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  1. Re: The concept seems great on AI-Driven Python Code-Completion Tool 'Kite' Attracts $17M In Investments (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have that much boilerplate, it's a sign you are doing something wrong. Reduce redundancy, and all that.

  2. Clearly, your definition is wrong!

  3. Re:So where does society draw the line? on New US Experiments Aim To Create Gene-Edited Human Embryos (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    A zygote has a lot more intelligence, and is a lot more complex, many orders of magnitude more complex, than a single transistor. A transistor isn't much.

  4. Re:100k on Snopes Quits Fact-Checking Partnership With Facebook (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Does this advertising even work?

    Yes, it does. I don't think the old-school CPG manufacturers have really gotten into it yet, though. There's still a huge chunk of advertising money waiting to move to the internet.

  5. Re:Basic rules of misinformation spreading on Snopes Quits Fact-Checking Partnership With Facebook (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You see this all the time right here on slashdot. ....... Call them "the enemies of the people".

    I........don't see that on Slashdot often at all.

  6. Re:paid Snopes as much as $100,000 on Snopes Quits Fact-Checking Partnership With Facebook (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Presumably they were getting a lot of referral traffic as a result.

  7. Re: I thought it was funny on Ubisoft Apologizes for The Division 2 Email Promising a 'Real Government Shutdown' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 2

    From a marketing perspective, it may have been worth it. Certainly more people heard about this game than otherwise would have.

  8. Re:Perfection is the enemy BUT VAPING IS OBV BAD! on E-Cigarettes Are Effective At Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In particular the ceramic components are concerning because the fine particles you'll inhale as a consequence are cumulative

    That is a reasonable concern. Tar is cumulative also.

  9. Re:A non story on Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You would trust that they knew things about you, more than a random spammer.

  10. Re:AI can create stylish design, by not doing that on Ask Slashdot: Could An AI Conceivably Create Futureproof Product Designs? · · Score: 1

    Create the styles, don't follow them.

  11. Re:Third option - two or three security levels on Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The other thing I do is add a couple of characters every year. That way the old password doesn't work, and I'm still using the memory of the password I was using ten years ago - just with more stuff added.

    Nice idea.

  12. Re:A non story on Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Scammers have been using it, sending emails that start with, "I know your password, here it is." That builds trust, then they continue with something like, "I know what you were looking at and I will send it to your family if you don't pay me."

    So there can be other ways to use this besides just hacking the accounts directly.

  13. Re: I'll go with 'no' on Ask Slashdot: Could An AI Conceivably Create Futureproof Product Designs? · · Score: 1

    Tail fins on cars will be coming back next year. I have my Cadillac ready for the moment.

  14. Re: Doomed to failure on Ask Slashdot: Could An AI Conceivably Create Futureproof Product Designs? · · Score: 1

    Indeed, how do you predict fads?

  15. Re:Perfection is the enemy BUT VAPING IS OBV BAD! on E-Cigarettes Are Effective At Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Vaping is still a net killer even when compared to tobacco

    No haha. The health problems of vaping are small compared to the problems of tobacco.

  16. Re:Perfection is the enemy of the good on E-Cigarettes Are Effective At Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Vaping doesn't cause popcorn lung. Good to pay attention to what you are putting in your lungs, but it's better than, you know, tar.

  17. Re:Perfection is the enemy of the good on E-Cigarettes Are Effective At Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. You immediately stop putting tar in your lungs.

    You don't need to put in the effort to overcome the addiction, if you are a smoker, switch today!

  18. Re: If you're going to be eccentric on Meet the Man Behind a Third of What's On Wikipedia (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Put the documentation I'm the code. It will be easier for people to find and appreciate when they need it.

  19. Why quit? on NASA Is Back To Work, But the Effects of the Government Shutdown Linger (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You get free vacation and get back pay. Why would you want to quit that?

  20. your trying to pretend that all the other shit that doesn't work in firefox

    Some of it doesn't.

  21. Yeah. Just have to consider it evidence in one direction, instead of proof.

  22. Firefox has better support for standards. You're trying to pretend that CSS positioning doesn't matter, but you're wrong.

  23. Most of the traffic is encrypted on the web through use of pre-signed public keys. This adds nothing.

  24. Same with Chrome

  25. Key size is no longer a problem for one-time-pad unless you are encrypting video or something very very large. Key exchange can still be problematic.