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541.
by rafram 1y ago
That wouldn’t sell. Who wants to buy two devices with more or less the same hardware when they could buy just one?
542.
by rafram 1y ago
That’s a silly response. I don’t think Rossmann is really a force for good. He kvetches about New York incessantly for years, moves to Austin with much fanfare about how much better and more free Texas is, now kvetches incessantly about Aus
543.
by rafram 1y ago
Knew it was Rossmann from the title before even clicking. He genuinely always seems so miserable. Does he ever talk about positive things?
544.
by rafram 1y ago
There are lots of older people who have never really invested their money, have a lot in their savings account, and might be excited by the idea of a get-rich-quick crypto investment they hear about from someone they trust. Even if they’ve
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by rafram 1y ago
Yeah. And even in situations where there’s no alliance to disrupt (e.g., Chinese scam compounds in functionally lawless areas of Myanmar), I don’t imagine that most Americans would be sold on the idea of a military operation against scammer
546.
by rafram 1y ago
Not everyone has caretakers, unfortunately, but everyone needs a phone.
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by rafram 1y ago
> lovers are not for investment advise. Aren’t they? I ask my partner for investment opinions all the time. > Let's have the bank approve before we can do a transaction. Yes… That’s already how it works. Banks use heuristics to d
548.
by rafram 1y ago
Not everyone has children. Not everyone has children who they remain in contact with. Not everyone has children who are tech-adept enough to do that. Not everyone has children who are less vulnerable than themselves.
549.
by rafram 1y ago
But it’s not someone on the phone - it’s their best friend / star-crossed lover who they met on WhatsApp because of a chance wrong-number text! Since then they’ve become incredibly close, and they can trust each other with anything. Wh
550.
by rafram 1y ago
Scammers can operate from literally any country in the world, in any location where they have access to the internet. The idea of the military busting into a Bin Laden-style scammer compound is very romantic, but plenty of these operate fro
551.
by rafram 1y ago
That’s a great ideal, but Android is used both by sophisticated users who want a phone they can tinker with and the tech-illiterate grandparents of the world, who will never have a legitimate reason to install an app outside the Play Stor
552.
by rafram 1y ago
People have been trained to tap through those prompts without really reading them, and it’s unreasonable to expect a less technical user to know what the implications of granting a permission are.
553.
by rafram 1y ago
Has it actually not? Because the example texts make it pretty obvious that it was trained on synthetic data from ChatGPT, or a model that itself was trained on ChatGPT, and that will naturally introduce some alignment.
554.
by rafram 1y ago
All of the examples just look like ChatGPT. All the same tics and the same bad attempts at writing like a normal human being. What is actually better about this model?
555.
by rafram 1y ago
> LA to Vegas would rival the distance of the longest European high speed lines, but with many fewer stops between and a fraction of the passengers between. Many fewer stops: that's a good thing. A fraction of the passengers? No, th
556.
by rafram 1y ago
New York to LA would be a terrible high-speed rail route. Just way too far. But the US has many city pairs - SF and LA, LA and Vegas, Denver and Salt Lake, Chicago and Detroit, Pittsburgh and Philly, and so on - where high-speed rail could
557.
by rafram 1y ago
> javascript was probably responsible for at least half a dozen times their system has been ruined What does this mean?
558.
by rafram 1y ago
Right, and if it were called IBM AI, they’d get a letter from IBM instead. You can’t just tack something onto the end of a trademarked brand name.
559.
by rafram 1y ago
Yes, Cursor, “The AI Code Editor.”
560.
by rafram 1y ago
They blanket blocked connections to port 443 for an hour. There was no protocol sniffing.
561.
by rafram 1y ago
You may get a letter from Apple’s lawyers because of the name - Swift and SwiftUI are trademarks, and this seems like something they’d want to keep for themselves.
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by rafram 1y ago
> your government can decide to block unknown protocols Has any government ever done that? Seems like it would just break everything (because the world is full of devices that use custom protocols!) at great computational expense.
563.
by rafram 1y ago
Every browser already supports importing and exporting the Netscape Bookmark file format [1]. Is it a great format? ...No. But it's very widely supported and easy to parse. [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/pr
564.
by rafram 1y ago
Some of this just makes me sad. Em-dashes can be useful. Three examples is my favorite number of examples to give, and it has been since long before ChatGPT. And grammar mistakes are painful! Why does it have to be this way?
565.
by rafram 1y ago
> but honestly, it feels more personal than that. And there’s the giveaway.
566.
by rafram 1y ago
They do. I read posts on a support forum with a lot of German users, and it’s very common to see an “ist” marooned in the middle of an English sentence. Muscle memory takes over sometimes.
567.
by rafram 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250415002534/https://www.mozil...
568.
by rafram 1y ago
StumbleUpon beat you to it by a couple decades, and most browsers already include some kind of sponsored recommendation feature (that people disable). Recommendation algorithms are essentially a solved problem, no LLMs required.
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by rafram 1y ago
> When we added safety mitigations to autonomous mode, we reduced the attack success rate of 23.6% to 11.2% Ah, so the attacker will only get full access to my information and control over my accounts ~10% of the time. Comforting!
570.
by rafram 1y ago
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. (It's not even a font rendering issue - the text is totally absent from the page markup. I wonder how that can happen.)

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