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Comment Yours was 100% weight (Score 1) 60

My wife has Ehlers-Danlos - weak stretchy connective tissue. It's a spectrum syndrome running from very loose joints on the low end to crippling joint/ligament problems with lots of other stuff thrown in. She's on the low end, thank ghod.

Ehlers-Danlos is highly correlated with sleep apnea that has nothing to do with overweight.

Comment Re:AI? Really? (Score 1) 53

Why have automated calls at all? Sports are social events where people got to see other people who have trained to peak human performance compete against each other at popular games.

I don't want to see perfect play by optimized automatons, I want to see the earnest best effort on the part of the participants and argue about different plays with my friends later. The players will make mistakes, and so will the officials. That should just be part of the game.

Comment Depends on the discipline (Score 1) 78

Good old fashioned AI used to be hands-on - your dissertation code had to at least work for the examples in your thesis, and your code was under development for long enough that it had to survive OS and language updates.

Being wary of code by theoreticians is definitely valid - I believe it was Knuth who said something like "I have only proven this code correct, not tested it".

Comment Re:If you want to print photos (Score 4, Interesting) 92

[If you want to print photos] Aren't you still stuck with inkjet?

Only if you don't live near a Staples, CVS, Walgreens, etc. You'll get even better results because (at least CVS but probably everyone) has dye sublimation printers, which are vastly better for photographs than color printers.

For other color prints, Color laser printers are not that expensive, but I haven't had much success. I'd recommend stick with B&W, and outsource color stuff to office supply / pharmacy type stores.

B&W laser is so vastly cheaper and lower maintenance, particularly in a sporadic use case, that it's not even a competition - Last time I bought a laser printer, the starter toner was good for 1500 pages at 5% coverage, and it worked fine even if I last printed something 8 months ago. Compare to a typical inkjet in which a full toner pack is good for 200 pages at 5% coverage, has to run ink through every so often to keep the tubes clear, and (for the last HP inkjet I owned) prints black text using all colors despite having a full black cartridge.

Caveat: if you are planning on printing addresses on envelopes to be mailed as a substantial use case, go with the inkjet. Toner fuses to the outside of the paper, so it can get stripped away by the sorting machines.

Comment Systems like LLMs are amplifiers (Score 1) 52

I first heard this comparison back when IDEs were young (kudos to Larry Masinter, at Xerox PARC at the time).

Amplifiers don't really know or care what they are amplifying.
If you tell them to create good, bad, immoral, or dangerous code, they'll try to comply.
Laws against bad uses of LLMs just make them illegal - they don't make them impossible.

Mediocre programmers with IDE/LLM support will create reams of mediocre code, at best.

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