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New comment by gguncth in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

gguncth — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:50:55 +0000

Sure, but in two years AI has gone from “impressive tool, but not a replacement for knowledge workers” to “the study where it beats our highest caliber of knowledge workers may have some methodological deficits.” In another two years it’s going to be curtains.

New comment by gguncth in "Billionaire tax proposal in California on track to qualify for ballot"

gguncth — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:07:35 +0000

Hardly matters at this point, the billionaires have already fled

New comment by gguncth in "US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]"

gguncth — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:37:22 +0000

Not surprising that the legal profession decided that their special privilege doesn’t apply to you if you’re not paying them hundreds of dollars per hour

New comment by gguncth in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

gguncth — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:02:51 +0000

Not never releasing convicted criminals, but 1) not letting any crime go without at least 1 day in jail 2) doubling the penalty on each successive offense would incapacitate a huge number of serial offenders

New comment by gguncth in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

gguncth — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:56:38 +0000

It’s fascinating how America could completely get rid of Flock cameras by sending criminals to prison and leaving them there, but we won’t do that so we have these endless arguments about these cameras.

New comment by gguncth in "Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs"

gguncth — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:57:06 +0000

The purpose of the brand font is to avoid paying licensing fees. Because the typefaces aren’t protected by copyright it’s usually enough to just have someone go and essentially clone an existing font. The whole thing is an artifact of peculiarities of IP law

New comment by gguncth in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

gguncth — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:06:50 +0000

I worked in a research lab that had dongle protected software and it achieved its commercial purpose. It was installed on every computer but would only work with the dongle. Eventually people started fighting over the dongle so much that we got another license (and dongle).

New comment by gguncth in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

gguncth — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:47:41 +0000

What does AI have to do with this?

New comment by gguncth in "Vince Zampella, developer of Call of Duty and Battlefield has died"

gguncth — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:29:17 +0000

“has died” is one way of saying “crashed his Ferrari at a high rate of speed, killing his passenger as well as himself.”

New comment by gguncth in "Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades"

gguncth — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:57:44 +0000

I have no desire to run an LLM on my laptop when I can run one on a computer the size of six football fields.

New comment by gguncth in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

gguncth — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:50:12 +0000

This policy will be in place for about 2-3 more years at which point it will be excluding almost everything, at which point it will be reversed

New comment by gguncth in "A brief history of Times New Roman"

gguncth — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:22:46 +0000

That’s the most legible font for people with impaired vision, which is a completely different concept

New comment by gguncth in "I Love My Wife, My Wife Is Dead (1946)"

gguncth — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 02:33:00 +0000

Important context is that he cheated on this woman with every warm body he could find