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ciarenni t1_j9wf6oh wrote
Reply to comment by Brickleberried in Massive 'forbidden planet' orbits a strangely tiny star only 4 times its size. by Rifletree
Yeah, it wasn't the best example star but my point was that just because it's small doesn't mean anything about how much mass it has, which is the point that I feel like the headline was missing.
ciarenni t1_j9v3rtq wrote
Reply to comment by Brickleberried in Massive 'forbidden planet' orbits a strangely tiny star only 4 times its size. by Rifletree
I was going to say, white dwarf stars are very small (on the scale of space) but still have a good portion of their prior mass. It's very reasonable to assume that a planet could form around it, even if improbable.
ciarenni t1_j9hdgps wrote
Reply to comment by Arnold729 in TIFU as I presented my bf with his cheating partner on a silver platter by Certain_Syllabubb
Bi people exist. Also, what an incredibly tone-deaf comment.
ciarenni t1_j6gprgw wrote
Reply to comment by Criticalhit_jk in 9 lives by PewPewAnimeGirl
You're suggesting that your cat does something it knows it isn't supposed to and then acts like this, but isn't scared? What is it then?
ciarenni t1_j6g6mec wrote
Reply to comment by hogester79 in 9 lives by PewPewAnimeGirl
And I'm saying it was scared before and launched itself off a cliff knowing it would be fine and still hid because that's how survival instincts work.
ciarenni t1_j6fi0a8 wrote
Reply to comment by hogester79 in 9 lives by PewPewAnimeGirl
No, it was scared of the person beforehand. You can tell by how it tries to slink by them and gives them a glance.
ciarenni t1_j5v8u6x wrote
Reply to comment by monogreenforthewin in Pepper spray for the school run? The weaponised SUV set to terrify America’s streets by Maelarion
Corinth is famous for its leather!
ciarenni t1_j5m0jn5 wrote
Reply to comment by greenappletree in CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism by iingot
> I heard that chatGPT when as to code something was just basically scraping from GitHub. At what point does an AI infringe in copyright and who is responsible.
Microsoft has already done this. Here's the short version.
A few years back, Microsoft bought GitHub. Repositories on GitHub have a license, specified by the author, stating how they can be used. These licenses range from "lol, do whatever, I don't care, but don't expect any support from me", to something akin to standard copyright.
Microsoft also creates Visual Studio, a program for writing code with lots of niceties to help people develop more efficiently and easily than writing code in notepad.exe. A recent version of Visual Studio had a feature called "co-pilot" which will basically read the half-built code you have and use some machine learning to offer suggestions.
Now then, as an exercise for the reader, knowing that Microsoft owns GitHub and also Visual Studio, where do you think they got the data to train that ML model? If you guessed "from the code on GitHub", you'd be right! And bonus points if you followed up with "but wait, surely they only used code they were allowed to based on the license specified?" Hint: No. It's literally plagiarism.
ciarenni t1_iwe0nam wrote
Reply to comment by jherara in Google to pay 40 states $392M in location-tracking settlement by AudibleNod
> The amount is a drop in the bucket for Alphabet.
This amount isn't even notable to Alphabet. It's a rounding error at best.
ciarenni t1_iuq88qu wrote
Reply to comment by thunderc8 in Nice Catch! by westondeboer
As soon as I saw the push, my first thought was "they must be siblings".
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Reply to comment by JustMeAndMySnail in TIFU by drinking black tea by monkshood_bezoar
Assuming they're in the US, they might be unable to get more meds currently and are rationing them.