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Comment · 9 days ago
“AI shouldn’t make groundbreaking advancements because the scientists who otherwise wanted to make those advancements feel sad”.

All those scientists can go pound sand as far as I am concerned. I don’t give a shit about “joy” I care about curing diseases and solving the universe’s mysteries. If AI can get us there faster then I’m 100% for it.

Comment · 9 days ago
Doesn’t really matter what happens at the GPU level when Google can see all API traffic.
Comment · 9 days ago
Contracts and lawyers are more powerful than any technical tool.
Comment · 10 days ago
This is a very misleading stat. A single path or subdomain on the website needs to be running PHP for the entire site to count as “powered by PHP”. Plus it excludes sites whose server-side tech cannot be identified at all (aka properly configured ones).
Comment · 10 days ago
Depends on how you define Java. Android can execute Java programs, and bundles a handful of OpenJDK libraries, but it stopped running the JVM a long time ago.
Comment · 10 days ago
Have you used public transit in San Francisco?
Comment · 10 days ago
You can tell that this piece is written by someone who visited San Francisco to sit in a Waymo and then extrapolated how weird it must be for people who see them every day. In reality after the initial shock wears off these cars are just a normal, boring part of the road. Seeing them drive around town is the same as seeing any other kind of taxi. I find that the strongest opinions about Waymos come from people who live in cities where they don't operate.
Comment · 10 days ago
Teach your kid to be a good person, to value hard work, to set lofty goals and strive to achieve them. Beyond that they’ll find their own way. “I’ll make my unborn son a programmer just like myself” was always going to be a pointless effort, AI or not.
Comment · 10 days ago
So what people are really complaining about is the lack of an approval or curation process on Steam’s end. AI is exposing the problem by making it worse.
Comment · 11 days ago
Title isn’t fully accurate. This is specifically for business pages. You can still post links on your own profile or groups.
Comment · 11 days ago
Creating a dependency on OS specific APIs solves this one niche problem but causes a hundred more.
Comment · 11 days ago
Why? How do you pin a website to a specific cert provider? And what happens when you want to switch?
Comment · 11 days ago
Reason #1385275 why an iPad will never be a replacement for a real desktop OS no matter how much fancy hardware they shove in it.

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