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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ben Shapiro's sister⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Be Shapiro is a shit head and deserves all the flack that can be hurled at him. Where does the no chin thing come from, though? He seems to have a pretty normal chin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If true, this is a huge step! Congrats to China!

  “Strategic stamina” is something that the US used to have but which has disappeared as the country just tries to catch its breath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 32-bit RISC-V processor made using molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like the prototype stage, or even before, is a good time to ask whether the materials are plentiful enough for this to be a major discovery or just a curiosity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on a true story⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus… Are the prices low due to the interest rate? Or is all property owned by people who can buy cash?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump unveils 10% tariff on all imports, plus reciprocal tariffs on dozens of nations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When we have a trade war, isn’t it normally limited to one or a few countries? We should Stat calling this Trump’s World War on Trade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1987⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What part of the plate has lead? The plate itself or the paint?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you want the entire article in the headline or something? Go read the article and the journal article that it cites. They expand upon all of those terms.

  Also, I’m genuinely curious, what do you mean when you say that there is “No such thing AS “AI””?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The ability of AI to write things with lots of boilerplate like Kubernetes manifests is astounding. It gets me 90-95% of the way there and saves me about 50% of my development time. I still have to understand the result before deployment because I’m not going to blindly deploy something that AI wrote and it rarely works without modifications, but it definitely cuts my development time significantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100% this. I generally use AI to help with edge cases in software or languages that I already know well or for situations where I really don’t care to learn the material because I’m never going to touch it again. In my case, for python or golang, I’ll use AI to get me started in the right direction on a problem, then go read the docs to develop my solution. For some weird ugly regex that I just need to fix and never touch again I just ask AI, test the answer it gices, then play with it until it works because I’m never going to remember how to properly use a negative look-behind in regex when I need it again in five years.

  I do think AI could be used to help the learning process, too, if used correctly. That said, it requires the student to be proactive in asking the AI questions about why something works or doesn’t, then going to read additional information on the topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google offering ‘voluntary exit’ for employees working on Pixel, Android⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference here is that leaving would come with a severance package. Offering the same kind of severance package that a company would normally give during layoffs, but allowing people to selectively take it seems like a very reasonable way to handle reducing payroll.

  I imagine that, if not enough people take the offer, they might then have layoffs so this seems like a pretty humane and nice way to handle a tough situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does interoperability work between different fediverse services?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for asking this. I’ve been wondering the same question for quite a while but have been too lazy to actually find the answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re probably talking about a plane so old it had ashtrays in the arm rests. Just as an interesting note, though, the FAA still requires ashtrays on new aircraft. Not in every seat, but they’re required to have one in each lavatory. They are also all required to have the no smoking signage as a constant reminder that there is absolutely no smoking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you read the article, they are suggesting a different approach to peer review, not doing away with it. They want to find ways to build in incentives for reviewers to make it worth their while to review rather than allowing it to continue as something that scientists do out of a sense of obligation.

  They have an interesting approach but I think it doesn’t go far enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had to guess, the reason for the lack of a phone requirement is that, if the army required everyone to have phones, the army would need to pay for them, too. I’m sure the army loves spending money on things like that.