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by rpdillon 6mo ago
Yeah, I'm not sure how widespread the knowledge is that floating point trades precision for magnitude. Its obvious if you know the implementation, but I'm not sure most folks do.
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
Agree. This is probably better: (with-current-buffer "*scratch*" (setq-local trusted-content :all))
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
Excellent breakdown. The title seems misleading since we don't even know it's AI. I very much dislike when folks state speculation as fact. > Amazon created an AI agent to look at every account and, instead of flagging them for
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
It's not Constitution-free, but CBP does claim a lot of extra rights within that zone. It covers about two-thirds of the U.S. population. https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
It's like when you're playing a video game and you accidentally press the wrong button and shoot a guy in the face instead of healing him. The idea that you could accidentally open a webpage instead of launching a program is a UX
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
Right, but when humans are writing the code, they have learned to focus on putting downward pressure on the complexity of the system to help mitigate this effect. I don't get the sense that agents have gotten there yet.
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
Debugging would suffer as well, I assume. There's this old adage that if you write the cleverest code you can, you won't be clever enough to debug it. There's nothing really stopping agents from writing the cleverest code the
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
Rather than lying, I think of it more as financial dead reckoning.
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by rpdillon 6mo ago
I wonder what percentage of services run on the Internet exceed a few hundred transactions per second.
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
This is a nice point that I haven't seen before. It's interesting to regress AI to the simplest form and see how we treat it as a test for the more complex cases.
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
I trend libertarian because I have a strong anti-authoritarian streak. I used to think of myself as closer to the Republicans, but these days I mostly only agree with the Democrats. Weird times.
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
Been running lemonade for some time on my Strix Halo box. It dispatches out to other backends that they include, like diffusion and llama. I actually don't like their combined server, and what I use instead is their llama CPP build for
553.
by rpdillon 7mo ago
Sure. I'm just more optimistic than you are about the enduring value of AI. Time will tell.
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
These numbers aren't credible. Total credit card fraud globally is projected to reach $43 billion in 2026. You're arguing that fraud on Android alone is equivalent to that. Doesn't smell right.
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
That's primarily a function of the time for adoption, though, not the utility of the technology. In 20 years, people would not be able to so easily say that they could turn off AI with no impact.
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
That article's premise is that the Android security model is something that I want. It really isn't. The F-Droid model of having multiple repositories in one app is absolutely perfect because it gives me control (rather than the o
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
All they say is that the apps are malicious, though. The majority of malicious apps distributed on Android are through the Play Store. I really wish they would provide concrete details here because I just don't believe that this is all
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
My personal take is that LLMs are so transformative that they are likely not going to qualify under derivative works and therefore GPL wouldn't hold sway. There's already some evidence that courts will consider training on copyrig
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
Yesterday morning, CNN: > In a remarkable 24 hours in Washington, House Republicans snubbed a bipartisan funding deal cut by their own Senate GOP counterparts and instead approved an entirely different plan — prolonging the Department of
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
I got this email in mid-March: > I’m reaching out to start a dialogue regarding a possible non-executive founding directorship role for a new senior care deal. > We are doing a roll-up. Acquiring and consolidating various senior livin
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
I think those are features, not a bug.
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
You need root to get around all the stuff that Google won't let you do. There's tons of examples I've encountered over the last 20 years, but the one I encountered most recently is that without root, when I plug in an extern
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
It's not clear at all that a scammer is on the phone, instructing people to click through every warning that they see while sideloading a malicious app. As I stated up thread, the majority of these scams are happening through apps in t
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
You don't need to side load a specific app with malware. All you do is tell the person to go to the Google Play Store and install any Anydesk. Heck, even the reviews for that app point out that people that are scamming you often tell y
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
I don't find the assertion credible that people are getting scammed out of more money than the entire platform is worth. But given that Google does not make the revenue for Android public, what kind of numbers do you think you're
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
Nah, I suspect any app that's loading arbitrary JS from somebody's random GitHub page would get called out for that behavior. We're getting supply chain attacks daily.
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
The dependencies weren't vendored, meaning their behavior can change at any time if a malicious actor gains control of that third-party repo. This is bad for security.
568.
by rpdillon 7mo ago
If you're thinking about a period without power after a disaster, you're supposed to have a gallon of clean water per person per day, along with food that can be prepared in that environment. At least according to https:/&
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
Indeed, that would be a disaster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity
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by rpdillon 7mo ago
The statistic isn't related to thrown weapons. It's how quickly you can close the space between you and your adversary, as well as how much bearing drift you can create as you do so.

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