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erfgh··on DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers
They will just switch to a betting exchange model where the house gets a percentage of the turnover and the rest is distributed to the players. Under this model there is no incentive to ban winners.
erfgh··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
App submissions are up but what about revenue?
erfgh··on How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
If there are very few humans that can do this is because the market for such a task is very small and thus there is little incentive to learn how to do it or produce tools that can do it.
erfgh··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
You better don't look into how banks created your savings by creating loans that were used to invest into companies and thus pay salaries.
erfgh··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
Deciding not to have a child also impacts your future. You might change your mind in the future and be unable to have a child or have other health problems that make raising a child difficult. You might reach old(er) age and be alone. Regrets are a thing.
erfgh··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
The problem is that AI writing uses a pretty distinctive style and when you read a whole newspaper that was written or edited by AI it is very monotonous. Also, I can't really trust it because I know that the author probably phoned in his fact-checking.
erfgh··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
There's nothing you can really walk back from. Time flows one-way.
erfgh··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
AI has killed reading-anything-written-after-AI for me. Due to this effect it is probably the worst invention in human history or pre-history.
erfgh··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
What's wrong with making billions? Will this hurt the game somehow?
erfgh··on Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
> I think most people think of it as a free vacation.

It's not free if the company is paying for it.

erfgh··on Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
The whole article is AI slop.
erfgh··on Why current LLM costs are not sustainable
They are subsidized by the huge losses incurred by the AI companies.
erfgh··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
For those that don't know, DDG already has an AI mode: duck.ai
erfgh··on AI is wiping out entry-level jobs
The whole article feels like AI slop.
erfgh··on Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
Where does this certainty that LLMs will get more intelligent stem from?
erfgh··on AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
Even if AI does automate some jobs (or even most of them) then people doing them will just do something else. It's not like the world has a limited demand of computer code.
erfgh··on AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
If the complexity of your mathematical problems was down to arithmetic then your problems were not at all complex.
erfgh··on Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)
This is like asking "why having a car does not make you run faster".
erfgh··on Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics
Covid, smartphones/screens, social media, AI have an enormous impact on the students. A slight school defunding (if it really exists, which I doubt) cannot compare.
erfgh··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
I hate bombing as much as the next guy but areas close to military structures, especially to ones that have already been bombed during the last 24 hours, should have been evacuated.
erfgh··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
Countries that send their oil through the strait of Hormuz will build alternative routes. But for such routes to be ready a few years will be needed. Once alternative routes are in place, and since Iran will likely not have a nuclear weapon by then, full obliteration of Iran will ensue.
erfgh··on Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
There are books with written solutions.
erfgh··on Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)
Can someone enlighten me about the REPL that lispers keep raving about? Isn't it more-or-less the same as the Python REPL?
erfgh··on EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim
What is AI-taint and why is regular vim tainted?
erfgh··on IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight
The income tax would be less but so would be your salary. The corporate tax is another cost for the company.
erfgh··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Well your solution includes handwritten signatures and everyone being a handwriting expert so that they compare handwritten signatures. I wouldn't call this an elegant solution.
erfgh··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
I bet they expect the canceled payments. Management will push through.
erfgh··on How to carry more than your own bodyweight (2025)
Unless you get all your information from movies construction work does not train strength that much.
erfgh··on PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible
You don't play Zelda because your kids are grown? What kind of logic is this?
erfgh··on There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
It will raise the costs and the prices, people will be unhappy and this will result in far-right populist parties taking over.
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