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Comment · 1 year ago
This happened to me and I tried to recover the last licensed version I had used but mixed up my shortcuts or something and, after the 100th time I saw the nagware screen, I gave up and uninstalled and went with something simple and free: Notepad++.
Comment · 1 year ago
Troll / flamebait
Comment · 1 year ago
I used to be at Amazon on the B2B retail side and at the tail end we got automated A.I. spamming our TT's with completely wrong summaries. Some great "progress." Internal search had similar "improvements" that tipped the balance of 'good enough' toward 'non-functional.'
Comment · 1 year ago
That's a nice thought but I've only had one physical in the last 15 years. I'm sure others are sitting in the same boat.
Comment · 1 year ago
So that's why they dropped "Don't Be Evil."
Comment · 1 year ago
The problem I see with A.I. research is that its spearheaded by individuals who think that intelligence is a total order. In all my experience, intelligence and creativity are partial orders at best; there is no uniquely "smartest" person, there are a variety of people who are better at different things in different ways.
Comment · 1 year ago
Have you tried creating your own programming language? How about solving unsolved frontier problems in mathematics? Ever written a book that won a Pulitzer prize? How many languages do you know?

As someone who was born ambitious I find this technology tepid at best.

Comment · 1 year ago
Oh for sure, I've gone as far as trying to get people to change their votes to avoid what we're currently putting up with. But you can't argue that each party paves the way for the other's abuses. Consider the average age of congress and the amount of power the executive branch now holds.
Comment · 1 year ago
I agree. As someone with libertarian ideals I dislike both of these parties (almost) equally.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, that's a very good question. I kind of doubt it since we've moved beyond a world of common sense.

If this ruling holds the best thing would have been to have never paid the tariffs.

Comment · 1 year ago
> You're trading correctness for speed.

That's AI in a nutshell.

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