misswaterfairy

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by misswaterfairy 8d ago
Whilst voice clearances have been the norm since aviation really took flight, no pun intended, there's much more subtle but crucially important aspects about why this has remained: situational awareness by broadcast. The critically imp
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by misswaterfairy 11d ago
Though the onus is on us to improve what our forebears wrote, for the sake of our own and others' future.
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by misswaterfairy 24d ago
It's worth considering that it might not be 'Enron-style' fraud, because that's the best comparison have at the moment. What event did people compare Enron to, before Enron became 'Enron'? It's probable we
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by misswaterfairy 1mo ago
Or just not use acronyms for standard sentence structure and non-specialised terms? For example: "AFAIK the TLA is NFG for well written prose FWIW, NGL." It is awkward to parse them and is infuriating when the author can clearly w
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by misswaterfairy 1mo ago
With a number of high-level departures in recent months from OpenAI, one wonders just how much money they have left. And how close they might be to collapsing... For a company that wants to have a massive IPO that would be worth multi-billi
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by misswaterfairy 1mo ago
I taught myself to write programs on a copy of Delphi 7 I got from a computing magazine CD (or maybe DVD... a long time ago, when Borland owned Delphi...) back in the day. It was great even for an absolute newbie with limited access to deve
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by misswaterfairy 2mo ago
Check out BF2Hub. The community isn't big, but you can generally find a server or three with real players in it (just look for players with a ping; 0 ping means a bot).
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by misswaterfairy 2mo ago
> They are using Microsoft formats instead of the open-source one. They will need to focus on Microsoft's formats for the foreseeable future because of the sheer amount of archaic, but still vitally important, government processes w
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by misswaterfairy 3mo ago
I'm astonished just how quickly LLMs have eroded critical thinking, perhaps exposing my own biases and assumptions about just how much I believed or understood others critically evaluated and critically judged something. I also wonder
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
> those who called themselves "consultants" often did the same thing Still do, but merely parrot what the stochastic parrot squarks these days.
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
It had help, to be fair. XD
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
Do these Firefox extensions help? I haven't used this, as I didn't know it was a feature I needed until you mentioned it. - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/find-in-page-... Tab Sessio
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
> I think people are being naive here thinking this can't or won't happen in tech. What would this future look like? Software developer salaries burrowing into the ground?
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
> Domain knowledge can be learnt much quicker than how to apply good engineering principles. Partially disagree. Broad-strokes domain knowledge can be learned quickly, but honing that domain knowledge with nuance and consideration for co
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
Microsoft's key customers aren't consumers, its business and government: specifically enterprise licensing agreements. If Microsoft seriously upset business and governments, they wouldn't be profitable, if in business at all,
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
And this won't be their first time breaking Australian Consumer Law... Twelve months ago no less! https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/microsoft-in-court-for... The ACCC is going to love this.
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
The key bit: > 'AB 1921' is one of the first instances of bringing these demands into the institutional fold. Under the bill, companies selling digital games released or resold after January 1, 2027, must provide at least 60 da
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
A few now opt for twilight sedation - you'll not remember a thing though you're not fully knocked out, which I understand helps mitigate the risks. I've had multiple surgeries under general anaesthesia. Twilight sedation was
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
Horse and cart might be antiquated and slow, but my god are they so much cheaper and more reliable than the modern car. Many parts of the world still rely on horse and cart today, even modern societies.
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
Software Freedom Conservancy is at least fighting back. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/may/18/bambu-studio-3d-p...
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
> Dario Amodei and Elon Musk worked out a sweetheart deal, which they - framed as a “ramp-up,” - that allowed Anthropic to artificially depress its costs. I also question how much of a ramp-up there really was, or what Anthropic’s actua
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Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle(wheresyoured.at)
47 points by misswaterfairy 4mo ago|14 comments
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SpaceX IPO filing filled with AI bets, Starship dreams, and Musk at the center(techcrunch.com)
3 points by misswaterfairy 4mo ago|0 comments
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
> Use AI to make things clearer, not longer. Let it sharpen your thinking, not replace it. If someone sends me an AI generated email, chat message, or message substantially influenced by AI[1], one of two not mutually exclusive things wi
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by misswaterfairy 4mo ago
> It still says "Always free" on the website for me. It's both on the billing page on the page linked in the article. Just went to the website directly: says "Get Started Free". "Always Free" is only pr
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by misswaterfairy 5mo ago
> You lay off 1100 who are late in their career for younger people who will work more hours for less. Yet management always seems to miss the institutional knowledge, and experience, that also walks out the door laying off those 1,100 pe
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by misswaterfairy 5mo ago
> February 2026. An employee at Context.ai, one of those AI productivity tools that promises to "supercharge your workflow," downloads a Roblox cheat. The cheat contains an infostealer. > March 2026. The attacker uses Contex
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by misswaterfairy 6mo ago
Canva have promised that Affinity will be 'free forever' so make of that what you will, unless you want cloud AI functionality which requires a subscription. The Affinity software itself is free. I have been very happy with Affini
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by misswaterfairy 6mo ago
Affinity also has desktop publishing capabilities, when you switch to that mode in the software. Before Serif was acquired by Canva, the equivalent functionality was in Affinity Publisher.
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by misswaterfairy 6mo ago
> We need a software building code. This wouldn't be allowed to happen with non-software. The fact that anyone can build any product with software, make it work terribly, and when it fails impacts the lives of thousands (if not mill

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