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I appreciate the message but these AI slop HR speak websites really need to be shamed out of existence
Re:Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:15PM (#50046776)
The homogenization of the internet. The worst corporate speak PR pages are now what gets generated for every pet project
Re:Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:44PM (#50046424)
Do people understand how bad these AIslop websites look?
Re:The death of web development education on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:13PM (#49927669)
Thanks for boot.dev, it's the one website I regularly point my students to when they ask about places for supplemental programming education. I hope the genAI bubble doesn't put you out of business like it might do for us in traditional academia.
Just cite me any sort of study or financial data showing that AI provides long-term financial gains for any company besides small startups
Source: trust me bro
The gains are so obvious that nobody can cite a source proving them
Re:RSS Beat Microsoft on Monday September 08, 2025 @11:30AM (#45169559)
The real beta killer feature was that VHS extended recording mode could fit an entire NFL game on a single tape.
Re:How to stop Google from AI-summarising your website on Friday August 29, 2025 @05:47PM (#45069788)
How will they know if they don't visit because of the summary?
I am worried the app is just a honeypot made by bad actors to get a create a database of the "rebels" they will soon be hunting down.
The death of deterministic computing and unverifiable information is a horror show
Re:418 I'm a Teapot on Monday October 28, 2024 @04:43PM (#41976063)
I think that in such a UI where it's trivial to mirror left and right just give an option and let the user decide their preference
Re:418 I'm a Teapot on Monday October 28, 2024 @04:07PM (#41975627)
Also a +1 for the solitaire! One suggestion: how about an inverted mode where the piles grow up from the bottom? I think it would be much easier to control while playing on phone
Re:Furilabs Linux Phone on Monday October 14, 2024 @01:30PM (#41839740)
"I love the new furry phone"...

Just like DuckDuckGo I think the name will hamper adoption of this.

Get a FireWire cable and rip the data straight from a dvcam to get the raw video files. Then compress with desired settings
Re:Flight engineer reveals what it was like to operate Concorde on Thursday September 05, 2024 @04:14PM (#41460053)
As a passenger all I really care about are the safety stats. If fly by wire is safer than manual flight them I'm all for it.
Re:Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac on Monday June 10, 2024 @02:59PM (#40637071)
Great! How do I opt out?

Show HN: C++ Game Programming and Intro to AI Course Lectures on YouTube

https://www.cs.mun.ca/~dchurchill/teaching/

Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 I have been recording my university lectures for all of my courses and posting them online for free for anyone to watch.You can click the link for a YouTube playlist, or click the Google Spreadsheet for a breakdown of all the lectures of that course offering.Here is my standard response for those asking for the assignment files, which I unfortunately...

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