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Re:I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:47PM (#46917932)
I gave it to a friend, but think the cup shown, with painted by an amateur model enthusiast. Not quite right colours, not quite right places...

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Re:I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams on Friday February 06, 2026 @08:22AM (#46912506)
I bought a remarkably similar mug (last advert shown) from an add from different site [1]. Everything about it was a fake. Almost every feature they advertised did not exist (including the fact that it did not come in a gift box.) That was from a site I visit a lot and I wanted to show support. BTW the AI generated animation is quite cool, too bad it is not real...

Do not buy this!! [1] https://kenmiso.com/products/%E2%9A%A1%E2%9C%A8ultimate-v8-e...

Montreal and Quebec City are probably the two most unAmerican large cities in Canada. They have culture and history that is unique.
Re:Microsoft Dependency Has Risks on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @05:19PM (#44381929)
I'd argue that the laws that must be obeyed form an odd superset of the laws of the nation from where the organization is operating and the laws where the users are located. Where those laws intersect nicely, the mode of operation is clearly defined, where they do not intersect, the mode of operation becomes very tricky. (As we've seen with privacy, cookie laws, etc.)
Re:I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:16AM (#43280440)
*One consequence of this boom in AI use is that, in my online classes, I can no longer be sure of what my students are learning. I have no way of determining which concepts they are grasping and which are proving elusive.*

As someone who regularly interviews students for jobs, it is clear that the universities that have permissive use of AI for assignment completion produce graduates that know very little about the core concepts of their studies. Many students cannot explain simple concepts and base level assignments take significantly longer.

The designation of trillion is ambiguous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion
Re:AutoStore Warehouse Robot System on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @08:27AM (#39013014)
In the past 6 days, this is the third time this user has submitted this link.
Re:Unity plan pricing and packaging updates on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:46PM (#37486950)
As a Unity developer, first this year our account manager told us our yearly fees were about to double and now runtime fees. One of the reasons we picked Unity was because of the fact they advertised (loudly) about the lack of runtime fees.
I’m guessing the reason this is brought up is because of the concern about if the license server goes down or the company goes out of business can I still use the product.
Many of these want to know your revenue and then make a sales proposal based on your total revenue. This is frustrating for companies where software is a tiny proportion of the products/services. Example: recently tried to license software that wanted 1% of our sales when software makes up 0.003% of our sales by volume. I now don't even try to negotiate with these types of folks.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019) on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:29PM (#20085037)
Dematic | Senior Software Engineer | Waterloo, ON, Canada | ONSITE

Company: builds automated warehousing facilities (both hardware and software)

Team: makes an emulation/simulation software system - requires developers that can write incredibly tight code, simulating some of the largest warehouse distribution facilities on the planet. Small team, with a big impact. https://dematic.com/virtual

Tech Stack: C# with the Unity3D engine

Please email [email protected] for more information and reference the "Senior Unity3D Simulation Development" position.