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Comment Re:They Won't (Score 1) 111

This is just bullshit to pacify the naysayers.

There's no way they'll turn around and pull features that they just launched and marketed.

They will if they want to keep the money rolling in from corporate site licenses, especially if those sites are doing government contracting or deal with PII, PHI, or other sensitive information like that.

Comment Re:That is what stupidity looks like (Score 3, Insightful) 26

I feel bad for the people who are turning AI into a crutch. When the floor falls out on all of this they'll realize that they robbed themselves of years of opportunity to develop their skill set. I hope they've got a jump to conclusions mat, or some other million dollar idea in store or they're going to find themselves up that proverbial creek.

People using AI as a crutch will never do anything other than get themselves into trouble eventually if they don't know how to spot check results. If something AI responds with seems off, there's a good chance it is. Want to use AI to do menial tasks like "create an array where each entry is the name of regular file found in a specified directory" because you don't want to remember the language syntax of every scripting language available is fine. It also does an excellent job of taking large documents and providing summaries. But asking it to do "research" for you? You'll end up getting in hot water because it could generate false results. Always verify.

Comment Re:Whoever figures out how to uninstall Edge... (Score 1) 38

It’s allegedly possible:

https://youtu.be/JUTdRZNqODY

Yeah, I've seen the various videos and instructions, but the trouble is that it makes certain other applications fail such as the Microsoft Store, the search bar in the start menu... so if you can live without those, you'll be fine. On the plus side, it removes Bing searches.

Comment Re:Universities don't make good devs (Score 1) 77

If I were designing a university CS program, I would have my students program every day (every weekday). Just a 10 or 15 minute assignment each day, but do something. Over a four year degree, they'll have written a lot of code.

Make the stuff they write start to interconnect as the semester progresses too. It will help them learn a lot more about how to make reusable code, common libraries, etc.

Comment Re:Gatekeeping (Score 1) 174

Social media has a fundamental problem: it spreads misinformation much more easily than evidence-based facts.

Gatekeeping has a fundamental problem: we don't trust the gatekeepers. But it drastically reduces misinformation spread.

The only nit to pick here is that while gatekeepers might reduce misinformation spread, it is more about who's paying the gatekeepers and how misinformation is defined. It's more accurate to say that gatekeepers drastically reduce misinformation spread based on how misinformation is defined for them by their bosses, whether those bosses be a government entity, an interested corporation, or some other special interest group.

Comment Would be funny if... (Score 1) 27

... everyone who has an account there went in and disallowed use of their accounts for this. But as others have noted, it's Microsoft... so who knows if they will actually honor it or not.

Opting out is relatively easy compared with overly complex social networking settings we’ve become accustomed to. ‘Data for Generative AI Improvement’ is found within ‘How LinkedIn uses your data’ under the ‘Data privacy’ section of Settings.

Comment Re:Why sugar itself isn't included? (Score 1) 84

So what is the effect of eating as much sugar instead with similar/equivalent sweetness? That could actually provide useful information to people choosing to use or not use artificial sweeteners.

Eating too much sugar is just as bad and can cause problems as well. Try looking at the nutrition labels on packages... compare a "fat free" version of a product to its regular counterpart. Fats bring a lot of flavor to food... so making it "fat free" means they make it bland. The only way to bring flavor back is to add sugar, so that nutrition and ingredients label will reflect that sugar was added. Sugar is addictive too. I refuse to drink "diet" or "no sugar" drinks. I'd rather get 100% fruit juice and dilute it with some sparkling water.

Well, maybe take a look at who pays for this study may give some hints...

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