techjamie

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by techjamie 4mo ago
If a big player in a space is asking for regulation, always treat it as them pulling the ladder up to make things harder for new upstarts. As an example, look at what Anthropic's response to the US making them pull Fable. They commende
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by techjamie 4mo ago
Evolution is just a race to "good enough to consistently reproduce" and everything after the sufficient reproduction is irrelevant. Like the goats whose horns have to be cut or they'll eventually pierce their own brain. Gener
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by techjamie 5mo ago
That's called a motion to dismiss and it does happen. Maybe it wouldn't in this particular case, but not every case gets the full 9 yards of examination if one side's argument is bad enough.
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by techjamie 5mo ago
> They don't swear off it, but because they know what it is and is not good for, they are way more cautious in their application of AI. Like the time I got given a swelling tablet at work to dispose of and had to go through phone ta
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by techjamie 5mo ago
> If she is starting work on a slide-show presentation, the prompt is “Help me visualize.” She shoos away these interruptions, but they persist: “Help me edit.” “Beautify this slide.” To be fair, making slideshows sucks and I've nev
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by techjamie 5mo ago
There was already evidence last year[1] that pointed to ChatGPT-specific words like "meticulous," "delve," etc becoming more frequently used than they were previously. The linked study used audio of academic talks and po
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by techjamie 6mo ago
Those engines serve a different purpose than a library like Raylib. They give you a bunch of stuff out of the box like lighting, raytracing (esp Unreal), pathfinding, and a ton of helper functions used in making a game like vector calculati
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by techjamie 6mo ago
Statistically, we live in the safest society we ever have. We see a lot of bad stuff happening because news reporting travels further and faster than ever before, amplifying the perception the world is going to shit. Plus, now, basically ev
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by techjamie 6mo ago
They could start getting some of that goodwill back by not paying their CEO a multi-million dollar salary and opening donations to actually help fund Firefox.
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by techjamie 6mo ago
I'm surprised at how few comments there are about just how creepy this is. Going to a university is not implied consent for random people to throw up searchable websites with your name and face, let alone allowing random, anonymous oth
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by techjamie 6mo ago
AI music is generally not going to be copyrightable unless they can show genuine human creativity was involved. So if a song is 100% AI, you could just go around performing it or straight up selling copies yourself and there's nothing*
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by techjamie 6mo ago
Kinda happens everywhere. "I'll send it to you as an MP4" versus "I'll send it to you as an h264+aac"
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by techjamie 6mo ago
I highly recommend using the "Not interested" button on anything you don't want to see. It's actually pretty effective at pruning unwanted things from your recommendations. If I get anything political or slop related, it
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by techjamie 6mo ago
This was something Louis Rossman suggested at one point. Small claims courts don't typically allow lawyers and require a direct representative. And small claims courts are fairly cheap financially and judicially to file in. I wager suc
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by techjamie 7mo ago
A tale older than the use of GLP-1. People do X to lose weight, they hit a target weight, declare victory and continue the habits that got them in trouble in the first place. You can go a little bit heavier on the meals and loosen the exerc
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by techjamie 7mo ago
> Combined with cryptographic signatures for humans What happens when the human gives an agent access to said signature? Then you fall back on traditional anti-bot techniques and you're right back where you started.
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by techjamie 7mo ago
Because they pay API costs to send the search to SerpApi. I forget exactly what the cost was for them per-search and I'm having little luck finding it, but I know they've published that cost before and I know it's more than a
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by techjamie 7mo ago
> Similar monoculture of global thought is happening in all fields. Thereby removing yet more interesting things to see in the world through the spread of hyper-optimized inoffensive blandness. In the same way that restaurants are slowly
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by techjamie 7mo ago
Yup, see how long it lasts when companies in California can't install anything on their servers because they get Rejected for Legal Reasons responses to their package requests. Because the "store" never confirmed that Cloudfl
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by techjamie 7mo ago
I did something similar with OpenClaw (using claude) and my SO's old work. They were going to deduct money off her final check without written consent, after she quit, and were also late on paying her at all. I told OpenClaw the basic
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by techjamie 7mo ago
My girlfriend migrated to Claude from Gemini and she's not techie at all. She says she likes the answers Claude gives a lot more in general because Gemini is too dramatic. Claude is definitely beyond the tech sphere.
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by techjamie 7mo ago
Incel doesn't usually pertain to every virgin male out there. It's typically with a connotation for a certain type of male. Usually the more narcissistic sort that blame their own failings on women and take it out misogynistical
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by techjamie 7mo ago
> [...] the same people claim that AI is both a bubble but also fear job losses from AI. But also think that the billionaires get rich out of this. How all of these things can happen together, I don't know. One can believe the thing
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by techjamie 7mo ago
Ironically we live in a time that, overall, is probably better for artists than the world any of those guys grew up in. People have always valued art but not the artists, and many artists through history, including the famous ones, died bro
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by techjamie 7mo ago
Burger King already was doing this at their drive thru to check if employees were saying keywords like "you rule" and determining the customer's mood. Also saving a recording of the interaction for who knows how long. BobDaHa
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by techjamie 8mo ago
The ironic part really is that the average middle management job is probably among the more simple jobs you can automate away with AI at scale. Tell it your metrics, your targets, and other relevant info, and it can feed directions down to
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by techjamie 8mo ago
I understand not restarting from a stop unprompted. There are simply too many situations on the road where automatically moving from a stop may be undesirable in case the driver isn't paying attention. Stop signs, four way stops, yield
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by techjamie 8mo ago
My SO did IF and strict calorie counting for around 2 weeks to a momth, and it drastically reduced their appetite to something more akin to a normal level. Now, they can barely finish a large meal at McDonald's without leftovers. They&
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by techjamie 8mo ago
I have two older coworkers in my workplace alone that had criminals make fraudulent unemployment claims in their names. Fortunately they noticed and stopped it quickly. Undoubtedly the information used came from data leaks. Now all these si
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by techjamie 8mo ago
For the time that you were using Windows, you are the QA department.

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