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by bradley13 4mo ago
You have to ask: Why is Google pushing the AI results? You would think that this would impact their ad revenue. Since Google is fundamentally an ad company, this deserves a closer look. My suspicion - for which I have no proof - is this: Wi
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by bradley13 5mo ago
Sadly, the Internet is not a high trust society.
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by bradley13 5mo ago
Honestly, it sounds exhausting. Different strokes for different folks, I guess...
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by bradley13 5mo ago
This. Google wants to sell advertising. If they can embed advertising into AI and make more money, they will. You ask AI for a product recommendation. It says "Buy X from Acme". Is that paid product placement? Who knows?
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by bradley13 5mo ago
This is the point. You could file criminal charges. You could win in civil court.
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by bradley13 5mo ago
Some of these are wild. You expect to see something systematic, but they have little gaps between oddly placed squares in the center.
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by bradley13 5mo ago
I hear you. On the other hand, not having to mess with something is good. I just make extensive notes in a README somewhere - usually in KeePass right next to the system info.
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by bradley13 5mo ago
I'm glad Mistral is doing well, but... I am so tired of M&A. Buy instead of competing or - heaven forfend - cooperating.
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by bradley13 5mo ago
> "What does that really mean though — ten more years of data centers exploiting local communities for their resources" That is purest hyperbole. Data centers use a lot of electricity, but they are hardly looting local communit
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by bradley13 5mo ago
As someone who uses AI daily (not in agent mode, just user-interactive), I have definitely noticed major quality improvements over the past few months. And that's surprising, because when you use something daily, you tend to overlook t
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by bradley13 5mo ago
I've been a teacher (most of the time a college professor) for...a long time. Nowadays, when preparing a new course, I definitely work with AI: "Here's what I want, and who my audience is - give me a course outline". Tha
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by bradley13 5mo ago
I think you are too cynical. His app works. It needs no maintenance, unless the underlying OS changes something fundamental. It doesn't use AWS or any other cloud service. Look, as an IT professional, I build dry stone walls. Could a p
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by bradley13 5mo ago
Yes, sure, a fancy CRUD app. Still, enabling a non-programmer to do this is... interesting, and ultimately may be game changing. He didn't spend a fortune. This wasn't "agentic", eating zillions of tokens. It was the sta
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by bradley13 5mo ago
My comment about Trump was meant to be sarcastic. Sorry, if that was not obvious...
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by bradley13 5mo ago
They ate getting relatively little sympathy. Why? Because they are pissing everyone off who might have sympathized. Seriously dumb. And now this mafia-esque blackmail?
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by bradley13 5mo ago
Nice ship you have there. Be a shame if something...happened to it.
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by bradley13 5mo ago
Iran could easily have garnered a lot of international sympathy and support. Instead, they attacked their neighbors, impacted the world economy, and now are basically asking for blackmail money: "nice ship you have there...". Mayb
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by bradley13 5mo ago
It's fine for developers to provide a plan, even if it gets rejected. The problem comes when every script kiddie figures AI has made them into a developer. Imagine you want to get a doctor's opinion, or maybe a couple of opinions.
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by bradley13 5mo ago
Exactly this. I have an acquaintence who is a wine connoisseur and collector. He has done technical project management, but does not program himself. Over the course of several months, he has produced an app that manages a database of the w
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by bradley13 5mo ago
Yep, that's exactly what we did with our new house in Switzerland (a few years back).
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by bradley13 5mo ago
Many small solar installations are exactly that. Hang a solar panel over your balcony railing, and plug it into the socket. Larger installations, of course, will never work that way, simply because they generate too much current for your st
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by bradley13 5mo ago
When we recently build our house, the south side of the roof became mostly solar panels - just a few shingles near top. Solar panels make a perfectly fine roof surface. Underneath the panels is an air gap, with ventilation at the bottom and
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by bradley13 5mo ago
It's actually been a couple of years since I ran across a game that didn't work well on Linux. At most, I have had to bump the default Proton version.
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by bradley13 5mo ago
As others have mentioned: being fresh to a field, you are more likely to bring fresh insights. Once you are established, you create your own mental ruts. Perhaps more important is simple mental capability. This peaks around the age 25-35. I
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by bradley13 5mo ago
This. The privacy threats are somewhat different, but they still stem from government. The EU has tried to attack end-to-end encryption more than once, and they will try again. They are now requiring logging of IP addresses, and ever more t
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by bradley13 5mo ago
Why does everything have to be 100% accessible? I'm a prof. When I have a student with special needs in my class, the administration tells me ahead of time. I make the necessary allowances - and those differ from case to case, anyway:
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by bradley13 5mo ago
I'm in Europe, and we don't use Canvas (at least, I've never heard of it). However, we have similar diseases. In my particular school, it's a massive SharePoint site plus ever more stuff in Teams. Plus Moodle, plus other
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by bradley13 5mo ago
This. Yes, the mass internet is curated, created and censored. Usenet is a distant memory. But some changes are positive. I recently retired. I've programmed for 50 years, both for work and for fun. My son asked: so what's your pr
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by bradley13 5mo ago
It's much more than parents' groups. This is coming "top down". For example, here in Switzerland the government decided E-IDs would be a great idea. The population killed the proposal the first time, with a referendum. S
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by bradley13 5mo ago
This is happening simultaneously in many Western countries. It is clearly somehow coordinated. You don't need a tinfoil hat to see the conspiracy. Equally clearly, this is a first step to requiring identity, and ultimately government a

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