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by teeray 2mo ago
> These numbers only get larger with a larger perceived "Nothing we can do about it" God forbid you say anything about it in a code review lest you get shouted down about premature optimization.
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by teeray 2mo ago
(A)bort? (R)etry? (F)ail?
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by teeray 2mo ago
> If you refuse to let investigators in to dust for fingerprints …then they will just go get a warrant to do it.
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by teeray 2mo ago
If your answer is “you”, then it follows that OpenAI should face felony CFAA charges for the Hugging Face intrusion. Right?
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by teeray 2mo ago
The answer to this lies with whoever can point billions of dollars at the legal system. There’s no way a judge is firing a kill shot at vibecoding when a significant fraction of the US economy is depending on it.
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by teeray 2mo ago
When all else fails, you can hire a lot of folks cheaply to effectively Mechanical Turk it with their home internet connections.
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by teeray 2mo ago
That was an example. My point is that these are showing up in more and more places, and they prey on the fact that you’ve already committed to a purchasing decision by the time you realize you will be asked for a tip. Substitute my example
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by teeray 2mo ago
WE ARE A CASHLESS VENUE. You may convert your cash into an interest-free loan for the venue at the inconveniently-located customer cash extraction machine.
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by teeray 2mo ago
You can only vote with your feet if there’s somewhere else for you to walk. You may do the best you can avoiding all these places. But then you’re there at a local arena for a show. You take a beer out of the fridge and check out. The cashi
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by teeray 2mo ago
Unless the arrow of causality is the other way: those that would tend to develop memory problems do not become or remain as Taxi drivers.
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by teeray 2mo ago
> You're still going to own either an iPhone or an Android phone Don’t forget that option C) “none of the above”, is no longer viable since we’ve reorganized the world around the smartphone. The analog alternatives for basic, vital
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by teeray 2mo ago
> look at what happened to printers… I've heard homeless former printers talking about the good days So what happens is that the capital class absorbs the capital of all those workers and then they all starve. How uplifting.
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by teeray 2mo ago
My mower wants me to mow counter clockwise when mulching, clockwise when bagging. It gives a better distribution of mulch that way, thus better thatch distribution in the lawn (and less shading), thus a happier lawn overall than when I did
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by teeray 2mo ago
Just like the incredible pizza I made when I picked up my phone and said to it “one large supreme”, and there it was at my door, 30 minutes later. I really love how good the stuffed crust I made came out. /s
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by teeray 2mo ago
“Yes, the 7th grader who submitted this poster calls it the ‘Mona Lisa’. Doesn’t have anything to do with the state fair, but I swear this one belongs in a museum! Honorable Mention for sure!”
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by teeray 2mo ago
> …[we] will be reevaluating the rules and processes for 2027… …by which time we will have hoped the public will have forgotten about all this and moved on.
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by teeray 2mo ago
I think I was fairly clear that I’m talking about these machines, not all machines that exist or could exist. If I wasn’t, please read “AI” as “state of the art LLMs as they exist today.”
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by teeray 2mo ago
AI destroys your writing voice. There are authors who I enjoy not only because they write a compelling story, but they do so in such a way that is lyrically enjoyable. Engineers fall into the trap of thinking that if the slop machine emits
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by teeray 2mo ago
It’s the “well-curated” part. Many folks treat commits like video game save points, and find providing any kind of message burdensome (e.g. “fix bug”, “do work”). This alone is fine, but then they can’t be bothered to go back and clean it u
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by teeray 2mo ago
> I wonder if we should "enjoy" it, or whether it's just that we can't relate to the other people in the slightest when in person? You should “enjoy” making things with those other people. You should have cohesive com
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by teeray 2mo ago
You can also politely decline to share. You are not obligated to share personal stories to your coworkers and employer for camaraderie’s sake, and they should have no reasonable expectation that you will. Sure, it may be difficult to overco
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by teeray 3mo ago
Green Checkmark with a little “i” notice
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by teeray 3mo ago
Triplets :) I’m also 36 and loved listening to early TWiT and Security Now on the bus in high school. Early SN computing deep dives were a crucial part of my early Comp Sci education.
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by teeray 3mo ago
Sounds like they should build the equivalent of a little mining town out in the boonies too and start working on the housing crisis simultaneously. “Move to Nowhere, USA, and get cheap, new housing and a good-paying job” would get them the
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by teeray 3mo ago
I really wish there was a way for the electorate to preempt the votes of their representatives, so this kind of lobbying would be less effective. Sure, they might try carpet bombing the airwaves with PSA campaigns, but if the people really
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by teeray 3mo ago
Makes you wonder if they’ll settle for bargain-basement token prices for Apple Intelligence.
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by teeray 3mo ago
Rocky, you say question?
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by teeray 3mo ago
Your replies are to the mailing list address (we use groups.io). The server gets to decide whether or not to forward your reply to the rest of the mailing list based on the age of the topic.
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by teeray 3mo ago
The problem is that ed-tech is absolutely ravenous for an LLM detector and would rather use snake oil than accept that it might not be possible.
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by teeray 3mo ago
This is also all the sabotage the saboteurs have volunteered to tell you about. If your opsec has allowed sabotage to happen, it’s prudent to assume there’s other sabotage you don’t know about.

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