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by groby_b 1y ago
AFAIK, yes, in loco parentis isn't a thing. Rights of the child (or, overall, the individual) are first and foremost. Children commonly have voice in e.g. court proceedings affecting them, too. Nordic legal system is interesting - it
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by groby_b 1y ago
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/review-process
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> Is the layoff-based business model really the best use case for AI systems? No, but it plays well in quarterly earnings. So expect a good bit, I'd say. > The flaws are baked into the training data. Not in terms of attack area.
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Oh, sure, but that's next-level nerdery above "I just want to find a dark site" :) It's also invaluable for any assisted star gazing. Turns out driving out 4 hours into the middle of nowhere only to be stuck in the cloud
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Yep, you need date and time to get closer, sorry. 4/27, around 11pm. That's the impressive part. "M13 is in northern latitudes" is not particularly amazing by itself :) And even in EXIF-stripped pictures, the creation da
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by groby_b 1y ago
For what it's worth, it's also pretty impressive with night sky images, if you give it an approximate date & time. (Yes, I know, it's not that impressive a skill, except the process was still pretty involved - no EXIF, po
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If you don't already know the state of the night sky, https://darksitefinder.com/ is a great resource. (If you love the stars, it'll also leave you depressed. There are very few locations left where it's pitc
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by groby_b 1y ago
Given that the entire industry is in a frenzy to enable "agentic" AI - i.e. hook up tools that have actual effects in the world - that is at best a rather native take. Yes, LLMs can and do take actions in the world, because things
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In labor circles, the "subversive, incremental ways" are known as "work to rule". You simply do as you're told. Orders are never completely without ambiguity, and the person giving the order has less direct experien
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by groby_b 1y ago
This. So much this. And this extends far beyond developers. Talk to actual users, ask them what they actually think about modern UI. And then don't dismiss it as "learning effect" or "change aversion" or "req
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That depends. A lot of them are. A lot of them have owners that actually treat you like family. Differentiating between the two based on signals during hiring is almost impossible, though.
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It's a beautiful goal, but like so many things on the Internet, it wants a social change and hopes to achieve it via a technological solution that rejects most of the things people want from their Internet. And neither nostalgia nor te
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by groby_b 2y ago
I feel the same way about having somebody constantly chatting in my head :) I'd assume for both of us it's mostly fear of the unknown.
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by groby_b 2y ago
It'a github link for an MIT-licensed project... If the community considers that astroturfing, we have completely lost the plot what building is.
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This, the same as dark mode, and media queries etc, all completely undermines the core idea of the web - a semantic representation of data, rendered by a user agent, according to the users preferences. CSS & JS are the opposite. Yes, I
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by groby_b 2y ago
Wait, somebody shares genuinely useful info, and you complain that it could've been spam, but wasn't? Look, yes, the daytrading field is weird. You don't have to like it. (I don't either). But... that's an interesti
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by groby_b 2y ago
Stupidity rarely has a consistent destructive track record. You score occasional wins. Only malice allows every decision to do damage. (The other razor, essentially - Occam)
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by groby_b 2y ago
"We couldn't make something work, so nobody can make anything work" is also a claim you can make, yes. It's rather unsound reasoning, but you certainly can.
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How's it compare against e.g. cursor?
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So, career civil servants? Yeah, heaven forfend we'd want to preserve any kind of institutional memory. Let's reappoint everybody every two years, that'll make things work well.
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by groby_b 2y ago
No, the LLMs aren't going to kill us all. Neither are they going to help a determined mass murderer to get us all. They are, however, going to enable credulous idiots to drive humanity completely off a cliff. (And yes, we're seein
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by groby_b 2y ago
If you want faster horses, breed your own horses. Ford wasn't interested in either your horse, or your transportation need. Ford was interested in what you'd buy. That means when there was ample competition, you'd likely get
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by groby_b 2y ago
Read. The. Fine. Article.
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TBF, the folks who get actual value out of knowing who works at Tailscale already know who works there :) They're not exactly secretive, there's just little value to have it on the main company page. (And if you just want pictures
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by groby_b 2y ago
That depends entirely on how you raise the funds. Yes, you can say "Here's the growth rate we'd get without your money - based on that, this investment gets you an ROI of x%." With x% high enough, sure, you can get VC mo
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by groby_b 2y ago
That's the beauty of a long-term commitment. You are stating so much confidence about the future that you say "yes, we can have a functioning society and set aside these resources". Sure, you can create scenarios were that
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by groby_b 2y ago
Knowing a number of successful entrepreneurs, many having hit success early as well - most don't need to enshrine themselves in the company name. It is indeed a tell. If that wasn't enough of a tell, his behavior in the last few m
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by groby_b 2y ago
"No difference in physiology" ignores the general presence of a very different endocrine system. And, indeed, ethanol is an endocrine disruptor. The endocrine system, in turn, is known to influence neuroplasticity. Given that estr
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by groby_b 2y ago
What's the _point_ of the anecdote, though? You're taking up everybody's time to tell a story, do us a favor to have a relevant point. "Have no fear" doesn't apply to the article, at all. You might as well writ
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by groby_b 2y ago
You can't always get on a phone call, time zones exist :) (Also, not all fax debug stories are done in 45 seconds. I gotta see if I can find my old faxes - fixing a "stop shipping" bug in a video game via a series of back-and

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