Yeah, when I saw this headline my first thought is "aww, my dog loved it when I got an Amazon package because she got to destroy all those balloon things for me."
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That would be ideal, sure, but simply getting rid of the extra space that would allow the item to bounce around inside the box is very useful too.
It's unfortunate that there's such a powerful knee-jerk prejudice against blockchain technology these days that perfectly good solutions are sitting right there in front of us but can't be used because they have an association with the dreaded scarlet letters "NFT."
Not only can AI do that, it probably does it far better than a human would.
I like XKCD's solution. Aside from the fact that it would heavily reinforce whatever bubble each community lived in, of course.
There is a certain amount of irony when people respond to a comment that mentions AI with a reflexive "AI is just a fancy autocomplete!" Without any relevance to the larger context.
Yeah. A lot of people loudly declaring that they're switching to Linux, followed by them staying with Windows anyway.
It's getting creepy just how fast these guys whip out their suicide grenade. And the way he was just holding it and looking at it until it went off in his face... I can't imagine what's going through their heads (aside from shrapnel, of course).
Let's just keep it between you and me for now.
Oh, wow! This changes nothing!
Back when I was a kid there were lots of giants around. Then as time passed they shrank to more manageable sizes. Now there are lots of little people around instead, I suspect they're gnomes.
Knowing whether I have First Nations blood on my mother's side would have real legal benefits for me (my mom is estranged from her family and so has never told me much about them, but there's some possibility there given their historical context). I know a friend who had to prove he was 1/8 Metis in order to get a job as a web designer with a particular company.
I think it's ridiculous and flat out racist, frankly, but there are indeed benefits in this day and age from having particular ancestry.