bobsomers

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by bobsomers 2mo ago
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/lawsuit-grok-use... This is only the most recent example. Plenty of headlines like this one if you'd even bother to look.
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by bobsomers 2mo ago
Why is it so hard to generate with other models, but trivial with Grok?
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by bobsomers 2mo ago
And for generating an absolutely gargantuan amount of CSAM and non-consensual sexualized images, but yeah, exfiltrating data too.
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by bobsomers 3mo ago
5% is awfully optimistic! More like the 0.01%.
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by bobsomers 3mo ago
> owned by all participants How does this work in practice? In my experience, any metrics owned by a group inevitably languish and are largely ignored. Anything you want to improve needs a DRI.
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by bobsomers 3mo ago
Blind hatred? Given that, among a multitude of other things, he willingly threw out some sieg heils I think the hatred was easily earned.
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by bobsomers 3mo ago
It's easy to deliver things fast when you don't care at all for the local communities or residents whose lives you ruin in the process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo (@ 4:08)
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by bobsomers 4mo ago
If it's actually your 401k, sure you can. Just today I rebalanced my retirement funds away from large cap stocks to avoid this steaming turd that Elon is dumping on the public.
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by bobsomers 5mo ago
Not OP, but: 1. At my level, the company is not just paying me to do a task the way they want it done, they are paying for my experience to orchestrate the best way to do it. They want an outcome, and I'm responsible for figuring out h
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by bobsomers 5mo ago
> We're not perfect. We've done bad. But, you won't find another nation on earth or in history who has contributed as much to global progress, stability and well-being. Ooook... but > Defending the United States of Amer
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by bobsomers 5mo ago
I don't really think its fair to lump hams into that behavioral bucket. It's certainly a personality type that tends to get attracted to lots of different technical hobbies.
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by bobsomers 6mo ago
But it was also flat last year and the financials are atrociously bad. Reality is catching up.
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by bobsomers 7mo ago
> I used to be friends with Jack back in the day, before this AI stuff even all kicked off, once you know who people really are inside, it's easy to know how they will act when the going gets rough. This sounds quite backwards to me
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by bobsomers 7mo ago
> And given that in Austin they just reached parity with Waymo (i.e. completely unsupervised robotaxi service), they are not doing badly. Parity is not defined by how willing one is to let their robots kill the general public.
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by bobsomers 7mo ago
This is purely anecdotal but I've heard from other riders that the car tells you when it's happening, and it's never happened in my 10+ rides so far.
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by bobsomers 8mo ago
Tesla won't achieve true safe autonomy without a significant change in strategy. Source: I worked in AV V&V for a decade.
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by bobsomers 10mo ago
Another Google product whose launch will be used to justify somebody's promotion, only to be left for dead only a few months later after said promoted person moves on to something else. Why would I even bother getting mildly invested i
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by bobsomers 11mo ago
Personally, I prefer prepending `uv` to my commands because they're more stateless that way. I don't need to remember which terminal my environment is sourced in, and when copying and pasting commands to people I don't need t
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by bobsomers 11mo ago
I haven’t used it for sim racing but I’ve used it for flight sim and never noticed the latency being problematic.
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by bobsomers 1y ago
What frameworks would you recommend for new people learning about embedded systems?
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by bobsomers 1y ago
It's deliberately incomplete. You can be completely factual and, simultaneously, intentionally deceiving.
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by bobsomers 1y ago
It's pretty hard to kill 40 people in 5 seconds with a knife.
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by bobsomers 1y ago
> If you penalize the rich, they just move, and then the new system will stop class mobility. This is a myth created by the rich so that you won't tax them.
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by bobsomers 1y ago
> But if they do choose to leave, or at least stop expanding their businesses, you can’t deny the rational self interest "If you tax the rich, they will leave" is a myth created by the rich so that you won't tax them. In t
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by bobsomers 1y ago
> in particular I'm not sure why the fluff bits about Musk "being a regular guy" are relevant They're relevant because this was almost certainly written by a PR firm being paid by Musk to resuscitate his 32% approval
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by bobsomers 1y ago
Everything you said is 100% correct. However, part of designing and upholding a safety-critical software development process is looking for places to reduce or eliminate the introduction of bugs in the first place. Strong type systems, for
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by bobsomers 1y ago
> Moreover stock prices incorporate a variety of factors that are irrelevant to wealth distribution. This handwaves away the most important fact w.r.t. stocks and wealth distribution, which is that wealthy people own stocks and poor peop
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by bobsomers 1y ago
How is this not exactly the same in engineering though? Performance reviews at top tech companies are pretty much designed to identify the super high performers and shove massive bonuses and equity grants their way. And those equity grants
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by bobsomers 1y ago
> I still like the money and the number going up. But now that it’s above a certain multiple of what I consider a “comfortable” life, I’m not worrying as much. I agree, but that number for most people is not the $207k/yr Oxide is pa
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by bobsomers 1y ago
Modern safety analysis acknowledges that humans are fallible, and they are generally acting in a good faith way to try and do their jobs correctly within a given system they are operating in. That's why these reports tend to suggest co

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