zer00eyz

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by zer00eyz 6d ago
Im barely in the back half of Gen X. My oldest kids are grown now, but grew up with iPhones in their hands. I am reminded of all the ridiculousness of the 1980s/1990s - "Its 10pm do you know where your kids are?" "I lear
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by zer00eyz 6d ago
Orcas have also been seen to carry their dead calf's around. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/southern-reside...
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by zer00eyz 12d ago
> Like if its true it can't be hype https://www.npr.org/2016/07/26/487522807/why-the-public-perc... Could AI kill us all. YES!!! Are the people who are building "AI" right now on that p
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by zer00eyz 12d ago
> It is often faster to just build the damn thing and see where it lands. Part of documentation is figuring out if you're building the RIGHT thing. It give the opportunity to get feedback from more than one party. The usability of m
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by zer00eyz 14d ago
If you reshuffle your argument, and apply the same facts you get to a similar conclusion but with a drastically different spin. > it's more specialization China, constrained by hardware, and talent (not to slight the Chinese, but th
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by zer00eyz 14d ago
The language of the law attempts to be consistent, legal English isnt entirely the same as ours, it remains somewhat inured to modernization. It is, if nothing a domain specific way of writing. (There is a great bit by Lenny Bruce on this v
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by zer00eyz 14d ago
Fusion Reactors, Flying Cars, Self Driving Cars... We're really bad about predicting the future. Look at the whole robot vacuum market. These aren't exactly great devices. They have low suction small bins and dont do a great job.
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by zer00eyz 14d ago
> Hypereautomation will kill jobs and destroy the economy. What do you think that were going to hyper automate? Did my gardener get faster? How about the plumber I need? Are you going to speed up the coroner? Are nurses going to be able
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by zer00eyz 14d ago
> Meanwhile I've seen other people, colleagues, friends, who are programmers get incredibly frustrated about AI and it's almost entirely that it lets non-developers make things. 30 years in tech, programing and I have the comp
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by zer00eyz 14d ago
> but we are struggling to turn these drugs into treatments that up to modern standards. We are struggling to pay for the research that would result in these being effective treatments (not subscription medicines) that would start out as
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by zer00eyz 15d ago
> AIs already improve themselves via training Marginally. Model collapse is still a problem. Continuous learning is still a problem. For AI to make a big leap we need a big break through.
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by zer00eyz 16d ago
> I think that over-reliance on analytics has had a similar effect; The over reliance on analytics combine with a lack of metrics and proper accounting. If you are renting all your infrastructure knowing how people use your app, and what
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by zer00eyz 16d ago
This may be a really bad idea. An AI that goes rouge and wants to kill us, has to have a death wish. Does no one understand how quickly the power will go out, forever, without people? It would be fairly easy to come to the conclusion "
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by zer00eyz 17d ago
> why enabling mass theft is so incredibly damaging to society. This is literally why we need a functional copyright system What is interesting is that LLM's do not directly violate copyright. The settlements we have seen are for ho
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by zer00eyz 21d ago
> How do you properly measure this? The same way you measure utilization and cost at a customer level. I can name at lest three companies where their biggest clients are also the bulk of their costs - they lift revenue but drag the margi
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by zer00eyz 21d ago
> we're now able to accumulate technical debt faster than ever LLM's just enable you to speed run your way into a legacy code base. > without even building the institutional knowable needed to keep it sane Does feature XXX m
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by zer00eyz 25d ago
We're talking about raising kids. At the end of the day, you're now telling someone else how to raise their kids. Because you know better? Because it has been determined that some kids are harmed by tech? Let's just put flock
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by zer00eyz 25d ago
This whole argument makes me feel old. This smacks of "satanic messages in metal made my kids kill themselves" and of the PMRC. Of a trailer getting burned down cause kids watched Bevis yell "fire" one too many times. Ou
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by zer00eyz 25d ago
Go back to the old 28 year system. Dump the renewal. This would align it with the patent system. > what leads to fast innovation Content becomes cultural artifacts - the whole birthday song copyright issue should have told Americans how
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by zer00eyz 28d ago
2018 would like a word... Life, art all that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Is_in_the_Bin
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by zer00eyz 29d ago
Safari takes minutes, FF is near instant on a M4 air. And contrary to the directions, refreshing the page DOES help.
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by zer00eyz 1mo ago
Have we reigned in the number of perscriptions? Because the 1 in 10 stat I find seems a bit low, at least in my circle, and those are the ones who are open about it. And the people I know have been on them approximately a decade. What baffl
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by zer00eyz 1mo ago
Bing Bing Bing... How often do engineers get a say in product direction? Every one keeps saying that AI isnt moving the needle on the bottom line. Well duh, code doesn't move the bottom line, features do, products do. If you're bu
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by zer00eyz 1mo ago
> context and intuition and experience required to replace a CEO Show me the CEO of a major tech firm who is accomplishing all this? https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/claude-opus-5-became-downr... Leadersh
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by zer00eyz 1mo ago
They were great. Some of the modern criticism of it is rather harsh. The complaints about predatory tropes, and lack of consent miss the whole point. It is an outlandish piece of fiction, mixed with satire. It's just ment to be ridicul
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by zer00eyz 1mo ago
> There's aspects to admire in the ability to provide consistent product to its customers Today, if it was a mandate you could slap a label on every vegetable and track it back to the field it was grown. I think most Americans would
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by zer00eyz 1mo ago
Hey meta, watch my kids for me. I raised my kids with devices. They hate social media for the most part, and participate in it begrudgingly. All meta had to do to avoid this was run the occasional "you have been doom scrolling for 20 m
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by zer00eyz 1mo ago
> I'm not sure that businesses are straying from AI. https://olakai.ai/blog/uber-ai-budget-blowout/ https://www.404media.co/companies-are-throttling-employees-a... Clamping down might be a
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by zer00eyz 1mo ago
Im not sure thats why businesses are straying from more LLM use. Finding where AI is moving the needle has been hard, if not impossible. Because code, by it self has never moved the needle. It's the product, what the code does that mov
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by zer00eyz 1mo ago
Im writing this from a MacBook Air. Everything is a container or VM now, and none of it runs locally for me. I have a desktop (older intel) with giant monitors and a keyboard for when I sit at the desk. I have the laptop for when I travel,

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