ethagnawl

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by ethagnawl 3d ago
I mean, I said as much. My point, though, is that I've never heard a pre-IPO CEO claim that their company will probably transmute lead into gold or harness 100% of the power of a distant sun is the next 5-10 years.
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by ethagnawl 4d ago
> I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years This is Theranos-level bullshit. Why would you ever put such a thing in writing? (Aside from pumping the IPO, of course.)
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by ethagnawl 4d ago
People always dismiss this as FUD but it's been happening to me more than ever. I know in many cases it is more likely that firms are acquiring purchase histories and location data but that doesn't explain other incidents. For exa
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by ethagnawl 5d ago
The gas stations around me in NY had been hanging onto $5.99 9/10 for dear life.
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by ethagnawl 7d ago
This also tracks with my recent experiences. It's possible it's a coincidence but I'm currently trying to get big, dumb, expensive errors made by Ikea and Costco sorted. I've been dealing with both of these companies for
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by ethagnawl 7d ago
It's the same with all of these issues; the frog always gets boiled. In the same way the people who drafted the Constitution/Bill of Rights couldn't have imagined AR-15s, they could never have imagined a (practical) surveilla
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by ethagnawl 7d ago
> There's absolutely nothing illegal about monitoring the location and activity of police In theory, sure. In practice? Good luck. https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/10/03/apple-t
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by ethagnawl 8d ago
It'd be interesting to learn whether or not Gemini ignores them, too. I would guess not, as these sorts of sites tend to be founts of expert knowledge and insight.
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by ethagnawl 9d ago
> runners used to be arrested! This reminds me of Ray Bradbury's excellent short story, _The Pedestrian_: https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader/the-pedes... IIRC, this story also informed and inspi
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by ethagnawl 14d ago
> the average american, even educated and talented ones, have absolutely no serious understanding what keypairs are, or why they need to take care of them You're right. Since a few others have said as much, I was sketching an outlin
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by ethagnawl 14d ago
Denmark, for one: https://lifeindenmark.borger.dk/apps-and-digital-services/mi...
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by ethagnawl 14d ago
I know some modern, normal countries have done variations of this but the US missed a golden opportunity to give everyone an RSA keypair when they were coerced into signing up for an Enhanced/REAL ID. Instead of scanning, taking photos
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by ethagnawl 16d ago
The author hints at _the end of ownership_ when talking about physical media but I think that's been a significant regression worth emphasizing. There have been countless stories about people losing access to their favorite movie when
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by ethagnawl 17d ago
Nobody should be in a position where they need to clear something like this with their boss. Now, I'm certain people are but that just means those of us with seniority and in leadership have failed those people.
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by ethagnawl 17d ago
One. Most of the time. Supposedly.
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by ethagnawl 19d ago
When I got a new phone about a year ago, I decided that I wouldn't be installing any traditional social media apps (Tusky doesn't count) and that I'd use the web when "necessary". This has been a very successful exp
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by ethagnawl 19d ago
"Profit" or "Plunder" would seem to fit.
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by ethagnawl 20d ago
Does the website still work?
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by ethagnawl 21d ago
Oh, wow. I had no idea. I've gotten a ton of use out of memcached over the years. Thanks for all your efforts, Brad!
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by ethagnawl 21d ago
Certain elements of Capitalism (cough AI) seem to simultaneously be speedrunning its decline and keeping it on life support. What strange times we find ourselves in.
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by ethagnawl 21d ago
> If getting a million dollars wouldn't affect how much money you can leave your kids, you already have generational wealth. Well said. Where I live, one million dollars would allow me to pay off my house, open healthily sized inves
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by ethagnawl 23d ago
Right. For the most part, consequences (if any) are down the road and will be the functional equivalent of a tax or toll. Their ethos is _move quick and (maybe) ask for forgiveness later_ ... or something like that.
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by ethagnawl 26d ago
> Where is anything saying there should be? What are the boosters ranting and raving about if not the above? Am I just confused and the end game for all of the AI hype, investment, infrastructure build out, etc. over the last N years is
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by ethagnawl 27d ago
Bonkers is right. Where in those ~12 billion commits is the software, products and "innovations" which are supposed to be making our lives better? Software and apps in particular are getting worse, normies hate AI more than ever b
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by ethagnawl 28d ago
> Timescale lately released the pgvector extension, that turns your PostgreSQL into a vector database. I don't think this is accurate and smells like an LLM hallucination to me. From the Timescale/Tiger Data _pgvectorscale_ pro
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by ethagnawl 29d ago
Yeah, that was one of the sources of my confusion, too. Some of the recent DuckDB features and extensions would certainly seem to undercut premium features MotherDuck has layered over DuckDB. Though, on the flip side, since there is a relat
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by ethagnawl 1mo ago
I was wrong. Apologies. > They decided to work together, and DuckLabs would become a co-founder of the new endeavor. https://motherduck.com/about-us/
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by ethagnawl 1mo ago
UPDATE: Removed uninformed comment about the relationship between DuckDB and MotherDuck.
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by ethagnawl 1mo ago
No questions. Only bench press.
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by ethagnawl 1mo ago
You're right. However, I'm also of the boomer opinion that you should get what you pay for. "Ranting online" about a service (you pay for) being unavailable is a reasonable reaction. It's not like they have a call c

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