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CocodaMonkey t1_jcw5gbm wrote

Reply to comment by bitemark01 in Desktop hand warmer uses focused IR LEDs to beat the chill by Abildsan

I already know plenty of people who consider their laptop vents a hand warmer. They plug in a mouse and specifically use it right beside the vents.

I've even seen people complain when dirty laptops were cleaned which made the fans work better and thus their hand warmer less efficient since it was now blowing cooler air.

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CocodaMonkey t1_jcw55wj wrote

Reply to comment by Separate-Effective77 in Desktop hand warmer uses focused IR LEDs to beat the chill by Abildsan

Laptop use varies quite a bit. Some people won't touch a desktop thinking of them as old tech but with work from home most people like to setup an extra monitor and sometimes a wireless keyboard and mouse. Essentially you have a lot of "laptop" users who may as well have a desktop because they have so much extra plugged in it's essentially stationary anyway.

As far as this product goes though I don't think it matters too much. No reason you couldn't just mount it over the laptop screen. The device is about 7" tall so you'd have to push it to about 14" but that should still be close enough to get plenty of heat.

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FlyingCockAndBalls t1_jcw0ljb wrote

Reply to comment by feverlast in Screen time has limited effects on toddler's development: Japan study by Saltedline

unfortunately there's way too many people that really only had kids cause it was expected of em and that's why they "parent" with iPads, they don't care. Just like how school is becoming less of a place for learning and more of a babysitter for the parent. Even if they know the risks they won't change cause they don't give a shit about their kids in the first place.

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E_Snap t1_jcvzjp3 wrote

Reply to comment by Bierbart12 in AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – in paper written by chatbot by x0y1

I’m not sure why you all have this idea that AI is and will always be like Commander Data from Star Trek. For what it’s worth, that conceptualization of robots dates back to the very roots of the word in the 1920s book Rossum’s Universal Robots. You know, back when they didn’t exist.

In reality, AI will do whatever you train it to do. Tomorrow’s AI will always be able to overcome whatever idiosyncrasies people are exploiting in the AI of today. ChatGPT already inarguably passed the Turing test, which is a signal that we should stop evaluating these systems based on the ideas of last century.

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