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by Terr_ 4mo ago
That leads into a great example of how most OS "telemetry" is anything but safe or innocent: 1. Your printer probably puts a secret code into everything you print (not just money-like things) with the time and a serial number of t
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> whether a use case is approved by the company Echoes of Network Neutrality problems, where BigCo is permitted to block or degrade sites about how to cancel your BigCo service.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Probably this stuff which caused backlash: https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-responds-to-backlash-o...
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Or someone that believes "phones" are, by definition, things with a touchscreen.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I try to say "LLM" as much as possible, but I'm aware that it's unlikely to work. Partly for technical accuracy, partly to manage the average person's expectations when they hear "AI", partly to avoid cont
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
"Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Spacetimes... For Wordle!" (Yes, I'm referencing a real thing, and it's worth watching.)
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
"It is inevitable, soon all insulation will be asbestos, you have to learn the types in order to be competitive in its new future."
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Some hours later, exact same problem: First page load is fine, then after a force-refresh the site stops responding even to curl. So not a coincidental problem with the site being overloaded, perhaps they've misconfigured some kind of
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Weird, the page loaded once and then on a revisit (going back to read comments) Firefox gave a "Secure Connection Failed" error. Curl fails too: > GET /about-us/view-all-content/news/five-eyes-cyber-
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Clocks are social constructs, and your system needs to have some decision in it about whose clocks take precedence over other ones. No matter which of these you choose, there's a possibility that someone says: "Hey! That's wr
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
To frame it another way, your dentist has agreed to a particular triggering condition . (Whether they realize that's how their country works or not.) We can all make pretty-good guesses about when that condition will be fulfilled in
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
If past timestamps (UTC or otherwise) are unreliable, then there is some kind of math-bug going on.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Indeed, recognizing Chronomancy will once have soon always been the case.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Industrial use-cases could end up as fundamentally different product, ex: * Guiding someone through a complex assembly, it's going to be on pretty much all shift, with effects on thermal management and battery capacity. * You'll w
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Title changed/mismatch? Destination is "We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I." > Instead, I worry about the potency of the fear it is generating. I question whether it's wise to label it as an irrational fear of AI
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> To be honest I thought the 'thinking' was the model being asked 'how did you come up with that' and then it generating a plausible explanation. This evades an easy yes or no, so: 1. Many consumers believe reasoning-
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
"Not well adapted to", perhaps.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Also worth noting that Iran is generally a bigger and richer country than Iraq, whichever timeframe you look at. To summarize in rough numbers: * 2x the population (today) * 3x the land area (today, but also probably back then) * 7x the rel
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> exposed to the tech bubble Aside, I think many people forget to account for their own job/career when thinking about diversification. Just working "in tech" means that industry is already an oversized part of my financia
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
If I guessed right, then there are probably readers who haven't heard the term/story before [0], or won't make the same jump to recall it. If I guessed wrong, then I wanted to hear about the new thing that resisted a casual w
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I say "hygiene" because--like handwashing after the toilet--it's something everyone can do without particular tools or expertise. Archetypal Aunt Tillie's "password manager" will be a handwritten piece of paper
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> snake charmer problem Perhaps you mean the "cobra effect" [0]? I think that's an apocryphal story about killing snakes, rather than using them in a performance. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perv
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
This isn't the "new thing to worry about" being emphasized, but: > You chose to use a “sign in with <service>” login when you had to create an account, and it sent you through a realistic-looking login flow: a real-s
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> cliche that is unique to current language models If it's something humans don't do and unique to certain programs, then "cliche" is probably not the correct term. "I read the article, but it was full of impr
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
How is "you must let customers opt-out of marketing spam" a technicality?
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
To offer another possibility, with a cynical motive: 1. We have an established user-base. 2. Our product and our competitors' products have a similar interface, so we might lose our lead if people start switching. 3. If we abruptly cha
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Right, the operative word is less "embarrassment" than "impotence".
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
That sounds congruent with the "asteroid" example: It denoted a broad category, but eventually gained a very specific connotation, and when the connotation became popular enough, it took over as the new definition. So now we'
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I find accidental flags rarer due to the layout versus things I'm trying to tap, however the few times it's happened I only discovered it days or months later when visiting the "flagged" page [0]. Still, there's a k
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I live in regular fear that my fingertip will hit the wrong up/down icon.

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