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Comment Why we don't polygraph people anymore (Score 2) 116

I can think of a few things leading to Voight-Kampff-style polygraph tests being phased out in this timeline

1. Several U.S. states have banned reliance on polygraph test results by employers. "Polygraph" on Wikipedia lists Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Delaware and Iowa. In addition, the federal Employee Polygraph Protection Act 1998 generally bans polygraphing by employers outside the rent-a-cop industry.
2. Autism advocacy organizations raised a stink about false positive results on autistic or otherwise neurodivergent human beings.
3. The LLM training set probably picked up answers from someone's cheat sheet, such as "The turtle was dragging its hind leg, and I was waiting for it to stop squirming so I could see if it needed to go to the vet."

Comment Same as an orange politician? (Score 2) 126

Over and over and over again he makes the kind of promises that investors use to make decisions and he's clearly lying but he somehow gets away with it. Traditionally doing something like that would be considered investment fraud. But he hasn't cost anyone any real money. Yet.

Lots of promises made and not kept, yet nobody pulling him up on it (from his own party at least)? Sounds like a description of Trump to me...

Comment Re:Time to spend some karma (Score 2, Insightful) 160

I will give him credit though he wasn't racist.

His comments about a 2nd Obama presidency included the warnings that the country “could be lost forever” and that another Obama win would lead to “1,000 years of darkness.”

It might just be over the top, but it could equally be read as racist.

Comment Free apps are more likely to use protocols (Score 1) 68

you have your itinerary saved in a note taking app that isn't on the appstore

If an app meets F-Droid's licensing policy then it is more likely to follow the principle that protocols are better than platforms. This means there are probably other apps, probably including apps on Google Play Store, that can reach the document repository where you saved your itinerary.

Comment Apple was beaten to Tivoization by decades (Score 1) 68

insane market (started by Apple) of personal devices that you buy that you literally don't have admin access on

That was 1985 with the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Atari 7800 ProSystem, the first popular home computing devices to use cryptography to lock out unauthorized software. Between that and the iPhone was the TiVo DVR, the first popular home computing device to use cryptography to lock out unauthorized derivatives of copylefted software.

Comment Apple used x86 in 2005-2020 (Score 1) 329

In 2005, Mac computers used Intel Core Duo x86 processors. From 2006 through 2020, Mac computers used Intel x86-64 processors. starting with Core 2 Duo. macOS on x86-64 could still run x86 applications until macOS 10.15 "Catalina Wine Killer", released in June 2019.

What CPU architecture were you using on the desktop from 2008 through 2020, if not x86 or x86-64?

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