mayhemducks

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by mayhemducks 5d ago
I'm sorry your parents sucked. I sincerely hope that your ability to make better choices with your loved ones than your parents did with you brings you some comfort. In my view, removing access to information from my child would be a s
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by mayhemducks 5d ago
Yeah I agree - it is a very difficult balancing act for sure. Perhaps I have a strong belief that manifests as bias when it comes to access to information - the right to read. LLM's are an isomorphic distillation of human expression. W
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by mayhemducks 6d ago
Now I feel better. Just needed to watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgmFhjAaWFQ
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by mayhemducks 6d ago
Need we remind Anthropic of the 153 million drirvers licenses available for sale on the dark web thanks to a 3rd party ID verification service? https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selli... The f
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by mayhemducks 23d ago
>>> I dislike engineers in general because most of them think like this. they have gone all in on embracing alienation in the marxist sense from their own work product and dont understand people who feel a sense of personal craft a
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by mayhemducks 23d ago
In keeping with the spirit of this author's unsolicited advice, I will say that I am quite unsure about the author's awareness of the ways that "tech" companies are behaving. I say "tech" in quotes because they
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by mayhemducks 1mo ago
'Cause the brain is in a glass vat. and brains have eyes too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc3uWxs9adw
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by mayhemducks 2mo ago
If this is about safety, am I being too naive & idealistic to think that a "Kamar-Taj" rule would solve some safety issues? The "Kamar-Taj" rule is, no knowledge is forbidden, only certain practices. If a model gives
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by mayhemducks 2mo ago
If Quagmire were in charge of naming things.
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by mayhemducks 2mo ago
You know it's interesting, because with the right treatment and support, people with diabetes can live long, fulfilling lives. It's the same for depression. It does not matter if it's chronic or acute. There is no cure, it wi
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by mayhemducks 2mo ago
You said it friend.
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by mayhemducks 2mo ago
This is ableism.
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by mayhemducks 2mo ago
There is no cure for depression. Like there is no cure for diabetes. There is a big difference between having the disease, and feeling sadness brought on by circumstances. There is no such thing as simply "removing the depression"
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by mayhemducks 2mo ago
Software quality, i.e lack of bugs, from the average user's perspective, is a hygiene factor. High quality does not get rewarded, and the instant it crosses below the threshold of "good enough", users will punish you. The ete
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by mayhemducks 2mo ago
The man with more than one watch never knows what time it is.
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by mayhemducks 4mo ago
I genuinely do not understand why people think my comment on this is a bad take. I believe it is absolutely ridiculous to have token usage leader boards. But isn't it also ridiculous for a rational human being to use as many tokens as
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by mayhemducks 4mo ago
I'm guessing you aren't invested in any of these stocks. I'm also guessing, to take the perspective of a tokenamxxing GenZ employee, that their bosses are.
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by mayhemducks 4mo ago
Excessive token burning as a tactic to annoy your employer probably does the opposite - it probably makes your employer money. The more tokens you burn, the more demand for hardware there will be. More demand for hardware means higher stock
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by mayhemducks 4mo ago
Hacker news is not a representative subset of humanity. So you are restricting your range of understanding. Maybe that's necessary for mental health, (it is for me) but the tradeoff isn't great either.
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by mayhemducks 4mo ago
In my mind this is what prototyping is for. Just get it working quickly and see if the concept has legs. But be prepared to completely re-write it because the "just make it work" mindset will make it more difficult to change and i
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by mayhemducks 4mo ago
My status after reading your comment: https://imgflip.com/i/7yki7x Agentic tools are "burglary tools" -> Younger folks should not study CS?
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by mayhemducks 5mo ago
Yes it is nauseating. And it's the norm. Whenever some company finds a way to make a boat-load of money by exploiting a weakness of human nature, the government will demand a portion of the proceeds. It's business as usual, in the
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by mayhemducks 5mo ago
5 internet points to you sir.
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by mayhemducks 5mo ago
Maybe they could use this DDoS attack as their 17th round technical interview. Any candidate who successfully mitigates the attack would then make it to the 18th round. Win win!
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by mayhemducks 5mo ago
I enjoyed reading this. I LOL'd when I read "eternal ball of sadness".
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by mayhemducks 5mo ago
No apology necessary - I appreciate the straightforward offer of solutions to difficult problems.
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by mayhemducks 5mo ago
I was curious about this so I looked around a bit. My interpretation is that GrapheneOS still has not cracked this nut. Neither has iPhone, unless you enable "Lockdown Mode" https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-
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by mayhemducks 5mo ago
I guess I like the idea of having to think a little more deeply about how memory is used while I'm programming. I know that might sound a bit odd, but before I started learning and using rust, I remember being much less aware of certai
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by mayhemducks 5mo ago
Okay I could see that - like implementing linked lists would be easier yeah? I just feel like not having GC is sort of a deliberate, core design choice for the language. Having strict ownership rules and being forced to think about referenc
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by mayhemducks 5mo ago
I really like rust because it does NOT have garbage collection. Can someone smarter than me help me understand the benefits of having GC in rust specifically? Does it enable things that are more difficult in "non GC" rust?

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