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Re:How to Formalize All of Mathematics on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:24AM (#50119575)
You give me too much credit. I was just being tongue-in-cheek about Principia Mathematica.
Re:How to Formalize All of Mathematics on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:12AM (#50119400)
Hasn’t this been tried already?
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:42PM (#50012747)
It's actually based on country of birth. If your parents were French but were living in India when you where born, you will be in the India quota, even if your nationality is French.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:34PM (#50008994)
It's 100% based on country of birth. What do you mean?
Re:Grok Outage on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:26PM (#49552664)
Since we are talking for other people, "devs" wouldn't have supported someone downloading all those copyrighted works from the pirate bay and profited by, for example, selling them. I don't see any 180.
Re:We Are Rebuilding Monica on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:43PM (#49524461)
Weren't they already rebuilding it a couple of years ago?
Re:OpenRouter is joining Stripe on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @02:15PM (#49365105)
? In general, it is, unless it has some collector value, for example.
Not that I know of. I just heard rumors but never saw it myself.
Im surprised to hear that. I went to Caltech for my postgrad and never collaborated on an test, and it would have never ocurre me to do so (and no, the professor didn’t have to explicitly say they collaboration was not allowed. It was just the standard honor code).

We all suspected of people that didn’t adhere to the honor code and it was frowned upon, and they could have faced repercussions if anyone had reported them.

Re:Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @06:56PM (#47786410)
Couldn't you use it with a Codex subscription? Plus is $20 per month
Re: on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @03:40PM (#47417255)
Even the diagrams
Re:SynthID on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:33PM (#47170914)
Years ago, I worked at Apple at the same time as Ian Goodfellow. This was before ChatGPT (I'd say around 2019).

I had the chance to chat with him, and what I remember most was his concern that GANs would eventually be able to generate images indistinguishable from reality, and that this would create a misinformation problem. He argued for exactly what you’re mentioning: chips that embed cryptographic proof that a photo was captured by a camera and haven't been modified.

That's your reading of the situation, and far from logical to everyone else.
Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed on Thursday November 06, 2025 @04:48PM (#45840880)
I log in. Click on Business -> Domains. Then click on the looking glass under "Actions" on my domain. I can there see all my addresses an Pwned Sites.

But I think you are right, because I only have 3 breached addresses under my domain (I do see the 10 addresses wording under subscriptions)

Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed on Thursday November 06, 2025 @04:10PM (#45840458)
It does. I just checked mine today. I can see exactly which individual email addresses in my domain where exposed and in which data leak. I have never paid for it.
Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications on Monday September 22, 2025 @07:14PM (#45340788)
Does that make sense though? It seems appropriate to me that only citizens of a country can vote in the elections of such country (US or elsewhere). It’s definitely more complicated than “no taxation without representation”.

Some counter arguments from the top of my head:

What about tourists? They pay taxes while they are here too.

What about electoral interference? It’s way easier to pay taxes than to gain citizenship; this would create a perverse incentive.

What about allegiance? When you become a citizen you pledge allegiance to the US. Not when you pay taxes. Would incentives be aligned?

What about citizen only duties? (male) Citizens have to sign up for selective service and might have to go to war. Not so with H1Bs (though, to your point, permanent residents have to do it). Would it be fair to offer voting rights to everyone even if they don’t have the same duties?

Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:50PM (#45308190)
> Taxation without representation (i'm suggesting adding the latter, not removing the former)

Happens to permanent residents too, not only employment visas.

Re:Navy demonstrates multi-day solar UAS flight on Friday August 01, 2025 @09:53AM (#44756871)
Off topic, but if I slide left to right I get a tutorial jquery.mmenu on this page.
Re:Touching the back wall of the Apple store on Monday June 30, 2025 @02:02AM (#44419924)
I still have mine with rockbox installed. I had to replace the battery, and the clip broke years ago, but I haven’t found anything like it to replace it.
Re:WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:23AM (#44296512)
WhatsApp used to be a paid app, and I paid for it back in the day, as did lots of my friends.
Re:Time Dilation Formula / Calculator on Monday January 13, 2025 @12:32AM (#42680365)
I think lately I look at anything new with my guard up.

In this case, first the FAQ gave me those vibes. Why? Hard to tell. If I have to force myself explain it, it has the kind of didactic and dumbed down tone that I usually get from chatgpt when I ask questions about complex topics.

Then I went to your blog and saw the entries were mostly (I assume) AI generated as well. I know it doesn't necessarily follow that because of that this website has been mostly created by ChatGPT as well. But I saw it as some kind of weak confirmation.

Finally some of the JS code comments such as "Plot Charts" right before a "PlotChart" also made me think this.

As I said, I'm just extra cautious about this stuff lately. You are the creator, you know how you did it. If my intuition was wrong I wholeheartedly apologize for making that statement. I could probably have expressed it in a kinder way. I know that it's not easy to create it something now and put it out there for people to see it and criticize it.

Re:Time Dilation Formula / Calculator on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:14PM (#42657580)
The whole website and the way FAQ is worded give AI generated vibes
Counterpoint, it has happened to me twice, once with Lufthansa and another time with a low cost airline (Vueling). Both times I was paid without fuss. Both times I filed for it myself.
Re:QSL Card on Saturday April 08, 2023 @12:48PM (#35495121)
I got a box full of them. It's such a treat when you come home and they are waiting for you in your mailbox!

One of my favorite ones is from the USS Hornet Museum [1]

[1] https://www.qsl.net/nb6gc/QSL.htm

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