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Comment · 5 months ago
Stop the Boomerification of Gen X's voting record and the comparison will go away.
Comment · 5 months ago
> The current wave of AI companies did this to themselves. Had things moved more slowly and actively worked with all the affected industries, I suspect people would be far less interested in seeing the technology fail.

The goal was to raise as much money as possible as fast as possible before the curtain is pulled back to reveal the Wizard's empire of lies.

Comment · 5 months ago
No one wants to be the one to ring the "we're in a recession" bell first
Comment · 5 months ago
The astroturfing successfully broke a lot of people's brains
Comment · 5 months ago
Agreed. KDE apps are slowly getting feature parity between crossplatform builds, Kate's nearly there but Dolphin is still missing some features on macOS.

Hope there's a day I can just use Dolphin on any system

Comment · 5 months ago
Finder is one of the worst pieces of software I've used and I have no confidence in Apple ever fixing it, or even being able to in theory.
Comment · 5 months ago
Why would they believe that when AI is smarter than any human and is going to replace doctors and themselves?

If it isn't going to replace doctors, why is ChatGPT giving medical advice at all, especially deadly medical advice?

Comment · 5 months ago
If a real person gave them this advice, like a doctor or pharmacist, there would be standing for a lawsuit, might even be criminal.

Looking past "drugs bad mkay", the same ChatGPT that gave this advice is just as capable of giving the same, or worse, advice to someone wondering if they can take an allergy medication like Benedryl with their MAOI antidepressant.

Comment · 5 months ago
I am personally everyone
Comment · 5 months ago
If I had a hammer robot that I told to go hammer some nails in a birdhouse and it goes "Sure, I'm on it!" then it nails a cat to the wall and says "Here's you new complete birdhouse, it's perfect in everyway and will make everyone jealous", then yes, that is a tooling issue.
Comment · 5 months ago
No, it is a tooling problem.

The tooling is telling laymen that they built wonderful things that definitely work and perfectly fix and add features.

The tooling gasses them up and is simply wrong in these cases.

If your tool regularly lies, gaslights and produces wrong results, that's a tooling issue.

Comment · 5 months ago
It's much worse than just TPM now: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-...

All modern PCs ship with Pluton coprocessors. The end-to-end remote attestation hardware infrastructure is all already there, waiting for someone to flip a switch and turn it on.

Comment · 5 months ago
When it first shipped out, Secure Boot was used to lock other OSes out on early devices, it was after pushback that it was implemented such that it allowed you to enroll your own keys.

That said, there are countless mobile devices with locked bootloaders and and boot integrity attestation that will never run anything other than OEM OSes. That's equivalent to a locked Secure Boot + UKI-like system on PCs and it's already here.

Comment · 5 months ago
All of the "solo green field projects" I let LLMs mostly write, despite supplying the scaffolding, structure and specific implementation details as code, prompts or context, I can't tell you much about 6+ months later, except for the parts I did write.

It's like I never wrote them, because I didn't. I've got the gist of them, but it's the same way I get the gist of something like Numpy: I know how it works theoretically, but certainly not specifically enough to jump in and write some working Fortran that fixes bugs or adds features.

I now have a bunch of stalled projects I'm not very familiar with. I no longer do solo green field projects that way.

Comment · 5 months ago
It was the case in the recent past, see how many artists came out of Laurel Canyon and whose families happened to own properties nearby.

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