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by ipdashc 10mo ago
Neat! Thank you!
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
If I recall, the idea was the AI taking the role of the vending machine manager, choosing and restocking products and such. Anything on top of that was, I assume, just added for fun.
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
> The point is that it's an ad. Sure, but like the other guy said, that's the point of publicity stunts. It doesn't even have to be specific to a company/ad, any silly thing like this is going to sound crazy if you ta
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
Yeah, I haven't read the WSJ article, but I did read the original Anthropic experiment and I feel like the author is catastrophizing a bit much here. This is effectively just something they did for fun. It's entertaining and a fun
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
Completely anecdotally, I've seen Tiktok get replaced almost entirely by Instagram Reels in the sample space of, well, links to funny videos people send me. It doesn't count for much, but I do feel people might have slightly overe
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
Do you have the press release in question? I'd be very curious to see it. All I found at a glance was Truman's well-known one ( https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/hiroshima-... ) which was f
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
Is this still true? I feel like I haven't heard of any crazy cryptography revelations for a while now. My assumption was that cryptography was a bit of a special case because it was only government/defense entities putting signifi
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
At this point it's almost more annoying than the AI hype in the first place. The hype by now at least seems pretty much self aware. It's mind-boggling to me that people don't realize all the Mozilla stuff is completely empty&
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
> I'm particularly curious why when I say I use Rust and code faster everyone is fine with that, but saying that I use AI and code faster is an extremely contentious statement. This hits the nail on the head, IMO. I haven't see
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
This is my assumption as well. In general it seems like hacking becomes a lot easier (still not easy of course, just easier) when you have no fear of getting caught or going to jail. Does anyone remember LAPSUS$ https://en.wiki
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
Most of human history, sure, but I'm talking about the last few centuries. We've had plenty of organizations of that size; corporations, governments, militaries. But why on Earth is the total size of the organization relevant? Tha
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
Seems like a skill issue, my friend, not sure what to say. Again, we managed to do this for literal centuries without needing to turn workplaces into metrics-obsessed assembly lines. A manager should know what's going on in their team
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
If there's one person in a team discriminating unfairly, that should be pretty obvious if they're the only one objecting while everyone else thinks an employee is doing a fine job. If the entire team is discriminatory, then as the
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
These are all pretty extreme cases that apply if your managers/coworkers are horrible people. Most people are thankfully, as a rule, pretty normal. Obviously discrimination exists, which is why metrics should still be used (as data poi
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
> People complain about rating performance based on what your manager or coworkers say about you. Do they? This definitely seems better to me, and I don't think I've really heard complaints about it. Not without flaws, of cours
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
security@ emails do get a lot of spam. It doesn't get talked about very much unless you're monitoring one yourself, but there's a fairly constant stream of people begging for bug bounty money for things like the Secure flag n
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
I mean, yeah? Does any market work like that? If you want an apple, you pay the person who has the apple to take it from them, you don't pay the other people who want apples. Not really following where this is going
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
It's Google, it's one of the biggest tech companies in the world making boatloads of money, in part off their browser. They're currently best known as one of the companies trying to create AI God. They really can't write
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
The spot of land is being consumed, no? If it's HCoL, clearly that's land that a lot of people wish they could live on but can't.
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
> At big tech over 40% of checked in code is LLM generated. Assuming this is true though, how much of that 40% is boilerplate or simple, low effort code that could have been knocked out in a few minutes previously? It's always been
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
> on a surprisingly small salary But if we take "surprisingly small salary" to literally mean salary, most (... all?) salaried jobs require you to work full time, 40 hours a week. Unless we consider cushy remote tech jobs, but
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by ipdashc 10mo ago
> or stayed flat But that's not what they said, they said they want to work less. As the GP post said, they'd still be working a full week. I do think this is an interesting point. The trend for most of history seems to have be
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by ipdashc 11mo ago
I want to know so badly what the telcos are still doing with all that space. Some, like mentioned above, are probably edge data centers. I imagine there's a lot of Internet infrastructure in them as well. But even the biggest IXP is su
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by ipdashc 11mo ago
> Running a data center on unreliable energy would be shockingly stupid. For the right kind of workloads and at sufficient scale, I wonder if this is actually true. (It probably is, but it's fun to hypothesize.) I'm assuming th
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by ipdashc 11mo ago
To be fair, in the AWS/Azure outages, I don't think any individual (already created) boxes went down, either. In AWS' case you couldn't start up new EC2 instances, and presumably same for Azure (unless you bypass the m
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by ipdashc 1y ago
> Colonizing Antarctica is a few orders of magnitude easier than Mars and we've barely progressed with that I hear this somewhat often, and I find it a bit disingenuous since it's not like we're trying that hard to colon
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by ipdashc 1y ago
Coal used to power entire countries, and it still runs our steel mills. American industrial might and American quality of life was only possible because of our coal miners. A Walmart stocker puts cheap Chinese stuff on shelves. The typical
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by ipdashc 1y ago
While rose-tinted glasses are a huge factor, I feel like a big part of what people dream of when looking back on the last century is not just leisure, but stability and dignity. Stability in that you had jobs that lasted a lifetime and paid
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by ipdashc 1y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Never thought I'd see a world where Arch has an installer (and, jokes aside, many Linux distros have very straightforward GUI installers) while people have to... "hit Shift+F10 to get a terminal, the
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by ipdashc 1y ago
Yeah, personally I've been using KDE for a few years now and actively find the user interface easier to use and more logical than Windows.

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