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Everyone discusses better parenting all the time. But some people forget what it's like being a kid, circumventing blocking systems is trivial if you're motivated, and even if they weren't, a cheap phone costs $80 and kids are very willing to share their old devices.

I had a second phone line installed at my parents house so I could have dialup Internet of my own, so I grew up on the Internet through the twilight of the 'golden years'. My parents had no idea what was going on, I was the only one in the household that knew anything much about computers and the Internet.

rotten.com was an interesting education.

I had a good upbringing and generally attentive parents on the whole, though, so I was already a well balanced young human.


Kids can also choose to disobey parents and play on train tracks or jump off cliffs or a million other dangerous things. Either you leave it to the parents or you end up spying on every single action they take.

It's not that hard, maybe if you put up a sign with a slur a car won't drive that direction, if avoidable. In general, if you can sneak the appearance of a slur into any data the AI may have a much higher chance of rejecting it.


Seem iquilezles has finally given in. He's been complaining about crawler attacks a lot in the last months/years.

https://x.com/iquilezles/status/1977172864785957340 https://x.com/iquilezles/status/1976866381099679817 https://x.com/iquilezles/status/1838858759336267842


How can you have problems hosting a website that is so obviously cacheable.


.... Which is why he used cloudflare. Caching isn't magic.


I used to watch his videos early on, but it's been like this for a few years at least.


Same here, that's why I was kind of surprised. Shame what YouTube forces creators to degrade into, I remember it being super nice being able to see a video about a new SIGGRAPH paper before diving into the details, but these new videos (well, "new" if what you say is true about it being years) I can barely stand because of the change...


FYI you're responding to a 3-days-old account with way too many comments in such a short time frame to be legit. It's most likely a bot.


Lol, thanks I guess, but I'm just bored and have lots of free time :)

Also, based on my first message in this submission, how on earth (like exactly) would an LLM or something else be able to leave a comment like that? Do spambots on the internet have entire backstories now or what?


Seems super light on details, I guess I'm supposed to read the paper that's not linked? Not sure why this has to be new journalist and scientific research, couldn't you just ask Microsoft for some Halo stats and call it a day?


Windows didn't fade in and out in Windows XP.


You say it as a joke, but spell check has replaced certain tiers of editors. And Photoshop has replaced certain tiers of designers.


Not a joke.

Proofreaders still exist, despite spell checker. Art assistants still exist, despite Photoshop. There's always more work to do, you just incorporate the new tools and bump the productivity, until it gets so commoditized it stops being a competitive advantage.

Saying AI "replaces" anyone is just a matter of rhetoric to justify lower salaries, as always.


Bad ones


Bad by modern standards, there was a point in time where even just compositing two images on top of each other with an alpha cutout was considered a complex task.


There are real downsides to even #including C++ headers. And there are certainly downsides to introducing a templated string type. It's not hard to imagine why people would want another solution.


Yeah, but do people like that? It feels pretty patronizing to me in a similar way. Like "Weee! So cute that our website is broken, good luck doing your job! <3"

Reminds me of the old uwu error message meme.


> patronizing

I think it's reasonable and fair, and something you are expected to tolerate in a free world. In fact, I think it's rather unusual to take this benign and inconsequential thing as personal as you do.


Not at all. I can't stand it either. It's definitely patronising and infantile. I tolerate the silliness, grit my teeth and move on but it wears away at my patience.


This is why I add anime catgirls to nearly everything I build. I'm glad the effort isn't in vain!


I think I'd be down for anime catgirls in my builds. Something particularly anti-corporate about that I could get behind.


Looks kinda like Rust? How similar is this to geometry shaders?


Quite different, but also geometry shaders have fallen from grace for quite awhile because it turned out to be practically impossible to optimize them


Geometry shaders have been replaced by mesh shaders, which are way more powerful as they can output any kind of geometry.


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