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Re:The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:18AM (#50353080)
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Re:Claude is no longer available for minors on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:51PM (#49665902)
Treating children and teenagers as the same group is out of control.
Re:Claude is no longer available for minors on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:48PM (#49665872)
How soon until someone earns a PhD for studying the harms of goatse?
Some students enjoy learning for its own reward.
Depends on your goal. If you can get a higher GPA by cheating and don’t plan on using the actual knowledge…
Re:Room 641A on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:39PM (#49665747)
The terrorists keep winning each day the 4th Amendment is not restored.
Re:GIMP Development Update on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:02AM (#49332190)
Finally, specific criticisms that aren’t “it’s not Photoshop!”
Re:Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:55PM (#46304662)
> For every one of us, there are hundreds, thousands of developers who literally do not give a shit so long as their paychecks hit their accounts

May our new AI co-workers put those thousands into the poorhouse for shoddy worksmanship.

Re:Coursera to combine with Udemy on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:50PM (#46304599)
So the rest of the world should have the access removed out of some delusion of fairness?
On the other hand, if it's a one-off, you'll have forgotten what you learned by the time you'd need to use that skill again.
Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:36PM (#46304421)
Trump running wasn't a 4chan joke, but support of him was.

Also, thank you for encouraging me to read the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Reform_Party_presidential....

Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:34PM (#46304389)
Keeping outdated models in the curriculum needs to be addressed on a case-by-case basis. Some of them are detrimental to the learning process and should be relegated to a history of science class—skip directly to current understanding; others are useful because they're developmentally appropriate for younger students. Someone who has a background in science pedagogy would be the proper person to make that decision for the Bohr model.
Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:31PM (#46304355)
That's also why they're the ones who are most vehemently opposed AI art. The algorithm only cares for content, not the artistry they add to their images.
Re:This is not the future on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:21AM (#46290478)
Yes! I want my AI music generator to spit out stems and sheet music I can rearrange, not finished mp3 files.
Re:This is not the future on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:18AM (#46290431)
…and the sting is that the majority of people employed in creative fields are hired to produce content, not art. AI makes this blatantly clear with no fallbacks to ease the mind.
Re:This is not the future on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:14AM (#46290373)
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Please point to where the Chinese will have a direct negative impact to my life.
The US government is more likely to be a threat to my personal freedom than the Chinese.
> 95% of those descriptions have nothing to do with anything that happens later in the book, other than hiding the one tiny detail that actually does become relevant

The foundation of the mystery novel.

The problems with teaching symbolism using novels are:

1. Novels considered “curriculum-approved literature” often have symbolism that is irrelevant to a student’s life. It was placed there intentionally by the author, and was blatant to all readers when it was published, but it is indistinguishable to a student from the teacher making things up.

2. Teachers who aren't the best end up teaching from a “it's true because it's true” mindset, which may as well be “because I made it up and said so.” These are quite common.

3. Or the teacher draws from a pool of stock symbolic and thematic answers for all novels. Astute students will spot that immediately and treat it as a game of guessing the teacher’s answer rather than engaging with the text.

Re:Bye, Mom on Sunday December 14, 2025 @10:54AM (#46263940)
Stories like this are why there should be competency tests before letting people be fertile.
Speed and effort arguments are negated for southpaws.
But is there a difference between cursive and block lettering? I fully agree with your overall point about handwritten notes being far superior to typed notes. It forces you to filter out extraneous information instead of being a live transcriptionist of your professor.
Seems like a skill issue on your end.
The kids don't hate classroom reading because of the reading; they hate it because of the associated curriculum. “Why were the curtains blue?” is a skill wasted on children. I only gained an appreciation for such meta-reading during a weeks-long TV Tropes bender during a spat of unemployment after getting fired from my first big-boy job.
I type like a drunkard from the autocorrection on modern phones.
Re:Craft software that makes people feel something on Friday December 12, 2025 @09:49AM (#46244653)
Fun hobby project with the option to change that if someone offers a big enough bag of money.
Borders of Westphalian nation-states being relevant is recent, unlike personal and tribal territories.
What are those reasons?
Toddlers like those characters and aren't likely to skip ads. Good for revenue.

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