alkonaut

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by alkonaut 9mo ago
The worst thing about this isn't that it makes no sense. It's that it doesn't even _try_ to make sense. These companies wanted to merge for financial reasons and the invented reason is nonsensical. We shouldn't even give
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
That seems like the way to go about it. Address when people are _selling_ guns. The fact that they were printed and not imported from Yugoslavia in 1990 doesn't really matter. Trying to stop people with 3D printers (Or metal tubes) fro
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
I could see why "people are making guns" would be at the top of the list of politicians' worries in places where there are almost no guns, and people want to keep it that way. But in the US?
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
I disagree. It's like the lumberjack working from home watching an enormous robotic forestry machine cut trees on a set of tv-screens. If he enjoyed producing lumber, then what he sees on those screens will fill him with joy. He's
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
What if an airline requires ID, is that legal? (Say to e.g. sell discounted tickets to 65+ people, or to avoid people selling tickets on)?
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Anyone else get the feeling that Microsoft has been driven "top down" by various weird metrics like "We need to drive users adopt service X" (OneDrive, Copilot, whatever)? And then every single decision for every single
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
If you were given the choice of buying a fridge for $0 and paying $10/mo for using it, or paying $1k and $0/mo those are both entirely valid pricing models. If you are a homeowner you probably don't want the hassle of managin
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
> I don't condone piracy, but I also don't condone SaaS. What's wrong with SaaS? If we didn't sell our desktop software to ~1000 companies as a SaaS then few would afford it. We could sell one-off/perpetual licen
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
I still develop software requiring hardware dongles. We moved from parallel to USB-A about 15 years ago and we're still on USB-A, much to the annoyance of anyone who has bought a new laptop in recent years. The crack is a little bit ha
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
I think trying to argue that the viral/algorithmic addictive short-video feeds are "social media" is a bit of a stretch. If you banned any network that does algorithmic feeds, or that don't have good moderation, then I&#
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Yes, timestamp comparison will be possible. I don't think there is a reasonable way around it? And authentication on to someone else is also unavoidable with reasonable privacy. I think a system with both of those drawbacks is still pr
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
I think parent's _want_ to keep kids in helmets and away from social media. But the pressure is some times high when Joe can ride without helmet, or can use TikTok. A law really helped the bike helmet thing at least. That they are fund
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Are you saying it would be impossible to have a service where the site (social media, say) would issue some sort of random token and ask me to sign it using a centralized ID service. Then I log in to the centralized id service and use it to
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Not sure if the law is required to just make the rule banning phones or if the law is what’s needed to enforce it (e.g take kids’ phones and not return them until end of day). The latter would make some sense at least.
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Any kind of zero knowledge verification should be ok. But with minors it often goes a long way to just make the law. It’s a good instruction to parents who should be able to control this. Laws on bike helmets for minors are followed nearly
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
These review sites do have some robust captcha thing before allowing a review to be posted, right?
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
> but in order for it to get to the latter, it requires much validation and training in an intermediate state, with appropriate safeguards. I expect self-driving cars to be launched unsupervised on public roads in only an order-of-magnit
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Yes
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
That’s the fault of poor infrastructure and laws more than anything else. AV’s must drive in the same infrastructure (and can somewhat compensate).
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Yes
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
> ~17 deaths per 100K drivers per year. 40K+ fatalities overall. I also think one needs to remember those are _abysmal_ numbers, so while the current discourse is US centric (because that's where the companies and their testing is)
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
"It depends". If 50 people die and 50 people go to jail, vs. 40 people die and their families are left wondering if someone will take responsibility? Then that's not immediately standing out as an improvement just because few
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Yes but ideally from some objective source.
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Oh I have no problem believing that this particular situation would have been handled better by a human. I just want hard figures saying that (say) this happens 100x more rarely with robotaxis than human drivers.
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
And before the argument "Self driving is acceptable so long as the accident/risk is lower than with human drivers" can I please get that out of the way: No it's not. Self driving needs to be orders of magnitude safer for
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
This makes me wonder what the testing method is for this sort of thing. Presumably you'd do as much as possible in VM's to get repeatable states with updates from every conceivable starting point. But what about physical machines?
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Yeah is fl.oz on consumer containers _really_ seen as a volume measurement, i.e. thought of in terms of conversion "How many of these to a gallon", "what does a 6-pack weigh" and so on? Or are they more like t-shirt size
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Having converted science, manufacturing etc, what's the first (or next) true consumer facing thing that could change?
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
I'm stuck with the Copilot tools. Again, I don't think this is a problem with the models but with the tooling. I can't switch to claude code (for work, that is) and while I don't mind using more command line tools I don
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Sadly we have some partnership meaning it's Copilot or nothing.

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