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by tzs 5mo ago
> Afterward, I go to compose a new message. A colorful animation steals my focus for a second highlighting a new “help me write” button. I ignore it and move on to filling in the recipients and subject line. Does it do this animation eve
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by tzs 5mo ago
It can go quite a bit beyond providing generation information. There is a detailed description with many quote from ChatGPT in this complaint [1]. [1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26078522-raine-vs-op...
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by tzs 5mo ago
The first search was something like "Why is Japan having a naphtha shortage?". The results from that were almost all saying it is due to the war in Iran. A later search was something like "Why was naphtha production in Japan
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by tzs 5mo ago
That was in 1962, nearly 44 years ago, and it was after the US had tried to invade Cuba.
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I had a go at the circle one. What I tried was starting with something very straightforward (pseudocode): for each x from -r to r find y that minimizes abs(x^2 + y^2 - r^2) plot(x,y) Finding y could be done by taking sqrt(r
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by tzs 5mo ago
I tried it on my personal web site, which I don't think I've made any changes to in over 20 years except possibly removing some out of date links and it says it is pure AI slop. The proof it cited was "Short Punch Fragments&q
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by tzs 5mo ago
Nearly 80% of the commentators who have mentioned slop appear to be people who have the same relationship with the the word "slop" that Vizzini had with "inconceivable" [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by tzs 5mo ago
Google is telling me that there were production drops in 2025, but it was (1) due to an oversupply caused by Japanese ethylene and benzene exports fell due new plants in China and an increase in cheaper exports from the US to Asian markets,
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by tzs 5mo ago
Let me rephrase. The is no "Cuba problem" that the US needs to deal with any differently than it deals with/has dealt with the many other countries in the Americas that have/had people suffering under their regimes who h
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by tzs 5mo ago
It has been a while since I had a Times subscription, but I don't recall them having dickovers. Has that changed, or are you confusing paywalls notices with dickovers?
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by tzs 5mo ago
2025 Hyundai Kona SEL EV ticks most, maybe even all, of them. I'll mark with "(Maybe)" the ones that there might be some question about. 1. (Maybe) The door handles protrude like God intended, and it is obvious what you are s
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by tzs 5mo ago
Are you assuming that any use that fails to assist on a place case must have been a use for for some other purpose?
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There is no "Cuba problem" that needs to be solved.
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The Lymphocyte Percent graph shows a range from about 0.21 to 0.42, but the net tells me that the normal range is 20-40% and the results from the last time mine was tested suggests that the net is right. Is the graph something other than ly
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The California law is trivial to implement on pretty much any Unix or Unix-like system.
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> Define an easily achieved win condition, brand it as complete success. In this case "smoke-free" means under 1 in 20 Swedes smoke How is that an "easily achieved" win condition?
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As usual 95+% of people commenting have no idea what is actually in the California law, and so are commenting about things that have nothing to do with it. Different states, countries, and multi-country organizations that have legislated in
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by tzs 5mo ago
If Meta is liable for when someone underage uses their service, then Meta is going to require proof of age which almost certainly means giving them copies of things like driver's licenses or passports probably along with video showing
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by tzs 5mo ago
The California law has no age verification, identity verification, or surveillance. It is just a pretty simple parental control system, which only applies to devices whose primary user is a child.
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> If they are enabled and the person logged in is on a regular account (not admin or power user of sorts) then the base installation of web clients must check for an RTA header [1]. Your cite is an earlier post of yours which says > T
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That makes me curious. It would not be quite as seamless as having serial support included out of the box in the browser, but couldn't you get most of the way there by writing a native application that provides provides a network inter
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> It is important to point out though, that the last opportunity to establish single-payer healthcare in the US was prevented by the democratic party It is only (possibly) important to point that out if single-payer healthcare is necessa
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by tzs 5mo ago
It makes more sense when you look at how much waste heat it will generate and how it will get its energy [1]. [1] https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/05/07/utahs-dat...
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Some EV automakers have eliminated them. Many though still include them, including Nissan, GM, Ford, Kia, Hyundai, and Subaru.
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Here are some rechargeable AA batteries that were specifically tested and worked in toothbrushes [1]. For almost all devices there is no good reason to care that the nominal voltage of NiMH rechargeable batteries 0.2V lower than the nominal
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From the CNET article: > There is a headphone jack, but it's on the top of the phone. They say that like it is a bad thing. I've always preferred the headset jack on the top because if I'm using the device while sitting an
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It ends up in someone's water supply, evntually, but not necessarily the water supply they got it from.
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Having the app ask the OS for the age range is more flexible. If the app tells the OS the age range it is appropriate for the filtering will only be able to either block or allow the app to run. If the systems tells the app the age range of
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This one is trivial to comply with. You have to add a couple fields or so to whatever gathers user info at account creation time. Personally I would find that non-trivial because nowadays those are usually GUIs and I haven't done any G
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by tzs 5mo ago
> First, it reverses the problem. Services should be sending an age-appropriateness (or even just general content classification) signal to the device for local processing, not the other way around. OK, so say the device receives a signa

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