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by nkrisc 11mo ago
Because copyright lasts longer than 14 years.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
What fan fiction?
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
> The author's books got popularity based on other people's efforts. The author’s book got popular based on the efforts of others based on the author’s book.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
Siri is great for setting timers as long as they aren’t for 15 or 50 minutes. Haven’t found anything else it’s useful for.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
And that day they learned a valuable lesson about running commands that you don't understand.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
> but in fairness to the people doing stupid things, they're being encouraged by the likes of Google, ChatGPT, Anthropic etc, to think of letting a indeterminate program run free on your hard drive as "not a stupid thing".
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
Responsibility is shared. Google (and others) are (in my opinion) flirting with false advertising with how they advertise the capabilities of these "AI"s to mainstream audiences. At the same time, the user is responsible for their
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
You could probably detect those kinds of cheats heuristically on the server. There are limits to human ability. It’ll take more time to catch the cheaters, but I’m sure it’s possible. This player is posting 30 auctions per second. Bot. This
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
“Oh, look, he’s dead. Let’s sell his neurons.” The neuron harvester says as he wipes the blood from his knife.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
How do I know which URLs of a website are legal to visit and which are illegal?
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
In the small example type checker given, would a function of type A -> B -> C be represented something like this? { kind: "function", arg: A, returnType: { kind: "function", arg: B, returnType: C}} Or is t
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
> Of course, only the wealthy pay full price for college, but when you ask people if college is worth the cost, they may be anchored to those prices even if their own kids would end up paying less. They’re paying less, but they can also
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
What are the fundamental advantages of space-based data centers over terrestrial ones? Certainly not cooling or radiation shielding. Those are almost free on Earth. A Zero-G environment could have some benefits regarding the total size of t
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
Quite often these days I find myself not even finding what I was looking for with Google, making it a net productivity loss. I’m sure it’s there, somewhere, buried in the SEO and AI slopspam, but I couldn’t find it.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
What are you talking about? This was in LEO for only a year and was returned to Earth by space shuttle Endeavor - over 30 years ago. I assume you read the article, so I’ll suggest re-reading the second paragraph more closely.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
That’s says nothing about what it actually is.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
But in that case do you need to prove? You can grade them as they are and if you wanted to you (or teachers, generally) could even quiz the student verbally and in-person about their paper.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
> Pangram’s analysis revealed that around 21% of the ICLR peer reviews were fully AI-generated, and more than half contained signs of AI use. The findings were posted online by Pangram Labs. “People were suspicious, but they didn’t have
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
True, and it’s only 2nd grade, but it’s clearly setting the foundation for learning algebra properly. Of course, when he asked for help with his practice problems I had no idea how they were meant to solve it so I taught him to solve it alg
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
> where I can keep everything I [rightfully] earned? The same way any animal in the jungle keeps the food they earned.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
That rings a bell, as in I think I had some classmates as a kid who called it that, and I remember thinking they were weird. I'd guess it was maybe 1:3 in favor of RPS over RSP.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
Or sunlight.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
I’ve also heard it called “jerk”.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
Even today the brick and mortar stores of multi-million (billion) dollar companies have dirty bathrooms and broken lights. The justification for the light situation in the movie is simple: corporate greed and human laziness (which fits nice
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
Sounds like dirt to me.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
Assign homework that, if one actually does the work themselves, will help them hone the skills they'll need for the in-class assessment. Then allow students who want their homework evaluated for feedback to turn it in, but no homework
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
My son is learning algebra in 2nd grade. They don’t call it “algebra” yet nor mention “variables”, but they’re working on questions like solving “4 + ? = 9”. He just goes to our local public elementary school.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
Because there is no perfect writing system and proper nouns are also significant and thus it’s a balance of the two needs.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
Sure, it doesn’t have to. But it will affect ease of reading for most readers who are accustomed to more “standard” written English.
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by nkrisc 11mo ago
Capitalization would not change the content at all, but would make it easier to read. People reading English have expectations are capitalization. Breaking those expectations makes the text more difficult to read and feel less effortless.

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