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by rafram 4mo ago
The point is that developers like this purposefully introduce new languages and frameworks that only they (and maybe not even they) fully understand, so they make themselves harder to replace and ensure that they appear ahead of the curve.
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by rafram 4mo ago
Sure this isn't just nostalgia / rose-tinted glasses speaking? In the 2010s, Apple shipped MacBooks with GPUs that fried themselves to death, and iPhones that bent in your pocket and lost cell signal if you held them wrong. Today&
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by rafram 4mo ago
It's essentially impossible to write a traditional program that can go through the full process of logging in and changing a password autonomously, without writing fragile site-specific procedures. By contrast, an LLM can do it easily.
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by rafram 4mo ago
Current foldables are fragile, require a built-in plastic screen protector, and have a visible crease. Apple is very unlikely to be willing to accept those compromises. We'll see, but I think their entry into the field will change thin
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by rafram 4mo ago
This seems very innocuous? Almost a third of Californians speak Spanish natively.
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by rafram 4mo ago
> Even if you are a US citizen entering the US. Is this really the case? As far as I understand it, US citizens have an absolute right to enter the country. So they can sit you in a room and ask you questions all afternoon, but eventuall
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by rafram 4mo ago
https://x.com/sama/status/1891533802779910471
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by rafram 4mo ago
Yes, including the BBC’s: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsstyleguide/all#:~:text=our%20style...
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by rafram 4mo ago
Clickbait from 404 Media? Surely not! The part they kept out of the headline: > for use in distributing the keys for accessing the military GPS signals It’s common knowledge that the military has access to a separate, encrypted, higher-p
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by rafram 4mo ago
Hmm? If you mean the capitalization, that’s BBC style.
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by rafram 4mo ago
And even that is much heavier in 61B IIRC (speaking as someone who did as well!).
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by rafram 4mo ago
There's some discussion of math skills in the article, but the headline courses with huge jumps in failing grades (CS10 and 61A) are pretty math-light. The former is "CS for poets," the latter is the first CS class for majors
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by rafram 4mo ago
Because outlawing the local facial recognition that software like Lightroom and Apple Photos has offered for decades would be extraordinarily silly?
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by rafram 4mo ago
Pretty sure that does not cover a face database indexing your own photos/videos, running locally on your own computer. If it did, that would be extremely silly.
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by rafram 4mo ago
I have no idea what you want me to say. The presumption of innocence is the most basic, fundamental, indisputable element of the US justice system, it dates to the Anglo-Saxons, and it's part of the Universal Declaration of Human Right
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by rafram 4mo ago
That's separate and has no bearing on the burden of proof, which is ALWAYS on the prosecution. It is legitimately shocking that educated Americans can be ignorant of the most basic tenet of our justice system, the presumption of innoce
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by rafram 4mo ago
(The tech in question: surveillance cameras being monitored live by 1,000 people in India! https://www.fastcompany.com/91483585/amazon-go-closing )
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by rafram 4mo ago
This is a misunderstanding of the American justice system at the most basic level. The burden is never on the defendant to prove their innocence. If the prosecution can’t prove that you stole it or knew it was stolen when you bought it, y
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by rafram 4mo ago
macOS rotates MAC addresses between networks by default, and between connections to the same network unless it's password-protected. (It's under System Settings -> "Details..." or three-dot menu by a network -> &qu
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by rafram 4mo ago
And most modern devices randomize MAC addresses ("Wi-Fi addresses" in Apple-ese, for probably obvious reasons) between networks, and even between broadcasts/connections to the same network.
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by rafram 4mo ago
The article says: > London’s seat of democratic governance now sits entirely on a private estate owned by a Kuwaiti investment outfit. John Biggs, the London Assembly member, tells me he has been prevented from doing television interview
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by rafram 4mo ago
No, there was a bunch in the middle that you removed. Most of those restrictions sound pretty standard and reasonable! No amplification is the only one that I’d be upset about as an organizer.
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by rafram 4mo ago
Right. The overuse of "genuinely" most of all. Seems like they put Claude through a few good rounds of training to always answer questions about its consciousness, thoughts, etc., with something about how it's "genuinely
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by rafram 4mo ago
Every single thing in the text you (inaccurately) quoted. City Hall is no longer on a private estate, no Kuwaiti investment company is involved, and the application process involves no "corporate permission" - you submit a form to
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by rafram 4mo ago
I tried it on my personal website, which I wrote without any AI whatsoever, and it decided it's "pure AI slop" based on "tricolon abuse" alone. I would be less mad if the examples it flagged were actually tricolons,
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by rafram 4mo ago
Only because so many of the articles posted on HN now are AI-written, and badly, too. A lot of tech people are so impressed with LLMs’ capabilities in code that they fail to recognize how bad they are at writing enjoyable prose. And it fe
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by rafram 4mo ago
Laws aren’t interpreted that way. If you realistically can’t use the service, that’s termination.
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by rafram 4mo ago
This hasn’t been the case since 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Hall,_London_(Newham)
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by rafram 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_corporation
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by rafram 4mo ago
I’m not sure why you’re trying to argue against the idea that people tend to gravitate toward the cheapest option.

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