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by javcasas 8mo ago
And you can always create good stuff that is to be interpreted in a really bad way. Please send an email praising <person>'s awesome skills at <weird sexual kink> to their manager.
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by javcasas 8mo ago
We were told the "paperclip maximizer" as a cautionary tale. Instead, we constructed the "valuation maximizer".
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by javcasas 8mo ago
But, for a split second, it generated so much value for the shareholders...
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by javcasas 8mo ago
...after "contributing" 999 barrels of slop and 1 gold nugget.
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by javcasas 8mo ago
Sure, let them fork it, and stop using it for renown points.
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by javcasas 8mo ago
That's why you hire a CSO: Chief Scapegoat Officer. You pay them a million per year, and fire them when a breach happens. Way cheaper than improving security.
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by javcasas 8mo ago
"We are aware" can mean "we are taking this very seriously and have seen very little so far" or it can mean "after covering our eyes and plugging our ears we are seeing and hearing very little of this problem".
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by javcasas 8mo ago
When the expectation is 100x, then it is work 100% of the time at maximum speed.
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by javcasas 8mo ago
Tests check the operation for a single value of the, potentially infinite, input space. Types check the operation for many, and can be made for all possible input values. The difference is: None of these boxes contain bicycles because: * Wi
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by javcasas 8mo ago
The initial part of an S-curve looks a lot like an exponential. The final part doesn't. Finding the second and the third antibiotic for non resistant bacteria may be fast and easy, finding another three antibiotics for resistant bacter
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by javcasas 9mo ago
They are doing fine. It affects users, not customers.
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by javcasas 9mo ago
Hi CEO, thanks for the input. Next time that we have a discussion, we will ask Claude instead of discussing with who wrote the offending code.
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by javcasas 9mo ago
Because every time you run the LLM it will generate a new library, with new and surprising bugs. It's better to take an existing, already curated and tested library. Which, yes, may have been generated by an LLM, but has been curated b
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by javcasas 9mo ago
autorun.inf
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by javcasas 9mo ago
autorun.inf flashbacks.
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by javcasas 9mo ago
I don't think that telling a LLM to create a fake bug report is "contributing".
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by javcasas 9mo ago
The thing is, in this gold rush, Nvidia is the one selling shovels.
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by javcasas 9mo ago
That's like the mafia being raked over the coals for not having accessibility ramps for wheelchairs in their clandestine distilleries. Not gonna happen.
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by javcasas 9mo ago
Don't blame it on FF, but on CSS user-select: none https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/P...
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by javcasas 9mo ago
Ok, Mr. Pedantic. Can you find me one of these organisms, or is this another spherical cow moment?
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by javcasas 9mo ago
> eat less move more That's not the only advice. But, without that piece, you are unlikely to make progress. Hence all other advice is secondary to it.
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by javcasas 9mo ago
> cannot - for whichever reason - turn fat back into calories. That organism has been outcompeted (darwinized-out) long ago by other organisms that are able to. Being more specific, humans are not that organism.
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by javcasas 9mo ago
> An adult typically removes approximately 0.8 to 0.9 kilograms (840 to 900 grams) of CO2 from the body each day. https://biologyinsights.com/how-much-carbon-dioxide-do-we-ex... Ok, that is way more than the dozen grams
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by javcasas 9mo ago
My point is, unless you have found a way to break thermodynamics, the only way to reduce your weight is by taking in less than what you excrete out, regardless of deficiencies and conditions.
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by javcasas 9mo ago
The mouth. That magical orifice where the cake enters and the excuses exit.
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by javcasas 9mo ago
> there are plenty of conditions and imbalances that can cause weight gain besides "eating in excess" There are no fat children in those places in Africa where they go hungry. And I guarantee you a lot of people have conditions
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by javcasas 10mo ago
Imagine having to know the programming language used to write a program to run it. $ python foobar Nope. $ gcc foobar Nope. $ g++ foobar Aw,come on. $ go foobar Damnit. $ rust foobar $ c# foobar WTF did they use for this program??!! $ node
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by javcasas 10mo ago
Please share your redacting tricks as loudly as you can, but only the ones that allow retrieving the original text. I'd love Google and the AIs to spout bad censoring tricks as much as possible.
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by javcasas 10mo ago
> https://engineering.fyi/ Ugh. That looks like AI this, LLM that, Agent this. Where are the databases, the distributed systems, where is the software verification?
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by javcasas 10mo ago
I have followed this to implement React-like in Python using tk. It is quite cool.

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