wolfd
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Comment · 2 months ago
Could be a neat post, but it was too obviously LLM-generated for me to care about reading it deeply. I’m really fine with people using LLMs to write code and understand stuff, but at least drop a disclaimer when you’re blogging straight Claude text.
Comment · 2 months ago
I think that it’s fine, and good, to critique the way that corporations do their business. That’s kinda one of the core tenets of capitalism, no?
Comment · 3 months ago
This is free software.
Comment · 5 months ago
I wish there were more human written articles posted here. The ending of this is so obviously an LLM being prompted to connect this news back to the site’s purpose. There just isn’t a link, so it makes something up.
Comment · 5 months ago
This seems wrong to me? I use it to do so every day.
Comment · 8 months ago
I hope you and I never get the opportunity to learn how this would end. We’ve had nukes on Earth for less than 100 years, do you expect the next few thousand to go that well? Do you think in that time, nobody will ever roll a nat 1 on a wisdom check?
Comment · 11 months ago
I think it’s possible that there’s a technical reason for monochrome cameras. For example, to let in the maximum amount of IR light for tracking. Bayer filters reduce the amount of light getting in, so it might help the IR LEDs be visible on surrounding walls in the dark.
Still hoping that you’re right, though.
Comment · 1 year ago
I would assume that this was a carrier request/demand that got filtered down to some poor employee that had to implement it. There’s a linked bug, but the bug is restricted.
Comment · 1 year ago
I don’t know if this was one of the intended outcomes, but this will probably cause some struggling college and universities to shut down.
International students raise quite a lot of money for higher-ed institutions because they pay full price without financial aid. The loss of that income is going to make a bad situation for higher-ed budgets much worse. Unless you are Harvard or Stanford (or a few other universities that are endowments with schools attached), you’re probably already in a budget crunch or eating into your endowment.
A side note, one of the founders of the college I went to has been convinced that higher-ed needs an entirely new business model in order to survive, and is founding a new school called Greenway (https://www.greenwayinstitute.org) that is trying to blend internships and co-op programs into an engineering education.
Comment · 1 year ago
Are you talking about the 3D rendering in the article? The source is linked, and it was uploaded to Wikimedia in 2013.
Edit: Oh! I see, the article URL was changed after you made your comment and before I made mine.
Comment · 1 year ago
The gates are extremely fast, and you don’t need to wait at all when you tap your card. In practice, this ends up being a pretty big deal for the number of passengers going through some of those gates. The whole experience is noticeably faster than any other ticket gate I’ve been through.
Comment · 1 year ago
I believe it was this https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale
Comment · 1 year ago
How are these levels actually encoded? Do they use special unwritable tokens to wrap instructions?
Comment · 1 year ago
I think the goal is to not antagonize the administration but convince them that they're making a mistake and to reverse it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Good question, I always wonder the same thing. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-Linker-2024-Performance seems to show that that the newer linkers still outperform their predecessors, even after maturing. But of course this doesn’t show the full picture.