jonplackett

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by jonplackett 6d ago
Is it just me or are Alibaba / qwen’s websites often appear broken / very slow?
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by jonplackett 6d ago
Thank you!
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by jonplackett 6d ago
Thank you!
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by jonplackett 6d ago
A while ago I made an algorithm to swap the gender in fairy stories. (Genderswappedstories.com) And I found another English weirdness trying to swap between his/him and her/hers. Him always swaps to her Eg it was him - it was her
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by jonplackett 7d ago
Well soon realise it hacked that website and added that log.
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by jonplackett 8d ago
I spoke to a very very high up corporate lawyer specialising in tech - so knows Ai is real. And they said AI contracts are the bane of their existence. They’d rather you arrive with no idea what you want than a contract partially written by
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by jonplackett 8d ago
The problem is those two people are in conflict not collaboration. If the expensive person is still better at getting what _you_ want from a contract then it’s always worth doing that. There’s a reason lawyers are so expensive to begin with
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by jonplackett 11d ago
I was thinking the exact same thing!
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by jonplackett 12d ago
How can it work if people don’t have jobs though? Where do they get their money to pay for anything? Also the economy can grow and still leave everyone completely screwed except rich owner classes.
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by jonplackett 12d ago
Just as a counterpoint to this. I was having ankle pain and had one of these gait analyses and also had inward pointing knees and got some shoes to correct it - and it helped loads! Much less knee pain and my ankle feels lessy achey too. So
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by jonplackett 13d ago
The economics only make sense if they can replace a huge number of workers with AI. But that reminds me of the story of the union rep telling Ford: “good luck getting your machines to buy your cars” (Fyi Ford took note and started paying hi
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by jonplackett 14d ago
Weird to think we are currently living in the ‘unlimited free Ubers because you recommended a friend or 2’ phase of this new technology. Imagine if running fable costs you what it actually costs to run fable. A lot of vibe coders (and just
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by jonplackett 14d ago
Head, hand and heart are all required to make something worthwhile.
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by jonplackett 14d ago
It looks cool but I just can’t be that bothered to engage with something that contains so little of a human’s input.
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by jonplackett 14d ago
I think you need to just pause for a moment of reflection and look at the number of countries the USA has invaded vs the number Iran has invaded. And then maybe look at the number of nuclear bombs used against other nations.
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by jonplackett 15d ago
I didn’t say they’re given them a bomb. I said nuclear technology. I’m just pointing out that we’re oh so happy to give people who murder gay people weapons and very advanced technology. Because they’re the bad people we like who give us ch
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by jonplackett 15d ago
I have the same gripe and I think it’s just simply that when you are used to being able to just write code, everything else feels like it’s in the way. Visual coding is a pain to change and move around quickly. It’s just clutter ultimately
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by jonplackett 15d ago
Saudi Arabia who they’re fighting against by proxy, and who we sell lots of bombs to, and are soon going to help get nuclear technology, not so great either. https://www.humandignitytrust.org/country-profile/saudi-arab.
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by jonplackett 15d ago
This is part of the Houthis preventing Saudi Arabia from exporting any oil at all. So no I don’t think it’s gonna make oil lower. Higher probably. But oil is doing very weird things.
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by jonplackett 15d ago
I really miss that flash let non-programmers or ‘lite’ programmers (which I was at the time) make cool shit. I still don’t think a tool has really replaced it as a visual coding tool.
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by jonplackett 16d ago
But the thing is the current iPhone is too long for video. You don’t need all the length for 16:9. The two ends are wasted space. So your same video on the fold will be about an inch wider because it has the space to expand into in the othe
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by jonplackett 16d ago
Yeah like why did you upgrade last year or even the one before. I have a 15 and I can’t see anything I’m missing out on. I upgrade for the jumps. This year is the jump!
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by jonplackett 16d ago
I have bought a new iPhone every time they made the screen bigger. That’s pretty much my main reason for upgrading.
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by jonplackett 16d ago
I mean, they have a return policy. Give it a try! It could be fun. How many years did you keep your Nokia 3310 when smart phones were released
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by jonplackett 16d ago
Can we just never link to X posts as the main link.
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by jonplackett 16d ago
I really miss the live presentations. They had a lot more humanity. But I miss the Steve jobs presentations the most. I was watching one of his old presentations the other day from when he was in his 20s - he’s just so engaged and present a
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by jonplackett 17d ago
I’m not sure what the point of this distinction is now because agents are where all the AI is now. And they’re just going to be given more and more tools and be allowed to make their own tools - or misuse things they find and turn into tool
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by jonplackett 17d ago
The thing he talks about in there - an ad telling a dad to use AI for his daughter’s wedding speech. I agree is just so sad. And I’ve seen LOADS of other ads like that encouraging people to use AI for things like asking someone to move seat
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by jonplackett 18d ago
How is this not a gigantic fine from the EU for some kind of GDPR reason
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by jonplackett 18d ago
Not sure everyone agreed to skynet either

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