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by bigiain 8mo ago
I'm not Dang, but I agree AI articles are a disease - but with reservations. In this case, a Chinese developer who's not a native English speaker - I feel is _adding_ to "interesting conversations" not detracting from th
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by bigiain 8mo ago
> I have my doubts that this will succeed if it's just one guy Normally, I'd agree with you 100%. But there are some interesting mitigating circumstances here. 1) It's "just one guy" who's running a fairly c
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by bigiain 8mo ago
The author is Chinese and not a native English speaker. I will happily give them a pass on using GenAI to "write the announcement".
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by bigiain 8mo ago
Last night a DJ saved my life
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by bigiain 8mo ago
"Muddy Waters invented electricity!" -- Willie Brown, Crossroads (movie), 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHMv0ORn0hg
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by bigiain 8mo ago
The amusing thing (to me at least) is that while the DX7 gave users almost infinite options as to how they could create and shape sounds, if you know what to listen for you'll hear the E PIANO 1 and BASS 1 presets an about half of all
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by bigiain 8mo ago
Imogen Heap created a set of gloves that transform finger flexing and wrist movement into midi signals you can use in whatever way your performance software allows. https://mimugloves.com/gloves/ https://www
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by bigiain 8mo ago
Some people clearly do it for their paycheck.
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by bigiain 8mo ago
There are probably interesting jobs at drug cartels and in organised crime.
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by bigiain 8mo ago
<looks sideways at the entire AI industry and it's AGI claims>
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by bigiain 8mo ago
I'd like to say "I'm always surprised to hear that a government agency administers institutionalized mental abuse". But I'm not surprised at all. ACAB, Including being B to other C.
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by bigiain 8mo ago
You're almost certainly right. But I bet the tables tip distinctly the other way if you're talking about HN readers instead of everybody. So I'd guess you're both right.
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by bigiain 8mo ago
> I was like what kind of hellhole dystopia is that? Cynical answer: Not the kind of hellhole dystopia that has schoolkids shooting up schools twice a week.
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by bigiain 8mo ago
Also here: "In NSW, paintball is classified as a "prohibited firearm" under the Firearms Act 1996. However, it can still be legally played under strict licensing conditions. Unlike in some states where it is more loosely regu
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by bigiain 8mo ago
Where I am (Sydney Australia) we have fixed speed cameras that automatically create speeding fines to drivers going too fast (well, technically the registered owner of the vehicle via ANPR). They eventually had to equip pretty much every sp
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by bigiain 8mo ago
I initially read this wrong as "Almost every infrastructure decision I make I regret after 4 years", and I nodded my head in agreement. I've been working mostly at startups most of my career (for Sydney Australia values of &q
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by bigiain 8mo ago
That article mentions that custom tailoring can often cost more than the article itself.
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by bigiain 8mo ago
I agree. But even _that_ was taking advantage of LLMs ability to generate text faster than humans. If the person behind this had to create that blog post from scratch by typing it out themselves, maybe they would have gone outside and touch
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by bigiain 8mo ago
Claiming maintainers can (do things while still take effort and time away from their OSS project's goals) is missing the point when the rate of slop submissions is ever increasing and malicious slop submitters refuse to follow project
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by bigiain 8mo ago
You didn't see the latest AI grifter escalation? If you reject their PRs, they then get their AI to write hit pieces slandering you: "On 9 February, the Matplotlib software library got a code patch from an OpenClaw bot. One of the
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by bigiain 8mo ago
I've been following Daniel from the Curl project who's speaking out widely about slop coded PRs and vulnerability reports. It doesn't sound like they have ever had any problem keeping up with human generated PRs. It's th
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by bigiain 8mo ago
Maybe it's just me, and I wouldn't have thought this a few years back, but my immediate reaction as I started reading this was "Oh look, somehow they got the fucking _BBC_ to run a DHS whitewashing feel good story. I wonder w
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by bigiain 8mo ago
Thanks!
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by bigiain 8mo ago
Pretty sure there are 500 "software and services" companies in the The S&P 500 Software & Services Index.
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by bigiain 8mo ago
Oh cool, thanks. My last time playing with this was pre covid, possibly 5 or more years pre covid. I do know for sure that my iOS devices connect with persistent MAC addresses on both my home and work wifi networks - I'd _assumed_ it w
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by bigiain 8mo ago
For immediate release: BLE N95 Facemasks Inc (YCombinator Summer 2025) is proud to come out of stealth mode and announce our acquisition by Ring. This follows a major private angel investment by Palintir with a post money valuation of $500
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by bigiain 8mo ago
> Lookup "resolvable private address". The short of it is, your phone can find your headphones or vice-versa, despite one or both having random addresses. Is that just for the connection phase? Or does it then start publicly br
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by bigiain 8mo ago
I have an ESP32 Cam in front of me right now. I think I paid maybe 8 bucks for it. If I wanted to, I could very easily hide the tiny camera in my front door, and use it to both collect bluetooth and wifi metadata (including MAC addresses) a
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by bigiain 8mo ago
> I have lots of BLE wearables and other sensors. They only send data to my own computer which I control That's perhaps technically correct, but a naive interpretation of the risk. I don't need to see the data your BLE devices
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So we see here that AI has come for the jobs of people who write artist statements... ;-)

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