thatoneengineer

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by thatoneengineer 1mo ago
Looks legit and serious. Needing a meeting invite is a barrier to exploiting but not a huge one-- this is right to treat zero click RCE over Zoom as a big deal. Kudos to the write-up for being an effective explanation that's not obviou
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A New Type of Levee Is Taking Root in Northern California(grist.org)
1 points by thatoneengineer 1mo ago|0 comments
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by thatoneengineer 1mo ago
Never use AI to write something primarily intended for other humans to read.
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by thatoneengineer 1mo ago
Good to know this is "discover" in the sense of "confirm, understand better" rather than "suddenly find out about". Otherwise this would be quite the background-tv-in-a-disaater-movie headline!
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by thatoneengineer 2mo ago
Same. Gutsy bet to make in the face of Fable / Mythos, but the multimodal quality is at least a promising technical/ product story to tell. Everyone knows throwing Opus at everything is wasteful and domain expertise should live i
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by thatoneengineer 3mo ago
Space is big and still very hard to get to. A kilogram of payload in orbit costs several times as much as a kilogram of silver on earth, even after SpaceX's aggressive scaling of capacity. No one's going to be spending that kind o
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by thatoneengineer 3mo ago
You could have said that about any successful technology ever! But for some reason everyone is anxious to say it about AI while being extremely vague about the benefits. (This is especially funny in the mouth of VPs and the like: "we&#
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by thatoneengineer 3mo ago
I'm an early adopter of AI products myself, but I'm always disgusted when I hear this kind of case being made for them. It's fear-mongering, plain and simple. The cloud, mobile, even crypto sounded like "join us in this
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by thatoneengineer 3mo ago
Imagine a worst case scenario: the Herculaneum scrolls turn out to be just the works of this one mediocre pet philosopher. What would we still expect to learn from them, and what would the next step be?
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by thatoneengineer 3mo ago
Why do people get into birdwatching? It's a hobby, there doesn't need to be much in the way of novel "data" for it to be rewarding. Though considering this guy found a nebula I wouldn't be surprised if there was som
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by thatoneengineer 3mo ago
I'm sure it's a lot of work for him, mostly maintenance and cleaning. Also it sounds like the remote operation hardware and software are provided by him-- that can't be trivial and probably means he doesn't break even on
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by thatoneengineer 3mo ago
Don't forget screwworms! https://cr.usembassy.gov/sections-offices/aphis/screwworm-pr...
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by thatoneengineer 3mo ago
I stopped reading after the first sentence. Calling something "inherently political" is a self-fulfilling prophecy and intentionally so. It consistently turns out to be an attempt to lay the groundwork for expropriation. No one ca
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Jenny Haniver(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by thatoneengineer 3mo ago|1 comments
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Don't Conflate Intelligence with Value(christianitytoday.com)
2 points by thatoneengineer 3mo ago|0 comments
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Likely AI-generated short story won a major prize(twitter.com)
9 points by thatoneengineer 4mo ago|2 comments
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by thatoneengineer 4mo ago
Shout out to the apparently large class of programmers who think LLMs make it okay not to understand their own code, yet react with horror when someone suggests porting it to Go or Rust.
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by thatoneengineer 5mo ago
I see we've finally progressed beyond https://xkcd.com/768/ , in specs if not in functionality or price point.
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by thatoneengineer 5mo ago
If you like this kind of thing, try reading Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon. Similar themes, full novel, even older. It makes for interesting reading in that it more obviously represents a "path not taken" by science fiction (and by
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by thatoneengineer 5mo ago
What article is he referencing in the fourth paragraph? The New Yorker one? I got the impression that it was careful in its reporting and by no means one-sided. Seems pretty sleazy for him to associate that (based on no evidence!) with the
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by thatoneengineer 5mo ago
Same!
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by thatoneengineer 6mo ago
First impressions: LOL, the blunt commentary in the HN thread title compared to the PR-speak of the fb.com post. Second thoughts: Actually the fb.com post is more transparent than I'd have predicted. Not bad at all. Of course it helps
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by thatoneengineer 8mo ago
This very closely resembles my own experience, right down to the timeline. I don't have an answer, but just seeing this thread has been cathartic for me. Some of the options I'm considering (all speculative): - It's okay to b
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by thatoneengineer 8mo ago
...in testing. Clickbait title IMO.
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by thatoneengineer 9mo ago
TI-83, a few afterthought programs in my precalc textbook, and a bunch of bored afternoons in class. This would be back in '06 or so.
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by thatoneengineer 9mo ago
Ideally, if you can convince yourself something cannot happen, you can also convince the compiler, and get rid of the branch entirely by expressing the predicate as part of the type (or a function on the type, etc.) Language support for tha
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by thatoneengineer 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites has more context. Tree sized and shaped living thing that wasn't a plant, which probably fed and reproduced like a fungus but per this latest research wasn't a fungu
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by thatoneengineer 9mo ago
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/2128/ Or for the more cynical, replace "search and rescue" with "military covert ops".
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by thatoneengineer 9mo ago
One does not simply "get Rust performance". Rust can go that fast because of guarantees its compiler enforces about what the code is doing, that JS emphatically doesn't. By all means build your tooling and runtime in Rust if
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by thatoneengineer 9mo ago
I disagree. Right now, feedback on correctness is a major practical limitation on the usefulness of AI coding agents. They can fix compile errors on their own, they can _sometimes_ fix test errors on their own, but fixing functionality &#x2

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