Sharlin

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841.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
It's not really even technical garbage. From many throwaway lines it's clear that the writers actually knew their stuff. They just chose to not make a hacking movie based on realism (because boring) but based on the zeitgeist, the
842.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Bastardized? It's satire and not at all subtle about it. You can of course argue that it's poorly executed satire, but judging it based on how faithful it is to the source material is rather missing the point.
843.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
When I imagined computers getting more human-like I certainly didn't expect them to become humanlike in the sense of being easily manipulated.
844.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
I'm pretty sure it has always been. Nothing that exposes a way to do general-purpose computation (either intentionally or not) can in any imaginable way be called "secure" in the sense that a printed page is secure.
845.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
I'm fairly sure this is already happening.
846.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
I was always a bit confused by the "doctors don't want you to know about" line until I understood that it's in a rather US-centric cultural context where doctors are seen as just wanting your money. Though there's p
847.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Specular is a cool addition!
848.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Ah, makes sense :)
849.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
In other news: tobacco's enormous economic value, given massive adoption of cigarette smoking.
850.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
The poem explicitly features in the story, so I'd say it's pretty guaranteed to have inspired Bradbury ;) --- The SSAATTBB setting of Teasdale's words by Latvian contemporary choral composer Ēriks Ešenvalds is fittingly power
851.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Honestly I didn't even realize Bing hasn't yet been rebranded as Copilot. And honestly who needs a "search engine" anymore when you can just ask Friend Copilot?
852.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
The Factbook has always been widely regarded as a reliable source of information.
853.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
ASP.NET has the dubious honor of featuring two generations of MS buzzwords: "Active" and ".NET".
854.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
By "passing" the GP presumably meant that the fad phase has passed. The hype cycle has reached the natural plateau of "I guess this has some use cases" (though in this case mostly less-than-scrupulous ones).
855.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
I’d really love to see some data on the age and/or experience distribution of these breathless "AI everywhere" folks. Are they mostly just young and easily influenced? Not analytic enough? Not critical-thinking enough? Not c
856.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Some people seem to think that Deckard’s speech-controlled CSI software in Blade Runner is actually something to strive for, UX-wise. As if it makes any sense to use strictly nonvisual, non-two-dimensional affordances to work with visual da
857.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Apparently APIs are now a brittle way for software to use other software and interpreting and manipulating human GUIs with emulated mouse clicks and keypresses is a much better and perfectly reasonable way to do it. We’re truly living in a
858.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
No, the equivalent question that people are seriously asking is "Who needs Photoshop [or graphic designers] when everyone can just vibe paint their graphics with AI?"
859.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Those are just two of the several Copilots MS now has, including re-branding the entire Office suite as Copilot… It's is a brand - as you said, a name – not a product.
860.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
I'm sure soon enough it'll be renamed "Copilot 365 Explorer" or something similar.
861.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
It's almost as if that's what incentives are for. Whether the outcome is the intended one is of course another question entirely.
862.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Let me guess, you're USian?
863.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Square–cube law.
864.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Scope creep, violation of the Unix philosophy, large attack surface area, second system syndrome, interoperability concerns. It didn’t help that the creator’s other well-known project, PulseAudio, was also controversial at the time, for sim
865.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Uh, okay.
866.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
"Long term" means decades when it comes to energy strategy, major infrastructure initiatives, and decarbonization. Four years is woefully inadequate for strategic planning, you’re operating on a tactical level at best.
867.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Huh. In the top 1500, with approximately one GoT worth of text in ~17 years. Also, I recognize four of the top five users as prolific commenters, but dragonwriter doesn’t ring a bell at all. Maybe they frequent all the threads that I don’t.
868.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Radiators might be a reasonably effective way to reject heat if you can run your AI machines at 1000 K or thereabouts.
869.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Sigh… Irony truly is dead.
870.
by Sharlin 9mo ago
Wasm objects are what you get in C or other low-level language, with a linear heap and zero metadata. That alone makes it vastly faster and easier to JIT than JavaScript.

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