Looks like you lost that one, no need to embarrass yourself after that's clear.

Here, the discussion was about the perception of actual results potentially creating an arms race. That's distinct from questions of capability when the difference in results is based on the protections used.

Your sig is pretty funny here; you're just pounding the table and ignoring the details you conflated. While arguing.

That's on you. Buy a used car and start hacking. Build your own dystopic "smart" home experience. Buy some of those shitty AR glasses and upgrade them.

Yes. AI companies want to you believe that their products are more capable than they are, even if it means implying that they sometimes turn into evil supervillians.

Modern consumers are not even turned off by supervillians.

Some websites don't work if you have privacy turned on. Especially the thing where they use an HTML5 canvas to scrape your screen. If they built the website correctly, they'd send a permission request and if you have privacy turned on you'd be prompted about allowing it, or not. And if not then you'd also know why their website doesn't work; because it insists on raping your privacy and you said "no."

On Chrome it just lets them do it regardless, so you never know what happened. You just wake up the next morning with a bunch of "personalized" advertisements.

Every desktop publishing program, every graphics program, and every office program on Linux support PDF export.

We are the people least in need of this.

It makes sense for casual computer users, though, who don't know what the options are, and likely would otherwise be asked to give money to Adobe.

Odd, when my DSLR takes an HDR image it just takes 3 images and merges them to increase the dynamic range of the collected data, and the output format is exactly the same... why would you need a special file format for displaying images? If you're creating them, I can understand why you'd want an intermediate file type with more data, similar to a camera RAW file, but surely if you're sharing it with other people you'd be rendering it to a jpg, which can already show any arbitrary amount of dynamic range? The file just gets bigger because the more dynamic range, the less compression.

They're probably supposed to be horrible so that you ask, "Why is it that color?" and realize it's a private tab and your login cookies won't be active.

Did you even stop to ask if France has free school lunches before saying that?

It's in the news right now that a French national is being investigated for involvement in human trafficking related to Epstein.

Instead of spewing it as a rhetorical question, you could have asked it yourself as a real question and found the answer. No need to know anything about it before forming an opinion, though, right?

I guess you're one of the few people with a .sig that checks out.

If you weren't trolling you wouldn't need to be anonymous, would you? Especially when it's second-level anonymity, it's not like you'd otherwise be posting under your real name.

In addition to what other people said, some companies use it to screen out people who are going to cause employee conflicts, ie, are you using it to make controversial posts and comments and say things that violate the social contract, or do you use it to communicate with family and talk about your hobbies?

If you don't feel some attachment to your past and want people to be able to find you and contact you, in this age without phone books, are you going to be a company person? Or do you just want a paycheck?

I read over half their actual rulings so I don't need to check if maybe they're corrupt, or if the Court is just filled with insane ideologues. The hallmark of corruption in courts is that they rule differently in otherwise similar cases, and there's no clear reason for it. Then you might reasonably ask if there is something in the shadows affecting some cases differently than others.

With this Court that's not the case at all; they rule differently on different cases entirely consistent with their personal politics and which "side" they perceive as benefiting. That's not "corruption," it's just inappropriate partisanship.

You're the one who uses AI as a crutch. You rarely seem to understand anything anybody says, you've been that way since you got here. No need to speculate about each's reading comprehension, if you don't know by now you never will.

It's only a short-term diuretic. If you're not a regular coffee drinking and you drink some, it acts as a diuretic. But with daily consumption you stabilize at your normal fluid balance and there's no net effect.

In what universe would you be choosing between the two? Makes no sense at all. I guess you're "overthinking," eg, underthinking and reaching a conclusion anyway.

Yeah, in my small city there's a different coffee stand every couple blocks on every major street. Starbucks isn't even 5% of the convenience coffee market. Probably less than 1%. Huge variety. And most of it is quite good.

It's like Europeans who think McDonalds is the typical American meal, even though most of those Europeans eat it more often than I do. (never)