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by neilv 7mo ago
Can we keep the term "weirdo" positive? A lot of the people once called weirdos -- a term now partly taken back, as fairly positive, such as in "weird nerds" -- are our hackers, creative thinkers and artists, progressive
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by neilv 7mo ago
Lawyers: Besides whatever issue the company(ies) and investors might have with that behavior (self-dealing?), could it also let wronged individuals pierce the corporate veil, to go after personal assets? Could this be the backstabbing surve
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by neilv 7mo ago
What I described is standard public behavior, regardless of the company.
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by neilv 7mo ago
That's gonna need an explanation. From the ethics/safety/alignment people.
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by neilv 7mo ago
I've never understood this convention (common on HN, some news orgs, and elsewhere), that, when there's an IP breach, it's suddenly fair game for everyone else to go through the IP, analyze and comment on it publicly, etc.
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by neilv 7mo ago
This triggered a tangential memory of encountering this kind of aerospace computer box. I was a teenage intern at a very serious software engineering company, which was doing bespoke high-end in-circuit emulators, integrated into a full-lif
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by neilv 7mo ago
And be careful with AI elsewhere in the hiring process. Recently, a good human recruiter found me an interesting AI startup opportunity. But they were "we're AI-first!" using an AI call scheduling thing instead of Calendly
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by neilv 7mo ago
I doubt many people go to LinkedIn for the cringey and obnoxious feed. It's more write-only than anything. Almost everything about LinkedIn is miserable, not just the feed, and we need a much better competitor that people actually use
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by neilv 7mo ago
I think my only crossing of paths with someone from Data General was actually only a few years ago. A startup was building cutting-edge phototonic computing tech for AI, and one of the key people for the electronic hardware side was a gray
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by neilv 7mo ago
I read this as a kid, and found it both exciting in some ways, and miserable in others, which was formative. At age 21 (and accomplished, since I'd started working in my teens), I mentioned the book to my girlfriend, who was getting in
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by neilv 7mo ago
That and more, IIUC. They've: * Given access to more people or other ways. * Bypassed any logging that might be used during crime investigation. * May have increased the likelihood of the system failing. * (more theoretical) Increased
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by neilv 7mo ago
It could be that height says nothing about competence as a CEO, or it could be that the people who attain CEO and succeed despite height bias need to have an exceptionally strong mix of merit/will/effort. I've heard the latte
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by neilv 7mo ago
I'm now an AI bro, and a long-time fan of the EFF (though they occasionally make a mistake). I think this EFF piece could be more forthright (rather than political persuasion), since the matter involves balancing multiple public intere
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by neilv 7mo ago
I recently talked with a PI from a well-known university lab, and asked why they were doing a startup, given the ML research problems they were working on. They said a company was the only way to get access to the compute power they needed
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by neilv 7mo ago
I agree. I imagine that a writer who predicted modern technology would still be in awe to see smartphone videoconf halfway around the globe finally realized. And also be surprised by some of the uses to which it's put. And horrified
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by neilv 7mo ago
> Did people who used typewriters imagine a world with iPhones? Did people flying planes imagine self landing rockets? Yes, science fiction writers and readers have, since before any of us were born.
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by neilv 7mo ago
When I saw this the other day -- and it just went on and on, like a good human author who was going to write this kind of story probably wouldn't -- I looked for a note that it was AI-generated, and I didn't find it. All I found w
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by neilv 7mo ago
That commoditization already happened for software developers, years ago. (Just look at the big-tech commodity worker interview process that even startups now mimic.) Kudos to design studios who can still avoid that, and shine as unique ta
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by neilv 7mo ago
The teen was also sent to the prison camp.
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by neilv 7mo ago
Scene. Ext. Town street. Night. Invader military vehicles patrolling, announcing curfew through loudspeakers. TEEN: *runs at invaders* Hey, you thugs! You can't make me obey! I support Bob, over there! *points at Bob's ho
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by neilv 7mo ago
1. By involving Debian prominently in its stunt, is this drawing fire upon Debian? 2. Are the pile of assertions they're making (which sound like legal arguments and stipulations to me) against Debian's interests?
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by neilv 7mo ago
I think this site is either satire, or serious but with a certain kind of humor in which both they and the reader know they're lying (but it's in everyone's interest to play along). They do say this: > Is this legal? &#x2
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by neilv 7mo ago
> By convention, the client looks under /satellite/ by default. If that path is already taken, place a satproto_root.json file at the domain root containing { "sat_root": "my-custom-repo" } — the client che
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by neilv 7mo ago
Everyone is on IT infosec thin and slippery ice. Taunting someone else on the ice is a bad idea. As is giving anyone reason to want you to plunge to your icy death, rather than to merely fall gently on your butt.
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by neilv 7mo ago
(Even the glossy hype intro aside) The laughing enthusiasm in parts of this video, such as when mentioning a bombing, and technological capability movements in connection with that, hits a note that should be called out. This is one of many
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by neilv 8mo ago
Techbros are thinking: "Don't eliminate their need! They need a subscription AI app!"
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by neilv 8mo ago
Historically, Smalltalk has many browsers (views). This System Browser is one of many browsers, and the most busy-looking. You can browse within it, and also spawn off other kinds of browsers from it. And these browsers are extensible with
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by neilv 8mo ago
Are there other ways that you can increase trust, that you would feel good about? Most people are cavalier about tech trust, because that's easy or they don't know any better, and often they really don't care. But it seems th
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by neilv 8mo ago
I don't think I said anything about an address. They've given some names, but that doesn't say why they should be trusted. Two examples of people who have established some trust over the years: Linus Torvalds and RMS. Joking
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by neilv 8mo ago
You need more than a corporate reputation. We're an entire industry of liars and poseurs. It would be easy to make even a completely bad-actor company with years of stellar reputation. Either as a sleeper for some future big attack, or

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