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Comment · 1 month ago
I asked a question, server hung, then told me I had no more free questions without giving me an answer.
Comment · 2 months ago
If it’s before publication date, does that prove the author used AI inappropriately in their writing?

Not really, there are any number of reasons why they might do that.

In my own personal writing, sometimes I run it through LLMs to give grammar or writing suggestions.

Comment · 2 months ago
1. AI company buys and trains on an author’s book when it gets published, it’s now part of the training data.

2. Attacker asks the LLM for the opening sentences of the book, it goes into the generated responses database.

3. Later, a malicious user shows that the first few sentences of the authors book are identical to a previously generated response.

Comment · 6 months ago
No, you cannot retroactively make something a crime as you have found.

That way lies madness.

If the govt could do that, they could arrest anyone, anytime simply by making whatever they did yesterday retroactively illegal.

Comment · 10 months ago
It’s not clear to me what the changing colors of the words mean as I scroll around?
Comment · 10 months ago
Voting is just one way people engage in the political process.
Comment · 10 months ago
News consumption impacts political decision making, like who I want to support or oppose in local, state, and national elections.

That seems a pretty high impact decision we want all the members of our society to be making on a regular basis.

Comment · 11 months ago
I wish the same rule applied to their site design. It’s 90% ads on mobile, almost completely unreadable.
Comment · 11 months ago
“There are only two hard things in computer science. Cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.”
Comment · 1 year ago
> This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android)."

Seems like it’s even easier, just join the meeting via browser.

I’m not familiar with a way to enforce this type of restriction in the browser.

Comment · 1 year ago
My immediate thought was college kids on campus.

It’s basically your apartment building example (esp. something like the STEM dorms)

When this stuff breaks in the hours leading up to a homework assignment being due, it’s going to discourage the next generation of engineers from using it.

Comment · 1 year ago
There are bunch of tabletop wargames, but Warhammer has the network effect going for it.

If you want to go the local hobby store and play a game, most other people are playing Warhammer, that’s what you play too.

You might prefer Bolt Action, but if nobody else in town has a Bolt Action army, it’s an uphill climb.

I recently attended a big Wargaming convention. While all sorts of games were present and being played, 40K has orders of magnitude more people playing it.

Comment · 1 year ago
How are the SIPC premiums being paid?

Let’s say I invest $250k with you. From my research it appears the SIPC premiums on that amount would be more than $12/year.

How does that work?

Comment · 1 year ago
Also consider that a good judge is doing a useful service to society, but isnt necessarily in the business of maximizing other people’s happiness.
Comment · 1 year ago
One major point I don’t see addressed, are endorsements public or private?

I could see major (but different) issues with both scenarios.

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