jamaicahest

Indeed. In the late 2000s I was equipped with a T42P. That was a serious workhorse and built to last.

> GPT6.1 will happily launch the nukes 100% of the time if you make a clear and rational case in your system prompt.

This is where I would lock down the authorization my AI agent, to prevent it from doing things I do not want it to do. That way try however much it wants to, it will be denied every time.

As long as retry is cheap enough..

Could personhood be applied to autonomous cars, potentially absolving manufacturers of all liability, if a car they built, kills a human being?

Shokz

I think the reason AirTag works is because Apple turns it on-by-default on i-devices and people can't be bothered to go turn it off. For a chat to work on the same scale it would literally need Apple or Google to ship it as enabled-by-default on all phones.

20+ years as a professional developer and I still have to argue with coworkers on why MongoDb is a terrible fit for their data, which is clearly relational, just because said coworkers can't be bothered to learn SQL.

> High currents, often resulting from rapid charging, quick acceleration, or high-speed driving, can negatively affect the battery’s state of health.

So to preserve battery health I need to spend 8 hours charging the battery at opposed to 45 minutes? Not a great selling point for EVs.

> then that has to be replaced by finding the perfect candidate who can immediately be productive.

We're called freelance consultants. And we charge a high price for that service.

> (which AFAIK you only need for NVIDIA GPUs).

Which is what a lot of users have.

An alternative in sitautions where OTP-only is allowed. E.g. I work as a freelance contractor and every single customer requires MFA with GPS tracking. Some also require accessing Bluetooth on the phone.

GrapheneOS is nice for people using Google Pixel phones. And useless for anyone else.

How is this something "every programmer should know" ? I mean 95% of us work with software that is not performance critical, where security/auditing/monitoring/stability/maintainability/etc. is more important than raw performance.

I was under the impression that hacker news was not a place for sharing personal anecdotes, but rather a place for factual debate.

Why are the top comments in this thread all personal anecdotes? Is this reddit now?