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by 12_throw_away 2mo ago
Yep, this is the sort of thing happens when you've deeply internalized that trustworthiness and continuity is not important. Microsoft today is not a serious company, it is not run by serious people, and it is at the forefront of a dee
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by 12_throw_away 2mo ago
I'm all ears, then - please, enlighten us.
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by 12_throw_away 2mo ago
You know how they say "possession in 9/10s of the law"? I.e., "9/10s of the law is just devoted to figuring out who owns what." That is to say - I really doubt anything about this is remotely simple or straight
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by 12_throw_away 2mo ago
> who cares? Assuming this is a genuine question, here is why people care, and why this sort of writing is a waste of everyone's time. LLMs can of course generate a lot of text about a subject, but they are still quite bad at gene
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by 12_throw_away 2mo ago
But that can't be true! From the article (with a probably irrelevant fact added by me): "Sexual exploitation is horrific, and we work aggressively to keep it off our platform" a Meta [which in the past 2 years has laid of
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by 12_throw_away 2mo ago
Dunno, there are very few universal knowledge checks that would work across the entire industry, but my two absolute baseline standards for anyone who would be coding are 1) knows how to version control, and 2) can comfortably traverse a gr
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by 12_throw_away 2mo ago
I believe this would nucleate a cosmic string (and annihilate everything in its vicinity obviously)
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by 12_throw_away 2mo ago
A very very limited defense of Microsoft and their whole "support vendor" "ecosystem": if you are selling a complex product, there is value in having a robust knowledge base of known problems with known solutions, and
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by 12_throw_away 2mo ago
From the facts that came out at his trial [1], it seems like Baugh, the guy who ran the operation, was basically feral. At one point during his cross-country trip to harass these people , he was also trying to organize a blackmail campai
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by 12_throw_away 2mo ago
And on the other hand, let's see how the C-suite made out: Wymer was appointed chief of the non-profit Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. Wenig has been on General Motors’ board since 2018 and now runs an AI start-up. Jones re
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
42% of the apps on LG's platform have these quasi-malware SDKs in them? Seems kinda bad, whether it's due to negligence or just pure incompetence? You'd think there might be legal consequences for a corporation that lets thei
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
> None other than Einstein refused, all the way to his death, to accept a probabilistic interpretation in spite of all evidence pointing in that direction. [...] Of course there even remains the possibility that at some point in the futu
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
You're describing "negligence", and "our legal and philosophical perspectives" are in fact quite familiar with it
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
Right? "Never attribute to malice what [... etc]" is always just a thought-terminating cliche these days. TBH I have a hard time imagining how anyone, in the year 2026, thinks that we should default to assuming good intent behind
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
Any individual human (or frog, obviously) is getting out of the pot when it gets uncomfortable. True stupidity requires a group of humans, all sitting in the pot, telling each other how lucky and special they are to have this wonderful po
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day "more than a billion"? What are we doing here? Do you have any idea what your target market is? Surely someone in your organiza
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
IMO it's worth watching the video rather than reading someone's writeup of it. My favorite part is this (written) list of everything that went wrong [1] ... and how much of it is due to the intersection of hardware, software, vend
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
Literally some of the first advertised uses for LLMs were both "You can feed it bullet points and it will compose an entire email" and "You can take long emails and condense them into bullet points!" They've been
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
> for people to hold different definitions of words [...] is the single biggest reason for all arguments in recent human history. IMO this extremely, extraordinarily true. And in my experience, it's somehow even more true for disa
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
Corollary: If a computer makes a business decision, the person who delegated the decision to the computer must be held accountable. Consequence: All business decisions will eventually be delegated to computers via sufficiently convoluted an
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
> If you don't want people to optimize against your filtering process, you have to make it somewhat nondeterministic. I'm sorry, I'm not following this at all. When you say "better candidates are exponentially more li
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
This is, indeed, the next generation of AOP: they've managed to evolve it from "extremely complex and hard to understand runtime behavior" into "completely undefined runtime behavior". UB as a service. True innovati
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
> it could be reviewers and others intentionally trying to sabotage other people's work Anyone with even a tiny bit of knowledge about the topic being discussed would know that everything I described happens after reviewers and
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
Right? A lot of journals make a big deal about submitting your manuscript in the proper format (sometimes even LaTeX if you're lucky) and then you get the galley proofs back and half the equations and citations now have typos in them.
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by 12_throw_away 3mo ago
Well, maybe no competition when we're talking about institutional access rights on dry land. However, for everyone else, there's quite a bit of competition out there in the high seas.
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
I am unable to comprehend the state of mind that would lead one to ask this question.
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
As a legal theory, "this default judgement against an anonymous AliExpress seller is binding on literally everyone in the world" kinda reminds me of the Dune nft bros' "we bought a book about Dune and therefore now own t
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
So, um, the phrase "legally forced" really does not go with "happened easily". Ignoring what "legally" forced entails, and just focusing on the mechanics of renaming stuff: Even if your code base can be updated
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
Dunno, the old school "we'll get you started in the mailroom, and you can work your way up by gaining knowledge about the organization while demonstrating competence and professionalism" sounds like a pretty solid hiring stra

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