breakpointalpha

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by breakpointalpha 5mo ago
No, it's infinitely worse for your life to be surrounded by bad decision makers.
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by breakpointalpha 5mo ago
From the post: "curl is currently 176,000 lines of C code when we exclude blank lines. The source code consists of 660,000 words, which is 12% more words than the entire English edition of the novel War and Peace. ... curl is installed
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by breakpointalpha 5mo ago
If this is sarcasm, it's amazing. If not, depressing. I would 100% expect a commencement speaker to be hyping me up for what comes next.
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by breakpointalpha 5mo ago
People love hot dogs. People don't want to know how they are made.
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by breakpointalpha 5mo ago
If I had a magic wand, I would enforce an internet-wide separation of human activity metrics from bots. I want to know how many real humans read my post, commented, shared etc. Clankers can keep their own counts.
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by breakpointalpha 6mo ago
Retired USAF Major General McCasland disappearing from his house is probably the most serious. He was the commander of the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This would have given him direct oversight of all o
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by breakpointalpha 6mo ago
I'm sure there something in the hundreds of pages of Microsoft o365 about "we may share your data with third-parties" blah blah...
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by breakpointalpha 6mo ago
Yes, so the lawyer can use AI to answer your questions and then the judge can discover that, since there isn't attorney-bot privilege. :/
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by breakpointalpha 6mo ago
Self-hosted, local only models are probably going to obviate a lot of this. Google AI Edge Gallery now runs Gemma-4-E2B-it locally on an iPhone after a 2.5Gb download. No network calls needed, claims Google. Self-hosting is always a strong
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by breakpointalpha 6mo ago
I wonder if a legal firm could setup a privately hosted LLM then claim attorney-client privilege as a rendered service. Would a judge be able to demand the attorney hand over written notes from his clients? I doubt it.
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by breakpointalpha 6mo ago
Does this mean I can tell my team to stop requesting CoPilot code reviews on my pull requests?
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by breakpointalpha 6mo ago
Why is it that every legitimate concern or downside pointed out about AI is met with the same tired, low signal, rebuttal of FOMO. It's become the "no u r" argument of the AI age... :/
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Can I Buy a Butler Yet?(philc.io)
4 points by breakpointalpha 6mo ago|0 comments
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by breakpointalpha 7mo ago
This has to be intentional. Drug dealer getting the kids hooked early is priority #1. Give just enough "parental control" to lure parents in. Make it just annoying enough that the parents eventually give up and the kid is the one
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by breakpointalpha 7mo ago
Customers keep buying those trucks though. Why wouldn't you sell a product to a market that continues to purchase? There are smaller, cheaper trucks, suvs, sedans, etc. $100k trucks make a lot of money, so Ford keeps building them.
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by breakpointalpha 7mo ago
Insta-banned in the US for "national security", not because it's a better car than anything the US can produce. /s
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by breakpointalpha 7mo ago
In principle, you are right. Cheaper than coal renewables are winning. Don't forget though, that fighter jets can't operate on batteries.
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by breakpointalpha 7mo ago
Many proudly and loudly claim the US is a "republic".
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by breakpointalpha 8mo ago
Thank you for taking the time to write this.
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by breakpointalpha 8mo ago
I can't imagine that the authors of the Constitution predicted always on, AI enabled facial and license plate recognition on every street corner in America. If this is what they thought was possible, why write the 4th Amendment? Unreas
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by breakpointalpha 8mo ago
1. Deploy ICE agents wearing milsim gear to key Dem voting locations. 2. Allow the crowd to yell at them. 3. Use the crowd agitation as an opportunity to escalate and go "hands on". 4. Cause a ruckus. 5. Use the ruckus as justific
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by breakpointalpha 8mo ago
I thought the same thing about myself until I read Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg. Changed my mental model for what habits really are and how to engineer habitual change. I immediately started flossing and haven't quit in the three years since
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by breakpointalpha 8mo ago
Yes.
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by breakpointalpha 9mo ago
American life is so much more distributed than European life. Population density and the gigantic geographic distance make these kinds of events feel "remote" even if they are happening in our same state. It's a 17 hour drive
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by breakpointalpha 9mo ago
Let me introduce you to an actor named Rock Hudson coughs in black and white . /s
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by breakpointalpha 9mo ago
This isn't easy to prove, but the sentiment in our field for a very long time is that the interviews are frequently the hardest part of the job.
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by breakpointalpha 11mo ago
Everyone knows that the best companies have two CEOs.
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by breakpointalpha 11mo ago
I've heard that the same process of domestication towards "cuteness" has been outlined in human evolution too. Larger head-size relative to the body, larger eyes, smaller jaws and noses, longer limbs, etc. Interesting paralle
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by breakpointalpha 11mo ago
Interesting, I'm running Pop_OS! as well with a 4070 RTX MSI laptop. Can't get Arc Raiders to load, just freezes 15-30 seconds into the launch process no matter what Proton compatibility I choose.
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by breakpointalpha 11mo ago
They didn't need to be transactional spaces, they need to be spaces that attract people regularly. The local chicken farmer who works 16 hours a day to keep his farm running isn't going out of his way three times a week to visit t

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