Before you can punish for using LLMs, you need to be able to reliably detect the use of LLMs, including guarding against false positives.

You can tell they’re using an LLM if they have a computer out during the pen-and-paper test.

Since Dodge v. Ford Motor Co (1919), if not earlier.

See also: https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/

“Mildly” only because I’m pretty sure it’s already illegal. Still, fucking absurd that they even have the gall to try.

He should unionize the staff before he leaves.

And as part of the “open” part, any data added must be compatible with the odbl license, which means sources must first be verified as compatible, so any imports of government databases are oftentimes simply not legally possible and even if they are it’s something you have to do quasi-manually since it’s probably in a completely different format.

Considering that collections of facts aren’t actually copyrightable in the first place (see Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.), how much does that actually matter?

Like, as a practical matter I can see how the people that run OpenStreetMap might not want you to do it, but I don’t think it would actually be copyright infringement if somebody, say, scraped the business directory information from Google Maps and bulk-imported it to OpenStreetMap.

I buy used/refurbished phones a generation or so out-of-date, and recently upgraded from a Pixel 7 to a Pixel 8. Amazon sells “unlocked” phones, but does not distinguish between carrier-unlocked and OEM (bootloader)-unlocked. Whatever phone you get, you’ll want to immediately do the “enabling OEM unlocking” step (enable Developer Options and make sure that “OEM unlocking” exists as an option and isn’t grayed out) before the return period expires.

It took me two tries to get an actually-unlockable phone this time around, and I’ve still got the unsuitable one sitting here on my desk waiting to get packed and shipped back to Amazon.

Also, I’ve been actually screwed by it a year or so ago, when I got a Pixel 7 for my dad, with the idea of preserving the option to install something like GrapheneOS or LineageOS at a later date. When that later date came (after the return window had closed), we discovered that his “unlocked” phone wasn’t actually OEM-unlockable and now he’s stuck on the stock ROM.

My Ender 3 required a little bit of assembly (attaching the Z-axis frame and the control panel, along with associated wires), but my Monoprice one came completely assembled. It was literally just plug it in, check the bed for level (which wasn’t automatic, but also required little to no adjustment out of the box), feed in some filament, and then print the lucky cat gcode that came on the SD card.

I don’t mind it being a rule, but I do mind it being a secret. It needs to be mentioned in the sidebar (probably as an addendum to rule #2).

Does this community not allow videos? I tried posting a link to it directly yesterday, but Automod removed it instantly.

Weimar-style hyperinflation, here we come!

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck!

McElroy, who was being held on charges stemming from an allegation of substance use during pregnancy

“You’ve been accused of potentially harming your baby, so we’re going to deny you medical care to make sure of it!”

Fucking barbaric. Every single one of the law enforcement personnel involved ought to be [redacted].

The orcas have only been going after small sailboats (the kind small enough for a middle-class family to afford, if they own it instead of a house and live aboard full-time). They aren’t the class conscious anti-oligarch crusaders everybody wants them to be.

I remember reading someone getting taken down because they were asking how to extrude instead of pad while they were on the ‘part design’ workbench

Why are those even two different things at all?!

Those two would probably never have gotten started if not for how easy the Bambus are. It took me a month to get decent results off my first printer and they were up and running in a few hours tops.

I’ve got to admit, I’ve never understood that sort of issue. I’ve owned two 3D printers, a Monoprice MP Select Mini (bought back when it was the only ‘cheap’ printer in existence… holy shit, probably almost a decade ago) and a Creality Ender 3 V3 SE (because it was the best ‘cheap’ printer as of a couple years ago), and both of them gave me decent prints pretty much out of the box. After bed leveling, obviously, but without any other weird hardware adjustment or excessive experimentation with slicer settings.

I feel like the vaunted ‘superior ease of use’ of the Bambu stuff is overblown, but IDK, maybe I’ve just been lucky.

Q: “How have you dealt with this?”

A: Poorly.

Retrofitting infotainment on your terms is entirely different from dealing with it preinstalled in a new car. For example, I’m betting yours doesn’t have an unskippable popup warning about paying attention to the road that you have to dismiss every time you turn on the car. Or telemetry that rats out your driving behavior to the manufacturer and/or the insurance company and/or law enforcement. Or other sorts of adware or malware.

And considering that you had to add it to begin with, it definitely doesn’t disable the entire car if you try to remove it or otherwise neuter the hostile misfeatures.

Even in the context of having only experienced certain other CAD software a little bit (e.g. SolidEdge for one class in college, SketchUp for making maybe a handful of models, total), FreeCAD really is worse to use. It’s not just the UI, (although it is partly that and it is genuinely worse, not just neutrally different), it’s that stuff just starts breaking whenever you try to do anything even slightly complex (even after the “topological naming fix”), and that the workflow is just annoyingly internally inconsistent.

For example, you can make a sketch and then apply constraints to it and it’s all well and good, but then you extrude it and suddenly you have to declare the height by setting the properties of the extrude instead of using a constraint or dimension. I assume there’s some kind of workaround involving declaring variables in the data table thing I can’t remember the name of or how to access right now, but it shouldn’t have to be that way. You ought to be able to do things like create a cube by declaring an X edge to be the same length as a Y edge to be the same length as a Z edge using the same tool to set both relationships.

And this is coming from somebody who refuses to use proprietary CAD as a matter of principle at this point, and therefore really, really wants to like FreeCAD.

I like “I Like To Make Stuff” on Youtube, but it annoys the Hell out of me that he plugs Autodesk Fusion 360 all the time (to the point that he even sells his own course teaching how to use it). On the bright side, at least he uses Prusa instead of Bambu, but still, the Autodesk shilling is almost enough to make me quit watching his channel.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:476016