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Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules on Thursday March 13, 2025 @04:25PM (#43356917)
But I already posted it so how could I not post it at all? Do any of us even have a reason to exist? Maybe Sam Altman was right all along
Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules on Thursday March 13, 2025 @04:15PM (#43356844)
It’s so easy to sit on a high horse and dunk on OpenAI after literally everything they’ve done to make the world a better place. Seriously how many other companies have both the words “Open” and “AI” in their names? That should tell you something about their commitment to improving the world with AGI technology that puts 99% of people on this site in the Dollar Tree stockroom career track where they belong
Re:Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter on Sunday December 08, 2024 @06:25PM (#42361643)
It's not universally safe to use CSS nesting yet. Without nesting support, writing raw CSS is like raw-dogging a sex-trafficked Vietnamese prostitute from Malaysia. Sure, it will probably work, but if your goal is zero maintenance then you're ignoring the post-exposure prophylaxsis and antibiotic regimens necessary for typical usage patterns.
Re:Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter on Saturday December 07, 2024 @09:59AM (#42350195)
If you're using a CSS preprocessor like SCSS or LESS you can just define the height for the toolbar as a variable and then use the mask area for the blur as a multiplier (eg. 1.88) of that variable. In general for making things easy.to.maintain it's better to not build project-wide stylesheets with raw CSS.
Re:The Death of Intel: When Boards Fail on Thursday December 05, 2024 @09:18PM (#42335499)
I’m sure the Intel board members will be drying their tears with hundred dollar bills when their assistants tell them about this article. I don’t remember a time when Intel either had a strategy or the strategy wasn’t short-sighted.
Re:TinyJS – Shorten JavaScript QuerySelect with $ and $$ on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @04:04PM (#41724511)
You didn’t need a library to do this. Just alias document.querySelector and document.querySelectorAll to something shorter. Polluting the global namespace with functions to document.createElement on every possible html tag is not a good idea.
Re:AMD may have delayed Ryzen 9000 launch due to a typo on Monday July 29, 2024 @08:15AM (#41099844)
With free undisclosed microcode errata for first-run chip buyers! YOLO!
I’d be curious if these were predominantly mobile or desktop i9s. I have an i9 laptop that regularly runs at 100 degrees Celsius which is supposedly “safe” for these chips but it doesn’t really feel safe when it touches my skin. I’ve experienced firsthand many laptops with thermal issues and just wonder if Intel is spec’ing these too high to win benchmark wars at the cost of stability.

Although if it’s just Warframe crashing perhaps the software itself isn’t well optimized for Intel’s big/little core setup on the newer 13th and 14th generation chips (performance and efficiency cores - supposed to be handled by the OS but with gaming all bets are off)

Re:Why don't we know how antidepressants work yet? on Thursday July 11, 2024 @12:43PM (#40938399)
Because we don’t know how the brain works yet. Modern psychology and psychiatry is a joke.
Great work! Thank you!
> Also, with a license like this it's not accurate to say "Paramount - an Open Source package..." - that's a misuse of the term.

It’s not free and open source software (FOSS) that’s for sure. The GPL can’t be used like this, were it so simple plenty of others like Redis or Elasticsearch would have done so. This license is worse than no license.

i got caught up in this B.S… literally got the rate locked T-Mobile account because of lifetime rate lock. then last year they sent me “opt-out” notification that my guaranteed rate was increasing unless I send a certified letter or some stupid shit. I dumped them the next week because i don’t have time in my life to play fuck-fuck games with shady companies. I hope there’s a class action lawsuit, I would gladly get on board.
It’s hard science. I take viagra every day and have only become moderately demented, so obviously it’s working.
MKULTRA was some overprivileged Ivy League frat douchebags with security clearances playing God with drugs and prostitutes, not really espionage in my book.

Espionage against citizens in violation of the constitution is immoral, but spying on other countries is fair game. It’s a huge part of U.S. military dominance.

Espionage is not necessarily done with malicious intent if it’s for the good of the country, right? Doesn’t justify trampling peoples’ human rights in any particular instance tho
Boiling frog metaphor is much more emotionally compelling for the same argument.
This article is a platitude with no hard data. Climate impacts can be measured, so it’s suspicious to not include actual measurements when comparing X against Y. Feel free to educate me in the comments, it’s more than this article did.
Re:I'm hating swe, what could be another career? on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @02:47PM (#39994310)
You could do athletics, fitness instructor, nutritionist, mixed martial arts champion, etc.
Re:A proposal to add signals to JavaScript on Sunday March 31, 2024 @04:43PM (#39887915)
“Lets make my random UI state tracking framework part of the JavaScript spec”
Not to mention the Gemini Protocol, which had the name long before Google: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
Won’t somebody think of the children. All communication must be filtered through benevolent feed algorithms! Oh no the benevolent feed algorithms are creating pedophiles and terrorists! I yearn for the days of unfiltered chronological communications. Won’t someone think of the children! All communication must be curated by machine learning algorithm. Oh no the machine has created monsters! Wasn’t the web better without the algorithms? Think of the children! We must censor the web! Oh no the web sucks and we still have pedophiles and terrorists. Wouldn’t it be better to go back to 1999? But think of the children.

Maximum stack size exceeded exception.

Re:Why Are There Suddenly So Many Car Washes? on Sunday March 17, 2024 @09:27PM (#39739693)
I’m not a free market maximalist. I just don’t see how some random local politician is more qualified to determine how many car washes are permissible than local business owners who have bought and permitted car wash businesses.

And for whatever it’s worth there aren’t nearly enough car washes where I live.

Re:Why Are There Suddenly So Many Car Washes? on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:49PM (#39739470)
So you’re advocating a Chinese Communist Party model or what? A central authority determines what the market should be vs. what the market _is?_
No shit, Sherlock.
Re: on Sunday March 10, 2024 @09:56AM (#39659099)
Hopefully the wheel doesn’t fall off this time.
Re:United Airlines Plane from SFO Loses a Tire on Saturday March 09, 2024 @10:06PM (#39656412)
“Them.”
Re:United Airlines Plane from SFO Loses a Tire on Thursday March 07, 2024 @06:55PM (#39636091)
I think it’s pretty obvious that if it weren’t for DEI then the plane wouldn’t have lost a tire.
Re:Quantifying the diva-ness of national anthem performances on Saturday February 24, 2024 @10:37PM (#39497362)
None of us asked for this. Sure you can argue that we’re lucky. That would be like chiding a clinically depressed person for “feeling down” because other people in other countries have it worse off.

Performative chants serve as a form of mass hypnosis - to solidify the legitimacy of a batshit insane society in the weak minds who just want to go along to get along.

Our society is fucked. And those of us fortunate enough to be in the creative class can wax philosophical about it in our luxury boxes while everyone else gets fucked.

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