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by waltbosz 1y ago
I see the plot of a sci-fi story where scientists bring home some of the Venusian microbes for study and accidentally wipe out all life on Earth after it escapes the lab, multiplies rapidly, and Earth has no defense. Or the microbes could b
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by waltbosz 1y ago
Aren't there a couple of episodes like that? Are you referring to the episode with Miley Cyrus? The others I'm thinking of are the plush bear that contains a AI copy of a human mind, and the killer robot dogs.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I think this is a joke by Alan Wagner who goes by the handle truewagner. https://truewagner.com/ . You'll have to Google his socials to find his art.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I think there is an acceptable level of black boxedness in our profession.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
This is true. I've been using LLMs for code generation, and it does stuff I don't understand well. Also it makes mistakes, bugs. What I do find helpful is use it to ask for suggestions for how to achieve some result, then learn fr
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by waltbosz 1y ago
Wouldn't it be fun if someone out there already knows a simple way to determine if a number is prime without factoring, but to them it is so obvious that they didn't even consider others may be interested.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I (and my 6-year-old) really enjoyed this video from Veritasium about the invention of the blue LED. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF8d72mA41M
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I'm interested to see the whole conversation, and wonder what version of ChatGPT it was with. I have fun trying to get ChatGPT to give silly responses that it shouldn't give, and it's not easy. But on the other hand, I'v
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I haven't seen carousels lately, seems like the trend has mostly died out.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
Does this title make anyone else's Asimov senses tingle? In the book "Foundation and Earth", the protagonists travel from planet Aurora to planet Earth.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
https://librivox.org/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-versi... David Clarke does a very good narration of many Sherlock Holmes stories.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I've played it with my kids. It's a simple and fun tycoon type game. You buy seeds, plant them, harvest crops, sell crops, repeat. Upgrade your crops, etc. There are gacha eggs that grow into pets that you buy with free game econo
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by waltbosz 1y ago
> While our Sun prefers to go solo, many other stars are parts of binary systems What the hell does that mean? What a weird way to personify our Sun.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I find AI jail-breaking to be a fun mental exercise. I find that if you provide a reasonable argument as to why you want the AI to do generate a response that violates its principals, it will often do so. For example, I was able to get the
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by waltbosz 1y ago
> I'm just a sysadmin but I love piecing together stuff like this. I'm a developer and piecing stuff together is my favorite part of the job. The joy is in the design, the actual coding is just a means to an end. I've writ
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by waltbosz 1y ago
That begs the question: are they truncating the password string before hashing it ... or truncating it and saving it plaintext? I don't understand enforcing a max password length when the password should be stored as a hash.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
Does password requirements with short max length count as getting it wrong? Because I see that all the time. Also a password box that will accept more characters than the max password length.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I wonder how it will work. The article sounds like it just overrides the print screen button. But what about screen recording apps like OBS? Seems like Teams would need to inject some code deep into the os to block that.
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by waltbosz 2y ago
It's fun to see the retro gaming aesthetic come to the world of creativity software. I wonder what other categories of software could you pull this off? For example, I couldn't imagine anyone waxing nostalgic for the UX of an old
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by waltbosz 2y ago
You wouldn't happen to be a fan of Jon Agee ?
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I read some advice that suggested asking the salary band during salary negotiations and that many HR departments won't hesitate to share. I tried this while interviewing for my current job and sure enough they shared. Lesson learned: y
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I remember my Dad read an article in some computer magazine back in the day about hacks you could do to the Balderdash video game for Atari. I'm not sure what he had to do, maybe use a hex editor on the binary. He was able to do things
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by waltbosz 2y ago
Tangental story about free Internet. I once got a few years of free broadband Internet because I signed up for broadband plus basic cable, but they never put broadband on my bill. They came and did the installation and everything. Then when
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by waltbosz 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/@TheBlackCatGear is another good marble animation channel. For some good real world marble runs Jelle's Marble Runs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSmWeUDtr9fATQqT2c0am.
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I found this thread really interesting because of the variety of peoples' favorite episodes and particularly which episodes evoked an emotional response. Some episodes named don't resonate with me at all, which just goes to show h
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I never heard of block land, I just looked it up, watched this YouTube video about abandoned multiplayer games https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1FEW7gxci2Q . It was a bit sad to see it in such decline. It reminded me of a non
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by waltbosz 2y ago
This recent Mozilla stuff has got me wondering if one could fork Firefox, strip out the AI/adware code, then sell the binaries. How much would people pay (who would pay for a web browser)? Just Firefox, minus the crap. Would it generat
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by waltbosz 2y ago
Are these models really able to be fooled by text tricks like this?
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by waltbosz 2y ago
> method where an update is delivered as a print job I wonder if this is a way to install custom firmware. Probably not. I would guess that the code that decodes the firmware from the print job probably passes it through the same signatu
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by waltbosz 2y ago
I think if an Alexa device were present in a home in which a person named Alexa lived, they would reconfigure the wake word. A more likely hypothetical would be one in which the murder was named was Alexa, and the surprised victim exclaimed

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