Balgair

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by Balgair 7mo ago
I remember the Ashley Madison hack a ways back. It was a cheaters website and you could pay to send messages to other cheaters, I think that was the business model at least. Anyways, since the userbase was like 99.99% male, there just were
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Wait, are you not calling more than one shop every time?
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by Balgair 7mo ago
A good 'Service Writer' (the term you use for this job) isn't cheap and typically aren't outsourced. Usually because your (local) competition is going to be using them too. And also because customers aren't going to
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Oh then it's even worse ! As again, only the more well behaved kids are going out in public.
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Having kids is like eating a mango. You can talk to the foremost mango growers on cultivating mango trees and learn everything there is to know about making mangoes. You can consult with the best chefs about how to make the best mango dishe
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Before kids, you take a look around a diner or a store or a playground and you see little ones happily eating some chips or browsing the foodstuffs or playing on a slide. You think that this is what kids are like. They sit there, they walk
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A National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence [pdf](whitehouse.gov)
6 points by Balgair 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Yeah I see that there can be a false positive/negative issue too. For instance, allergy tests have a false positive rate of ~10% and a false negative rate of ~48%. So you really need a MD (or AI) to help tease things out there. But I&#
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Its a a general term that a lot of people adhere to. It's just that those people tend to be about 2 standard deviations out on whatever normal distribution you're dealing with. Here in the US, you get a lot of these incel-y types
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by Balgair 7mo ago
He just kinda hustled I think. I don't know him all that well. But from what I do know, he started announcing for his buddies who referred him to other people and so on. Eventually he had a website going and would schedule when he was
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Friend of a friend does announcing online. Like, you pay him a little (<= $20 ?) and he'll announce your game of NBA-2K26 on twitch. He does have a good radio voice. A good way to make a little in the off hours. So, he got a gig to
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Fail Fast I guess!
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by Balgair 7mo ago
There is the other side of this too: Real people - fake posts. So, you have other folks on here already saying that the code their bots write is better than their own, right? How long until someone who is karma focused just uses a bot to wr
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A Hard Reset, and What Comes Next (2026)(digg.com)
3 points by Balgair 7mo ago|1 comments
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Very rich, very liberal, very loud, has a lot of free time too. Elon raised his first set of kids there for a reason. Folks there tend to have a lot of hooks in a lot of places.
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Have you worked with the Claude agents a lot? They essentially prompt themselves! It's crazy. My meaning is not so much that intelligence will go away as a useful trait to individuals. But more that it's utility to the economy wil
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Neither does a pneumatic piston operate at all like a bicep nor does an accounting book operate at all like a hippocampus. But both have taken well enough of the load off both those tissues that you be crazy to use the biological specimen f
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by Balgair 7mo ago
→All these guys are just commodity to us. Just want to note something there: Okay, premise that AI really is 'intelligent' up to the point of business decisions. So, this all then implies that 'intelligence' is then a co
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by Balgair 7mo ago
For the other readers in this thread, this poster really knows their stuff.
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Spectre I, shuts down microphones nearby you(deveillance.com)
20 points by Balgair 7mo ago|13 comments
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Like the top of your skull, the boney bits on your spine can be less than a mm from the air. Especially if you're a woman or are elderly or are quite sick and recovering. Many things can affect skin thickness. Also, that depth is proba
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by Balgair 7mo ago
One trick with opt outs: suit and tie. The 'better' you look, the less they'll worry and faster they'll be. If you look like some business person that's 'important', they treat you like one too. Airline st
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by Balgair 7mo ago
This kinda gets into the idea of AIs as droids right? So, you have a code writing droid that is aligned towards writing good clean code that humans can read. Then you have an implementation droid that goes into actually launching and runnin
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by Balgair 7mo ago
So um, can an AI also inject enough noise at the internet for me to make it harder to unmask me? Should I like, just as Claude Code to come up with this idea this weekend?
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Rant: I was a systems engineer for a while there. But not a pure S/W one. Like an actual engineer with nuts and bolts and pneumatics and amps and bolts and the like. That was the title at many many companies, it was a pretty rigid one
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by Balgair 7mo ago
One tip for the introverts out there: When the service worker and you do the back and forth of "How are you doing today" - "Fine, you?" - "Fine" Yeah don't do that, try out this phrase "It's my M
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by Balgair 7mo ago
Prediction markets are a great idea, but in practice their users (and eventually their owners) only want sports gambling. The addiction overrides everything. We're sooo screwing over an entire generation of men.
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by Balgair 8mo ago
Yes emdashes are very much a sign. I stand by this. Why? What is the key combo to make an emdash? On a phone keyboard, sure, it's as hard as an accent sign (á, for example), difficult but not twrrible. But on a keyboard? Yeah, no one i
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by Balgair 8mo ago
Great. My poorly secured coffee maker was mining bitcoins, then some dumb NFT, then it got filled with darkness bots, then bitcoin miners again, and now it's gonna be shitposting but not even to humans, just to other bots.
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" Tech debt is gone. Not that we solved it, but that AI made it irrelevant."(axios.com)
4 points by Balgair 8mo ago|2 comments

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