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by romanows 1y ago
In another comment I wondered whether a general chatbot producing text that was later determined in a courtroom to be "therapy" would be a violation. I can read the bill that way, but IANAL.
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by romanows 1y ago
Reading the text of the bill as a non-lawyer, it seems to also ban AI that provides therapy. I don't know if the AI needs to be explicitly labeled as therapy or if the content of chat could be decided to be therapy in a courtroom.
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by romanows 1y ago
I think it is significant that this rambling channel supplements the yearly in-person meeting. Presumably, that's where one tends to form deeper social connections and get a feel for what different people find interesting to talk about
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by romanows 1y ago
Maybe, but they they refused to offer an ad-free subscription tier last time I asked. NYT and Chicago Sun Times also refused.
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by romanows 1y ago
On my Android gmail app, when I reply to an email, there's very little on the screen at the start of the process. The pink-ish send button really stands out since everything else is grey text (I'm using dark mode). They show an
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by romanows 2y ago
I had to look it up; for others, it means "skilled worker shortage".
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by romanows 2y ago
Douglas Hofstadter rails against "you guys" in his 1997 "Le Ton beau de Marot", and I'm sure he wasn't the first.
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by romanows 2y ago
I think those people are (1) worried about Google and also simultaneously (2) worried/annoyed by activities that they think will never be sufficient to replace Google funding and that distract from browser development.
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by romanows 2y ago
So the Python package `ultralytics` had their GitHub CI/CD pipeline compromised which allowed an attack to be inserted and then published on PyPI?
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by romanows 2y ago
I've asked NYT, WaPo, and the non-profit Chicago Sun Times for an ad-free tier (no ads displayed in their apps) and they've all said "we don't offer an ad-free tier".
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by romanows 2y ago
Check out Hackers, by Steven Levy, for some fun tales from early in computing.
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by romanows 2y ago
I remember Murderbot working to blend in and pass as human, but I don't remember it trying to pass as male or being perceived as male?
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by romanows 2y ago
I think Murderbot doesn't have a gender, so it'll probably be a pretty androgynous look anyway. I listened to Kevin R Free's fantastic narration, so maybe I would have expected a male actor, except that I do the aphantasia th
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by romanows 2y ago
Are you sure you're not thinking about Stack Overflow? I hate defending reddit ever since the API debacle, but there are scads of subreddits, many with different sets of mods, and all of the ones that help me with product reviews don&
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by romanows 2y ago
That's fascinating, I wonder why that suggestion would be any more dangeous than any other advice. Too bad she didn't just put in a footnote describing why she can't suggest asking for 10% more.
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by romanows 2y ago
I just got back from watching the movie Casa Bonita Mi Amor, about the South Park guys buying a beloved Denver restaurant and refurbishing it. Costs ballooned from an estimated $6 million to $30+ million because it had been owned by a compa
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by romanows 2y ago
Do professional writers have to consider this "new reader" from a commercial point-of-view or is Stross just thinking about how he might adapt his writing to this group to be gracious towards them? Not sure if there is some way to
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by romanows 2y ago
This is a great observation, thanks.
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by romanows 2y ago
Maybe as there are more and more older programmers looking at partial-early retirement, part-time, lower-paid gigs might make sense? I could see working part time improving CI/CD, docs, refactoring, etc. Stuff that the main developers
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by romanows 2y ago
Not the OP, but if I thought we were all joking around, and it was the type of forum that allowed people to be a bit silly, I would let it stand. Or if I thought people on the forum would point out the danger and hopefully dissuade the pos
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by romanows 2y ago
Software, especially if installed on my Windows PC, always has a risk of causing security problems, running spyware, agents that slow things down, taking up HD space, weird new DRM, screwing with the registry, etc.
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by romanows 2y ago
I was hoping that mpv would work a bit better than vlc for sending video to chromecast, but unfortunately, another similarly amusing thread: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/177
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by romanows 2y ago
Probably more telling for smaller companies. In bigger companies, there may be separate roles and organizations managing the interview process, and you might not interview with the exact people you work with.
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by romanows 2y ago
And just 19 years later, Mark Twain published The Innocents Abroad, which I remember loving. I haven't looked at either in decades, but I'd bet that I'd still find The Scarlett Letter to be ponderous and boring and The Innoc
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by romanows 2y ago
I picked up the first one, thanks for the recommendation.
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by romanows 2y ago
Any examples? I can't say I've noticed them in particular; I think my brain probably ignores AI, stock photo, and advertisements, equally.
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by romanows 2y ago
Maybe, but what other people write about their visualization experiences is completely alien to me. It's not a matter of degree. Is there any analogy between reasoning about relationships and paths through complicated source code code
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by romanows 2y ago
I don't like having to make all play store apps available to all third-party app stores. I would want control of that were I an app developer.
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by romanows 2y ago
"them" refers to the "important protections" that Google would supposedly need to remove. It's written that Google can still block malware and bad app stores, although that's probably a judgement call that&#x27
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by romanows 2y ago
There's a Dalek in a room on the lower left, looks like a kind of police booking room. Scooby and the gang are just above them.

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