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jay_kyburz

5,550karma·2,804submissions·February 1, 2009
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Sounds like an opportunity to give yourself a promotion. Just start sitting with the CEO at lunch, then walk around telling people what to do. (Joke btw)
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Reading your comment made me think about the other-side of the equation. I think it's generally considered that AI generated works are not themselves protected by copyright, I wonder if code with…
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Why did they not mention what the operating system is? I don't think it unreasonable for a company to no longer support operating systems that are also unsupported.
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I was fine with Minecraft until the kids started wanting to install all kinds of mods, which as far as I know are random executables you download from shady websites.
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I agree, I think schools and universities need to adapt, just like calculators, these things aren't going away. Let students leverage AI as tools and come out of Uni more capable than we did. AI …
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I've never bought a glass in my life. We just use old Vegemite jars here in Australia.
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I've always thought that learning how to deal with people who are not as polite, and even kids that are downright scary, is an important aspect of socialization. They'll have to deal with th…
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I really enjoyed teaching my kids during covid, and they got a bug jump ahead compared to the kids who just played video games while the schools were closed. We only did 3-4 hours a day but it was fu…
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According to AI, they paid 5.3 billion in dividends and a have about 2 million in employees.
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Oh yeah, just saying inheritance is the part I don't like.
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Even in video games, I avoid inheritance, I always much prefer composition. Build a complex object from many small objects, then vary behavior with parameters rather than deriving a child class and ov…
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I've always imagined somebody will get pissed-off at me one day for banning them for bad behavior, or because I said something wrong online.
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Name and shame please. I'm shopping for a cheap first phone for my 13 year old. I'm looking at HMD or Motorola.
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And CSS from the client only!
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Yeah, I agree, boring old tech is best.
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I know some people living in their car. It doesn't have running water or electricity.
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>and creates a level of desperation that is incredibly dangerous. I came into the comments looking for this sentiment. We have a fairly good safety net here in my country, I've lived on study …
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We are a small team and localize our product into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Japaneses, Simplified Chinese, and Russian. We avoid pluralization where we can. The localizatio…
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Yeah, so much drama around the gigantic submarines, we should be building water drones of some kind.
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Yeah, whenever I post a comment you can just prepend "In my humble opinion.." Perhaps more interestingly, as a younger person, I felt very differently. I used to think that military spending…
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Every country should be able to defend itself, without reliance on allies, as a national priority. If this means building cars, ships, tanks, and planes, then that infrastructure should be built and m…
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You can't know your market worth without putting yourself on the market.
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I've played about 20 hours of Arc Raiders and I'm already a little bored of fishing stuff out of draws and lockers. These days I mostly just hunt Arc, or other players that shoot at me first…
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I got this email from from our local provider the other day.. "For a limited time only, we're offering a $500 upfront electricity bill credit* with every eligible home battery system (Tesla …
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