Hizonner

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by Hizonner 4mo ago
No, it ought to generate a compilation error unless the compiler can prove that the pointer isn't null. ... but that only works if you design properly from day one.
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> They can use the streets proper if they want to. How about no? They'll block traffic there, too.
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
Nope. The burden is on whoever wants to restrict people. If you want a new restriction, the burden is on you. If you want to keep an existing restriction, the burden is still on you.
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> Social media got worse. Sure, whatever. Maybe in some ways. > I personally know children who've posted too much, and children who've been solicited directly by adults, both to try and meet and for nudes. ... but not in th
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> the author is on the board of a social media company. Yeah. Bluesky. Pretty clear you have no clue and shouldn't be listened to.
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> the kids think [...] Most teachers Random anecdotal claims from population A contradict random anecdotal claims from population B. > I’m curious what the author has in terms of actual evidence here? Well, it can't be any worse
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> It likely also reduces harm to some/many/whatever children, While increasing harm to many others. Nobody ever wants to mention that part. It is not a clear "child safety" win. Personally I think it's probably
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
This isn't really true. Many of the AV advocates sincerely want to "protect" children. Their idea of "protection" is in fact actively damaging on net , but they truly are obsessed with the boogeymen they keep heari
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> I am so tired of everyone assuming the worst possible implementation of age verification. We're not assuming it. We're observing what people are in fact actually deploying.
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> I am willing to be educated; does the average schoolkid carry such a device? Yes. On at least Android phones, and I'm pretty sure also on iOS, location access is a user-controlled permission that's not necessarily granted to
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
You are apparently "unable to empathize" with the people whose actions you are trying to restrict by force . Why should anybody empathize with you?
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> These laws exist because social media is extremely damaging to children, These laws exist because people will believe any nonsense if they see it repeated enough times in news headlines. "Social media", as presently incarnate
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> If I crash without a seatbelt on and die, my going through the windshield harms only myself. Mostly, yes. Whereas if you fail to get vaccinated and therefore spread a disease, you are harming others.
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
Well, the assholes currently screwing up the the USA got there by decades of miscellaneous political maneuvers, both fair and foul (most of the fair ones done by an earlier generation), culminating in actually getting elected (basically
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
Look, a lot of people make the mistake you're making. Not every unjust, stupid, or evil thing is illegal. Even when something is illegal, that doesn't mean you have standing to challenge it in court, or that a given court has
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
Sometimes. Your point?
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
I grew up in the phone book age. We had one phone with a really long cable, but it wasn't long enough to take it with me everywhere I went. And, as you point out, nobody had robots to call it, either.
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
The government is allowed to create regulations that harm people economically. Not much money to be had by instantly losing that fight.
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> Email doesn't support the features that those messaging platforms need to have, such as recalling messages. "Need".
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> the right way to build defensive/offsec/malicious tooling with AI isn't by using frontier models ... but run a serious of agents on tightly scoped tasks The right way to do it is to run a series of agents... many of whic
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
I still don't think "enterprise" customers' data have enough training value for an "over-eager PM" to bother with them. An over-eager PM obsessed with AGI, no less. I'm pretty sure more training on corpora
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
You commented on this very issue when it first came up 4 months ago. If I remembered that, so should you. I mean, I'm prepared to believe that you did not think on that occasion, if you want to confirm that's what you mean... If
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
... which is why the rest of us should give them, and those who operate them, zero respect . Nobody but AMD gives a fuck about AMD's internal policies or motivations.
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
Why would I, as an enterprise customer, care about what queries they answered for anybody else?
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
Well, to be fair, what Anthropic is actually doing is downgrading anything that could possibly be related to security in any way at all, good or bad. What they're then trying to do is to use "user is associated with some big Est
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> I used to be able to tell my enterprise customers something simple, that I really believe: "We use Anthropic models via Bedrock/Azure, therefore we are guaranteed that your data will not be used for training models." The
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
Yeah, like the weird idea that those programs are intended to in some way reduce the number of exploitable bugs actually out there.
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
The annoying thing about this kind of thing is that it's still possible for the equipment to last a week on the streets. There has to be a way to solve the coordination problem. One person going around destroying stuff is a "notor
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
... but you were silent when they did it to consumers...
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
"Consensual"?

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