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by munk-a 8mo ago
Upper management in Microsoft has been bragging about their high percentage of AI generated code lately - and in the meantime we've had several disastrous Windows 11 updates with the potential to brick your machine and a slew of outage
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by munk-a 8mo ago
The history of tickets and PRs would be a major loss - but a beauty of git is that if at least one dev has the repo checked out then you can easily rehost the code history.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
You know what I think would reverse the trend? More vibe coding!
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by munk-a 8mo ago
If any external force tried to "fix" the US it would result in stubborn revanchism and a deeper slide into corruption. To grossly generalize - the American culture of self-reliance means that any imposition of order, even if posi
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Alternative - my partner and I (and also two other close contacts) have password managers that contain each of the other one's secret. This was less an effort to help with the memory loss scenario and more of an effort to deal with de
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I was thinking more about the spread of disinformation at large - but yea, that playback requirement would only be necessary for anything that wanted to be considered a potential source and trying to protect against disinformation platforms
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I don't think it does but I do see the counter arguments. There have been prominent publicly open political dissidents and they do often suffer from assassination attempts. I think if you're considering political dissent the pot
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by munk-a 8mo ago
There would also be a requirement for all playback to actually properly check the private keys and for all the parties involved in the process to be acting in good faith. Not only would you have a black market for individuals to scalp clea
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I do - I think the videos and pictures that protestors smuggle out become less powerful if the state can dismiss them as fake and while most of us will remain skeptical of authority the more easy it is to fake something the more people you
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Gosh there's a lot of corollary evidence pointing to his guilt but this is likely going to become more and more common and force the use of a lot more technical forensic resources. Finding an original copy on a go-pro would likely be p
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Things need to be paid for but not everything needs to be paid for by everyone and most things are far cheaper than you'd expect. I played a MUD (and met my partner there!) for several years in college and afterwards. Initially I off
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by munk-a 8mo ago
It is completely unreasonable for a society to do a careful cost-benefit analysis of everything in society - it's completely reasonable for a society to identify highly harmful things (especially those that hijack our brains through di
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Personally, I find NIMBYism completely irrational and am a dedicated urbanite - I love being able to walk to my local grocery store and have a hospital within two blocks of me. I'm definitely not the right person to advocate against y
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by munk-a 8mo ago
It's like a thirty minute city. You want those services nearish to you but never so close that they'd effect property value. "Nobody" wants to live next to a high school - your house might be TP'd, but you want a
525.
by munk-a 8mo ago
I am convinced that the AI boom is indistinguishable from offshoring - there are neat tools to assist development that are now available but imaging your company can be serviced by one underpaid prompt engineer is just ignoring that softwar
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by munk-a 8mo ago
YIYBY is the concept of wanting it nearby to your residence but not having to suffer any of the direct consequences - imo it's a good thing to acknowledge but generally indistinguishable from NIMBYism. You want the benefits but aren&#
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by munk-a 8mo ago
Who pre-slices a pizza - just order it and slice it yourself at the table!
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by munk-a 9mo ago
Large entities asked Microsoft to stop simply bundling Copilot with all those services and instead relabel the services so that their usage could be counted as AI usage in their quarterly report whether or not they actually engage with the
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by munk-a 9mo ago
I just checked - frustrated customers isn't a metric we track for performance incentives so no, they do not.
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by munk-a 9mo ago
You say that - and yet it has successfully guarded Elon from any of those pesky truths that might harm his fervently held beliefs. You just forgot to consider that Grok is a tool that prioritizes Elon's emotional safety over all other
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by munk-a 9mo ago
> They're begging corporate decision makers to ask the question, "If Anthropic doesn't trust Claude to run its support, then why should we?" Don't worry - I'm sure they won't and those stakeholders will
532.
by munk-a 9mo ago
I genuinely doubt the users with a hundred thousand or more licenses asked for Copilot 365 Suite.
533.
by munk-a 9mo ago
And a few weeks into that arbitrage traders will catch wind and start betting on the more likely bug closures and then the devs that fix the bug will end up owing money!
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by munk-a 9mo ago
Canada's alternative energy source is very rarely coal (no where near me at least) but a lot of the grid capacity is coming from LNG outside of ON/QC. BC has a bunch of rivers and other water features but has been highly reluctan
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by munk-a 9mo ago
Roof maintenance is a need in Canada regardless of the presence of solar. Solar roofs do demand additional maintenance but the benefits over relying on natural gas for power (which is the alternative in Canada outside ON/QC) is worth
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by munk-a 9mo ago
And that on-roof-solar helps (as it becomes widespread) mitigate the growing need for additional grid capacity. Canada is a big country and, outside the major cities, upgrading grid capacity is quite expensive per capita. It's a win-
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by munk-a 9mo ago
China is happy as a clam that Russia is self-isolating and destroying their internal economy. The natural resources of Russia are vast and if China is the only one exploiting them and funneling them into the Chinese economy it'd be an
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by munk-a 9mo ago
> There is also a genuine argument to be had as to, for example, whether the practice contributes towards antimicrobial resistance. The chlorination is less in question here compared to the extreme overuse of antibiotics in animal farmin
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by munk-a 9mo ago
The poor sanitation in American poultry farming can have other negative effects outside the meat being safe. Such unsanitary conditions make dangerous conditions for workers including an elevated risk of novel avian flues and, if ever the
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by munk-a 9mo ago
Vimeo employed somewhere north of a thousand people a year ago with 28% being in the engineering team (according to random google results - this isn't an area I have personal knowledge of). If they dropped from around 300 people to 15

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