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by kldg 11mo ago
agreed, though I think the issue more is that these systems, deployed at scale, may result in widespread/consistent unexpected behavior if deployed in higher-stakes environments. an earlier commenter mentioned a self-driving car perhap
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by kldg 11mo ago
I'm fine enough now to retire but get on my hands and knees whenever I drop a tiny surface-mount resistor, which I have reels of tens or hundreds of. If I can't find it after 5 or so minutes, that's when the "what am I d
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by kldg 11mo ago
Youtube already employs DRM on some of their videos (notably their free* commercial movies). if you try to take a screenshot, the frame is blacked out. this can be bypassed by applying a CSS blur effect of 0 pixels, permitting extraction; d
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by kldg 11mo ago
this is the line of thinking which led me to furnish daughter with Windows laptops and, later, desktops; I remove the adware & spyware to some degree, but Windows (and I assume Mac, but I'm not in that space) has the benefit of gen
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by kldg 1y ago
I will throw a story out here because I don't know where else to put it and want it off my chest (I will leave a lot out of this): Daughter tried suicide a few weeks ago. "It was not a serious attempt," but obviously it is. W
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by kldg 1y ago
a democracy would be neat; we have a representative democracy here, so I can only vote for one of two candidates with a plausible chance of being elected, neither of who(m, if you must) have a coherent policy on AI or general disbursement o
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by kldg 1y ago
Every Windows-shipping laptop I review, the very first thing I type up is the process for setting up Windows without setting up a cloud account. It's already a 7-10 step process on existing laptops. If they want to make that a 20-30 st
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by kldg 1y ago
Yeah, for me, the biggest issue is, counter-intuitively given it's Google, I know Gemini is going to continue existing as a product for a long time; I feel comfortable storing data and building things out for it. Anthropic's putti
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by kldg 1y ago
just a few thoughts: 1) so long as these age verification methods are for things at home, I think most people opposed to smartphones ("client devices" we have to pay for) will not be too inconvenienced. a few years ago, broker q
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by kldg 1y ago
I picked up some 1GB Rock-2F boards while available in the US for ~$10/ea. Seems they aren't shipping the 1GB boards to the US anymore though. Before this, I had a couple Raspberry Pis; one I fried, and the other acted as a web se
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by kldg 1y ago
This is a very neat design; it's quite complicated, but I don't see anything particularly unnecessary. I use DPI scaling, so I was impressed because it's something I tend to have a hassle with in testing frontends which need
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by kldg 1y ago
CEO was once annoyed with me while I worked IT (we handled facilities/security, too; was <100 employees) for testing how the camera worked for detecting human presence inside dev & design's room to unlock the double glass d
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by kldg 1y ago
Agreed. I met my late wife on social media. You could definitely make friends on things like forums, but the people on modern social media platforms are different; there's a complete, pervasive lack of trust among today's users. I
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by kldg 1y ago
your understanding is correct.
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by kldg 1y ago
this is neat; thanks for sharing. on further investigation, I find Firefox (+ Developer Edition) recently added feature to add custom search engines (settings->search), in which these query params can be employed and even saved as the de
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by kldg 1y ago
For what it's worth -- and I'm not familiar with the Framework 13 -- but I did recently review a marketed-for-AI-workloads laptop with Ryzen 260 CPU and Nvidia 5060 laptop GPU, which shipped with Windows, and was curious how graph
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by kldg 1y ago
What is the commonality between websites severely affected by bots? I run web server from home for years on .com TLD, is high-ish in Google site index for relevant keywords, and do not have any exotic protections against bots either on rout
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by kldg 1y ago
I think it likely needs to get bad enough that people actually stop using them altogether or ask government to step in. we do this with social media now where the school systems here strongly discourage social media use at home, and the gov
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by kldg 1y ago
Yeah, I think it's pretty messy. I bought some keplers a year ago ( far below MSRP), and they are fine -- but the trouble becomes software support; sort of like tablets/phones where the hardware's still more than enough, but
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by kldg 1y ago
does it work well? I run chromium controlled by playwright for scraping and typically make Gemini implement the script for it because it's not worth my time otherwise. -but I'm not crawling the Internet generally (which I think th
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by kldg 1y ago
I can't really argue this except to say trust me, bro, I've been an Amazon customer for over 20 years, and there has never been an issue, no matter how unusual, the CSR was not able to resolve inside about five minutes. The LLM wa
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by kldg 1y ago
As someone who was recently screwed over by LLM CSR, I'd respectfully disagree. Amazon replaced their offshore humans with LLMs recently. They put the "subscribe to Prime" button on the right-hand side of the screen when you
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by kldg 1y ago
I have gone through this with daughter, because she's running into similar anxiety issues (social and otherwise) I did as a youth. They charge me $75/hour self-pay (though I see prices around here up to $150/hour; granted, I&
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by kldg 1y ago
as an aside, the ranking/rating systems are largely why I quit using social media a long time ago and stick to a small chatroom of people I know. it's relatively tolerable here where scores aren't next to posts (and the user
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by kldg 1y ago
I can definitely understand that it feels like looking at early adopters of technology with hindsight. Calculators, home/office computers, media players. BUT, of course, if you can get more value out of it inside a month or year than y
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by kldg 1y ago
with proper paternal laws, we could put that money toward useful projects or return the money back to individuals. (just kidding; we'd divert it to subsidize billionaires) https://local12.com/news/local/ohio-a
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by kldg 1y ago
it's not in a shareable state; is unsafe as-is. can share general idea and sample "webpage" files, though. the server ("lodge") passes JSON to the client from what are called .branch files. the client receives JSON,
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by kldg 1y ago
if you do analytics, it is not so hard, but then you need to store user data (if not directly, then worse, with a third party), which should be viewed as a liability. I see ~2/3 human traffic, ~1/3 bot traffic (I just parse user a
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by kldg 1y ago
Nobody pays rack rates. Most pharmacies keep their own PBM access cards (like GoodRx) to scan at the counter if customer doesn't bring their own. Some examples of self-pay prices: Insulin Lispro 10ml of 100 units/ml (1 vial) - $27
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by kldg 1y ago
adding irrelevant facts to problems is one of the key components of SimpleBench. https://simple-bench.com/ LLMs seem to "think like a movie script"; if something is included, it's expected that it will be imp

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