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Make education free. I'd love to study something like philosophy or art history but there's just no return on that investment. Unless you're already wealthy, it doesn't make sense to drop five or six figures on a degree unless it's likely to pay for itself.
Which is even becoming less likely with STEM, as we hit a confluence of higher education costs, fewer job openings, and AI as a competitor for work.
Why are the tech oligarchs all such dweebs...
The most baffling thing is that this is not (as I had assumed) about giving agents control of a mouse cursor, instead it's finer-grained text editing skills.
The word mouse has had an established meaning in computing for over half a century, so it seems like an odd term to lay claim to for something so unrelated.
Forums handled this by bumping old threads to the top when a new comment was added. This post sorting method could play nicely with tree style comments
If there was to be a small silver lining out of all this, then a way to verify human comments would be nice.
But it's not worth the privacy impacts and chilling of free speech.
Isn't depreciation the financial system's way of acknowledging that physical things deteriorate over time?
Not just outsider artists either, Vincent van Gogh is one of the most widely known artists in history and he was dealing with increasingly severe mental health episodes over the years. A large amount of his art was produced while in varying states of psychosis. Starry Night was painted in an asylum.
FUD existed before them. So did the word crypto, as a matter of fact.
That's two things they ruined.
While we're at it, I think them claiming the term Web 3.0 is very self-aggrandizing.
Wow, that is one of the best use cases for AI I've seen. I wonder what the cost of all that was.
"on the device itself"
One look at enterprise will tell you Windows is not a dead platform
Rolling up headphone wires (or any wires) works best when you create a looped bundle and alternate between overhand and underhand. It stops it from getting twisted and tangled. When done right, you can hold one end, throw the under end, and it all unfurls neatly.
Learned this from a theatre stagehand and have been using it ever since.
My position is that war is a blight on humanity, and people waging war are committing evil acts. Russia's actions in Ukraine reinforce my view.
I am fortunate enough to live in a country that is not being bombed, and I wish that for every human being.
It absolutely is sinister. Everything about the military is, when you decouple the rhetoric from the actions and consider what it is that those organisations actually do.
Unified memory is soldered to the motherboard and needs to be ordered with the new laptop, for prices that are well above what the equivalent amount of SODIMM would cost.
Fine if work's paying, but for personal devices (that might have been purchased before local models got good), people have what they have.
Thank you for the explanation!
What's the image trying to convey? Genuine question, I just come here to read nerd stuff and I'm not aware of any controversy
Maybe I'm just a cranky old greybeard, but to me, the fact that these CLI tools are written in Node, React, etc. says a lot about the type of devs that are building them
If I woke up one day to find some corporation had snuck in overnight and subbed out my shampoo for their newest scent without asking, then yeah I'd be looking for more reliable options for that too
I don't think this is trolling, that comment sums up outside perceptions of the USA that I've been hearing. Even the vitriolic tone is increasingly commonplace here, and we're a close US ally.
Diesel prices tripled here at their recent peak because of the USA and Israel's pointless incursion in Iran and it's clear that Trump and his administration are both desperate to open the Strait, and also completely unable to do so.
The world is getting pretty fed up with the idiocy, especially when it crosses the line from sad buffoonery to something that economically impacts us.
Not to mention measuring people's weight in stone
They could do it like that, but they won't do it like that, because tracking the population is a feature not a bug
Which would be fine if the only two choices were build the torment nexus or starve. But it's not the only source of income out there.
Might as well put an AI chip in the toddler's exosuit and get another bot
Not a commentary on Zuck specifically, but many powerful people with fragile egos build an inner circle of incompetent sycophants
As far as I can tell, using the word cyber to specifically and only talk about security has come from the kind of suits who take Gartner seriously.
I don't know any techies who use the term like that, unless they're in a role that interfaces with the suits.
Why have any humans at all
Why have humans do work at all? We could have a radically better existence. It would mean that the few at the top of the pyramid lose their privileged position relative to the rest of us, but we could, actually, have that world of abundance for all.
Work in the current sense arguably isn't even desirable
Maybe I've just read too many Culture books.
Seems like Sam was angling for that with some of his China vs USA rhetoric
Yep, check out Dallas Buyers Club v iiNet
Here's some commentary on it:
Justice Perram discussed the idea of speculative invoicing within Australia
Representing to a consumer that they have a liability which they do not may well be misleading and deceptive conduct within the meaning of s 18 of the Australian Consumer Law and it may be equally misleading to represent to someone that their potential liability is much higher than it could ever realistically be. There may also be something to be said for the idea that speculative invoicing might be a species of unconscionable conduct within one or other of s 21 of the Australian Consumer Law or s 12CB of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth).
Further, even if speculative invoicing was deemed to be lawful within Australia, the damages that the individual may be liable to are often calculated differently to that of the United States. In Australia, damages are compensatory in nature, meaning to compensate the plaintiff for the loss suffered. One Intellectual Property Lawyer has been quoted as saying, ‘If a film costs $20, the damages would ordinarily be expected to be $20.’
https://www.kells.com.au/insights/business/dallas-buyers-clu...
In Australia the court ruled that they can only sue for the cost of renting the movie, so they don't bother trying to recoup their ten bucks