Does it still count as a moon landing if everyone dies on impact?

It wouldn't be news if you looked at their terms of service -- which you should. The ToS explicitly say they use a combination of automated systems, human review, and reports to identify and investigate violations of their usage terms, including violence, abuse, fraud, impersonation, disinformation, foreign influence campaigns , abusive sexual content, and academic dishonesty. This includes "anonymous" sessions that are saved for a minimum of 30 days. You have no expectation of privacy from the provider's compliance teams.

This is *absolutely* standard among the major online players. So why not use a local AI workstation with a couple of big-ass GPU cards in it to run the campaign? That's what they *should* have done. But the major online players like ChatGPT and Claude are much better at realistic content generation than the widely available local models you can run.

What they should have done is design and run the compaign on a local AI workstation, and used the local workstation to generate prompts they could feed into burner accounts on public services like ChatGPT and Claude. But they got lazy and ran the *whole* operation in ChatGPT, right in plain fiew of the OpenAI compliance teams the ToS they evidently didn't read would have told them were there. They even did *performance reviews* in the same account.

Remember folks, these "spooks" are just mid-level paper-pushers in an opaque communist bureacuracy. You can never discount inertia in such an environment. Because this was something new, they might even have had trouble getting the purchase of some high end GPUs approved.

There's also certainly some of that, but bear in mind that you can still attend a smaller state uni for under $10k a year, not including room and board, books, food, or other ancillary costs. So even someone without good scholarships can at least potentially work their way through school with some effort, without going into debt. It's hard work, but it is entirely possible, and I know people who have done it. Also, bear in mind that most places run a background check, and they can likely see if you are significantly in debt. So that can be factored in directly, without having to use education as a proxy for the data.

Not everybody gets scholarships, and not everybody can afford to pay for college with their trust fund money. And while student loans are sometimes available, depending on your parents's income, your options may be limited, especially if you fail to keep your grades up.

Thus, being able to afford college is at least to some extent a way of selecting for some combination of intellect (scholarship potential), determination (working your way through college), and familial wealth.

Higher intellect likely means better ability to get the work done. Higher determination likely means being more willing to push to get the work done. Wealth likely means lower risk of white-collar crime. And getting through college likely means that you are at least organized enough to not completely fall apart, have moderately competent time management, etc., all of which are beneficial.

Given a choice, a hiring manager would prefer someone with some of those characteristics over someone who has none. It's a fairly weak signal, but at least arguably, a weak hiring signal is better than no signal at all. Or at least that's what businesses usually claim when asked.

On the other hand, this Jack Dorcell got lucky with the big mouth on musk, so who knows, maybe he'll luck out again. It isn't like he's gambling his own money.

Don't multitask when reading slashdot, it's best to use both hands on the keyboard :)

They removed the pledge. That's evil. It's been documented for years. Look it up.

Speaking as an outsider, I just thought I should say this to both sides.

"please stay the fuck in your own country, we don't want you anywhere else"

That seems to be an American thing. There are plenty of countries in the world where university education (at all levels) is literally free. If you're worried about student loans, stop complaining and go learn a foreign language and study abroad.

It's a non-problem. Make them take an in-person conversational exam for 100% with the TA at the end of the semester. If they fail, they don't graduate.

The cost of overturned stupid shit is borne by US taxpayers. So it's a win-win for Trump and The Government.

There's no need to operate illegally if the law can be changed to make formerly illegal things legal going forward.

That's unfair. I was just following orders!

The key to what? Teachers tend to vote in a block because they have similar needs and experiences. You're acting like this is some big conspiracy to give them more power, but it really isn't.

Private school students are also far more likely to come from families where the parents have college degrees. They are far more likely to have enough money to afford a college degree without having to work their way through college. They are far more likely to have parents who can help them with their homework, who pay attention to them and help them stay out of trouble, etc.

You're comparing two different populations. For valid data, you need to compare the same population in two different schools. And when you do that the difference between private and public school education basically disappears.

It makes sense only if you don't understand what I said above. The fact of the matter is that school vouchers don't actually raise the standard of education for poor students who attend private schools by very much at all, on average, and studies have shown that pretty conclusively. They're really just a way for the wealthy to take money out of the public school systems and use it to subsidize their kids' public education.

So much for the right-wing fantasy that school vouchers are the solution to bad public schools. They haven't ever worked, but hey, let's keep trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Horses**t. Most of the shift towards requiring a college degree happened in the 1970s and 1980s — one to three decades before No Child Left Behind. And for the past half a decade or so, the percentage of jobs requiring a college degree has actually been going *down*.

It's not about having the skills they need, and it never was. Rather, having an optional degree is used as an indication that the applicant is a hard worker who is willing to put up with bulls**t. People who stick it out and do those extra four years when they don't have to are assumed to be harder workers than people who don't. They're also assumed to be better off financially, and thus less likely to steal from you.

The headline sounds way better than "Incompetent CEO lays off five years of overhiring".

In a standalone sense, sure. You can compile arbitrary code and run it on macOS. iOS and iPadOS lack compilers, lack the ability to sign code, and will not run unsigned code. Add in a Mac to compile the code, though, and that distinction goes away.

Beyond that, I suppose that iOS has fewer device drivers, so there's probably a slightly smaller attack surface there. And there are probably fewer crufty libraries and daemons that could have security holes, but no, there's probably not enough difference to care about.