SeanDav

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by SeanDav 2mo ago
By all means argue with your boss, but: Do it respectfully and accept the decision if it goes against your advice. Your boss is either aware of issues you are not, or might otherwise have good reasons. In any case there is very seldom 1 &qu
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by SeanDav 4mo ago
OpenClaw. Vibe-coded and one of the most rapidly successful and popular pieces of software ever developed.
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by SeanDav 4mo ago
I am far more relaxed about the actual or potential use of AI to help with delivering an article. As long as the content is accurate, then why care? There are several valid reasons why AI could have been used - e.g. For translation or in ca
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by SeanDav 4mo ago
I would hardly define allowing your child access to the internet as neglect. Like anything else, like crossing the street for example, there are dangers that can be mitigated against by education by parents and schools. The government is va
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by SeanDav 4mo ago
It has always been the responsibility of parents to raise their children "properly" (whatever that means). What is special about internet access that now requires the government to legislate for it, and as a side-effect, greatly r
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by SeanDav 5mo ago
Humans are quite capable of bankrupting financial companies with coding issues. Knight Capital Group introduced a bug into their system while using high frequency trading software. 45 minutes later, they were effectively bankrupt.
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by SeanDav 5mo ago
This is likely the first step, and in itself is not much of a concern but only if it stops there, which it almost certainly will not. The next step, where the government argue that simple attestation is not secure enough to protect the chil
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by SeanDav 5mo ago
This has got very little to do with children - that is just the excuse that sounds good. "Think of the children" is a rhetorical tactic that anyone who wants to get unfettered access to your data rolls out whenever they can. It is
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by SeanDav 5mo ago
Sure, for now... I simply don't believe it will stop at "simple attestation", because we all know that simple attestation is practically useless, but once the various distros accept this "trivial" inconvenience, &qu
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by SeanDav 5mo ago
Except compulsory age verification in Linux is now becoming a real threat. Some Linux distros are actively against this but many are not seemingly interested in fighting it: CachyOS, Ubuntu, Fedora and others. Age Verification is the thin e
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by SeanDav 5mo ago
This is worrying on many levels. So Microsoft force you to create an account to use Windows and then they reserve the right to block you from your own account, thereby potentially making you lose access to all your OWN data. This is crazy a
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by SeanDav 6mo ago
The earth was too scared to have him on it anymore...
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by SeanDav 6mo ago
With the increasingly intrusive legislated age verification and content monitoring being forced globally, I can easily see this as a catalyst to drive the Gemini protocol past critical mass.
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by SeanDav 6mo ago
I assumed that leap seconds could be determined algorithmically, it appears I assumed badly. This is a bit of a can of worms...
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by SeanDav 7mo ago
Remember, it is for the children. /s
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by SeanDav 7mo ago
Even a face scan is a hard no for me. I have no desire to make it easy for companies to start linking me (the person) to anywhere else, directly via my face metadata.
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by SeanDav 7mo ago
I think we might have different risk/reward levels. For me, using VR can make me feel sick and vaguely disorientated for many hours afterwards. Almost nothing is worth that. I love the idea of VR but my brain / balance system most
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by SeanDav 7mo ago
I.Don't.Care. I enjoyed the narrative. It was true. Who cares if it was written by a ghost writer, an AI or anything else.
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by SeanDav 10mo ago
Right, no insider trading going on here at all /s
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by SeanDav 10mo ago
I hate the flat, borderless, barely visible scroll bar mess that is Windows 11. Just try to determine where one window starts and another ends with multiple overlapping windows open, especially in dark mode. Windows UI peaked at Windows 7 a
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by SeanDav 10mo ago
Until you hit a knot in the wood and get kickback, which leads to exciting times... j/k I get what you are trying to say.
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by SeanDav 10mo ago
It is not a lie it is just apparently familiar notation that actually has an entirely different meaning. It is not an equation, it is an assignment. X := X + 1 is perhaps less confusing, even if meaning the same thing.
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by SeanDav 10mo ago
I am just wondering when the next "We-Love-Haskell" cycle is going to start!
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by SeanDav 10mo ago
One of the potential upsides to this as that people just might start taking time to engage in a bit of critical thinking before reacting. Is this real? How likely is this AI nonsense? What is the source? Is this the full picture? etc. Perha
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by SeanDav 11mo ago
> Zhu initially won in court. Then the appeals process ran until 2006, when he finally lost. The stick figures were too different, according to the judges, and the imagery was too simple to copyright. Nike was in the clear. I am sure i
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by SeanDav 1y ago
Our company is thinking of moving to Slack from Teams. In addition we use Salesforce. I have already reached out to senior decision-makers pointing out do we want to be paying for a company's services that resorts to this kind of behav
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by SeanDav 1y ago
What the article seems to have glossed over is this: >>> A court ordered eight weeks of house arrest, a psychological evaluation and 20 days at an alternative school for the girl. If one assumes that the court did take into consi
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by SeanDav 1y ago
You stopped too soon - those apparently OOP semantics ultimately require decidedly non-OOP machine code at the real level it is executed. Everything else is just abstraction. Trying to argue that you are, in fact driving a steam engine, req
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by SeanDav 1y ago
I used to keep a few bee hives until I started getting increasingly severe reactions to bee stings, so reluctantly quit before I had an anaphylactic reaction. Utterly fascinating and wonderful hobby and contributes towards the environment,
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by SeanDav 1y ago
I agree. Use with caution. One of my personal pet peeves with LLM answers is their propensity to give authoritative or definite answers, when in fact they are best guesses, and sometimes pure fantasy.

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