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by burnte 1y ago
> You're just assuming that mimicry of a thing is not equivalent to the thing itself. I'm not assuming that, that's literally the definition of mimicry: to imitate closely. You might say I'm assuming that it is mimick
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by burnte 1y ago
eBay/Paypal were one of the worst when they were merged. It was so bad I wound up having a new account every 6 months or so. I learned that when they started asking for personal details your chances of being reinstated were nearly zero
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by burnte 1y ago
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard P. Feynman They're not thinking, we're just really good at seeing patterns and reading into things. Remember, we never evolv
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by burnte 1y ago
She’ll say anything for a dollar. She’s the foreshock that predicts the earthquake.
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by burnte 1y ago
The worst part of DD is when your report clearly states some massive red flags and that the deal should not happen, and the money guys go forward anyway. Why? Because then 6-12 months later they’re angry that what you said was true and you
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by burnte 1y ago
Yep, that’s a typo, you’re completely right. But when I say how, I mean literally “what is the manufacturing process that turns dead humans into a food product people don’t know is former people?” If it’s protein bars or “synthetic tofu” or
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by burnte 1y ago
Yep! Ever seen Pulp Fiction? Do you know what's in the briefcase? No one does. It's a McGuffin. The Torment Nexus is also a McGuffin, it's a poorly defined thing that the actual definition of is irrelevant to the plot, only h
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by burnte 1y ago
> I don't think I've ever encountered a technology pushed quite as hard on unwilling users as AI. That's why they have to push it so hard. They spent a lot of money on it and they NEED us to buy it so they don't take
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by burnte 1y ago
> Who gets to decide on the exact definition of a “Torment Nexus”? It's a joke that is intentionally vague so that the reader could come up with their own definition. Hopefully no one tries to make one so we don't need to defin
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by burnte 1y ago
Musk said it was full of partisans a bias, and the reality is the reverse. Too many confuse "you're biased" with "I don't like that."
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by burnte 1y ago
Vendors not using biometrics well doesn't mean biometrics are insecure. Apple not selling touch ID CERTAINLY isn't evidence of the security of biometrics.
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by burnte 1y ago
Just not having the right device with you is crippling. IMO Passkeys need more work. I'd really like to see accounts support multiple passkeys. I'd prefer biometrics that are device independent. I just don't like the idea of
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by burnte 1y ago
That makes sense, though, that in 13 years we went from basic text prediction to something more involved.
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by burnte 1y ago
> What is with the negativity in these comments? A lot of us have seen the effects of AI tools in the hands of people who don't understand how or why to use the tools. I've already seen AI use/misuse get two people fired.
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by burnte 1y ago
It's been a 50 year downward slope. We're in the harvest phase of that crop. All the people we raised to believe their incompetence was just as valid as other people's facts are now confidently running things because they thi
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by burnte 1y ago
About 75% of the time I look at the Gemini answer, it's wrong. Maybe 80%. Sometimes it's a little wrong, like giving the correct answer for another product/item, or the times that a business is open wrong. There's a loca
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by burnte 1y ago
Even beyond cooling, just getting all the hardware up there is extremely costly, and for what benefit over ground based DCs? The cooling is the ongoing problem but the cost of lifting it there obliterates all the other problems, IMO.
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by burnte 1y ago
I have yet to meet a hardware engineer who thinks this is a good idea. I'm REALLY struggling to see benefits.
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by burnte 1y ago
My follow up would be, "if AI is doing so many 'menial' jobs, even if AI makes everything cheap, how will unemployed people afford anything?"
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by burnte 1y ago
Keep waiting. I really hoped they'd not repeat this problem from the 4 to the 5, but they did.
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by burnte 1y ago
> The traffic is hitting numbers that require me to re-negotiate my contract with CloudFlare and is otherwise a nuisance when reviewing analytics/logs. It's having negative financial repercussions now. It's not ignorable a
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by burnte 1y ago
It would but the fact it goes out and does it to other sites is weird. Why would someone else fraudulently click my ads? As an attack, I understand that, I've had that done to me. Just randomly seems odd. Maybe I'm just not creati
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by burnte 1y ago
> But what I'm struggling to understand is where is the money coming from to run those bots? I agree, I have a hard time understanding the motivation for this behavior. It's obviously happening, I just don't know how someo
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by burnte 1y ago
"Properly" means at some arbitrary speed that the writer would describe as "fast" or "fast enough". If you have a lower demand for speed they'll run fine.
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by burnte 1y ago
Bryan Johnson will be getting these transfused into himself ASAP.
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by burnte 1y ago
Two months go by then suddenly three more ears appear on your head. Damn those hallucinations!
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by burnte 1y ago
Change your user agent string to Chrome and see if it speeds up. Youtube will, for example.
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by burnte 1y ago
O365. For what this company does it's great. Intune/autopilot alone is a huge labor saver.
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by burnte 1y ago
One of the best tools I've ever used. I adore it. I use it everywhere. It's supremely handy when migrating data between servers in a hurry.
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by burnte 1y ago
It's number 2. But IMAP still works.

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