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zer00eyz
7mo ago
For 30 (60's to 90's) years we told parents "It's 10pm do you know where your kids are", with an AD, on TV. We came home to empty houses and go in with a key around our neck. Now, we call the police, and arrest pare
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7mo ago
> r + 1 == count ? 0 : r + 1 It'is legal! But looks like a few more steps when compiled.
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7mo ago
> but it’s also a token fire lol. I get much better results out of having Claude much much more task focused. I only want it to ever make the smallest possible change. There seems to be a fair bit of research to back this up: https:&#x
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7mo ago
> Animal Care and Control Team (ACCT) Philly sent her some pics of the pooch in question. 100 percent this dog is named after a bullet. Because thats how Philly rolls. In case you dont know: HitchBOT got murdered in Philly https:/&
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7mo ago
> and actually good and original stuff gets rejected This isnt a new thing though. Cantor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_Cantor%27s_th... they didnt just reject him, they basically publicly beat him
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7mo ago
I work with a bunch of PHD's and have been since before ai coding. Their code is aways terrible, and they constantly think it's good. The exercise is always the same: explain the math to me, like I'm 5, then we profile it and
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7mo ago
People tend to overestimate their knowledge of other disciplines. I have worked with a LOT of PHD's in recent years. Their code leaves much to be desired.
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7mo ago
There is also a cost aspect of it as well. The long range drones that are being shot down are the "expensive products" of a military industrial complex. The US solution to this problem is even more expensive. For the cost the Ukra
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7mo ago
You're talking about the hardware. That is critical. But what's evolving even faster is the software. And in real world use cases. They arent paying for tank models and people to run around and try to chase to "test". T
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7mo ago
Interesting insight to what should be a good internal process if users followed up. In this case the bug wasn't fixed. > A lot of teams simply close Radars that remain unverified for some amount of time because they are being "
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7mo ago
> People don't realize how much software engineering has improved. It has, but we have gotten there by stacking turtles, by building so many layers of abstraction that things no longer make sense. Think about this hardware -> hyp
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7mo ago
The gatekeeping, the age identification issues are both "real problems", that compound, from the same root. Anonymity allows one to behave in ways they would not "in public", with your neighbors, or co workers (for the m
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7mo ago
> but this indicates that the most fervent AI boosters were dead wrong. I dont do design, or make videos, or ask ai for legal advice, or medical advice cause I lack the skill and understanding of these fields. Dunning Kruger still applie
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7mo ago
Assume for one moment that they were all great people over there. I suspect that they would STILL be in the same boat that they are in. You see a silo where I see a service provider. Does apple make money on doing what they do.. You bet. Bu
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7mo ago
We have 2 decades of abstraction. The stacks of turtles that we use to run everything are starting to show their bloat. The other day someone was lamenting dealign with an onslaught of bot traffic, and having to deal with blocking it. Maybe
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7mo ago
I'm sure as hell bored of the current conversations people are having about ai. > here's what works for me, what do you do This is at least progress... but many want to remain in denial, and cant even contemplate this portion o
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7mo ago
The irony here should be lost on no one. The the lawsuit with apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple The massive set of fines... https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-re
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7mo ago
Everything involving audio is an annoying mess. The first step is getting speakers in a room: there are tons of products that do this, apple, google, Sonos. Most of them have the audio quality of a bag of instruments. There are tons of clas
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7mo ago
Lets compare two projects that are collaborations: Linux and Wayland. Both are collaborative efforts, one has fairly effective and tyrannical leadership with the best interests of the community in mind. The other is lead by committee with c
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7mo ago
Uhhhh Reading > Listening Speaking > Typing If you want raw performance on both sides, It is better to dictate an email that gets read later.
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7mo ago
> I will forever be short I'm 6'4" so not freakishly tall, but tall enough that people notice and for it to be a problem. 1. Im ever ones human ladder. About once a month someone will ask me to get something off a high she
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7mo ago
> In 2025, the number of data compromises in the United States stood at 3,322 cases. Meanwhile, over 278.83 million individuals were affected in the same year by data compromises, including data breaches, leakage, and exposure. While the
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> Yeah but that takes years to play out. https://www.invene.com/blog/limiting-developer-turnover has some data, that aligns with my own experience putting the average at 2 years. I have been doing this a long time:
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> We have a term for that already and it is called "comprehension debt". This isn't any different than the "person who wrote it already doesn't work here any more". > now requiring engineers to manually r
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7mo ago
Ram has always been one of the major price drivers... But the prices have gotten stupid: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/02/27
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> how would a display server work in an ideal world When designed by committee. With conflicting interests. And Veto Powers.
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> few gb of ram ... 5 years ago I never would have given this comment a second thought. Now I read it and have to wonder: when does the price of ram start showing up in the butchers bill from your cloud provider?
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> anyone who has conceded that there is no way to stop AI scrapers at this point and what that means for how we maintain public information on the internet in the future. Bloat, and bandwidth costs are the real problems here. Every one s
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The question is do they have a launcher that fits in a shipping container...
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> "best launch week ever for first-time Mac customers" Reading this line made me think of the old I'm Mac / I'm a PC commercials. This may be fresh on my mind because Justin Long and John Hodgman are selling Oz
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