eCa

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by eCa 1mo ago
Speaking of trains, that's another thing they don't do. The auto-snapping of current location consistently snaps to whatever road or goat track it can find nearby, while equally consistently refusing to snap to the railroad they h
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by eCa 2mo ago
> most of us *some of us. This is one of the differentiators (can’t find a better word right now). Some became software developers because they enjoy(ed) the process. Some became software developers because that was the way to make produ
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by eCa 4mo ago
I’ve only seen this snippet (on phone so no source access), but var + no fat arrow could also indicate someone who learned js a long time ago and use as what they’re used to.
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by eCa 4mo ago
> Rather than go to a FISA court for approval, we just hack your box and take your data. You are equating illegal behavior with legal behavior. We do what we can to avoid the legal ways the US government can access our data.
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by eCa 4mo ago
That’s when you ask it to write tests to a good coverage, and then have it reimplement everything with the tests still passing…
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by eCa 4mo ago
Couldn't the same argument be made for Chrome suddenly including a bitcoin miner? Seems like that would be a difference in degree rather than in kind.
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by eCa 5mo ago
I know it's not for everyone, but it is also a reasonable touring bike if done within its constraints. I've probably done closer to 40 days on my 16" Brompton, longest was a two-week 1000km ride. On the topic of leaving the b
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by eCa 5mo ago
One obvious argument is what it was trained on.
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by eCa 6mo ago
Vibe coding and copilot inserted the ad-code into that PR? Is that the most charitable way?
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by eCa 7mo ago
> That's not augmentation, that's a completely different game Not saying that this comment is ai written, but this phrasing is the em-dash of 2026.
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by eCa 8mo ago
> still under the jurisdiction of the US regime Exactly, this seem pointless for people serious about staying away from US owned data stores. I know first hand of EU based businesses that left AWS (and all other US owned services) before
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by eCa 9mo ago
Just this weekend it (Gemini) has produced two detailed sets of instructions on how to connect different devices over bluetooth, including a video (that I didn’t watch), while the devices did not support doing the connections in that direct
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by eCa 9mo ago
> Why search, wade through dubious results, etc when you can just instantly get the result you want in the format you want it? For one, that way you can see that the source is dubious. Gemini gives it to you cleaned. And then you still
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by eCa 9mo ago
> I do create an ephemeral Apple ID every time I get a new phone In other words, you do have an in-use apple id at (pretty much) all times.
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by eCa 9mo ago
No, I want to read it (or not) the way the writer intended.
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by eCa 9mo ago
The 57 km Gotthard Base Tunnel has been in operation since 2016. There's also a 3km long tunnel between France and Italy that opened in 1882. Nowadays there's probably hundreds of 1km+ tunnels in the Alps.
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by eCa 9mo ago
While I agree completely with the conclusion, for obvious reasons we can’t know for sure if it is correct about the future until we reach it. Perhaps asking it for wild ideas rather than ”most likely” would create something more surprising.
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by eCa 9mo ago
Laziness is one of the three virtues (of a good programmer), but I think Larry didn’t anticipate the current situation when he wrote it: ”The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write
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by eCa 10mo ago
The ”historically” does some lifting there. Historically, before the internet, mass media was produced in one version and then distributed. With AI for example news reporting can be tailored to each consumer.
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by eCa 10mo ago
Especially combined with the AI companies focusing on the destruction of value of human creative output.
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by eCa 10mo ago
I’m probably an outlier: I use chatgpt/gemini for specific purposes, but ai summaries on eg google search or youtube gives me negative value (I never read them and they take up space).
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by eCa 10mo ago
In addition to that, how many lakes would need to be pumped or would it be a feel-good project for famous lakes?
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by eCa 10mo ago
> leave US clouds The pressure to leave US controlled cloud providers actually started way back with the US Cloud Act. I’ve been surprised that that process has been as slow as it has been, especially for the public sector and adjacent s
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by eCa 10mo ago
China is trying to grow their influence around the world, while the US is trying to reduce their influence around the world. From where I’m sitting in the EU, both seem successful in their quests. (So I’m assuming they mean China.)
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by eCa 11mo ago
> AI tools must stay within ethical and regulatory boundaries. It’s better for AI to guide people toward professional help than pretend to replace it. Both of those ships have _sailed_. I am not allowed to read the article, but judging f
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by eCa 11mo ago
> this large dataset we prepared You mean the two+ decades of labour of love was always done to be a nameless contribution to the AI machine? Somehow I think he would have picked another hobby if he had known that back then.
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by eCa 11mo ago
Mu favorite Macos bug (haven’t upgraded to 26 yet, so not sure if it is still a thing): 1. Have Bluetooth on. 2. Turn it off from the menu option, but don’t close the menu. 3. The shortcut to lock the computer don’t work. It’s been like thi
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by eCa 11mo ago
This somehow feels like the horizontal equivalent of a Pater Noster elevator. But probably with even worse error modes if it stops working at 100mph.
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by eCa 11mo ago
> I would guess that interest, passion, and motivation all play a role here. And, to use less pointed language, people’s brains are wired differently. What works for one doesn’t necessarily work for another, even with similar interest, p
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by eCa 11mo ago
> Nobody knows (full scope and on every level) how human brains work. That is what the parent meant.

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