hughw

Joined 17 years ago

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Jan 15
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Comment · 5 hours ago
Yeah you drank it baby!
Comment · 10 hours ago
You say "degrowthers who literally want people to just live with less" like it's a bad thing
Comment · 1 day ago
Idea: why don't all the various app stores and plugin repos use LLMs to review all submissions for security? Certainly in the human powered age that was too big a task to take on, but now it seems doable.
Comment · 15 days ago

  The only plausible way of processing that amount of traffic is a massive Orwellian application of automated voice recognition technology to sift through it all, searching for interesting keywords or searching for a particular speaker's voice.
Welp.
Comment · 16 days ago
JShelter alerts me of active fingerprinting on the website. Why, Nick.
Comment · 19 days ago
In fairness, they spent 5 cents generating it with Claude.
Comment · 19 days ago
Productivity!
Comment · 19 days ago
a) USB sticks are a vector for infection too you know b) Inserting a clumsy sneakernet step into a time critical life or death decision might be a bad idea.
Comment · 19 days ago
It's beautiful
Comment · 19 days ago
I disagree with the first sentence. In 199x the first people I knew making web pages dropped perl scripts, not C programs, into cgi-bin.
Comment · 24 days ago

  The court hearing of Christa Pike is now under way.
  Pike’s lawyers are addressing the court at the moment.
  The hearing had originally been billed as a press conference.
A press conference turned into a court hearing?
Comment · 25 days ago
came here to say this!
Comment · 25 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Not saying you're wrong. But right now I'm trying to craft some skill prose to instruct an agent how to optimize a certain process based on my own heuristics, and it's failing. Maybe I can let a super agent divine the right skill prose, iterating to see what works. It's worth a try.
Comment · 1 month ago
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