SaucyWrong

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by SaucyWrong 5d ago
I’ll cop to not having facts to back up the perception of its software, but its status as an illegal monopoly is cemented by its successful prosecution by the DOJ. But Facebook is extremely successful. Some crypto companies are very success
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by SaucyWrong 5d ago
Microsoft is a monopolist that makes some of the most hated products on earth. Facebook has been shown to derange young minds and has been a nonstop firehose of disinformation into global public discourse. Crypto moved an insane amount of w
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by SaucyWrong 6d ago
A parent of your comment cited a ProPublica study that references real tax return data that showed billionaires paying an effective tax rate in the single digits. If their accumulated wealth were regarded as regular income, they should be p
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by SaucyWrong 7d ago
I’m paying top dollar for what I thought is an ad-free tier. First ad I see and that will be the end of that.
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by SaucyWrong 9d ago
Agreed, Viable nonviolent protests are a useful signal that society has not (yet) converted to outright authoritarianism. This is their only use IMO. They cannot effect meaningful change. But their existence signifies we can still effect su
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by SaucyWrong 9d ago
“Net” is not relevant, nominal tax rate matters, and billionaires are the biggest tax dodgers by far, stop trying to blame poor people and civil servants for your weird hangups.
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by SaucyWrong 9d ago
For $150 or less, I bet they could have hired a fiverr person to come over for two hours and letter the chalkboard. This reads to me like a YouTube AI thumbnail. If you go to a lot of trouble to make a product and then you punt the last and
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by SaucyWrong 10d ago
I'm an ex-Salesforce engineer and I can attest that very few line-level engineers are ever invited to attend Dreamforce. This would have been an ordinary day at the office for the SRE team.
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by SaucyWrong 10d ago
I'm an ex-Salesforce, and yes, at the time I left, there was a huge change freeze surrounding Dreamforce. Unless a demo of an announced feature was coming in really at the buzzer, change velocity would have been low since a few weeks a
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by SaucyWrong 10d ago
> since it's standard practice in the industry, thus it's unnecessary to state it. I suppose so, but with a few words it would have been totally unambiguous though. "So... we pointed Strix at .baseten.co and let it run wi
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by SaucyWrong 10d ago
The fact that they don’t seem to explicitly state this fact but do go to lengths to explain how the agent didn’t do anything malicious while confirming how alive the token was makes me doubt they asked for permission to run the agent in the
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by SaucyWrong 10d ago
As a security software engineer I value and have a lot of experience with disclosures like this. At the last two B2Bs I worked at, I would also work personally with prospect security teams that wanted to run their red team at us (with appro
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by SaucyWrong 11d ago
At this point if you have something interest to say and you can’t put it in a blog then I guess I just won’t read it. I stopped using Twitter before it started calling itself X because Tech Twitter was always beefing over something stupid a
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by SaucyWrong 11d ago
When I’m like 89 years old and the desire for mobility assistance outweighs my desire for privacy, maybe I’d consider getting one.
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by SaucyWrong 14d ago
I was alive for that but had forgotten about it…wild.
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by SaucyWrong 17d ago
My brainstorming led down a similar pathway of, "deluding powerful human actors that the systems must not be interfered with at any cost." I'm not sure I buy it though. Seems to me like if humanity were even approaching that
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by SaucyWrong 17d ago
> while replicating wildly Earnest question: by what mechanism that exists today would the achieve that in a way humans on top top of the situation could not curtail? All of this runs on top of compute in meatspace that humans can discon
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by SaucyWrong 20d ago
Hmm, I wonder if, as a plaintiff that wished to file a complaint against a police department, would the records be gone by the time I got far enough through the courts to force evidence discovery. All of the Flock-lovers I talk to love to b
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by SaucyWrong 1mo ago
I recognize your username from other comment threads and would classify you as a bun fanatic, but even so, I’d hold off on saying, “it’s working for bun,” until 1.4.0 has been out of canary for, like, more than 24 hours. Most real users hav
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by SaucyWrong 1mo ago
You are completely unhinged.
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by SaucyWrong 1mo ago
Bummer, I liked my AirPods…
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by SaucyWrong 1mo ago
Jarred wrote a lengthy blog about the rewrite a little while ago and IIRC the token burn numbers were in there (or at least the burn up to that point in time). https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust
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by SaucyWrong 1mo ago
This remains one of the strangest and frankly most annoying beefs I’ve ever read about all decade, and I say this as somebody with no particular affinity for bun, rust, or zig.
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by SaucyWrong 1mo ago
This isn’t financial advice, but Defense contractors seem to be a solid hold in a winter economy with this insane and hawkish “war department”. This administration’s primary means of distraction from issues at home appears to be “start a co
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by SaucyWrong 1mo ago
Perhaps. But did democrats famously take a “chainsaw for ‘government waste’” to all major federal agencies? No. That was a handful of Republican edgelords.
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by SaucyWrong 2mo ago
Ok then, just get rid of qualified immunity. The city will take care of their liability issues on its own.
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by SaucyWrong 2mo ago
Disagree. I don’t need to be a subject matter expert on the environment or fire risks to profit from a wildfire prediction market. I need enough money to buy a pack of cigarettes. EDIT: I suppose I also need to be able to purchase the “shar
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by SaucyWrong 2mo ago
As in: build me Facebook-like social network. <proceeds to break into meta and steal the source code>
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by SaucyWrong 2mo ago
Yeah I guess most interesting LLM work that I’ve been exposed to, the LLM is given to some sort of success criteria that could be reward-hacked, so how good am I supposed to feel about giving it any non-trivial work and it not going so far
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by SaucyWrong 2mo ago
Something about this attack that has been unsettling to me is that without safety refusals the model did a lot of interesting counter-security work in order to cheat on the requested evaluation. Like, it demonstrated interesting exploit ach

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