steveBK123

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by steveBK123 8d ago
Defending the same entities getting large DoD contracts to use AI for killing?
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by steveBK123 8d ago
Well theres at least two different buckets of this. First is the scraping of the open internet. The second is the paywall bypassing, YouTube audio recording, and pirated content training that the labs have basically admitted to in one form
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by steveBK123 9d ago
I suspect at this point, given the nature of the AWS org.. they actually don't even know themselves either.
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by steveBK123 9d ago
Slop blog
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by steveBK123 9d ago
First of all they could write an amazing slop blog PR post about it afterwards
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by steveBK123 9d ago
You'd be surprised how many customers are lead to believe this by a combination of opaque marketing, aggressive sales, and willful ignorance. I worked at a 2000 person shop where the CTO moved us from 1 on-prem dc (we were begging to a
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by steveBK123 9d ago
There's something reassuring in this for me. There's a lot of magic & handwaving from hyperscalers like AWS about redundancy. I always wondered about some of the engineering to make this absolutely (and literally) bullet proo
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by steveBK123 9d ago
A lot of this stuff again seems like labor augmentation not replacement, like in this article. She wasn't using professional paid artists previously, but a mix of her own extra labor (which she had less time for with a baby) & a b
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by steveBK123 11d ago
Well yes, we used to talk about "supercomputers" in the hands of state actors for cracking into enemy systems and places like science labs for working on big hard problems of DNA, the universe, and the like. So I think part of wha
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by steveBK123 12d ago
> “a swarm of agents could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet.” I also find this whole "its so good, its scary" flex a little less impressive when you consider they access to millions of GPUs
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by steveBK123 13d ago
Good luck proving your data was laundered and included in a training run
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by steveBK123 13d ago
I umpired baseball in my early teens and even 30 years ago it was bad. Grown men getting into the face of 14 years old umpires over calls, at games for kids barely out of tee-ball. It just doesn’t matter that much. I remember a coach who wo
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by steveBK123 13d ago
They already trained on pirated content, what makes you think they are going to honor ZDR?
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by steveBK123 14d ago
Maybe just giving themselves an exit ramp off the capex arms race they are increasingly finding it difficult to fund?
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by steveBK123 15d ago
Historically ignorant comment. 9/11 resulted in building collapse throwing something like 1-2 million tons of debris into the air, which then fell and was on fire in a huge pile for 100 days. Concrete, drywall, glass, asbestos, you nam
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by steveBK123 16d ago
I've also found new hobbies sometimes allow cheaper gadget purchases / higher enjoyment-per-dollar than buying more junk for longtime hobbies. The logical mechanism for me was - a hobby I've done 30 years I have probably upgr
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by steveBK123 16d ago
> People under-appreciate (or have forgotten) that a lot of happiness is is related to anticipating as opposed to getting Shoppers & hobbyists who spend too much time browsing gear are well aware of this though generally don't l
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by steveBK123 17d ago
As someone approaching mid 40s.. Is Apple screen enlargement over the years just matching the aging eyes of their core demographics? Close focal vision degrades, hold phone further, bigger phone useful. Kind of like the stat how burning ma
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by steveBK123 17d ago
lol yes I’m still searching for signs of 10x productivity in SWE showing up in actual consumer facing product improvements industry wide.
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by steveBK123 17d ago
This is a problem that one of the richest 10 companies in the world should be able to solve with time & money. Simply making your product worse is not normally a solution outside monopolies.. ah, I see.
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by steveBK123 17d ago
This goes to my same complaint re: some Apple products. Some stuff is solved. It's fine, email / photos app / texting apps are solved problems. Keep upgrading the backends for compatibility / security / whatever, b
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by steveBK123 17d ago
I was at a big European company that was also somehow still on Lotus Notes in 2015, for similar reasons. Moving back to Outlook after my 5 years there was a breath of fresh air.. for a time. I do have to say Microsoft has spent the last de
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by steveBK123 18d ago
I always find these sort of "we'll pick up our ball and change homes" threats by non-monopoly capital interesting. It's almost a real thread from say GM, ignoring the billions of physical plant infrastructure that would
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by steveBK123 20d ago
Indeed, "I wish there was tech to stop me from lying to myself" is just not a tech problem.
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by steveBK123 20d ago
Local encryption is not going to help 100 year recoverability
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by steveBK123 20d ago
Yes, AI will simply vibe code drivers for devices it can't talk to in order to read formats it can't read More likely it will just hallucinate content that plausibly could be on the disc and display that for the unwitting
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by steveBK123 20d ago
Right thats the much more likely issue! Some Google-like reaction in the future where using service X (chat/mail/whatever) from Amazon results in being banned across an entire account which also happens to be the account you wrot
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by steveBK123 20d ago
I think more & more that hobbyists need to keep air gapped old-OS/hardware machines in the garage to manage this kind of stuff. Otherwise you quickly run into connectivity / driver / application / OS compatibility ha
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by steveBK123 20d ago
The risk is they get bored and retire it / retention terms start to get iffy / they 100x prices.
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by steveBK123 20d ago
> 100 years is long enough, and 1000 years was always a wild-ass theoretical abstraction. The software will be an issue before the hardware anyway inevitably

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