daemin

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by daemin 4mo ago
One thing I disagree with the article about is that drives should not be encrypted by default. For the vast majority of people an encrypted drive is just data loss lying in wait. I prefer to use non-encrypted drives so I have the option of
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by daemin 4mo ago
To add to this, a Google search now is answering your question in an incorrect way rather than merely bringing you to a site with incorrect information on it. They are also no longer covered by safe harbour provisions because it is them ans
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by daemin 4mo ago
Very much like gambling, you can hit the jackpot, or just have continuous near (and far) misses.
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by daemin 4mo ago
In the Russian-Ukrainian war the GPS guided shells that the USA was sending to Ukraine cost about $40k a pop, where as you can get at least a dozen drones for that price. Even the fanciest self propelled artillery is getting destroyed by th
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by daemin 4mo ago
A key point here is open in terms of being able to download and use it, not open as knowing what data and instructions were fed into it when training. A paranoid part of me thinks that these models are all inherently biased and instructed t
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by daemin 4mo ago
They aren't going to make _this_ show, they might make another show in the future, one catering to a broader (non-core-fan) audience.
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by daemin 4mo ago
One concern I've heard about the move to ARM cores is that it is done in order to lock down the devices more so they're more like a phone rather than a computer.
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by daemin 4mo ago
I would have thought that the default 5V coming through the cable should be enough to power on the chip and negotiate power delivery though? Or was it actually working but charging only on 5V and taking a long time to wake up?
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by daemin 4mo ago
Bare metal or bare bootloader only right?
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by daemin 4mo ago
There's definitely some form of addictive behaviour going on in a similar vein to poker/slot machines. There are studies and anecdotes that I've heard where the most thrill and reward comes not from the wins at gambling but f
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by daemin 4mo ago
Isn't there a limit on the public markets where if a company has less than a certain percentage of its ownership traded publicly then it is no longer a public company and therefore de-listed? I remember hearing about a guy trying to sq
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by daemin 4mo ago
Depends how you count profiting from it, if you only count direct monetary profit, or if you count things such as favours to be profit. There has to be some motivation for people to do such random things, and even if not directly illegal, t
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by daemin 4mo ago
That sounds quite scammy, like it could have been designed to scam applicants or people that wanted to hire that agency. Then again maybe giving an image of a more normal "white/multicultural" Australian office might make it
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by daemin 4mo ago
It doesn't have to be, we have the power to change it by just not using LLMs to generate code-like text sequences. But if anyone is having their revenge it is the "idea guys", not the UML jockeys.
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by daemin 4mo ago
Because the site (or marketing agency in charge of the ads) has plausible deniability for the user opting into marketing and tracking when they show a banner, whereas if it's a browser setting automatically applied then there's no
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by daemin 4mo ago
1) Anyone at a company trading in bitcoin. 2) SpaceX employee or board member. 3) Anyone with a blow drier that knows which weather monitoring station is used. 4) Campaign insider that can sabotage their candidate's chances of winning.
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by daemin 4mo ago
What is your stance on loot boxes in video games then? Is that akin to a poker/slot machine or is it more like a kinder surprise?
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by daemin 4mo ago
Him placing the bets or a co-conspirator placing the bets and sharing the profit is the same thing. He is effectively betting on himself saying those words which he then goes on to say. I'm pretty sure this is the same as match or race
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by daemin 4mo ago
It's just opportunistic people calling old people over the phone in hopes of tricking them into handing over some money for "an emergency" by claiming they're a relative. Really low effort scams, I'm not surprised t
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by daemin 4mo ago
There was a good Perun video on this topic which goes through the various ways in which a betting market can distort or affect a war effort (and can be applied to a larger organisation like a company) https://youtu.be/6lz3vT
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by daemin 4mo ago
At first I thought this would be an interesting article, but as soon as they mentioned using an LLM to do the conversion I lost all interest. It's like saying "I wanted this done so I got my underling to do it, here is my story...
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by daemin 4mo ago
This scam has existed for decades, just hasn't used "AI" before to fake the voice. My grandma was often a target of scammers calling up and pretending to be her daughters or grandsons and wanting to get money out of her. She
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by daemin 5mo ago
Cookie banners exist because it is a dark pattern companies use to get you to opt into marketing cookies by making the easiest thing the worst choice. This could all be handled by settings in the browser, only if the sites themselves listen
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by daemin 5mo ago
Not an egalitarian society, but their companies have a honey-badger like mentality from what I have read, where they ruthlessly reduce costs and margin down past where non-Chinese companies cannot compete.
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by daemin 5mo ago
Do you find yourself programming a solution in the second language in the style of the first? Or are they both similar enough to you that it is effectively the same style of solution?
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by daemin 5mo ago
Is it now classified as a Unicorn?
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by daemin 5mo ago
Which works when you live in normal civil times, when you live in jungle times people and robots will do whatever they want and the most powerful will get their way.
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by daemin 5mo ago
Given that the tokens are being subsidised by a couple orders of magnitude, would it still be as cost effective long term?
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by daemin 5mo ago
The more I hear about companies shifting to focus on AI the more it makes me want to start a direct "successor"/"competitor" company that does what the original company did without shifting to AI. As a bet on the AI
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by daemin 5mo ago
Do you mean because more people are vibe coding, trusting the models' output, and putting code directly into production, so there are more security vulnerabilities created? Or because there are more source code scanners which end up fi

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