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New comment by dawatchusay in "Training students to prove they're not robots is pushing them to use more AI"

dawatchusay — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:13:27 +0000

Did they not even test their AI detection tool to verify that it can detect when something is human written? That should have been exactly as important as the opposite. Maybe a tool that checked that would be equally as ineffective and we’d move on from the subject entirely

New comment by dawatchusay in "Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence"

dawatchusay — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:30:39 +0000

Please correct me if I’m wrong but it’s my understanding he didn’t start the fire that burned much of the Palisades; he started a fire that was put out (or at least was claimed to be so) which rekindled later and the rest is history.

New comment by dawatchusay in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

dawatchusay — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 03:48:06 +0000

Thanks, I didn’t recall

New comment by dawatchusay in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

dawatchusay — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 01:50:59 +0000

I think it was Call of Duty 2 (when the franchise was still WW2-based) when they would show, in my recollection, an anti-war message including this one every time your character died. I think this was absent from later incarnations of the franchise.

New comment by dawatchusay in "Pfeilstorch"

dawatchusay — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 02:49:32 +0000

It wasn’t even accepted that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs until early 1990s

New comment by dawatchusay in "MoonPay executives may have sent $250k to Nigerian scammer"

dawatchusay — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 05:18:01 +0000

250k must be chump change compared to what they gained then

New comment by dawatchusay in "Belkin ending support for older Wemo products"

dawatchusay — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 05:00:58 +0000

This is honestly very interesting. I bought a condo that was pre-equipped with Casetas and due to the crappy app I thought “these are budget and terrible” but actually reflecting now they all work tremendously and I haven’t had a problem with any. Goes to show how much an ignorant person (me) can’t recognize function over form

New comment by dawatchusay in "Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna"

dawatchusay — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:13:57 +0000

I imagine you couldn’t keep pushing deadlines out indefinitely like we can in American software companies.

New comment by dawatchusay in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

dawatchusay — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 02:23:38 +0000

Where does “several” fall on your spectrum?

New comment by dawatchusay in "Show HN: "Is This Tech Dead?" A snarky autopsy engine for your dead frameworks"

dawatchusay — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 02:43:29 +0000

I put in the web framework that our company’s ecosystem is based on and it said “no results.” At first I thought this was part of the joke, but no, our tech is just beyond dead.

New comment by dawatchusay in "The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans"

dawatchusay — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 04:59:07 +0000

I don’t think that’s why the GFW exists but ok

New comment by dawatchusay in "The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans"

dawatchusay — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 03:57:13 +0000

Europe is also seeing far-right ideology spreading and taking over mainstream politics so this really isn’t an American problem only right now.

New comment by dawatchusay in "4o Image Generation"

dawatchusay — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 04:12:35 +0000

The reflections in the whiteboard are all off. Do they address this?

New comment by dawatchusay in "Resident physicians' exam scores tied to patient survival"

dawatchusay — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:12:37 +0000

This doesn’t show that he was “high on cocaine and morphine 24/7” as the relevant commenter suggested; just that he struggled with addiction

New comment by dawatchusay in "Are we becoming a post-literate society?"

dawatchusay — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:59:05 +0000

If you think of reading as one means of consumption of information then the ability to read may just be outdated, and people are moving to new forms of information consumption. Reading was never particularly exciting for me even though I wanted to discover what was hidden (often buried) in texts and if you can get the information in a more engaging and streamlined way so be it. Maybe the issue is really the content people are streaming and the lack of critical thinking and not that they are streaming at all.

New comment by dawatchusay in "Are we becoming a post-literate society?"

dawatchusay — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:48:27 +0000

Unpaywalled link has been posted already

New comment by dawatchusay in "Are we becoming a post-literate society?"

dawatchusay — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:47:22 +0000

Ability to write wasn’t the original literacy! It’s about reading. If you can’t read code or commentary about code how are you supposed to write good code or formulate new ideas about what good code should be and propagate those?

New comment by dawatchusay in "Are we becoming a post-literate society?"

dawatchusay — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:44:27 +0000

Usually someone will come along and post a link that gets around the paywall.

New comment by dawatchusay in "Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts"

dawatchusay — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 19:02:08 +0000

I just don’t understand how this kind of thing can be legal. How can you say “I’m running a gambling game, and if you’re not that good at it you can bet as much as you want and lose as much as you want, but if you are good, you’re not allowed to bet more than would hurt my bottom line.” I don’t understand how you can have different rules for different customers like this

New comment by dawatchusay in "Everyday is a Birthday A Journey to a classic problem through Math and Rust"

dawatchusay — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 19:45:30 +0000

Should be “every day.” “Everyday” is an adjective describing things that are normal or commonplace. And yes I will die on this hill