jasonjayr

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by jasonjayr 7d ago
IANAL, but a harmed party outside of the 'binding arbitration' nonsense might be a way work around arbitration and drag the company into a court.
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by jasonjayr 8d ago
They will interpret that metric as "they don't love AI YET ,so lets throw more at them so they can see how wonderful it is" .....
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by jasonjayr 14d ago
Do all modern compilers do tree-shaking at this point? Unless you use compiler-based flags, If you hard code them into your code, the dead code paths may still be in the shipped binary. Depending on what you are doing, the security issues
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by jasonjayr 15d ago
Location: Northern RI (in between Boston + Providence, commuting okay!) Remote: Yes, can do hybrid, or in person full time Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Perl (20+ years), MySQL, Postgres, everything Linux(Bash, iptables,
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by jasonjayr 20d ago
Perhaps the AI then figures out how to read/write the PCI bus or memory controller or whatever to leak just enough RF to speak Bluetooth to the next closest device to proxy through that?
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by jasonjayr 21d ago
There is also the giant "Tax Incentives" being given to these projects under the guise of them being "job creators". Unfortunately, data center's only need a bunch of jobs at the initial construction + installation
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by jasonjayr 22d ago
And in 2026, I don't think it's too big of a stretch to imagine that there are going to be people in power that can add + remove the metadata to whatever image they want, at will, to tell whatever story they want to create. Sadly
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by jasonjayr 25d ago
The really interesting question is: What are we going to do when a technology so quickly and thoroughly displaces the need for human labor, in a society that constantly demands you trade your labor for the right to exist and participate i
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by jasonjayr 28d ago
There's the infamous post dismissing DropBox ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 )
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by jasonjayr 28d ago
Do you take full credit for the output of the LLM ? If you accept the rewards for what you do with the LLM's output, it's probably ethical that you also take on the risks.
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by jasonjayr 29d ago
Not to drop any spoilers (hide this comment before reading further ....) But "The Amazing Digital Circus" explores this concept relating to human brain scans, and how the 'simulated' brains would react under simulation.
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by jasonjayr 1mo ago
The ideal "World Wide Web" envisioned by it's original design, was that a URI was a durable pointer to an immutable piece of information. In 2026, we now know that the information can be edited, or completely removed for many
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by jasonjayr 1mo ago
Folks forgot the lessons of tay.ai: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-microsofts-tay-ai-b...
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by jasonjayr 1mo ago
It also needs to scroll in after a second or two, and shift the page content down, so you mis-click the wrong link, and end up loading something that takes forever to load and somehow manages to cause the back button to misbehave.
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by jasonjayr 1mo ago
I saw it via the User-agent header + confirmed via IP ownership lookup.
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by jasonjayr 1mo ago
I recently brought up a website on a never-before-seen .com domain. Within about 10 mins of bringing it up with a SSL certificate, Anthropic came knocking on the door requesting the front page. (Almost certainty due to them watching the Pu
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by jasonjayr 1mo ago
Breaking any type of addiction is hard. For some people it requires intentional and deliberate help from others.
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by jasonjayr 1mo ago
Hint: You will never see the folks enforcing action against this platform and the folks using and posting on the platform in the same room.
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by jasonjayr 1mo ago
Is there anyone maintaining a canonical list of such domains and hosts? This would be useful to add as firewall rules on a router upstream of any windows hosts, or to a pihole.
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by jasonjayr 1mo ago
"The dog ate my homework" Just blame the next thing down the chain that can't defend itself, so you don't have to take responsibility.
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by jasonjayr 1mo ago
Yes; but matching the paint color? and matching it to the wear of sun/fade of the surrounding area? That's not nearly as straightforward.
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by jasonjayr 1mo ago
Even if the games are played off the internal hard drive with updates, there's a bit of "legal grey area" where enthusiastic fans of the game rebuild the code, and run the game with assets from the original media. "Tech
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by jasonjayr 2mo ago
Isn't this what happened with ElasticSearch and AWS OpenSearch? I imagine that OSS developers will not appreciate this at scale, especially if the core developers are not reaping some of the revenue from such a project.
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by jasonjayr 2mo ago
Mineclonia is the 'game' that loads into Luanti (formerly Minetest). Luanti has a c++ core engine, but definition of the worlds, rules, games, interactions is all lua
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by jasonjayr 2mo ago
Naomi Wu aka Sexy Cyborg - she did a lot of electronics work, and showcasing tech
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by jasonjayr 2mo ago
My home is like 1500 ft from HV lines. According to OSM, they are 115kV. Some of my neighbors are even closer. These things are totally built near homes.
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by jasonjayr 2mo ago
IIRC EU markets now mandate the USB-C charger for devices (which is not a bad thing, too many throwaway custom chargers....). Adding the port, the USB-C PD circuitry may take up too much room. I think this approach would require some kind
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by jasonjayr 2mo ago
They saw the "You wouldn't download a car?" meme one too many times, and panicked.
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by jasonjayr 2mo ago
TIL getting an elevator tech to just come out to look at your building's elevator is about $1600. If it's an easy fix, that's all you need to pay. If it's not, it goes up significantly....
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by jasonjayr 2mo ago
(a) cars have forward-facing cameras/computer vision for lane tracking (b) infotainment systems have always-on cellular internet connections (c) billboard impression counts can be tied to the vehicle IIRC infotainment systems are alrea

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