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by zombot 7mo ago
Still just a drop in the bucket compared to their quarterly profits. When will regulators get wise?
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by zombot 7mo ago
And regulators are obviously unwilling/unable to hit them with fines that really make a difference beyond "cost of doing business" small change.
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by zombot 7mo ago
You mean incarcerated.
364.
by zombot 7mo ago
More Google bullshit about how they must have total control over the device you bought. And lawmakers won't move against it because they can use that total control for their own purposes by proxy.
365.
by zombot 7mo ago
Are they microsofter in the brain than MicroSlop? MegaSlop? GigaSlop? Reading "Windows" and "quality" in the same sentence already triggers every bullshit alert in the book.
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by zombot 7mo ago
Which is still not enough punishment for a decision like this. But without adequate consumer protection laws abuse like this is to be expected.
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by zombot 7mo ago
So Google tightens its iron grip for "alternative" app stores.
368.
by zombot 7mo ago
> for AI that leaves room for it to be more clever than we ourselves are. How probable is that given that LLMs output the average of their training data? Your own cleverness would have to be below average for this to hold.
369.
by zombot 7mo ago
Well, the promise of AI is that every idiot can achieve things they couldn't before. Lo and behold, they do.
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by zombot 7mo ago
Safari has a "Remove Distracting Elements" feature. Try that. Some web sites can only be visited with the weapons of an exterminator at hand.
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by zombot 7mo ago
This is the reason why every company is collecting all the data they can. They can sell it to the government, which is likely still cheaper than having a bureaucratic behemoth collect that data.
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by zombot 7mo ago
In other news: Water is wet. Still, it probably bears repeating. I'm sure some NIMBYs said more housing would drive up prices.
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by zombot 7mo ago
I certainly keep an eye on these developments, but I think the jury is still out on how useful/beneficial they actually are in practice. Generating more code in less time is not a useful measure of productivity for me.
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by zombot 7mo ago
> why a competent programmer wouldn’t have tried it by this point What does one have to do with the other? Since when is following every fad a prerequisite for competence?
375.
by zombot 7mo ago
> + multi-agent backend Does that mean you need AI subscriptions just to run your backend? That explodes costs even more than opaque cloud pricing. Sweet!
376.
by zombot 7mo ago
Happiness, when pursued, does its best to escape.
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by zombot 7mo ago
There is no hope of stopping the deluge of sewage. The convenience of generating infinite amounts of waste with the press of a button will trump all other considerations.
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by zombot 8mo ago
I have lost patience with Israel. The state behaves like a hopelessly spoiled child because they know their stupid parent will bail them out of any bad situation of their own making. I'm quite disgusted with both of them.
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by zombot 8mo ago
> after a initial proof of ability. This has just as much chilling effect. At the very least it's gatekeeping.
380.
by zombot 8mo ago
He calls out the things that need to be called out. It's in the nature of those things that it's not unicorns and rainbows.
381.
by zombot 8mo ago
Of course it's flagged. Because telling it like it is is not welcome at the altar of ruthless profits.
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by zombot 8mo ago
They just might do that, and sell it as revolutionary progress.
383.
by zombot 8mo ago
Way too heavy. Just install sbcl & vim.
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by zombot 8mo ago
How is it hidden if you can measure it?
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by zombot 8mo ago
The law should require it to be opt-in, ffs.
386.
by zombot 8mo ago
When the greed of the powerful rules everything, progress has to take a back seat.
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by zombot 8mo ago
I swear, if I see another Claude-generated "programming language", I'm going to barf.
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by zombot 8mo ago
No black band at the op of HN? Is that only for rich people?
389.
by zombot 8mo ago
Well, if you can't stop the Johns from being animals, that's the only thing left to do.
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by zombot 8mo ago
Yea, can't be arsed to do it right, so let's just not do it.

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