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Barely controlled technology for children, what a great idea.

I commented on an article about the deal that suggested Disney might make the deal to strengthen their argument that other usage was "unauthorized", by carefully defining and licensing some "authorized" usage, and I'm pleased to see I was proven correct so quickly.

I feel like this logic falls apart when you start talking 100+ children. The average couple has two children, so even a 20% chance of a genetic disorder still has a less than 50% chance of being hit, and running the tests for every couple is highly impractical. But using the same genetics for...

It's billions in aggregate, no single company saw billions in losses. The problem is that most companies certainly could have had substantial impact due to this issue, the cost for that company to build out a second region (which might not have helped at all), or worse a second cloud provider...

The basic ethical concern is that AI takes a massive quantity of code of untracked and unknown origin, often from sources that didn't agree to this, tosses it all into huge blender and randomly spits out chunks of it. Can you trace where the code came from, did it come from people who never...

This isn't how coding works. You don't need to write code to understand how it works. Being able to READ code and understand how it works is much more important. Not to mention, most programming beyond very trivial cases involves using various levels of external and system APIs, and in 90% of...

I wonder if Japan's favorite beer is as terrible as the USA's. Imagine running out of Michelob Ultra, I'm pretty sure we could survive that.

Microsoft makes tiny non-backward compatible change: "The new version breaks us so our hospital is still using Windows XP and is insecure" Microsoft keeps in backward capability features: "Windows is insecure and it's Microsoft's fault" (I'm actually MSFT employee in an unrelated part of the...

It's a big chunk of data, it cannot phone home actually. You will need some software to run it, which may or may not "phone home" but models and weights cannot.