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901.
by otterley 8mo ago
And if that was stolen by someone else to give to other customers for free, how might that impact you?
902.
by otterley 8mo ago
I assume you do not write software to earn a living?
903.
by otterley 8mo ago
> So they give them a really low offer and get them on their way as quickly as possible. With a guilty plea. They don’t walk away without a conviction.
904.
by otterley 8mo ago
As an attorney, I’m interested in this theory. Do you have any examples that illustrate the phenomenon you describe?
905.
by otterley 8mo ago
They didn’t know they were illegal at the time, and no court had ruled they were until literally just last week. Besides, we’re taking about imposing tariffs, not depriving people of life or liberty. Have some persective.
906.
by otterley 8mo ago
Marketing, largely. But indeed Americans are free to think and write as they please without criminal consequences. They certainly have more protections than the British do (especially around defamation).
907.
by otterley 8mo ago
CBP is a sprawling agency charged with a broad variety of responsibilities. You can possess furious anger at the gestapo-like tactics the Border Patrol have engaged in while also feeling sympathy for the customs agent charged with accuratel
908.
by otterley 8mo ago
You’re not being criminally charged and convicted of a thought crime in this situation. You’re just not welcome to join the party. Big difference. Foreigners have no right to enter the USA other than by what the law permits. Now, I don’t ne
909.
by otterley 8mo ago
I’m not trying to muddy any situation. I don’t have to: Reality has a lot of nuance. Besides, it is possible to both agree that these tariffs should never have been implemented in the first place and have some sympathy for the agency that h
910.
by otterley 8mo ago
Thankfully we have the actual court filing to refer to get the full picture, in which CBP says they are working on a way to process refunds more efficiently than they are able to today, and they aim to do so within 45 days: https:/&#x
911.
by otterley 8mo ago
Agents are perfectly capable of responding to confirmation prompts. The auto approve flag requirement won’t stop a determined agent if it concludes that’s what the principal desires.
912.
by otterley 8mo ago
Oh, I know it happens. Over the years AWS has added functionality across various services to help prevent accidental deletion, but absent some documented behavior to the contrary, when a customer confirms that data is to be deleted, AWS is
913.
by otterley 8mo ago
Having the agent autonomously perform the plan stage is fine; that’s not destructive. It’s the blind application stage without human validation or other safety checks that is the problem.
914.
by otterley 8mo ago
Don’t count on it. I’m more than a little surprised that support was able to do this, and if I still worked at AWS I’d be raising questions internally.
915.
by otterley 8mo ago
> The same physical action can lead to vastly different outcomes. Well, yeah, that’s kind of obvious once you realize that tools can be used for multiple purposes. A hammer can be used to pound both nails (legal) and smash a person’s hea
916.
by otterley 8mo ago
The author is extremely lucky that support was able to find a snapshot for him after he deleted them all. I worked for AWS for many years and was a customer for years before that, and they were almost never able to recover deleted customer
917.
by otterley 8mo ago
Who in the Western world is being charged with, convicted of, and punished for “thought crimes”? Be specific, please.
918.
by otterley 8mo ago
> If you're rich and so are the people around you, money alone ceases to be a differentiator. You could differentiate based on your personality. It costs nothing at all, and is far more interesting than a trinket. Strive to be Warre
919.
by otterley 8mo ago
We sure are putting a lot of investment into 1970s-era user interfaces! (That said, I do appreciate the artistic flair that went into their website.)
920.
by otterley 8mo ago
I find the whole thing a little odd. They’re basically pledging to pay their electricity bills. So what? So does every business. Saying they’re going to pay for generation and transmission adds little. That’s already baked into the charges!
921.
by otterley 8mo ago
General conversation is already free with all the major providers (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.). That's not where the major gains in productivity lie.
922.
by otterley 8mo ago
> > Don't characterize your fellow participants. Criticize the idea, not the person. > You deserve criticism for the way you have misdirected away from exploration or consideration, in a non-engaged fashion. It has been a mis-
923.
by otterley 8mo ago
*snort*
924.
by otterley 8mo ago
Hooray! Now can we get a decent OS for them? (No, not Windows.) (No, not Linux.)
925.
by otterley 8mo ago
> But kindly don't waste everyone's time by commenting with your irregard & wasting all of our time. Don't tell people not to disagree with you. The "marketplace of ideas" you celebrate here is full of disagr
926.
by otterley 8mo ago
I checked the fine print on the product website: by “up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing,” they’re specifically referring to time to first token. So it’s not about token generation rate (tokens per second).
927.
by otterley 8mo ago
An LLM has no motive power, like a script without an a cast, or a program without a computer to execute it.
928.
by otterley 8mo ago
LLMs are not agents. LLMs are language models that simply respond to a text prompt with a textual response. Agents are middleware that take input from the user and then use LLMs to drive tools.
929.
by otterley 8mo ago
If your argument has merit, we will see it win in the marketplace. If it doesn’t, then it will not. Simple as that. And I’m definitely not the only one who is looking for an explanation of why an agent-browser interface is the superior appr
930.
by otterley 8mo ago
Wow, that was a lot of words. > I think that is incredibly foolish a perspective. Rooted in old ridiculous slipshod biases, with no respect for users & their agency, and makes unsupported weak technical arguments that define away the

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