dpkirchner

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by dpkirchner 3d ago
I think the obvious answer is they aren't held to account by regulators. If a few execs were sent to prison for defrauding their users (and investors for taking on so much risk) things would change overnight.
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by dpkirchner 3d ago
Have you tried reaching out to companies offering relevant products? Sometimes they have referral plans and don't require the same level of tracking.
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by dpkirchner 4d ago
I think this rule is quite unfortunate. Wouldn't we all be better off if sites that hijacked back buttons were just banned or at least had their posts hidden until they're fixed? Sure, they're somewhat common issues, but so a
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by dpkirchner 4d ago
I don't know, but I suspect the battery drain would be substantial. I wonder if there is a different explanation: maybe one of your friends searched for information on the topic while you were on the same hotspot/in the same locat
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by dpkirchner 5d ago
The Republican party looks about the same as it has my whole adult life -- the leader is a lot louder and the racism is less hidden, that's about it.
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by dpkirchner 5d ago
> Now, that still leaves open the question of who you can trust. If you can trust a business run by people then that allows you to trust a bank, sure, but it also allows you to trust a tech company Banks are subject to much stricter regu
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by dpkirchner 5d ago
> You may trust them with your money, but does not equate to trusting them with any other personal information. How do you expect that they will give you your money when you walk in to a branch and ask for a withdrawal? Or that they&#x27
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by dpkirchner 10d ago
Worse, Substack promotes nazi content via push notifications to people that haven't subscribed to those nazi accounts.
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by dpkirchner 10d ago
This is the new Republican mainstream, the same mainstream that brings us AI generated videos of the Obamas as apes. They have no shame and are likely irredeemable (certainly their behavior is inexcusable). And ultimately these statements a
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by dpkirchner 14d ago
I'd wager most of us are OK with it taking a few days. There's a (relative) few weirdos that get upset if they see the numbers change as votes continue to be tallied.
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by dpkirchner 14d ago
Hopefully they're embarrassed.
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by dpkirchner 14d ago
Turning this around a bit: Businesses should be required to accept cash. We shouldn't need to have a relationship with a bank just to buy food or gas or what have you.
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by dpkirchner 14d ago
There are smart toilet devices that have cameras, so, it's about as bad as one could imagine.
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by dpkirchner 14d ago
Of course, that's how LLMs work. It's still amusing, at least to me.
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by dpkirchner 15d ago
If you ask it why it uses the term honest so much it'll tell you it was actually trained not to. lol
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by dpkirchner 16d ago
Try generalizing the argument without changing it substantially, then we'll talk.
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by dpkirchner 17d ago
The methods are described on the official docker website, not just random blogs or SO pages. There are caveats about security, of course, but it's not truly discouraged.
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by dpkirchner 23d ago
You could burn a few tokens by prompting the LLM to summarize the omit all of the "wrong" answers (where it overrode itself), after the user accepts the response. It'd probably reduce token use in the end, especially for long
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by dpkirchner 25d ago
A year and a half is a long time to cause a lot of harm. Way, way too long.
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by dpkirchner 25d ago
And do you drive a car? Car owners get a (relative) free pass because "accidents happen".
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by dpkirchner 25d ago
It takes months or years for courts to intervene and even then they often set aside rulings because they expect appeals. All the while the abuses continue. How many years do you suppose we'll have to wait to see the Trump family subjec
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by dpkirchner 25d ago
Here's what I don't get about this: Trump's main campaign promise was to raise prices for American consumers (via tariffs) and to harm the lowest wage earners the most (tariffs as sales taxes are regressive). Going against &q
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by dpkirchner 25d ago
Before engaging, let's get this settled: do you believe that the US economy operates on a zero sum basis?
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by dpkirchner 25d ago
The coin is to decide which terrible person he is going to listen to. And his weirdo followers love him for it.
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by dpkirchner 26d ago
Google shopping is a great tool to use when you don't care if the items are truly in stock or are sold at the price listed.
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by dpkirchner 28d ago
It is 100% impossible to secure the system and its use sufficiently to provide reasonable privacy for the public.
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by dpkirchner 29d ago
An error no frontier LLM would make, eh
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by dpkirchner 29d ago
I'm ok with Google having that information. Where is the checkbox to enable including useful details in emails?
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by dpkirchner 29d ago
The fact is that Amazon has at least two customers here: you, the user trying to find an item to buy, and advertisers, likely trying to convince you to buy a lower quality product. Who wins? I'm guessing the advertiser. They are far mo
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by dpkirchner 1mo ago
Are all of those specialists "in-network"? Have you tried contacting them to see if they truly have availability? It's common for providers (or the insurance carrier), at least in my area, to claim they take new patients when

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