Comment Instead (Score 2) 59
Comment Re: confirmation bias (Score 1) 173
Is it just me or is a doctor who can't figure out how to turn off an audio setting scary? What happens if his shoe becomes untied on the way to the operating theater? Does he call tech support?
Comment Excellent Solicitation (Score 4, Insightful) 59
That might be true, except everyone who has been paying attention knows that all they have to do is buy enough Trumpcoins and the problem will dry up and blow away without fanfare.
Comment Re: you cant be serious. (Score 1) 173
Or we could point to the confounding factors they obviously did not address in the study, say "this study is trash no one should ever refer to or even read" and move on. You don't necessarily need a new study to invalidate a study, and this is one of those cases where you don't.
Comment Re: mostly mash-ups of existing techniques (Score 1) 106
It's too bad you don't know dick about luddites.
Comment Re: mostly mash-ups of existing techniques (Score 1) 106
"Leaving aside the fact that you don't know the difference between an LLM and a frontier AI model"
One thing is a subset of the other. That was a weird attempt, and it failed.
Comment Re: Looking back - there always been censorship (Score 1) 111
We didn't used to carry telescreens in our pockets, so that's different.
Before streaming it wasn't feasible to deliver different media to different viewers, either. They all got the same things from the same channels.
Comment Re: Pre-9/11 (Score 1) 111
TBF the stupid Nazis have been around. They were just a little quieter most of the time, except when they were burning a cross, or dragging someone behind a pickup.
Comment Re: As someone who likes Rust (Score 1) 59
Maybe they can get compilers for some more architectures first
Comment Re: Congrats. They killed it (Score 2) 41
The Emmys are advertising. If fewer people consume them, that's a loss.
Comment Re: To the non-cutters... (Score 1) 41
I wish I had a local PBS station. I get one broadcast with three digital channels, at least one of which seems Christian and all of which are shit. And since they split their bandwidth three ways, they all look like shit, too.
Comment Re: Chrome. Gross. (Score 2) 59
No, edge is the least safe browser. It's even worse.
Comment Industries Celebrating Their Own Mediocrity (Score 1) 41
The Emmys kind of epitomize the whole award show thing, an industry that sometimes displays something brilliant ignores all that brilliance to come together for one night and pat themselves on the back for ignoring anything new, or challenging, or different, or actually entertaining. Emmys, Oscars, Grammy's, the twenty-seven different Country Music Award shows we get every years, I swear there's one less than every two weeks, all of them celebrating the bland, tasteless paste of sameness they churn out.
Maybe we can just spin up a 24/7 streaming service for award shows. So those that need that fix can get it all in one formless space.
Comment Re: State is probably best stated by the comics (Score 1) 111
They are arresting and sometimes deporting people who met all of the requirements. They are also doing international family separation, and forcing children to appear before a judge without legal counsel. Shit like that is how we know that maggots only actually think about the children when they're horny.