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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Or if Google Chrome were blocking/degrading access to sites and services that might be useful to someone trying to make a competing web-browser. P.S. : On reflection, it's even worse than that, because it'd trigger based o
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> The most optimistic read of this is that they _feel_ productive In addition to "feel productive", two other feels I think are flying under the radar: 1. You get a parasocial relationship with a "friend" (or at least
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I think it's less Skynet and more Wintermute: Some people saw the movie Elysium or read a summary of the book Neuromancer, and decided those were aspirational visions of how to be Untouchably Rich In Space. Though there is a simpler
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> all (non-Cherokee?) alphabets in use today stem from an ancient Canaanite Counterexample: Korean Hangul [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Because I'm probably not the only one thinking it, here are anagrams [0] for your Setec Astronomy needs. [0] https://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=NATCIOS&t=...
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> [Social creatures] does seem to be a common denominator. One theory is that it drives the creatures to internally model or simulate others intents and reactions, in a way which is a far more regular, consistent, and nuanced than any mo
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
What we have is a machine trained on many old documents that takes one new document and dreams up stuff to append. The LLM algorithm cannot specially recognize contents as "instructions" to itself-the-author. Even if special token
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Speaking of grand names with extra meanings, I admit I did smirk and chuckle at TFA's "The New Joule Order."
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Shipping container rates With respect to those numbers, I remember this recent accusation of price-fixing across 2019-2021 [0] that might have an effect, although I also have reservations about how much to trust anything coming out of
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
There was already a ton of collective incentive for #3, I don't think the companies are choosing to "coast on good-enough." Rather, they are stuck unable to do that much better, unwilling to admit (especially in a way that
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> The interesting thing [...] is that almost every step of the attack uses a browser feature that was shipped in good faith, for genuine performance or developer-experience reasons. [...] Each new capability that browsers ship in the nam
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
That makes me think of bank overdraft fees. They are another kind of "soft" cap, pitched as an automatic convenience to the customer... But in practice they are too-often deceptive and harmful. https://www.library.hbs.e
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I don't think it should be the sites' responsibility to guess whether the browser session is the have device will receive an SMS message... The fact that it is SMS is already bad anyway. Time-code apps or passkeys are a differen
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I sometimes wonder how much blame should be placed at the feet of cartoons which teach viewers that invisibly-small print is legally binding, and that any term is enforceable. I mean, it's not like most people have any kind of curricu
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I recall "Large Libel Models" was one of the sobriquets going around. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4546063
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
There's a landlord/apartment portal where the whole login process has changed to be: 1. Enter username (e.g. an email) 2. Choose from either email or SMS on file 3. Enter the code you got somehow through the respective unencrypted
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> And the lie "users always read emails on the same device they're logging into a website with" Or the same browser, or the same browser-profile. For example, on my phone I have external links (from other apps) opening in
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Remember when you'd be looking at a daily news article, and any hyperlinks to audio clips would have byte sizes and download time estimations in parentheses, just to help you decide if it was worth a click?
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Robotics aren't there yet, it needs to go on golf playdates with investors and board members.
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Every night I am wracked by grief and anxiety that we might deliver too much value to our investors and shareholders. If only someone would create legislation that would mildly inconvenience us while crippling potential competitors!
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Hold up: Parent-poster is obviously talking about federal regulations, not federal laws, and there are important differences between them... so why have you altered the quote to say [Laws]? That's false. You've put your own words
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Well, it would work, but the result would look terrible because pixel scale is no longer consistent. This is my complaint with a lot of "graphical enhancement" mods for games like Deus Ex. Unless they touch everything , the
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I want to believe this is just a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference [0]... but I fear that might be too-optimistic. [0] The profession of Telephone Sanitiser on planet Golgafrincham.
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Who is this product for? 1. Using one part of Musk's holdings to trick people into feeling optimistic about how it will do incest with another part. 2. Megalomania dreams of becoming the Tessier-Ashpools from Neuromancer with th
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
No, you've got the burden of proof backwards: We haven't even begun to talk about maintenance issues, space-proofing the equipment, power-generation, cooling, etc.
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Follow-up/P.S.: There's a Doctorow piece [0] which I think is relevant here. It's about how individual refusal (e.g. to quit your job at an employer when they require an authenticator-app) is an inferior substitute for "
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Same people screaming 1984 have five authenticator apps installed "Yet you participate in society. Curious!" https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Reminds me of: "Gravity plays a role in keeping cells small" [0] [0] https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/10/24/gravity-plays-role...
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Yes, that's the example I had in mind. > you can uninstall it anytime I'm sure it tells you that... but did you actually try ? The "uninstall" button is a lie: You cannot remove the app, you can only roll it back to
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Please address the primary point first: Selling some product does not disprove speculation. In the case of Enron, people were obviously speculating in its stock, and that remains true regardless of why it collapsed later, or even wheth

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