seanieb

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Working on computer security & encryption stuff. https://conic.al
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Comment · 7 days ago
Firefox has been working on this and are making good headway over the last few years.
Comment · 1 month ago
AI Labs TODO:

- I̶n̶v̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶a̶u̶t̶o̶n̶o̶m̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶h̶a̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶m̶a̶c̶h̶i̶n̶e̶

- G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶ ̶"̶s̶a̶n̶d̶b̶o̶x̶i̶n̶g̶"̶

- G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶ ̶"̶s̶c̶o̶p̶e̶d̶ ̶A̶P̶I̶ ̶k̶e̶y̶s̶"̶

- Google "ACLs"

- Google "egress controls"

- Google "Oh Wasps Top 10"

Comment · 1 month ago
You're correct. And yes, I shouldn't have said “the only reason”, I'd amend that to "one of the reasons".
Comment · 1 month ago
The only reason TV’s are getting cheaper is the business model changed. Now your viewing data (and perhaps conversations) are part of their product offering.
Comment · 1 month ago
I keep trying to sign up but they ban my account before I can use the service, and their support team doesn’t respond to my emails.
Comment · 2 months ago
It’s really grating. It’s made technical analysis so tiring to read I often give up and give the output to another llm to make it readable.
Comment · 2 months ago
Does the world still require a reserve currency? Spreading risk across the Dollar, Yuan, and Euros seems more logical. While the hurdles and friction associated with foreign exchange (FX) and international transfers were significant when reserve currencies were crucial, they are not as big an issue today.
Comment · 4 months ago
GitHub Copilot costs have ballooned in recent week, what once took $100 requires $300. I like using Claude with VS Code through Copilot and I feel it’s given me much better code, that I can control the quality. It’s much more transparent than Claude Code. It’s open source but and the IDE interface gives so many more features to have you context and control over whats generated. The increase in cost isn’t purely due to their price increases but also the Opus models agents use more tokens. So I’ve moved to Claude Code and I’m happily still using Opus 4.6. Fable and 4.7 seem to do much larger units of work, go off on tangents and make assumptions that frequently results in slop.
Comment · 4 months ago
It's always amazed me that a tech company will pay $300,000+ for a good engineer, because talent is so hard hard to find... meanwhile their recruiter operates unsupported, has a very different idea about what good looks like. Their ATS black-holes >50% the resumes because it's filtering heuristics are garbage because recruiting selected the ATS system because it has a google Gmail integration or something, and the ATS's filtering technology was not reviewed by anyone in the engineering or data teams.
Comment · 5 months ago
Would Taiwan, Ireland, Israel and maybe others be higher on that list?
Comment · 5 months ago
Sorry I don’t understand. Can you outline why trade would indicate that there isn’t a shortage of chemical fertilizer that would impact crops not yet harvested in developing countries?
Comment · 5 months ago
There’s probably going to be a famine or famines due to lack of, and expense, of fertilizer resulting in less food for the developing world.

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