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HomeDeLaPot
·hace 2 meses·discuss
There are many types of houses in between suburbs and skyscrapers. This is "missing middle" housing. Duplexes, townhouses, small apartment buildings, etc. Look at Old Town Alexandria, VA on Google Street View, for example.
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 2 meses·discuss
I guess for me, blatant LLM style reminds me of LinkedIn-speak. Both are distracting and come across as fake. Somehow it's more interesting to read something in another human's unique style than to read something that's obviously been passed through a filter.
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 2 meses·discuss
You start reading. Then it hits you. The short, choppy sentences. The stock phrases. This wasn't written by a human — this was generated by AI.
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 2 meses·discuss
https://halupedia.com/this-experiment-may-not-last-long
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Maybe a more general focus on getting students to practice critical thinking and fact-checking would be better. AI could be addressed as a small part of that, since chatbots are everywhere and students need to know how to filter out their BS.

But are NSF grants really necessary for this? To what degree is this funneling taxpayer money to buy ChatGPT subscriptions and advertise to students by getting them to use AI in the classroom?
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 2 meses·discuss
You're missing the point—we are each supposed to have our agent summarize the key points for us so we don't have to read all the generated slop!

Let me do that now: hmm, this article seems to be a complaint about applications that waste energy.
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Sounds like a viral Tweet. Why wouldn't it be able to gain traction?
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 2 meses·discuss
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HomeDeLaPot
·hace 2 meses·discuss
I just read Brent Jeffs's book "Lost Boy" last year. The amount of control the church leaders exert over the people is disturbing. (Even after the top leader has been revealed as a sexual predator.)
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 2 meses·discuss
I don't see why megacorporations and governments are allowed to control the computer I carry around in my pocket, while I'm not.
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Ouch. Imagine being let go just a few weeks from vesting. Doesn't seem fair to let someone work for months and months in anticipation of their big prize and then yank it away at the last minute.
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 3 meses·discuss
You want the government to force employers to provide a social safety net rather than the government providing it directly?

The problem isn't that people can be fired, it's that their food, housing, and medical care are all dependent on or provided through their employer.
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Giving any kind of notice about layoffs while expecting employees to continue working is just bad for everyone.

The employees stress out about whether they're going to be impacted. Nobody gets much work done as they update their resumes and prepare for the worst. The best people start looking for other opportunities and find them. If specific employees are told they're going to be laid off, some seek revenge.

Much better to immediately notify those impacted, revoke their access, give them generous severance instead of expecting them to work, and let everyone else know they're safe.
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Maybe they could be kept on the payroll without access to actually work.

But the real problem is any law that would deport someone 30 days after they were laid off, even if they had been working for years. That should be 6 months minimum.
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 2 años·discuss
Except the ads don't show up anywhere "on the internet", they only show up on the photo editing site.
HomeDeLaPot
·hace 5 años·discuss
... Regulation? Just ban lead in gas and let the free market find the next best solution.