Molitor5901

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by Molitor5901 7mo ago
Does anyone remember Ingress? I always wondered what it was we were training by playing that game.
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by Molitor5901 7mo ago
My experience at a research university, albeit 12 years ago, was that many of my professors loathed teaching. Some openly expressed disdain for the time they wasted teaching when they could be researching. I think a better framework in the
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by Molitor5901 7mo ago
I think that dormant accounts, where someone has not logged in for, say, 2 years, does not post, does not engage, should be repurposed - with given notice. It's kind of the equivalent of cybersquatting. Also, technically, a platform is
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by Molitor5901 7mo ago
Previously discussed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312775
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by Molitor5901 7mo ago
For me it was a Maryland contracting company, FH Furr, that does electrical, plumbing, etc.
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by Molitor5901 7mo ago
Related: Please don't make me talk to your AI pretend-human complete with Asian accent and background call center sounds. That's even more insulting that a chat bot.
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by Molitor5901 8mo ago
I am very surprised it was not his sister, given her prominent role in recent years on diplomacy, and the Olympics.
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by Molitor5901 8mo ago
I'm not sure I would agree in totem. Freeing the minutia allows for a higher cognitive load on the bigger picture. I use AI primarily for research gathering, and refining of what I have, which has freed up a lot of time to focus on the
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by Molitor5901 9mo ago
I agree, Tim Cook is a businessman, Steve was someone who constantly put himself in the customers shoes. Apple needs a visionary like that, a dictator to demand a specific user engagement, and a design team able to carry it out. IMHO Tim Co
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by Molitor5901 9mo ago
AI might just extinguish the entire paradigm of publish or perish. The sheer volume of papers makes it nearly impossible to properly decide which papers have merit, which are non-replicate and suspect, and which are just a desperate rush to
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by Molitor5901 9mo ago
Perhaps I am a very small minority, but.. I really miss skeuomorphism.
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by Molitor5901 9mo ago
I am happy to see this and hope it spreads. A lot of us, IMO, would pay more for physical buttons - which is really a way to go about this, even though logistically it's problematic. If you want physical buttons, pay for it, if not, go
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by Molitor5901 9mo ago
Alexa was abandoned bout 5 years ago and has continued to wither on the vine. This smells like nothing more than a money grab. The device and its services are little more useful than turning on the lights. Amazon has abandoned Alexa and the
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by Molitor5901 9mo ago
Ostensibly Microsoft has a goal, and they realize that the public is adamantly opposed to the way they are going about that goal. So the calculus for Microsoft management must be either: 1) We are right, doubters be damned; 2) This will b
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by Molitor5901 9mo ago
This is precisely how I felt. Being obese is not, nor ever, ok. The body positive movement around obesity should have been to help people to 1) nto feel ashamed at being obese, but also 2) to reduce the negativity around it and turn that in
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by Molitor5901 10mo ago
I think this is a good thing and do not understand the negativity in the comments. We should want systems to function more efficiently, regardless of how that comes about or who does it.
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by Molitor5901 10mo ago
I think the US is giving up control willingly and turning more isolationist. It has been building for some time but I do not thing it is forced. It is a deliberate policy shift turning away from trying to control and police the world. Ameri
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by Molitor5901 10mo ago
This is so interesting. I remember as a child my family would go to S&S Cafeterias, and Piccadilly. It was like the lunch line at school. Regrettably the closest I've gotten to an automat was when I taught in a prison, the classroo
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by Molitor5901 10mo ago
This is deeply worrisome and brings to mind when Russia attacked Chernobyl, and then their soldiers got radiation poison digging latrine trenches etc. Let us dangerously hypothesize that if Confinement begins to fail catastrophically, who w
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by Molitor5901 11mo ago
I found the recent Banksy work to be very .. illuminating. https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/new-banksy-mural-londons-hi...
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by Molitor5901 11mo ago
Agreed, and I am reminded that Putin once called Russia a "managed democracy." I may not always agree, but I am very glad America has the first, fifth, sixth, and seventh amendments, among others. This tactic by the British govern
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by Molitor5901 11mo ago
I loathe copilot and have reverted to using an old version of Outlook desktop, which I then had to regedit to remove copilot buttons etc. It's a horrible product being shoved down our throats.
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by Molitor5901 11mo ago
But what if Target security cooperates with the government, and they share capabilities, so that a facial recognition inside of a Target location would notify law enforcement who also has an interest in that person? In such a scenario.. Tar
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by Molitor5901 1y ago
I wonder if this is a portend to an American social credit score, like where China uses facial recognition to identify criminals at concerts[1], and jaywalkers, etc. which severely impacts a person's ability to get a job, housing, etc.
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by Molitor5901 1y ago
I sat through a briefing last week about quantum encryption and the threat that quantum computing poses to encryption in use today. It was stressed that nation states are hoovering up encrypted data now in order to decrypt later with quantu
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by Molitor5901 1y ago
Possibly related, but not definite, this apparently has happened before with Ryan Air. https://avherald.com/h?article=454af355 https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/exclusi... These
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by Molitor5901 1y ago
I feel like they've always been doing this. For a long time, until I had to just through hoops to break it, Word consistently defaulted to OneDrive saving of documents.
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by Molitor5901 1y ago
Are you referring to the criminal cases launched against Macrons opponents, or attempts to ban political parties?
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by Molitor5901 1y ago
What are thoughts about broader issues of a fixed-term legislature, versus one that requires the confidence of the legislature and could be created.. and collapsed very quickly? The constant teetering on the edge of deadlock and collapse se

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