exsomet

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by exsomet 4mo ago
The process as it relates to a K1 Visa is a multi-step series of approval gates designed to state that someone is “admissible” based on certain conditions, which change as you move through the process. The general logic has been that it’s r
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by exsomet 6mo ago
> "Our approach is not 'AI replaces people.' But it would be disingenuous to pretend AI doesn't change … the number of roles required in certain areas. It does," CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said in a memo to employ
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by exsomet 7mo ago
> I do wonder the prospects of any etsy-like outcome for largely hand crafted software though. While you can personally find stylistic expression in the craft i'm not sure how apparent the nuances of crafting code is to users of the
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by exsomet 8mo ago
The two key differences to me are infrastructure and specificity of purpose. Autoland in plane requires a set of expensive, complex, and highly fine-tuned equipment to be installed on every runway in the world that enables it (which as a pr
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by exsomet 8mo ago
This isn’t an accurate interpretation. The UK is a _constitutional_ monarchy, not an absolute monarchy, meaning that the monarchy exists and acts in accordance with the constitution. In the case of the UK, some of the rituals (such as the o
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by exsomet 8mo ago
Shift+Del and rm -rm are pretty hard to use by accident. Onedrive comes with the computer preconfigured to do some pretty unintuitive things. For example, if a user does not actively change the save location, at least for office apps, the d
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by exsomet 9mo ago
I’m not an expert by any means, but one of the major impediments I would imagine to flying taxis carrying people is safety; there’s a _lot_ that has to be done before people board an airplane in terms of checks, paperwork, planning, etc. Th
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by exsomet 9mo ago
I remember getting an Xbox One and being excited about the concept of it being the center for entertainment in my house. The marketing promise was that it would integrate with TVs and music and make those things better in ways that were sor
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by exsomet 9mo ago
I’m certainly not an expert, but just based on my personal experiences, I think “character” is the distillation of a lot of different aspects of self, some of which are binary haves/don’t haves (“people listen when you speak”) and othe
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by exsomet 9mo ago
This is a fairly defeatist approach to the issue (read that as a statement of fact, not an accusation or argument). The problem with taking this stance, for many people, is that you’re giving a mouse a cookie, except the cookie is marginall
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by exsomet 9mo ago
Every time an executive says AI the number goes up.
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by exsomet 10mo ago
The update thing struck me as slightly out of touch; if I were to make a list of my top 10 most used consumer products that can be updated, probably 8-9 of them have abused updates to make things worse. We spend so much time training people
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by exsomet 10mo ago
The neat thing about all this is that you don’t get a choice! Your favorite services are adding “AI” features (and raising prices to boot), your data is being collected and analyzed (probably incorrectly) by AI tools, you are interacting wi
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by exsomet 10mo ago
Maybe it is. Humans are weird creatures; we draw all manner of lines in the sand on different issues, some rational and others not. I hope we get some interesting psychological studies out of this sort of story in the coming years. Maybe we
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by exsomet 10mo ago
One of the major stories from the rise of AI tooling was when people cooked a recipe that included glue. I don’t think it’s unfair to assume some non-trivial percentage of people use these tools in a very dumb way.
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by exsomet 10mo ago
They wouldn’t do this stuff unless it worked at large scale. The irony is, at least in my case, I made the impulse decision to just cancel outright instead of accepting the lower price, which lost them what had been a 15 year recurring cust
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by exsomet 11mo ago
> Just project yourself 50 years from now: our current web pages will look archaic. Everything will be conversational, using language, vision, the whole spectrum. To what end? We’ve interacted with the internet using the same text-orient
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by exsomet 11mo ago
> All AI has to do to justify these valuations is capture 1/3rd of Google. Is that all? It really is that easy huh.
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by exsomet 1y ago
> I find it easy to imagine some disabled, or disfigured, otherwise blocked-from-stardom person using tech like this to transform themselves and be able to express their truth without being unfairly judged by the physical form they were
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by exsomet 1y ago
Also in Texas - I got this same alert and, (seemingly) like every else in the state I now have emergency alerts turned off. Which is bad. The other example that comes to mind is, I was in Toronto a few years back and got a “Nuclear incident
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by exsomet 1y ago
Don’t give people ideas, or we’ll start getting 8am morning news sirens.
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by exsomet 1y ago
We need to bring back (human curated) webrings!
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by exsomet 1y ago
Generally speaking most people ask “is this ethical” _before_ doing something. The answer, by the way, is no.
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by exsomet 1y ago
A slightly different perspective for your consideration: I watch videos of people playing through games and talking about or alongside it. There are two main reasons, both of which I (obviously) think are valid. 1. I enjoy gaming and use th
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by exsomet 1y ago
Stack Overflow was a question and answer site that discouraged people from asking or answering questions. LLMs probably sped things up, but it seems like it was inevitable that it would fall into disuse and eventually be overtaken one way o
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by exsomet 1y ago
Taking the example of healthcare, a person may not have time to sue over an adverse decision. If the recourse is “you can sue the insurance company, but it’s going to take so long you’ll probably die while you’re waiting on that”, that’s no
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by exsomet 1y ago
I can’t speak to Incus but IIRC Proxmox isn’t a supported hypervisor for Red Hat deployments. I’m a fan, and I run it in my home lab, but that might be an issue in a business context if you’re running RHEL. https://access.redhat.
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by exsomet 1y ago
I’d love a webcomic about the adventures of Bill Windows and Tim Apple.
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by exsomet 1y ago
You’re forgetting a step - which, being a hardware designer instead of a lawyer, is understandable. The fourth amendment means that there should never be a situation where you are arbitrarily required to provide the government access to, or
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by exsomet 1y ago
Something that I haven’t seen elsewhere - and maybe I missed it, there’s a _lot_ to read here - is, does it state the background of these researchers anywhere? On what grounds are they qualified to design an experiment involving human subje

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