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> His comments came after it emerged one of the planes earmarked for Emirates had already been scrapped. Metal off to the canned goods factory already.
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> I found that I was spending too much time talking to my AI agent and not enough time thinking my own thoughts and talking to my friends Sounds like some sort of addiction. If the AI were saving time, you would have more time for a soci
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3mo ago
When executives say "AI", they basically seem to mean LLMs right now. AI that just, does something, like extract text from scanned documents, is apparently boring. They don't seem interested in bragging about boring things. T
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3mo ago
You close them.
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In the US that would just mean you'd get to enjoy absurdly high fees.
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3mo ago
I mean, you can do google searches.
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3mo ago
> Using this technique, Iran was reportedly able to locate U.S. military forces stationed in military bases as well as hotels in Iraq, Bahrain, and other countries in the Middle East, which allowed the regime to strike them. While I'
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3mo ago
Users of all ages abandon transactions if it requires installing an app.
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3mo ago
That sounds less like wanting apps, than simply having no idea what's going on.
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3mo ago
This went straight from medieval guilds to the 1920s, but actual bread mass production started in the Victorian era, and people did have a big negative reaction to that. They adulterated bread in ways that poisoned consumers during that per
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This will just result in cities making one way streets, blocking roads, or removing turns, because raw traffic throughput is rarely the only goal. My city already has some signs and traffic signals trying to prevent making a left turn after
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You've probably done most of the work if you've already made that jump, as that's often the hardest transition.
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> it is just vaguely connected things being vibe-coded in parallel. That does sound like what would tend to happen if they used their own product exclusively.
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3mo ago
The sociopaths tend to rise to the top in any industry, unfortunately.
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3mo ago
This is, of course, an ad. It's written as-if their AI detection is flawless, but that seems unlikely. They have this in this article: > our latest AI detection model, which achieves a 0.01% false positive rate But, then in their li
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3mo ago
> Right out the gate: the numbers must be sorted. I was somewhat pained by this, as this is an interview question I've gotten, and I clearly annoyed the interviewer by knowing this isn't true, and you can avoid a full sort (whi
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Making bad assumptions about data seems more likely than deliberate malice. If you A/B test different designs, and you see a huge increase in "interactions" with some design, you'll tend to assume that's a positive
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It's an old problem: https://gizmodo.com/british-cops-want-to-use-ai-to-spot-porn... I've been fairly convinced a lot of social media bans, where people are genuinely confused about the bans, are just automatic mo
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3mo ago
Plenty of successful companies that didn't have a great UI, and plenty of failures that did.
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If someone buys an overpriced shampoo, it only negatively affects them, but the are costs to overall society if people suffer health issues, addiction, etc. In the past, a lot of people unknowingly ended up addicted to morphine, as it turne
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> Papa Johns’ “Empty Fridge” campaign ran from late April through last weekend on NBCU streaming supply such as Peacock, NBC Sports and NBCU content across streaming distributors. While it’s too soon to digest the results, Papa Johns kno
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They didn't want a mock because it might behave differently: > or to replace it with a mock, which only behaves like Redis until your code relies on something the mock implements differently. But, then, what they built did apparentl
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They probably just set up some AI tool to make posts automatically. A quick search shows things like this: https://apaya.com/lp/linkedin
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> At the time, he said, executives were "super optimistic" about tools like Claude Code from AI startup Anthropic. Some guy in sales at Anthropic has a new yacht though.
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3mo ago
Good. It's purely positive if they take losses from investing in companies engaging in fraud, as it'll encourage them not to do that.
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They do have a bouncing ball of about the right size in the beta. I was thinking basketball though.
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> Finally, and in parallel to this, the Commission should build a new relationship with the US. It is a hard pill to swallow: whether we like it or not, in the medium term, Europe will depend on American compute and chip infrastructure t
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As a general concept, this seems fine, but in this case they seem to be paying people a cash reward for ignoring management priorities: > The ticket sits in a backlog behind feature work because feature work has deadlines, stakeholders,
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People who work in marketing do not seem particularly concerned with accuracy, or even just making logical sense.
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That was unusually bad. I actually had to give up on it from the nuisance.
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