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Re:An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pu...
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:59PM (#50050830)
I do wonder if some company with money to burn and their backs against the wall will find a sympathetic judge in the argument that precedent be damned, clean-room implementations made with AI cannot be considered clean-room. It's too little too late to stop the rapid advancement of open tech, but that hasn't stopped courts from trying to send a message.
Re:An Algorithmic Failure Beneath the Secret Ballot
on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:08PM (#49973693)
As an ex-CITP member, that's most definitely a human written joke.
Re:Curvature Beziers
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:32AM (#49488062)
Is it bad that I don't understand this after reading it? I'm not even sure why "lie" he's referring to about bezier curves.
Re:uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @10:47AM (#49273235)
why not just run a 24/7 agent to do the work for them?
Re:Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)
on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @03:09PM (#48911611)
Y'all are missing a huge benefit of apps: offline use. The #1 reason I download apps for every booking website I use for example.
Re:Princeton mandates proctoring in-person exams, upending 133 years o...
on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @06:10PM (#48128272)
You end up in this wonderful place: https://rrr.princeton.edu/students-and-university/25-univers...
Re:Princeton mandates proctoring in-person exams, upending 133 years o...
on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @05:19PM (#48127745)
I was a TA at Princeton ~5 years ago, and I had forgotten about the honor code until reading this. Yes it's true, we did not proctor exams, and students seemed to take pride in it. On every test, you got the names/signatures of those sitting next to you. But also, I had a student who was accused of not putting his pencil down when the test had concluded, and the bureaucratic process to fight the accusation was so crippling that they had to take a semester of leave anyway. So I don't see harm in tearing it down.
Re:The fun has been optimized out of the Internet
on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @12:18PM (#48024610)
Counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puOCoRc17I4
Re:AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart
on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @12:48AM (#47670868)
Neither does the electro-swing, probably
Re:ISBN Visualization – Annas Archive
on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:54PM (#47550752)
This makes it feel like there aren't many books in the world
Re:The workers behind Meta's smart glasses can see everything
on Monday March 02, 2026 @07:39PM (#47226362)
You can thank Sweden in this case
Re:Why XML Tags Are So Fundamental to Claude
on Sunday March 01, 2026 @02:29PM (#47209829)
Ask Claude?
Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:17PM (#47169823)
Adding to predictions: the magic of travel might actually be reborn, as people seek authentic experiences.
Re:Kagi Hub Belgrade
on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @08:34AM (#46057249)
Awesome, and Belgrade is a cool city
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters
on Sunday November 23, 2025 @10:04AM (#46024079)
"Prefer women" could be in a sexual context, romantic context, platonic, etc. and the commenter above didn't define it. I imagine it's hard enough for bisexual people to be asked if they're "living a lie" by having to choose a side.
Re:Human Fovea Detector
on Thursday November 13, 2025 @08:59AM (#45914970)
>clear up your brain
Just to be clear, we don't actually know what that does right? Like, there's no link to this making up for poor sleep or improving your cognitive function right?
Luna Park – nocode visual scripting editor
Re:ChatGPT Pulse
on Friday September 26, 2025 @12:48AM (#45382764)
OH wow, a word to describe me
Re:The staff ate it later
on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:10AM (#45112414)
TV, Japan
Re:Sly Stone has died
on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @04:22AM (#44234071)
He was still alive?
Re:O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data
on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @02:35PM (#43836350)
I have 2000+ hours in Team Fortress 2. Was it worth it?
Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts
Re:Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @10:12AM (#43412277)
I TA'd computer science for 6 years, and this was one of my favorite websites to recommend students.
Re:Don't Try to Reform Science
on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:22AM (#43396571)
As someone who left their PhD, it rubs me with how accurate it is lol
Re:The 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159`
on Friday March 14, 2025 @11:48PM (#43369822)
No one noticed that you did, in fact, get dubs
Re:"Normal" engineers are the key to great teams
on Thursday March 13, 2025 @10:37PM (#43359113)
Autism? Does it really matter? People have different priorities in life. Some people stay in academia because they're afraid of the real world.
Re:AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing m...
on Saturday March 08, 2025 @05:41PM (#43304235)
Why not just skip the human and have AI write, evaluate and submit the papers?
Re:Bayleaf · Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard
on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @10:18PM (#43262239)
I once did a ton of research and settled on an ergonomic split keyboard. I ended up using it for a while but never fully got used to it enough to actually type well with it. In fact, it screwed up my typing and now I make more mistakes than I used to years later. I regret it so much. I don't understand split keyboards.
Re:Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"
on Friday February 28, 2025 @11:02AM (#43207129)
Then you haven't seen my browser