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"Only 0.5% of doorways are used to leave with bank money"

Look, I only need one doorway, I'm not coming back to prove all your doorways are usable. If you cover the obvious ones I'm going to use the less obvious ones.

What a silly article.

Re:Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:58PM (#50281517)
A quick pass with the AI and it'll tell you:

I have specific system guidelines that apply to the 2020 election.

Re:Berthd on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:46PM (#49983856)
what is Orbs?
Re:Berthd on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:59PM (#49983269)
So it's another codex/claude cloud or modal?
Re:Pi 1.0 on Thursday October 01, 2026 @03:54PM (#49926304)
I believe this is the popular "batteries included" kit: https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi
Re:CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:14PM (#49915172)
Like other comments, I can't help feel uncomfortable with the way everything was written defensively, where every example is used to justify the author's actions.

The author concludes near the end:

> That said, I have no judgment to pass on you here.

And follows with this as the very next sentence:

> We are all human beings, we all make poor choices and mistakes in our lives.

Which seems to be clearly judging the students for their "poor choices and mistakes".

I feel the author is out of touch with the students and the times; If so many of them are leveraging AI perhaps the better move is to find ways to align that usage with learning. He quotes:

> "it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer"

But if there is such a scenario in a classroom rather than a courtroom, then perhaps the methodologies should be revisited?

It feels like the author is the ACKCHYUALLY meme, striving to prove themselves technically right, rather than empathizing with the students, which I feel shows a lack of maturity for an educator more than 2 decades older than his students.

I understand that education and evaluation is difficult in this AI era, but I can't come to agree with the author's actions or conclusions in this case.

Re:A font that reads what you wrote on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:20PM (#49803762)
The title is misleading, but other than that the results were terrible.
Re:The Nonfiction Book Market is Collapsing? on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:55AM (#49622269)
Absolutely crazy and useless article IMO in that they never mention AI.

They cite readers being interested in learning - well what's the best way to do so nowadays? Ask ChatGPT.

Even worse, you can ask ChatGPT to describe the learnings of any reasonably popular nonfiction book directly. No it's not a perfect substitute, nor will the learnings be as memorable, but it's reasonably good enough. That's why I haven't bought a nonfiction book in a long time.

what's updog?
I believe that part serves to emphasize the main point.

To elucidate for this particular example, before AI agents existed, projects with this level of data and depth might've needed to be monetized in order to justify the resources to bring it to life.

Now that the barrier is much lower, the creator didn't mind spinning up and providing it with no monetization (e.g. no ads).

> There were plenty of interesting side-projects on the internet before AI.

This is a strawman.

The original point was "the economics ... have changed"

I read this as, it's much easier to spin up a project of this scale even non-monetized, and more people are able and willing to do so.

I believe this can be done without a MitM by using Wireshark or adjacent tool
Re:Chicken Scheme 6.0 on Monday August 10, 2026 @10:55PM (#49252828)
Disappointed to learn this is unrelated to the Chicken chicken chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
They should probably freeze the results before publishing.
why are information security / network security tasks bannable?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera

> Coursera was founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller.

Coursera, the company providing the funding, also belongs to Andrew Ng
Re:Big AI labs are hiring philosophers on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @01:08PM (#48662825)
Hmm I spent a good amount of time in big tech, now work in AI, and I minored in philosophy at Berkeley back in the day (Parmenides, Socrates, Plato etc.)

How do I align myself with such a job?

Re:Sakana Fugu on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:33PM (#48635755)
I love when they put a black box in front of the other black boxes so I can get a questionably better black box for slower service and more money!
Re:I Won't Buy You a Coffee on Friday June 12, 2026 @03:01PM (#48508136)
Entirely misses the point.

You're not contributing $4 to help them host.

You're contributing $4 because you liked their ideas and are contributing to fund more.

The author writes:

> Look, I also think that creatives should get compensation in the same way as everyone else, but that doesnt mean that every instance of creativity should be a venue for profit. I think it's shameful that programmers get such higher compensation compared to artists, but this is not the place to equalize it.

Then proceeds to offer no mechanism of such compensation for blog writers.

Many people put in a not insignificant amount of time into their writing, and if it was worth our time to read, maybe we should consider showing our appreciation in a material way.

As opposed to the other text editors, which are designed primarily for playing Nethack
Re:MCP Is Dead on Saturday May 30, 2026 @03:53AM (#48333784)
> temporary workaround

I've heard this one before

(Maybe it'll be the first time that a temporary workaround stays around longer than expected then)

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