Waterluvian

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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
It’s not about bad actors. It’s about putting untrained people in a position where subjects might be vulnerable and come to depend on them being the trusted expert in the room.
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
Context matters. Otherwise we’re just being clowns.
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
For what it’s worth, I wasn’t even thinking about the physical danger when I was… shocked… that you only need a one hour online course. It’s that they’re interacting with people in a somewhat clinical way as an implicit authority. The shock
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
I’ve never received $7M but a few times I’ve handled large sums (when buying a house and previous startup exit) and it felt so weird to be how completely normal it was. Like just… oh yeah go ahead and write a cheque for six figures. Or do
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
My genuine fear is that you’ll just brush me off with a sensible chuckle and keep sleepwalking on down the street. But seriously, I find that the one recurring theme in nightmares I have is that people simply won’t believe me.
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
One data point: I’ve been building Web GIS applications for the past 15ish years and Firefox has one and off been a real pain in the neck, suffering from canvas API quirks and performance issues. I think the current state at work is that Fi
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
Yeah. And the quality of AI will only get worse from here unless we can commoditize open weight models. If Google and Anthropic and such are able to own access, they will enshittify it horribly. Because they are powerless to do anything but
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
Ah yeah I was quoting 20% of their total capacity. Nevertheless, without knowing what it actually is in cost, it’s impossible to have an objective sense of the severity of this problem. Is it, “everyone’s mildly annoyed so we can save $10k
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
> It was immediately extremely effective — the bots just gave up. For a few months, it was bliss: bots were blocked at the perimeter and gave up, moving on to easier targets; the users were mildly annoyed but tolerated it, and the Anubis
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
When I was 9 or 10 I flew somewhere with my family for the first time. On landing, the pilot bounced the plane off the runway. While taxiing he came on the intercom and apologized for the "slightly rough" landing, explaining tha
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
What’s the distinction between hacking, whacking, and chopping? And how can we incorporate these terms into tech?
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
I’m searching for positive confirmation on this. I’ve heard rumours but non-Flock cameras keep getting flagged in the dataset.
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
I think this takes the record for top thing that I expected to be wildly unintuitive and turns it to be incredibly intuitive. I absolutely love this and want it for real. It gives me a road view and an aerial view and transitions smoothly.
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
I think they just need to use KeyboardEvent.code to design for key location, not key character.
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
You’d think culture and personality fit with a board of directors would be an easier feat for a robot.
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
Gets me wondering… if I get used to the fact that some location is busy, I stop going there. Other people might do the same. Could this create a detectable wavy signal over time? People stop going because it’s busy. It stops being busy. Pe
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
I checked my basement Klein bottle stock and it looks like I’ve got zero volume. How much can I put you down for? (we sell by the litre)
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
We’re spoiled with great options. My kid jumped right from Scratch to JavaScript for game dev because he loves how he can put his games on the Web easily. Huge props to Microsoft Make Code Arcade for allowing you to port your Scratch to JS
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
Yeah! Like when helping teens set up PID controllers for their CAN-bussed robot, it was very much a "we've got a lot of example working Java code with a PID Controller library already. So we're using that." The language
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
None of them. Walks away. Stops. Turns. All of them. It depends. If you're a teen I'm mentoring, you're probably starting with some Scratch to drive Lego robots around. Then on to Python to drive the same robots around but
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
I think Python remains a very good intro language for getting kids in the door because it doesn’t demand too much tedious stuff, is flexible, and lets people actually solve problems rather than doing computer science. In my experience the d
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
Reddit is the worst for this. I hate the disgusting, low class UX design where they let you read about 10-15 seconds of a page before locking you out. Though I think Pinterest takes the cake for being just the ugliest example of this.
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
I feel that way about my GPU for normal gaming use. Now I’m afraid of it dying on me.
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
At some point they discovered it was easier to just convince everyone they were exceptional than to actually be exceptional.
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
I’d be amazed if it actually changed anything with him.
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
Odd. I’ve been noticing lately that there are far more public bathrooms in southern Ontario than when I was a kid. A lot of parks have them now and if not, at least have portable ones.
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
Is there a name for this style of non-argument? I guess it’s an attack on credibility due to the inability to attack the content of the argument?
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
Two weeks ago I told Claude “I have a <wifi outlet relay> on the LAN at <IP>. Assume direct control of it.” And about 8 command approvals later I had a new firmware running on it. Mind you, it found and used an existing firmware
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
I've been assembling my own desktop PCs since I was about 15, but I have never gotten comfortable with just how much pressure it takes to affix some heat sinks. I think it was my Thunderbird 1200 where you had to press a slotted-head
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by Waterluvian 2mo ago
The honest truth: the landing strip was not load bearing enough for the translation to land clean.

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