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New comment by samiwami in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

samiwami — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:05:08 +0000

it’s a cut and dry constitutional amendment, it doesn’t matter if Thomas thinks the people that were in mind when it was drafted are not the same people it applies to now. if they want to change it, go ahead and get the states to ratify a new amendment.

Supreme Court doesn’t get to throw out an amendment because it’s old.

New comment by samiwami in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

samiwami — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:49:21 +0000

Pass/No Record is one of MITs best ideas for undergrads (that and S^3).

It lets you actually focus on getting acclimated and into the groove without being worried about the difference between an A and a B.

New comment by samiwami in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

samiwami — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:29:14 +0000

MIT has an incredible IT staff and they do some cool stuff. Every time I interact with any other organizations IT stuff I find it inferior. They just aren’t super big from what I gathered and probably don’t want to do the incredibly boring work of an LMS.

The one they had before Canvas was very very inadequate.

edit: also some of the more popular cs classes have custom websites and don’t really use canvas, but that isn’t the centralized IT department’s doing.

New comment by samiwami in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

samiwami — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:22:33 +0000

do they have anything similar to SynthID, or are they just pretending that problem doesn't exist?

I know this is probably mega cherry-picked to look more impressive, but some of the images are terrifyingly realistic. They seem to have put a lot of effort into the lighting.

New comment by samiwami in "Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see"

samiwami — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:45:41 +0000

I think CEO of Instagram publicly admitted that the Social Media aspect of Instagram peaked around 2020 and has been declining since - he claimed it was being replaced by more group chats, private stories.

New comment by samiwami in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

samiwami — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:33:52 +0000

wouldn’t something like Black Frame Insertion also fix that?

New comment by samiwami in "I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus"

samiwami — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:52:13 +0000

they don’t by default. If you turn on “Match Content” it will make the refresh rate match the video FPS

New comment by samiwami in "After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death"

samiwami — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:14:11 +0000

Social conditioning? Clair Obscur is good and was very unique, but is not 100x than “the slop big studios publish”.

New comment by samiwami in "The Junior Hiring Crisis"

samiwami — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:56:48 +0000

CEO’s also never face consequences for destroying companies. Zaslav has run WBD into the ground and it’s currently being surrounded by vultures, and he’s still making like half a billion a year.

New comment by samiwami in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

samiwami — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:25:25 +0000

There is nothing forcing developers to release on steam, they can sell directly through a website. It’s not Valve’s fault no other competitor has gotten close to the quality of Steam. Epic Games could have made a dent, but they decided to try to bribe customers instead of making a functioning store.

New comment by samiwami in "Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022)"

samiwami — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 03:47:03 +0000

I have their 10GB line and I could NOT be happier. Only company where I reply to their “please rate us emails"

New comment by samiwami in "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)"

samiwami — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 07:55:02 +0000

is your argument that protests do nothing, therefore people should stay home?

New comment by samiwami in "OpenAI Announces SearchGPT"

samiwami — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:26:38 +0000

I wonder how good this will be. My employer gave us Perplexity Pro for free, and I removed Safari from my home screen and pinned Perplexity to force myself to use it… I found it really really slow and didn’t really add to my search experience