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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Huh, if that site is indeed theirs, that means they are now accusing strangers (me) of fabricating quotes from their own pitch-deck! That raises some interesting questions about the creation process. I like to believe that authors should
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> Pretty sure there is nothing about “complex workflows broken down into encrypted graph segments”. In the quotes I noted [Architecture Page], which is the extremely prominent blue button/link on the SafeBots homepage. (To a PDF.)
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
There's definitely a lot of room for weasel-wording there, where the metric really being used isn't the mathematical mean, but punishes people just the same.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
My first-impression is that this site is vaporware generated by someone prompting an LLM to babble about how an LLM could be secured. At best, perhaps it's an overengineered way to force humans to rigorously validate every action... wh
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> at a competitive disadvantage, and cooler heads will prevail I don't think this a safe assumption at all, given the the last few years of government policy where the "cooler heads" very much failed to stop such things. E
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> they (or any intermediary) could change tomorrow. Adding to this, my understanding (IANAL) is that any promises to delete or limit sharing of your data could be swept-aside by a bankruptcy judge, putting priority on liquidating the com
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I don't think "majority", although the word might describe certain topics/threads that have a bit of selection-bias.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I'm all in favor of stacking PR's to break reviews into chunks, but if they're being used to explain the reasoning or correctness of the final code to a reviewer, then that's a process-smell. It's like "teach
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
That's somewhat alien to me, I suppose because over the years I just never stopped using regex in search/replace tools, which is daily exposure regardless of what code needs to be written. Sometimes the patterns are dirt-simple,
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Unfortunately the incremental approach doesn't help when it comes to the review step by another user, they've still gotta take it as a lump and apply fresh eyes on it.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> I felt that one in my bones. I was up until nearly 2am recently, prompting, because I was so close to getting a plan right. Or so I thought. [...] And it's addictive in a way that makes the isolation worse. Right, it's more l
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> Every single shorted stock, was purchased by someone else who is taking the long side of the trade. > So there's as many people betting the stock will go up. The first sentence is a useful reminder, but second has a error: A si
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> a solar worship break It'd be easy to optimize with some additional religions too, since from that distance pretty much all possible Earthly [0] holy sites are in the same direction. [0] I just stumbled onto a fun grammar questi
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Those crazy humans don't have simultaneous parallel conversations with a zillion people at once though. They also don't get a presumption of objectivity. > A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention,
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I suppose if either end was actually a floating structure that moved with the tide...
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I'd like to point out that the the idea rests on an inefficient market, where price/transaction information was kept secret long enough to turn the trust-violation into worthwhile profit. In contrast, an efficient market with pe
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
True, but I think their intent was more like N=10.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
You have my sympathies, Reddit is a Kafkaesque nightmare for anyone unlucky enough to hit one of the increasing number of edge-cases and invisible hazards. My decade+ single account (in good standing, maybe one permanent subreddit ban eve
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
As the quip goes, "Quantity has a quality all its own." Although in this case, perhaps it's more like... throughput, capacity, or parallelism.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> Children are legally differentiated from adults purely based on age, not some formal verification. Often but not always: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_of_minors
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> pictures of the food It may partly a legal thing: Japanese law is big on not-misleading consumers. Depictions are considered close to formal promises of what you'll actually receive, or at least actual ingredients that went into i
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
On the subject of serial numbers, the ones for your hardware and peripherals are also being transmitted as "telemetry", which gives them even more options to spying on you, ex: 1. If your printer has tracking dots [0] then a print
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> you are pretty uninformed [...] SS and Medicare This is another aspect where your thesis is not-fully-baked. If you want people to receive what you meant, you have to stop writing it wrong. 1. You spoke about " the federal tax ra
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> socialist than capitalist [...] federal tax rate My dude, you're acting like Federal government is the only government that matters. It's a common mistake, but in this context it's fatal to your argument. It's fat
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
In this case I think it is, because they're talking about whether a particular deal with be lucrative for one particular company named Nasdaq Incorporated. Much like how Wile E. Coyote is a "safe" customer for Acme Inc, eve
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
As a tangential niche-tourism shoutout: https://www.telcomhistory.org/ConnectionsSeattle.html Granted, most of it is a bit newer than the heyday of telegrams, but there's a little bit of overlap.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Also a story about rediscovering issues faced by unions. Sometimes seemingly-arbitrary and bureaucratic rules exist because they are old countermeasures developed for sneaky stuff like this. ("Chesterton's Fence" situations.)
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Training people (esp. what passes for non-techies on Linux) to regularly copy-paste into the terminal is massively riskier than "click this URL". Just for starters, consider how easily you can make a web-page where you highlight X
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> The politicians say so, so it has to be true. The Politician's Syllogism (or Fallacy) [0]: 1. We must do something. 2. This is something. 3. Therefore, we must do this . [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I find it helpful to investigate "I did it with an LLM" by imagining that (perhaps without the user's knowledge) the other end was another human , and asking whether that ought to change the answer. This quickly engages a lo

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