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by david_shaw 7mo ago
It would be an interesting and potentially useful project to combine these camera locations with Maps routing -- similar to "avoid toll roads," we could "avoid surveillance cameras."
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by david_shaw 7mo ago
It's wild that all other comments in this thread (so far) seem to completely miss this nuance. There are lots of services that, in their terms, require users to be adults. This type of age "identification" is a lot different
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by david_shaw 7mo ago
I'd prefer to see board (or executive) level signatories over lay employees -- the people who can enforce enterprise policy rather than just voice their opinions -- but this is encouraging to see nonetheless. I can't help but noti
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by david_shaw 8mo ago
> What does "solving" coding mean? Maybe this was sarcasm, but it's a good point: "Coding" is solved in the same way that "writing English language" is solved by LLMs. Given ideas, AI can generate acc
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by david_shaw 8mo ago
This is for sure an inspirational project, but I wish the barrier to entry was lower. I've noticed e-ink/paper displays having somewhat of a moment right now (especially very small "phone-like" form factors as portable e
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by david_shaw 8mo ago
> I am seeing something closer to the opposite of skepticism among vulnerability researchers. My initial claim was overly broad, but the feeling of discomfort feels widespread to me. In my experience, some of that is technical skepti
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by david_shaw 8mo ago
There's a lot of skepticism in the security world about whether AI agents can "think outside the box" enough to replicate or augment senior-level security engineers. I don't yet have access to Claude Code Security, but I
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by david_shaw 8mo ago
Totally. I meant if people were all using the same replacement software, that joining groups' different "servers" would be the same experience. Absolutely agree that if everything splintered, it would be a mess.
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by david_shaw 8mo ago
Those are all great points. I totally agree.
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by david_shaw 8mo ago
> I'm a SWE who's been using coding agents daily for the last 6 months and I'm still skeptical. What improvements have you noticed over that time? It seems like the models coming out in the last several weeks are dramati
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by david_shaw 8mo ago
I agree that most Discord users do not want to self host. However, > Everybody will have to join everybody else’s server. Too much effort. This is already the model. Everyone has "their own" discord server, and you have to co
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by david_shaw 8mo ago
Wow. I've seen a lot of "we had AI talk to each other! lol!" type of posts, but this is truly fascinating.
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by david_shaw 8mo ago
Nice work! I'm sure the data gleaned here is illuminating for many users. I'm surprised that there isn't a stronger demand for enterprise-wide tools like this. Yes, there are a few solutions, but when you contrast the new sta
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by david_shaw 9mo ago
From the tool description linked: > Dangerzone works like this: You give it a document that you don't know if you can trust (for example, an email attachment). Inside of a sandbox, Dangerzone converts the document to a PDF (if it i
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by david_shaw 9mo ago
You can donate to reduce the national debt, so it's not that far out of the realm of possibility that federal agencies would solicit donations, too. https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/23779454
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by david_shaw 9mo ago
Sure, I understand the thread's implication and I'm certainly not saying that it's never true. But some companies have the choice of hiring, for example, one really great engineer for $500k, and one very solid one for $250k.
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by david_shaw 9mo ago
It's a valid business strategy to hire the best and brightest in the field, and to pay higher than average to attract that talent -- if you can afford it. "Big law" firms are a good example of this too: they pay way more th
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by david_shaw 10mo ago
WPScan was (and maybe still is?) the de facto security scanner for WordPress security problems. I remember using it with great success during my days running security assessments, and it's great that the open source repo is still aroun
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by david_shaw 10mo ago
Yes, it's the least reliable. Thanks for summarizing the data here to illustrate the issue. It's often seen as the "standard" or "default" region to use when spinning up new US-based AWS services, is the oldest
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by david_shaw 10mo ago
I'm not sure about licenses that explicitly forbid LLM use -- although you could always modify a license to require this! -- but GPL licensed projects require that you also make the software you create open source. I'm not sure th
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by david_shaw 10mo ago
LLMs are part of the entire tech industry, so I'd have to say "no, probably not."
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by david_shaw 10mo ago
> Finneas (aka, Finneas O’Connell) has developed a new sonic logo for Apple TV, the streaming service previously known as Apple TV+. I still find it perplexing that Apple TV [1] the service and Apple TV [2] the device -- technically
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by david_shaw 10mo ago
>"The theoretical physicist and fusion scientist was known for his award-winning research in magnetised plasma dynamics. Magnetised plasma dynamics is the study of the state of matter in which the motion of charged particles is inf
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by david_shaw 10mo ago
In my experience, getting over the fear of public speaking is really just an exercise in exposure therapy. There are no silver bullets. But my advice to current and future public speakers is this: never, ever add fluff to fill the engagemen
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by david_shaw 10mo ago
> The cat gap is a period in the fossil record of approximately 25 million to 18.5 million years ago in which there are few fossils of cats or cat-like species found in North America. 25M - 18.5M years ago.
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by david_shaw 10mo ago
Yes: in retrospect, the Perl community (and maybe even the language in general) was cringe-worthy and perhaps even toxic. But at the time, that elite and esoteric language drew me and many others to it in much the same way that *BSD and arg
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by david_shaw 11mo ago
Since they mentioned intermittent reward, I take that comment to mean that they prefer to play skill-based games rather than time-sink-for-variable-reward games. I agree with you that Blizzard didn't stand to directly earn from the D2
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by david_shaw 1y ago
> i mean this is cute in an isolated incident, until, you know, all the corporations sell that info to a fascist government who uses it to track dissidents in Portalnd. The phones (GPS) and cell networks (towers) have your location any
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by david_shaw 1y ago
> Is the title to be taken seriously or is “AI Overlords” become some type of well-meaning indication of the positivity of having overlords? The abstract blurb (linked) doesn't mention AI overlords in either context, so I think it
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by david_shaw 1y ago
> WTH is a “bulletproof host”? A "bulletproof" host or provider is the colloquial term for a business that will not reveal your identity, payment information, provide LEO access, respond to subpoenas, etc. It's generally

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