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Comment \o/ (Score 2) 139

No (but also yes).

If you let it write code freely, you can spend hours or days trying to figure out what the f**k it's done and why it's not done what you asked or why it randomly introduces a complete re-write for a single-line fix.

Heavily constrained yes.

Comment Re:Why not cut this crap out. (Score 1) 46

Let's go for the low-hanging fruit:

  * Living things are driven to exercise using an evolved feedback loop whereby exercise reward us with brain drugs - there's an inherent benefit to exercise leading to increased proliferation of genes with this feedback loop

* Sport is organised exercise so satisfies the drive to socialise - again likely an evolved feedback loop resulting in brain drugs (mmmmn :-) because groups have benefits over individuals

  * Standing next to sport whilst it's happening gives some proportion of the same reward - of course there's no health benefits so really it's gaming the system to get (probably greatly reduced) brain drugs from the socializing aspect

  * Watching a recording of someone else standing next to sport whilst it's happening let's you listen to other people experiencing brain drugs - recall the excited two-person teams of commentators clearly having a great time watching sport happen - again limited exercise benefits for commentators or second-level observers but some brain drugs and we've been psychologically conditioned that sport is good so watching sport must be good also, right? - even via a time-delayed intermediary

* Now there are likely conversations along the lines of: "OK, we've repurposed the feedback loops 'intended' by evolution to promote socialising and exercising - now they promote watching other people doing those things - <boxing mc voice>Leeeeeet's - seeeeell - spooooort </boxing mc voice>" happening. It's super-cynical.

Comment \o/ (Score 1) 67

This is so awesome - I want one for the UK - can we get Paedo The Bear who explains that we need to support genocide in Gaza or our citizen score might be reduced abruptly or we might end up starving to death in detention? It's important for children to be taught their country's moral values as soon as possible.

Comment \o/ (Score 1) 17

Police believe one suspect alone hacked 63,000 cameras and produced 545 videos that netted him 35 million won ($24,000) in cryptocurrency

Assuming for a moment the hacking and distribution of the feeds is completely ok - this haX0r seems to have spent way too much time developing the side of their personality which allows hacking and almost zero to not-getting-exploited by business partners - wtf - 38 cents per camera?

Comment Re:Uhm... (Score 2) 47

It's something that you could run on your own machine to build software but then github persuade people to instead run it on github hardware with an additional power-user option to run the thing you could run on your own machine... on your own machine whilst looping them in to give the opportunity to charge you money because they've not extracted enough value from trawling through your codebases.

It's small-minded really - any truly creative company would just have people spontaneously send them money explicitly for no reason.

Comment Re:Demented. (Score 1) 72

Anyway, the point is that he has to pick his battles. He often signs legislation he disagrees with because he knows the GOP-dominated state legislature can and will override him i

How is what you described a coalition? It sounds much more like internalised oppression. The wrong thing must happen. We know we have to do the wrong thing otherwise someone will override us. This is not in anyone's interest.

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