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Comment Failure of use cases (Score 4, Interesting) 77

For those of you who HAVEN'T used UV cure nail polish or helped someone else use it, here is why this is crap, you don't use the lights for 20 minutes or anything even remotely close to that. Curing UV Nail Polish is done once per layer of polish (usually only 2-3) for 2 minutes under Fluorescent light sources and 30 Seconds under LED. Also as anyone with a resin based 3D printer will attest to it is quite possible to over cure UV resin to the point where is becomes brittle, so people avoid doing that...
This is just sensationalist academic publishing trying to drum up publicity so they can keep their grant money. Saying 20 minutes under a nail cure lamp causes cancer is like saying baseball bats cause broken kneecaps it's TRUE but you have to deliberately misuse it for that to happen.

Comment Speaking as a Chuck Grassley constituent... (Score 1) 46

The man is a stuffed corpse kept in office by a geographic but not numerical majority of the state and I am pretty sure they are doping him like a racehorse just to keep him upright when he's been taken out of his vat of preservative pickle brine. He'll put a scrawl on just about anything you can bribe his aids to put in front of him. What I'm trying to say is I wouldn't put too much hope in any bill he signed on to being in the people's best interest.

Comment Re:This poll brought to you by (Score 1) 96

ChatGPT exceeded the "fuck giving" capabilities of your cat and MAYBE it's human language processing abilities, that is a far cry from being more intelligent. Given a SINGLE sufficiently negative feedback a cat can learn to stop almost any behavior.

Wait is your cat orange? If it's an orange cat there are probably programs running on 4-bit PIC Microcontrollers more intelligent that it.

Joking aside brain complexity is Logarithmic not Linear and a really good chatbot integrated into a really big database is not Thinking or Intelligent no matter how much data it integrates. I don't doubt that there will be advances in General AI but I wouldn't hold my breath for anything as smart as an eat, fuck die, vole much less a stealth predator like a cat in our lifetimes.

Comment Smart people working on stupid projects (Score 3, Insightful) 40

Hi there Logistics industry insider checking in, go invest in Amazon or Boston Dynamics with their warehouse bots or invent a completely autonomous dockyard or something, there's no more money to be made in trucking, you'll just be taking business from someone else, probably a teamster, and doing that with an unmanned and thus UNGUARDED vehicle is just asking for trouble.

Comment Re:Categorically true. (Score 1) 40

"First and foremost, the insinuation that Amazon puts more value on meeting deadlines than on human lives is categorically false," said Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel "We don't place any value at all on human lives, so since I am a press release robot I can say with absolute certainty that [NaN is less than or equal to 1] evaluates to False"

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