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by taneq 7mo ago
The breaking point with me that caused me to de-google myself was finding out that Google was buying Mastercard records in order to cross-reference them with Android phone data. That shit is not okay.
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by taneq 7mo ago
Ah yes, I should have said I was describing the official line, not the behaviour. In all fairness the “can compel them to give it up” doesn’t seem to be optional but otherwise, yeah. Agreed.
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by taneq 7mo ago
Google cares deeply about privacy. Google defines privacy as them not giving your private data that they have collected to anyone else unless you ask them to.
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by taneq 7mo ago
Agreed, but also, permission prompts are way overused and often meaningless to anyone at all, even fellow software engineers. “This program [program.exe] wants to do stuff, yes/no?” How should I know what’s safe to say yes to? I think
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by taneq 7mo ago
This is just the next iteration of the issues with Linux file permissions, where the original threat model was “the computer is used by many users who need protection from each other”, and which no longer makes much sense in a world of “the
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by taneq 7mo ago
I still had a Timmy the Monkey sticker on the lid of my kitchen bin up until a couple of years ago.
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by taneq 7mo ago
Each bigger one has in fact solved more of physics, after being built precisely because there was a good theoretical case for a higher energy collider being helpful.
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by taneq 7mo ago
In all fairness most of the unique stuff I can do is probably an artifact of my training process, so it seems unfair to deny an LLM the same accomodation.
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by taneq 7mo ago
Nobody does that unless they’re travelling. Charging off grid power at 8-30c/kWh is where it’s at.
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by taneq 7mo ago
Nah. EVs are the fastest street drivable vehicles you can get. Rich people want the best.
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by taneq 7mo ago
We become adults when we accept ultimate responsibility for everything.
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by taneq 7mo ago
Consider the situation where someone who’s geriatric and potentially losing their mental faculties is getting hit with messages like that. Catch them at the wrong moment and they could well change their will, despite it not being what they
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by taneq 7mo ago
Ugh. The persistent nagging fundraising drives are probably the main reason I haven’t donated to Wikipedia even though I feel like I should. One time I donated to a Red Cross appeal and over the next decade I’m certain they spent more than
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by taneq 7mo ago
Stationary exercise bike, large hobby BLDC motor (or random PMAC motor from some AC appliance) plus some diodes (fullbridgerectifier meme goes here) to rectify the generated voltage. :)
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by taneq 7mo ago
Yeah, I was aiming for irony but I should probably have added /s at the end there. It's definitely in the mid-late chapters in any "how to install a fascist regime" handbook.
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by taneq 7mo ago
I feel like "form your own private paramilitary organisation with minimal oversight, then expand their reach by having them take over the operations of other government departments" has been done before somewhere, as part of a lar
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by taneq 7mo ago
This depends a huge amount on car, driver and situation. It was the right advice for a learner driver in the 90s with no stability control, no experience and no side airbags, because if you’re going to hit something, hitting it front on is
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by taneq 7mo ago
It might not even be the leadership at this stage. It’s entirely possible that “rounds of conversation” is a metric that their reinforcement learning has been told to optimise.
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by taneq 7mo ago
I think two sane things. 1) It’s good in the long run that they didn’t prevail at that time. 2) They did actually, in fact, have a point .
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by taneq 7mo ago
Unmitigated gall, even.
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by taneq 7mo ago
This reminds me of the time I really wanted an FT-86 (Toyota low end sports car). I spent ages researching them and reading reviews and stuff. Then they started to get popular and I’d see them everywhere and I kinda didn’t want one anymore.
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by taneq 7mo ago
> I have lived the absolute nightmares that evolve from the willful misunderstanding of this quote. Then the quote wasn’t the problem. The wilful misunderstanding was the problem.
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by taneq 7mo ago
> If two instances of the same logic represent the same concept, they should be shared. If 10 instances of the same logic represent unrelated concepts, they should be duplicated. Exactly.
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by taneq 7mo ago
“Once, twice, automate/abstract” is a good general rule but you have to understand that the thing you’re counting isn’t appearances in the source code, it’s repetitions of the same logic in the same context . It’s gotta mean the sam
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by taneq 7mo ago
Huh. I also have grown up thinking bumblebees don’t sting, but: > Female bumblebees can sting repeatedly, but generally ignore humans and other animals. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee So they can sting,
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by taneq 7mo ago
Yep, the goal of civil disobedience is literally to get sued/charged/arrested in order to force the issue to be (hopefully) properly and publicly resolved.
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by taneq 7mo ago
This is standard. :P EE code, like programmer art and mechanical engineer circuits, shows just how non-multidisciplinary most humans are. :D
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by taneq 8mo ago
I refer to it as ‘wanking’. It’s doing something that’s unproductive but that’s incentivised by its architecture.
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by taneq 8mo ago
What if the output regurgitates some other legal entity’s boilerplate licence agreement? Is the output automatically licensed to that entity?
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by taneq 8mo ago
Huh? LIDAR absolutely is confused by reflections. Not always the reflections you can see (because often it’s using IR wavelengths) but nonetheless, reflections.

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