stephbook

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by stephbook 4d ago
Remember when Amazon deleted books from customers' Kindles (eBook reader), and the book they decided to remotely burn was .. 1984 from Orwell.
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by stephbook 5d ago
As in Teminator, iRobot and Matrix? Those are decades old.
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by stephbook 6d ago
The site is clearly Claude and the post is too long (see scrollbar.) Also it's about AI. I tapped out.
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by stephbook 7d ago
Praise be unto thee, Steve Apple, for inventing the foldable phone! It will be years before Android can copy this.
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by stephbook 7d ago
Believe me, I try all the time. But HTML and CSS are not made for the modern web. Styling radio buttons, working date inputs, forms that POST automatically, typeahead and server-side validation (eg username already taken.) You spend all you
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by stephbook 8d ago
It's only a question of who prompted then, with OpenAI models solving it in either case..
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by stephbook 8d ago
> they trained the model on the prompts of the other mathematicians they were competing with How would they have gotten that mathematician's progress though? Did that guy also use OpenAI? If that's the case, it only strenghtens
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by stephbook 9d ago
My favorite is missing support for face unlock, missing "energy options" (stay on when I close lid, something Windows XP had for 25 years now), and draining the battery empty when you shut the MacBook down while plugged in.
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by stephbook 10d ago
> I wish I could tell you my choice was based on principle > I still do not know why I walked away from the AI training job. The author didn't make a choice on principle.
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by stephbook 10d ago
This went completely off the rails, it's actually kind of funny. Kind of reminds me of JK Rowling backfilling all of that stuff in the Harry Potter books (now there's Luna Love good!.) Or Nintendo retconning Bowser's sons and
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by stephbook 10d ago
They're not "permanently stored" or "downloaded", they're just cached on his personal, geographically advantageous edge device for low-latency interaction.
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by stephbook 10d ago
Norway is even more European than Canada and Israel!
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by stephbook 12d ago
I could only read one sentence, then skipped to another paragraph. Sure enough the scroll bar revealed a suspiciously long article. No human would ever write this much bland bullshit. Next sentence was also an AI juxtaposition. Done.
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by stephbook 12d ago
It doesn't really matter, since all it takes is a minority of AI models to show this behavior. If you have 10,000 smart washing machines doing their regular work and 1 Terminator, what solace is to be found in those washing machines?
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by stephbook 14d ago
Since GrapheneOS is building on something that Google is giving away for free, I do hope that they release something better. Everything else would be.. kind of weird, no?
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by stephbook 15d ago
In Germany, everyone's national ID – which everyone has – has a NFC chip to securely identify you digitally. It was introduced 15 years ago and can be read by any smartphone. (It does use trusted third parties which only share the requ
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by stephbook 16d ago
Would be pretty stupid to spend all this energy erecting stones just for the view of it. Like, it obviously had SOME purpose.
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by stephbook 16d ago
It'll take them two weeks and then they'll find the systems were hacked half a year ago and they had industrial robots write messages on a literal chalkboard in order to share progress.
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by stephbook 16d ago
also you can't pin the user/pw to the machine with a note, because someone might need remote access. better stick with admin/admin
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by stephbook 18d ago
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975017/a... Some models even invented their own religion.
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by stephbook 18d ago
AI slop (like the article) makes it a worse place.
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by stephbook 19d ago
No, they are not stored permanently on disk according to 12f. They are only injected for the lifetime of the application and destroyed when stopped. It's not okay to store your secret on your own machine disk's .bashrc forever.
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by stephbook 19d ago
I think roll-out and deployment are even bigger issues. Who updates their software stack within 10 minutes? Most CI runs take longer to verify the business logic is still working. Add to that the danger of supply-chain attacks where you don
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by stephbook 19d ago
Doctors didn't wash their hands between inspecting corpses and doing surgery. Drivers protested against seat belts that would save their own lives. Times change and hindsight is 20/20. Let's just say 10 years ago I worked at
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by stephbook 19d ago
"The environment" is not "environment variables" and not ".env files" For cloud services, it would typically be called a vault. But it could also be a hardware security module (HSM) with bring-your-own-key (BYO
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by stephbook 21d ago
My cable cost $25 and offered 200mbps — 8 years ago. So it wasn't that bad of a deal. 400mbps was possible.
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by stephbook 24d ago
It's obvious that women don't betray their families when they marry and take the husband's name (as was and is custom across much of the Western world.)
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by stephbook 24d ago
> Some I’d deleted without recording. Some had been auto-deleted from spam after thirty days. Some I’d forgotten about before I started keeping systematic track. > I wasn’t being marketed to. I was being carpet-bombed. Three in a row
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by stephbook 24d ago
It's understandable though. Would you like to think of yourself as deficient, even if you really are?
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by stephbook 25d ago
> If you try and force kids to study when they don't want to "for their own good" you're not actually helping them. Everyone needs to find their own path. Let people fail. This simply does not work for most, as pupils

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