samman
Re:Lobbying is corruption
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @11:33AM (#50033928)
Apologies in advance if English isn’t your native language, but expecting or suggesting that others should use AI to resolve your sloppy syntax/grammar seems like a rather poor practice in general. I think you have a good point to make here, and a little more diligence could make an appreciable difference to your level of discourse.
Re:Warranty Void If Regenerated
on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:14PM (#47442665)
For the specific process that generated this story, I think a generous comparison could be made to something like photography. Yes, the machine is producing the resulting work, but under the guidance and curation of an artist that sets an appropriate parameters and context to the machine. I’d submit that this can result in varying levels of authorship, much like the difference between a snapshot (one-shot?) and a carefully controlled studio photograph, depending on the depth of preparation, iteration, and curation the photographer performs.
Re:Review: Dating Men in the Bay Area
on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:04PM (#44914079)
I don’t think it’s necessarily the case that women are incapable of formulating useful insights about men, or vice versa.
Re:This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover ...
on Thursday April 17, 2025 @02:05PM (#43720290)
For El Salvadorian citizens I think you make a good point. But for non-citizens (e.g. Venezuelans)that the US has sent to El Salvadoranean prisons presumably via diplomatic means, it seems reasonable that they could be returned via diplomatic means. [edit] Courts should be able to order a good faith effort to implement those means, but they certainly don’t have any way to guarantee a result.
Re:The Sad Math of Ads: Messages of inadequacy and salvation through c...
on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:19AM (#42962535)
There are other cultural vectors, and while they might lack the virtual ubiquity of ads many of them are more effective for it (if perhaps slower).
Re:The New York Times attacks e-bikes while ignoring the real danger a...
on Monday July 31, 2023 @10:26AM (#36943015)
A lot of places have “multi-use” paths, open to pedestrians, bikes , skateboards, etc —-previously all human-powered modes of transit.
Re:Mozilla Sees Loopholes in Google’s Data Safety Labels
on Friday February 24, 2023 @09:43AM (#34924941)
Perhaps: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/
Re:A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage. It was also found in...
on Thursday January 12, 2023 @11:43AM (#34356354)
A corollary to this would be: “Backups are worthless. Restores are priceless.”
Re:Rising rent, not poverty, is the real driver of homelessness
on Friday January 06, 2023 @04:24PM (#34281330)
Another factor to consider is that there may also be significant infrastructure upgrades required to support the increase in population, and costs might increase dramatically when you consider increased water usage in an already drought stricken region.
Re:Can a Tarot Card Reading Be Defamatory?
on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:58AM (#34186926)
Could you summarize a theory or two about the mechanism by which the question asked could affect what cards are drawn?
Re:‘Greenwashing’: Tree-Planting Schemes Are Just Creating Tree Cemete...
on Friday September 02, 2022 @10:56AM (#32691579)
The headline is overly pessimistic and implies tree planting schemes are all worthless and doomed to failure. There are fairly proven methods for planting forests, for instance: https://daily.jstor.org/the-miyawaki-method-a-better-way-to-...
Re:In the beginning was the command line (1999) [pdf]
on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:17AM (#20715371)
>I'm a little sad I never got to use the BeOS that the author so much likens to a batmobile (going from memory).
You may be interested in Haiku OS then... https://www.haiku-os.org/
Re:Court: Breaking Your Employer's Computer Policy Isn't a Crime
on Saturday December 05, 2015 @05:28PM (#10683501)
Seems pretty clear when you put it that way.
Re:Court: Breaking Your Employer's Computer Policy Isn't a Crime
on Saturday December 05, 2015 @05:10PM (#10683450)
>Note that the "right of the people to keep and bear arms" is a precondition, according to the 2A, for a "well-regulated militia"
Arms are indeed a precondition for a militia, but it seems to me the 2A only exists because the need for a militia was perceived at the time. I'm not so sure that's the case today. In any event, you make a very good point about the danger of 'creative' interpretations.
Re:Court: Breaking Your Employer's Computer Policy Isn't a Crime
on Saturday December 05, 2015 @12:14PM (#10682511)
I see how that was critical to the nation at the time, but then how is that amendment relevant in the modern world? Standing armed forces protect our national integrity, and state/county/municipal agencies maintain local order. Aren't local militias effectively obsolete?
Re:Court: Breaking Your Employer's Computer Policy Isn't a Crime
on Saturday December 05, 2015 @11:32AM (#10682342)
Fair point about the separate clauses-- but what's the intent of the "well-regulated" part, then?
Re:Court: Breaking Your Employer's Computer Policy Isn't a Crime
on Saturday December 05, 2015 @11:11AM (#10682261)
2a. "...well-regulated..."
Re:Ask HN: Interesting WebRTC projects to work on?
on Sunday May 31, 2015 @12:24PM (#9634604)
"Loop server allows firefox users to call each others via WebRTC. It is a rendezvous API built on top of an external service provider for NAT traversal and supplementary services."
Re:A new study urges trials of MDMA to treat anxiety in autistic adults
on Sunday May 31, 2015 @12:20PM (#9634593)
Looking at the anecdotes being shared here, I see widely varying accounts of effects/efficacy. I wonder how many actually used 100% MDMA as opposed to one of its more 'designer' variants (blends, analogues, etc) generally available via illicit channels.
Re:What happened to all the non-programmers?
on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @02:18PM (#9146622)
I believe that's called a 'firm'.
Re:Rms: Why you should not use Uber
on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @01:54PM (#8820545)
>Unions, especially service unions revolving around local physical transportation, depend entirely on nationalism. Without a sympathetic federal entity that can supersede local definitions of what work is, you're just a ragtag pack of misfits.
I'm not so sure that's the case ultimately. If all of Uber's drivers banded together and simply decided not to drive until their terms were met, they'd likely have a good deal of leverage over Uber without any government intervention required. That is the basic concept of unions. Of course, companies have historically tried to circumvent or supress unionized labor in the past, to varying degrees of success.
Re:The Secret to the Uber Economy Is Wealth Inequality
on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @03:12PM (#8764055)
So, I'm kind of ambivalent about this thread so far, but it sounds like you have thought about this a bit. What sort of moral framework do you find preferable over the 'out-of-touch white middle class' one?
Re:Computers are People, Too: Disney documentary about computer art in...
on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @11:17AM (#8762793)
The juggler and 'computer plastic surgery' segments were created by Information International, Inc., the latter being for the movie "Looker".
Information International, Inc. 1982 Demo Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADF3-6owY0A
A scene from "Looker": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_wK74Ejnqc
Re:The Hello Machine (1974) [video]
on Monday December 15, 2014 @05:46PM (#8754936)
I think they were building a '1AESS': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1ESS_switch#1A_ESS
Re:Why public WiFi is dangerous
on Friday October 17, 2014 @10:55AM (#8471254)
Perhaps one of the techniques discussed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFol6IMbZ7Y
?
Or, as this was published a couple of days ago, it might have utilized POODLE, or even BEAST in unmitigated cases.
But yeah, I'd also believe user error in some cases.
Re:The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat (1990)
on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @07:45AM (#8257000)
What a gem. The reference list seems to tell a story all by itself.
Re:Failed HN Launch vs. Reddit Paid Advertising: Which Converts Better
on Friday December 06, 2013 @04:21PM (#6863872)
Could this be from bots scraping reddit links?
Re:Facebook is for grandparents: What we need in a next-gen social net...
on Monday November 25, 2013 @09:07AM (#6794053)
The next social network should not be site or app at all, but instead be a protocol.
Re:Adobe hack: At least 38 million accounts breached
on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @04:25PM (#6643111)
That's a fair point. Photoshop and Illustrator are definitely their flagship products, and I didn't even bother mentioning their web tools (HTML5 is rapidly making Flash a legacy/zombie product, and I don't think there's any single clearly dominant web design/dev tool/toolchain -- although I'd argue that the majority of mockups still occur in Photoshop, and slicing up PSDs for the web is still done). I mentioned Premiere and After Effects because they're the other 'big' apps that Adobe develops, and they do integrate tightly with their main 2-- but as you mentioned, Premiere and AE definitely have very healthy competition.
Which brings up an interesting question...if After Effects and Premiere have strong competition, why don't Photoshop and Illustrator have equally strong competitors? I've already taken a guess, but I'm interested in other perspectives.