cmiles74

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by cmiles74 5mo ago
Are they? I remember when heavyweight IDEs where all the rage, there was a similar sentiment that if you weren't using one of them then you would eventually be so much slower that you'd be out of a job. It only took maybe five yea
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
Indeed, social media companies seem to big proponents of the US legislation. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/13/california-advances...
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by cmiles74 5mo ago
In the US, the plan is to require adults to take a picture of their state ID and upload it to a third party that provides age verification. It's not explicitly part of the proposed law but there are only a handful of companies who meet
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
None of the developers that I’ve worked with have had the hemispheres of their brains severed. I suspect this is pretty rare in the field.
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
This quote in particular struck me as way out there. “Maybe one way to say it from the administration's perspective,” Stassun says, “is that this group of presidential appointees was advising the Congress to not follow the president&#x
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
I setup an XServe for a mid-sized office, Open Directory was Apple's solution at the time. It worked but my recollection was that they did it by emulating a lot of Active Directory by layering code over OpenLDAP. When it worked it was
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
I believe you can get a valid US state ID without being a citizen. In regards to this bill, IMHO, they are looking only to verify age.
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
Collecting the age will be done via a photo of a legal US state ID. We can take bets but, as the article points out, only two vendors can do this and this is how they do it.
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
Maybe you mean where in bill does it say a US photo ID is required. I think your are correct, I don't believe such a requirement exists in the bill itself and that's a big part of the article. Because the law doesn't require
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
Check out the two vendors of mobile solutions, they want a photo of your state ID. Here's Persona's page about it. https://withpersona.com/blog/what-is-drivers-license-verific... My understanding is that if y
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
The proving-your-age thing seems like a weasely way to talk about it. As you mentioned, providing a legible photo of your US state ID is a lot more data than your birth date!
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
It will become increasingly difficult to argue that a particular transcript between someone and Claude isn't accurate, once Anthropic finishes tying those transcripts to your official identification with Persona. Wild times!
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
There's a lot here, mixed some marketing and some dubious LLM claims. That being said, I think there could be real benefit in pushing detail on how features effect finances down to individual teams. Right now I have two features on my
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
You can call it childish if you want, but a lot of people are unhappy with the economy in general and rising costs in particular. Energy costs are a big part of those rising costs and, like it or not, the AI vendors and their data center pr
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
Indeed! In the article Bob is an astrophysicist. I think the difference between the workflow you describe and the description of Bob's is that you have a pretty good idea of what a working solution would look like. In my reading if the
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
Maybe it saved them some time? So far the studies seem to lean toward probably the LLM didn't save them any time.
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
Until the LLM is wrong and Bob passes the erroneous result off as accurate, reliable and vetted by a knowledgeable person. At that point Bob is not producing a useful result. Then it becomes a trap other people might get caught in, wastin
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
It's a spectrum and we don't have clear notches on the ruler letting us know when we're confidently steering the model and when we've wandered into vibe coding. For me, this position is easy to take when I am feeling wel
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
Do they need to write maintainable code? I think probably not, it's the research and discovering the new method that is important.
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
I have to disagree that Bob will be a better producer, although I do agree that Bob will produce more . In this scenario, Bob isn't clear on which LLM output is valid and important and which is erroneous and misleading; I think that&#
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
I think we already know what we need to do: encourage people to do the work themselves, discourage beginners from immediately asking an LLM for help and re-introducing some kind of oral exam. As the article mentions, banning LLMs is impract
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
Oh no, I wasn't clear: I am sure people read these agreements. I think most of the time, they don't understand them. Also, we can't always understand how these agreements might be applied even if we do think that we understan
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by cmiles74 6mo ago
I'm not sure we can hold individuals responsible for signing these non-disparagement clauses. They often don't have a lawyer to review the paperwork and, I am sure, employers like Facebook aren't going to wait for a new hire
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
I’m sure it’s overkill but I wanted to know how much power my laptop or whatever was actually drawing. https://iaohi.com/products/aohi-the-future-adonis-usb4-2-0-2...
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
It's worth keeping an eye on this HP-rental-laptop thing. Personally I think it will be a big headache for HP, people can be hard on laptops and HP is already not excited about consumer support (i.e. mandatory 15 minute wait time for s
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
I assume they are talking about the "This application was downloaded from the internet" warning, which I also don't like. Requiring dollars for signing and then _still_ showing a warning when someone installs your application
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
I dunno, if you can slog through the Python ecosystem then the JVM is starting to look not so bad. Plus with Clojure you don't need to deal with the headache and heartache that is Maven.
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
Agreed. I think the "simplifies running OpenClaw always-on assistants safely" bit is pretty misleading. I suppose it can wreak less havoc on your local file system but, as you point out, it's access to your account credential
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
I mean yeah, I agree, but is it that hard to keep relevant technology in the mix? I'm not saying everything has to be cutting edge!
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
A weekly ops meeting where they talk about ensuring PRs with AI contributions get extra scrutiny? I think that's significant news.

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