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by ajb 3mo ago
Even if you're not a good photographer, wide angle lenses make rooms look enormous, by exaggerating the size difference between close and far objects. Before AI most estate agents used that.
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by ajb 3mo ago
In this case, this is probably not the only stereographic tattletale. Had a competitor pull something like this with a previous employer. They were supposed to be interoperating with a standard, but they had a secret steganographic handshak
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by ajb 3mo ago
That's interesting, because it's not my experience. A lot of the technical debt I see is that someone half-assed something thinking it would be easy to improve later, but the layer violations and inadequate tests make doing so a m
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by ajb 3mo ago
They (or at least some of them) use waterfall - the real waterfall, not the bogeyman invented by agile consultants.
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by ajb 3mo ago
I think we can already conclude that the current approach is failing. I'm suggesting reasons why I think that is the case. Of course, my diagnosis may be wrong. But it's implausible that doing what we've done during 20 years
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by ajb 3mo ago
The "open rights group" was supposed to be the UK EFF. My personal evaluation is that they haven't achieved much; YMMV.
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by ajb 3mo ago
Do you want to help stop that, or do you just want to feel smarter than other people? If you happened to have seen my comments in other threads, you'd know I'm against all this. But telling people they are idiots isn't going
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by ajb 3mo ago
Renting and work already require ID in the UK. Every landlord and employer is supposed to take a copy of original documents proving the right to rent/work in the UK. Technically you can do that without handing the docs to the governmen
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by ajb 3mo ago
In the case of coca cola, because use of coca leaves is highly regulated due to the fact that they also contain cocaine. There is a YouTuber who claims to have reverse engineered Coca-Cola, but he had to use tea-tree oil instead of actual c
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by ajb 3mo ago
For something to be a trade secret, you have to actually keep it secret. If I get the ingredients of Coca-cola from an ex-employee, I've stolen a trade secret. If I work it out by doing a chemical analysis, I've stolen nothing. Th
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by ajb 3mo ago
In a way, the cack-handed way they've gone about this makes me slightly more optimistic. If we must have such a law, please let it be one which: * Creates a market for privacy tech of several million teenagers * Wastes police time chas
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by ajb 3mo ago
The cops should know that trick by now - the "distraction car" is literally the plot of "Smokey and the Bandit" from 50 years ago. Nevertheless, you may be right :-)
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by ajb 3mo ago
Yeah sounds like it's backwards , and should be "in order to be a member of the customer club, it is a condition to receive marketing / offers ."
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by ajb 3mo ago
Ah, but that is the old world, before AI. Given AI, dumb leaders can trash a business at the speed of thought.
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by ajb 3mo ago
However, you can get many of the benefits of a "local model" by outsourcing all the hardware maintenance but still using an open model. Guaranteed repeatability for one. A lot of the reason people outsource normal software is its
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by ajb 3mo ago
There's a big difference between wanting a succinct proof and wanting a succinct statement of the requirements. The easier it is to state the requirements, the more likely you have stated them correctly. Whereas succinct proof is not
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by ajb 3mo ago
I don't want to get into an argument about religion, so I will make a different point. There are two ways to evaluate things. One is selection: look at the options available, decide which is best, and go all in on that one. The other
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by ajb 3mo ago
An uncorroborated claim of integrity is self-refuting.
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by ajb 3mo ago
You joke, but, leaving religion out of it, it's plausible that if the want long lived infrastructure that's maintained with integrity, it may be that tithing of some description is part of the solution. Currently the closest we ha
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by ajb 4mo ago
'Some versions of the tale differ from Goethe's, and in some versions the sorcerer is angry at the apprentice and in some even expels the apprentice for causing the mess. In other versions, the sorcerer is a bit amused at the appr
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by ajb 4mo ago
Do you have any thoughts on Mozilla? It has a two-entity structure, but there are a lot of complaints that it is not sticking to its mission (or, slightly differently, that it's not succeeding at it, due to poor strategic choices). (Ap
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by ajb 4mo ago
I don't think we necessarily disagree. I am pessimistic about laws being effective in this case, but that doesn't mean we should not try to find ones that are. I like your idea. Thinking and trials in that direction would be good.
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by ajb 4mo ago
That's all very well, but we just plain don't have a legal, economic, or technical system which will allow separation of the good uses from the bad uses. Once data is in someone else's possession, there's f-all way to p
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by ajb 4mo ago
Yes, but this is preaching to the choir. The counter must be as visceral is the claim. They make an emotional pitch:your children are in danger, surveillance is the solution. The counter must show the dangers in visceral, emotionally releva
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by ajb 4mo ago
Depends how it works in the jurisdiction, but in common law usually this form of restriction is like a contract, but between two pieces of land, or between a piece of land and the public, rather than between two persons. In the former case
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by ajb 4mo ago
Training and advice is about the expected disaster, not necessarily the one you are in. In 9/11, lots of people escaped the south tower using elevators, which is the opposite of what you're told to do. There are people who died be
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by ajb 4mo ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but this is exactly like the expectation that people can be responsible for intervening when self-driving or driver-assistance goes wrong. Human brains are strongly driven to conserve energy. If nothing seems to
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by ajb 4mo ago
Not necessarily, just that they don't have as many as they can make use of, and that xAI can't make more valuable use of them than renting them out.
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by ajb 4mo ago
This is valid for some use cases, but then it needs to be compared with other solar distillation methods, of which there are already a variety at different levels of energy efficiency, complexity, and land use.
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by ajb 4mo ago
It used to be that VCs wanted founders to pursue a singleton strategy, because they wanted the diversification to occur at the level of their portfolio - on the grounds that at the level of an individual startup, diversification would les

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