You know, one wonders if all academic works should be released under “academic license”…

Might be nice to sting these big companies for our free labour.

I mean, with winter coming in, and universities not bothering to heat the building, teams turning my potato work laptop into a furnace is the only thing keeping us warm this winter…

Serious question - is their long term strategy bad optimisation to sell hardware? Do they have shares in intel or something?!?

Honestly, why ruin something already raking in money hand over fist? Valve is profitable, sustainable, and all around well executed.

Messing with it would cut profits!

I mean, a lot of folks who voted leave are probably dead by now…

Those who voted remain knew this was coming, and still get to live with it.

It gives normal distribution questions, but not actual use cases (I was looking for a normal model based on actual data rather than just made up values).

You’re looking for normal distributions in chemistry, biology and real estate.

Will give it a try!

Thanks for the recommend.

On the contrary, that is their function, one they used to be good at.

mocp - For when you want to listen to music in terminal.

I’m not entirely unsympathetic here - we all do what we can to survive. For some of us, that does mean cashing in on nature’s gifts.

There is a darker side here, as much as I like to joke, influencers are people and most people draw the line somewhere. There are some things no-one wants their face tied to. AI personas on the other hand…

I can give a fun example for both ddg and Google:

Earlier today I was writing an exam paper for my students, and one of the topics is “basic” normal distribution. So, I thought to myself, why not make it I testing, give them a real world normal model.

Try it yourselves - the number of bot reposts is frightening.

What we really need is an app with an ordered account list that allows you to view all the content from those accounts and when responding/contributing uses that order and picks the top one that is able to.

There is a compatibility overlap (we’re currently in it!).

It’s like the old 32 bit to 64 bit jump - care will be needed or a competitor might sieze the market as people get disgruntled over the cost of upgrading.

Aye, credit where it’s due; this is a great way to differentiate between human and machine controlled devices. It’s detectable by both, and can help in cases where people blame the autodrive, or car companies claim human error.

My deepest condolences - the absolutely dire mathematical skills of the purchasing public never cease to horrify me.

Laughs in Epson Ecotank

It’s like the UK government is trying to get Chinese level content restriction without openly admitting it…

There’s a lot more in that bill than just “protect little Timmy from the big bad titties”. It also gives a duty to “protect” users from, and allow reporting of, “illegal content”, and remember folks, whats legal today may well be illegal tomorrow!

It’s a tricky one because of the nature of the net. Let’s say we have three kids: Timmy, Jimmy and Harry.

Timmy starts looking up “tits”, because Timmy loves titties. He’s curious, and you probably want to have a talk about acting and how porn isn’t reality.

Jimmy, well, Jimmy saw a videogame character tied up and it made him feel good, so he starts looking for that online. He’s about to explore the BDSM scene. He’s going to need the “safe sane consensual” talk, otherwise his explorations might get him, or someone else, hurt. He’ll need more of a talk than Timmy!

Harry loves hentai; he found some when looking for pictures of his favourite cartoon character. Harry is going to need a long talk about fantasy Vs reality, otherwise he’s going to disappoint a lot of women! Wait a moment, most of the things he’s looking at involve animals and women… Might be time to get some therapy!

In all three of these cases a different style and level of parental intervention was required. You watch your kids because they’re kids, and kids are experts at getting themselves (and others) hurt. Parents need to watch their kids because it’s their job to intervene, and to decide the method of intervention.

However, we’ve not gone over the case of Lizzy, a girl cursed with religious fundamentalist parents. When they find out she’s more interested in girls than boys, she’ll be subjected to inhumane treatment to “fix” her. So there is a grey area here - not all parents should be parents.

Poor Mauro: they weren’t good at what they loved, they blamed others for their failings, and their community leader was nuts.

Jokes aside, we’ve already got toxic right there. Linus isn’t right, but someone like that would be fired with good cause. It’s one thing to make a mistake, it’s quite another to blame your co-workers for your own shoddy work.

What’s that Reddit phrase? ESH!

Exactly!