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by TheDong 7mo ago
60-70% for a politician or political position is high. For believing in reality it's low. If you asked "Do cigarettes contribute to lung cancer", you'd expect 95%+. Our evidence for climate change is on-par with that, an
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by TheDong 7mo ago
With e2e encryption, the signals you have are pretty minimal. Let's say a 40 y/o man finds a phone on the ground, sees a name stuck on it, googles "name + town" and finds the facebook of a 12 y/o girl, and messages
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by TheDong 7mo ago
Ideally the TSA at each airport would measure it and release it. They should be measuring it anyway since they should both have efficiency targets for how much of a delay they introduce, and also so that they can show data about how much or
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by TheDong 7mo ago
2G speeds isn't really full access to "the internet" for some parts of the internet. My experience with 2G speeds is: 1. Open job application site 2. Upload resume pdf 3. Upload required picture of ID 4. Server's nginx c
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by TheDong 7mo ago
It's not wasted bandwidth; we've reached this level of ads because brands have realized that brainwashing the populace via ads to make them want their brand is cheaper than building a better product, so the bandwidth is a small pr
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by TheDong 7mo ago
I hope you're joking. The obvious easy fix is to give them unlimited data. If the intent is to give them internet, they should give them internet that functions for the modern web.
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by TheDong 7mo ago
Switching to an iPhone will put you in an even worse walled garden that respects you even less. Even simple things like setting your default navigation app in iOS are gated behind moving to the EU.
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by TheDong 7mo ago
> Apple didn't lie about supporting a user's freedom to run anything they like, only to execute a rug pull after they successfully drove the other open options out of the marketplace. They did execute a rugpull, and they aren&#
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by TheDong 7mo ago
> A disgruntled waymo contractor in the Philippines can remote drive you into a crowd of people. They cannot. The remote drivers for Waymo offer "nudges" to the robot driver, but they cannot do full remote control. They can eff
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by TheDong 7mo ago
I mean, they claim they've got 15B consumer revenue and 900M weekly active users. If that's accurate, that means what, like 11% of the human population is using their product, and the average user pays $15? That seems incredibly h
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by TheDong 7mo ago
> people have had their entire network compromised by bots they left running overnight I'm curious if you have references to this happening with OpenClaw using one of the modern Opus/Sonnet 4.6 models. Those models are a bit ha
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by TheDong 7mo ago
Gas cars are great until you realize you have to replace the gas. Then you'll realize the cost of owning a gas car. Once people realize they're literally burning the expensive gas they put in their vehicle, the game is over. Also,
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by TheDong 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protected_areas_of_Chi... > China has more than 10,000 protected areas, covering eighteen percent of the country's land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P
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by TheDong 7mo ago
I was curious, so I dug a bit. Under the hood it's effectively running: docker run --rm -w $PWD:/workspace \ python:3.11-slim \ pip install -q patchpal && \ <command> Which cool, great, I s
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by TheDong 7mo ago
> What you are looking at is another programming language that has been added by a particular tool So the go stdlib also isn't "the go programming language"? The 'golang.org/x' repositories aren't stand
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by TheDong 7mo ago
Yeah, but how do you find the person making the threats? Polymarket accounts are more-or-less just a crypto address. Whatsapp accounts are somewhat easier to link to a real identity, but still not hard to at least obscure a bit. The arm of
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by TheDong 7mo ago
Why wouldn't capitalization, commas, etc do well? These are text completion engines. Punctuation and capitalization is found in polite discussion and textbooks, and so you'd expect those tokens to ever so slightly push the model i
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by TheDong 7mo ago
We're talking about the "//go" comments in general I think here. Things like "//go:embed" and "//go:build" very much do change the semantics of source code. The comments above
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by TheDong 7mo ago
The parent commenter said "learning about computers". Most "professional developers" don't learn about computers, they learn enough react to get a paycheck, but don't have an insatiable curiosity about how the
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by TheDong 7mo ago
Asahi linux effectively only supports the M1 and M2 chips, so even a modern macbook air won't work, and even on "supported devices" you can't use thunderbolt or a usb-c display yet. These use the A series chip, and even
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by TheDong 7mo ago
They don't have an open source kernel. You can't recompile the kernel or build your own device drivers. I'm not sure what you mean by "learning about computers", but I personally find being able to peek into the ker
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by TheDong 7mo ago
> The kid who tries to run Blender on a Chromebook doesn’t learn that his machine can’t handle it. He learns that Google decided he’s not allowed to. Or they learn to enable developer mode, unlock the bootloader, and install Linux, or us
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by TheDong 7mo ago
And I can share between my android, iOS, and linux devices with KDE Connect https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ If there are reasons its not good enough, since it's open source you should be able to help fix them (excepting iO
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by TheDong 7mo ago
On code-formatters, I don't think it's so clear-cut, but rather an "it depends". For code that is meant to be an expression of programmers, meant to be art, then yes code formatters should be an optional tool in the arti
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by TheDong 7mo ago
I mean, clawbots are inherently insecure. Using a better model is defense in depth. Obviously you should also take precautions, like never instructing it to invoke the browser tool on untrusted sites, avoiding feeding it untrusted inputs wh
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by TheDong 7mo ago
> Scrape this page and dump json? Yeah that’s gonna be fine. Only gonna be fine on a trusted page, an 8b model can be prompt injected incredibly trivially compared to larger ones.
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by TheDong 7mo ago
Generally the benefit you get out of claws involves untrusted input, i.e. it using the browser tool to scrape websites, etc. Claude 4.6 is at least a bit resilient to prompt injection, but local models are much worse at that, so using a loc
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by TheDong 7mo ago
I am using an AWS Organization managed sub-account, so it's all pretty self-contained to that one account, and I can easily enough terminate that single sub-account. There's infamously no way to set a max bill amount for an accou
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by TheDong 7mo ago
The cost of ownership for an OpenClaw, and how many credits you'll use, is really hard to estimate since it depends so wildly on what you do. I can give you an openclaw instruction that will burn over $20k worth of credits in a matter
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by TheDong 7mo ago
Github actions has had a bunch of high-profile prompt injection attacks at this point, most recently the cline one: https://adnanthekhan.com/posts/clinejection/ I guess you could argue that github wasn't vuln

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