That's like asking one idiot to check another idiot's work.
Comment Re:just waiting for the hallucinations (Score 1) 89
Don't worry, I'm sure several paragraphs of the prompt say something like "if anything you come up with is illegal, make sure to structure it seem like an innocent mistake, and to absolve KPMG of all wrongdoing."
Comment Re:Pedantic (Score 1) 108
2025 will definitely be the Year of the Linux Seat!
Comment Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? (Score 1) 30
To help keep private thoughts private, the researchers implemented a code phrase "chitty chitty bang bang" that participants could use to prompt the BCI to start or stop transcribing.
What if you want to write an article about that book/movie?
Comment Nice track record you've got there (Score 1) 101
Considering Trump's track record in running businesses (read: into the ground), I'm surprised Intel stock didn't tank on the announcement.
Comment Re:You don't need 900 tabs (Score 2) 107
If only the browser had a built-in search feature which let you search open tabs. Oh, wait, it already does. Remind me again, why do we need this AI crap?
Comment Re:Scared (Score 4, Insightful) 238
But it's not a view into the inner workings of the model. It's several fabrications, each built on the previous one, that gives the illusion of reasoning when in fact there is nothing behind the curtain other than sophisticated pattern matching.
Comment Even better than that... (Score 1) 20
I have an app that can instantly convert a video to hundreds of still images!
Comment "They put creatures..." (Score 1) 91
Comment Re:Reconciliation (Score 2) 68
The answer would be predictably contradictory. It's turtles all the way down.
Comment Re:CS Education (Score 1) 58
Programming isn't about equity. I take it that the writers believe that present day coding is unfair and unjust? 21's century self expression is a couple sleeves of tattoos, at least for most people.
Many programmers in the 1970s were driven by ideals like making computing accessible to all (which is just another way of saying equity), a common thread among a large subset of programmers ever since. It has just never been a formal part of any curriculum in the past.
Comment Re:Reorienting view (Score 1) 67
The problem isn't that every seat is a different price. The problem is that they're charging for some services that used to be free, and are eliminating other services entirely, in a race to the bottom with no end in sight. Pretty soon they'll find a way to legally charge for bathroom use, and apologists will find a way to defend it.
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