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New comment by Noughmad in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

Noughmad — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:14:03 +0000

You can go back to requiring home assignments be written by hand. It won't completely fix the AI issue, because you can still ask ChatGPT and then rewrite it, but it helps because it's very tedious and time consuming, so the benefit is much lower.

If that is not enough, we may have to stop grading take-home papers. Which is a good idea anyway.

New comment by Noughmad in "Google lays off Bay Area workers, closes Mtn View child care center"

Noughmad — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 23:12:49 +0000

Ah yes, it was too crowded so nobody went there anymore.

New comment by Noughmad in "The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)"

Noughmad — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 19:20:24 +0000

First you would need to define a measure of inferiority.

I'm pretty sure we have measured some very spicific things, and found that different races on average have some genetic advantages and disadvantages. Is saying that Asians are disadvantaged in milk drinking competitions making society worse? Also, because humans are diverse, differences between individuals within any racial group can be far greater than differences between races.

And if you compare men and women, the differences are much much bigger, and the comparisons much more frequent - you can barely turn on the TV or open up any social media without seeing them.

So, ultimately - so what?

New comment by Noughmad in "The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)"

Noughmad — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 19:14:35 +0000

"X can seem sensible and logical if you ignore sense and logic and believe your emotions instead".

Yes, that's true for everything, and it is exactly what believing your emotions over facts means.

New comment by Noughmad in "KSP2 is spamming the Windows Registry until the game stops working"

Noughmad — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:34:47 +0000

Well, I still believe it's going to be good eventually. Like KSP1, for example, or No Man's Sky. There certainly have both the resources and a guaranteed player base to make that happen.

That said, I cannot be sure of that, so I will not buy it until it is actually good.

New comment by Noughmad in "Debian is at the heart of the most successful Linux distros"

Noughmad — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 12:05:09 +0000

As always, it's a tradeoff. Sometimes it's a problem, sometimes the same thing is a critical feature.

Which is why it's so important that you have multiple choices. If you need the latest packages, use Arch. If you need stability over multiple years, use Debian.

New comment by Noughmad in "Debian is at the heart of the most successful Linux distros"

Noughmad — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 12:03:48 +0000

> over 10 years on a single install, upgrading from one release to the next\

I mean, that's about one release upgrade

New comment by Noughmad in "Germany is no longer exceptional, and joining the European mainstream"

Noughmad — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 20:19:47 +0000

> All green bets like diesel, biomass, natural gas

That's a huge clue right there. Germany bet on the most conservative solutions (keeping their diesel cars and house heating systems) and guess what, they don't work. Burning food for energy was never going to be good idea, and biodiesel was never going be clean enough for cars, but they went for it anyway because they didn't dare touch the auto companies.

New comment by Noughmad in "There’s a heatwave in the sea and scientists are worried"

Noughmad — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 21:42:51 +0000

We prevented it from escaping back into space. The sun didn't do anything different, we did.

New comment by Noughmad in "Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer?"

Noughmad — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 09:10:56 +0000

It isn't so much about competitiveness or pettiness, but rather about individualism. Americans for some reason always like to think that everything was invented by a single super-genious individual working alone in a cave with a box of scraps. That's how it's always presented in the media - superheroes (alone or in a very small group), lone scientists, billionaires who single-handedly created their wealth from scratch, etc.

New comment by Noughmad in "OpenTTD's Infrastructure in 2023"

Noughmad — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:36:39 +0000

It kinda makes more sense for OpenTTD. The game is famous for creating huge complicated networks for moving cargo and passengers, it is natural that the devs gravitate towards huge complicated computer networks too.

New comment by Noughmad in "John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016)"

Noughmad — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 09:39:04 +0000

> achieving freedom takes a LONG time. It requires a lot of work, strategy, and discipline.

Ah, yes. Only work will set you free. What a reasonable statement.

New comment by Noughmad in "Proposed SEC order to freeze, repatriate Binance.US assets"

Noughmad — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:01:01 +0000

Bitcoin would solve this, if it was actually used (or fit to be used) as intended - people keeping their own wallets and making on-chain transaction.

However, because it is so poorly designed, almost nobody does that, and instead store their crypto in exchanges. Which have all the downsides of banks (they can hold your money hostage) but none of the upsides (security and regulation).

New comment by Noughmad in "CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg"

Noughmad — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:34:42 +0000

Not when compared to a literal metal wire.

New comment by Noughmad in "CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg"

Noughmad — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:23:17 +0000

This is exactly what gets me every time some German "institute" publishes a study how electric cars pollute more than gas cars. They count everything that goes into producing electricity, but never what goes into extracting, refining and transporting gasoline.

New comment by Noughmad in "Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech"

Noughmad — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:51:52 +0000

Above average in diagnosed and treated mental illness. You know, the kind that is way less violent than the other kind.

New comment by Noughmad in "From Go on EC2 to Fly.io"

Noughmad — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 07:58:18 +0000

If you're on AWS or GCP or Azure, and they terminate your account, and you use only the "standard" services (raw instances, k8s, database, redis, queues, email, etc.) it's generally relatively easy to migrate to one of the other two.

Fly is different enough that moving to or from it takes much more time and effort.

New comment by Noughmad in "A novel PayPal scam"

Noughmad — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 09:55:15 +0000

What to use instead?

New comment by Noughmad in "Syntax highlighter is wrong (2014)"

Noughmad — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 20:29:35 +0000

The opening is already completely missing the point. In Bob's book, the comment is highlighted because the paragraph is talking about the comment. Drawing a red circle around something you want to point out doesn't mean that that thing always needs a red circle around it.

New comment by Noughmad in "More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade"

Noughmad — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 22:45:58 +0000

Compare it to what we have invested in killing each other, and despair.