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xmzx··on 26% of students ages 13-17 are using ChatGPT to help with homework, study finds
A calculator will give you bad information too if you don't know how to use the tool.
xmzx··on Texas State Police Gear Up for Expansion of Surveillance Tech
Even all surveillance being equal, Texas has demonstrated it uses its powers in vastly more nefarious ways against marginalized groups, notably women and Latinos and that's just in these past few months.
xmzx··on Please don’t upload my code on GitHub
You don't get ethics and morality not bound by law?
xmzx··on Felt: The fastest way to build Flutter apps in Python
Since half the code on the GitHub is in Dart, I'm guessing the latter.
xmzx··on General belief in a just world is associated with dishonest behavior (2017)
And everything that is caused by something is also correlated, it just requires more time and research to figure it out.
xmzx··on Science needs more research software engineers
Sounds exactly like industry.
xmzx··on Enhanced IP: IPv4 with 64 Bit Addresses (2012) [pdf]
Literally everything about IPv6 is easier and better. IPv4 is already much slower than IPv6, now you're adding another layer of complexity on top of it? That doesn't sound too good. IPv6 is and has been ready to go forever now.
xmzx··on Australian military to help enforce Sydney Covid-19 lockdown as cases rise
The reason, like almost always when things go haywire, is political leaders messed up.
xmzx··on Linux Rust Support
You can't just make up stuff and go with it, you need to be a little more complete with your analysis. Especially worded the way the other comment was and your comment is, you seem to think there is some sort of confusion because you're lumping in one programming language with another and essentially saying, I don't see the difference therefore something sinister may be at play. Your ignorance is not an excuse. Either know what you're talking about or ask questions without your very, very leading premises.
xmzx··on 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning
Hang out at a bus station or a school during kid pickup time, you'll feel like you're in a coal refinery. I can't imagine that's good for your lungs.
xmzx··on Addiction to Outrage (2020)
People shrugged off all the anti-Asian rhetoric pushed in American politics for the past five years especially the last year. Now we have major increase in anti-Asian hate crimes and attacks including one mass shooting. I guess the Asian-American community should continue to shrug it off, as you say.
xmzx··on Addiction to Outrage (2020)
This is a very privileged, ignorant take.

He seems to be lumping in all outrage as the same. People being outraged at Nike doing something is the equivalent to voter rights being taken away because certain people of a certain race vote a certain way. These things aren't remote the same.

And his idea that political parties should "work together" often means you're negotiating the rights of people, who neither party member usually is part of, either to have more or less rights, and you're negotiating them like they're bargaining chips.

This author and so many people who aren't part of marginalized groups really can't grasp this.

xmzx··on Elon Musk says college is ‘for fun’ and not for learning
I disagree. I learned so much more in college and it opened me up to various fields I would have never even thought of. I had truly no idea about sociology, psychology, or philosophy before entering university and needing to take them to fulfill my general education requirements. Those classes opened my eyes up more to this world than anything before or after taking them.
xmzx··on Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month
Not to mention, this work isn't technical in nature. It's very quick to pick up, probably more so than landscaping tbh.
xmzx··on All of New York City’s municipal vehicles will be fully electric by 2040
If they're pushing it this far back, I don't think we'll be seeing them in 2020 either. 2040 goals are feel good goals for today but are nonetheless meaningless.
xmzx··on ‘We feel really terrible,’ says chief executive whose app roiled the Iowa caucus
"We need more time testing this app, sir" - Dev

"No" - Manager

"But it could..." - Dev

"I don't care." - Manager

"Okay :(" - Dev

xmzx··on Fixing Google Map Transit Feed Mistakes in Taiwan
Boston's public transportation developers are great at what they do. Their v3 API is extremely good. And that's why Google Maps and all the other transportation maps for the Boston area are very good. The map and transit app developers can only do so much themselves.
xmzx··on A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties
why no LA, lol
xmzx··on Software Disenchantment (2018)
Something no one has said which probably should be mentioned is that programmers today are just not as good as programmers of yesteryear.
xmzx··on Honda will use GM’s self-driving technology, invests in Cruise
> They already do this with everything else. Vehicles like Mercedes and Tesla are significantly safer than some competitors. Legislation sets the floor, not the ceiling. Or at least it shouldn't create a ceiling.

I think the difference is those are, for the most part, internal safety features for the car's driver and passengers, whereas self driving effects mostly people not in that automobile. Sure, there are some features in cars that aren't, but for the most part, a driver knows (should know) their vehicle, and someone driving a 1978 station wagon and someone else driving a 2018 Volvo won't make that much of a difference on the roadways. Driving a car with a bad autonomous mode vs. a car with a good autonomous mode could be a significantly bigger difference for pedestrians and other drivers than older and newer cars.

xmzx··on Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You
Because we don't live in an economic system that allows for it. Amazon and every other capitalistic enterprise always cares more about profits than the wellness of a city. "If we do it, someone else won't, and they'll win!"