Frustratingly, the rulings preventing them from bundling software with an operating system stopped them from building in anti-virus measures. For years when Windows was synonymous with malware, they had their hands tied. 20 years later, they started including Windows defender / Security Essentials. The unnecessary global economic losses caused were immense.

If you’ve spent some time with AI already you’ve probably realised that it takes some level of domain-specific information to get AI to produce a useful output. For example, people who are already artistic are better at getting artistically interesting images out of an AI. The idea and the guidance have value and are essential to the outcome. Prompt engineering is a very real skill.

Now this case is about an autonomous tool, which by definition doesn’t include a human’s guidance. I agree that the waters here are definitely murkier. If however, you put a blanket over all AI-assisted works and say that the author/engineer doesn’t deserve credit, or protection, then I think you’re off the mark.

4 months? Those are rookie numbers.

Elmo must have found out how many people are blocking him.

Serious cat.

Same, but I make an exception for shoes… and underwear. Both are purely due to comfort-related considerations.

I’m going to take a swing at that being a function of how it was identified in the first place.

Lol, beautiful. Thank you Sal. open_links_in_new_tab?: boolean;

My android phone doesn’t do that at all. The nest devices definitely don’t either.

I do something similar, but not quite as many as you - only as many as is practical. 200 socks seems excessive. I only have a dozen identical pairs. I ball them up and keep them in a dispensing tube so they all get used equally.

I sympathise. I tend to only make things that are beyond simple to make. It’s like an emotional/intellectual block. I just can’t put in the effort because I don’t feel like that effort is being paid back by the experience. 45 minutes of cooking for something I eat in 3 minutes just is not worth it.

Do it. Get an Ender, they’re an inexpensive starting point. 3D printing changed my life. It’s an important part of my job now.

I feel confident that my leg bouncing thing is associated with stress and/or nervous energy. I have another finger-waggling (often while looking up) thing that I do when problem-solving. I find it weird looking at myself in the third person and noticing the weird things I do… frequently apologising for it.

Of course, I’ve tried to control it in the past. It always starts subconsciously, and even when aware of it it’s difficult to stop. I don’t think I’ve ever done it intentionally.

Same. It’s the software. I don’t want your shovelware, Samsung.

This is sad. I used to feel much like you.

I discovered a new way to deal with this. Basically, I like to get creative. If the truth is boring or mundane or I just don’t want to talk about it, I make up something fun instead. Make it weird enough that it’s obviously not true - this seems to short-circuit the little-white-lie glitch that would otherwise cause a mental lock-up. I do this at work and I get the impression people enjoy it because I get follow up questions, forcing the story to go deeper, followed by them adding to the story. For most of my life I never thought it could be enjoyable to speak to people on this kind of level. It’s banter… proper banter, and I might be good at it on some days.

What did you do this weekend? Truth = basically nothing. Fun version = Aligator wrestling. Really? Aligator wrestling!? Where did you do that? … and were off and running.

If there’s a downside, it’s that people probably think you’re weird. The thing is, though, I am weird. I think I’m only just learning to own it.

Found an extension that works for other sites, but not this site. Probably something to do with the domain.