unreal37

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http://getcloudskills.com is my focus these days. Teaching software architecture and cloud computing to 1,000,000 students in 200 countries.
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Comment · 12 days ago
This was supposed to be embargoed.

So your reliable source can't keep a secret.

Comment · 12 days ago
School is half about babysitting while the parents work. So... yes. Kids will still have to go somewhere during the day. Might as well be a school.
Comment · 1 month ago
Also the letters of the word were rearranged to alphabetical order. And duplicate letters were removed.

So it's not just a dictionary attack. It's that plus modifying the word before using it.

Comment · 1 month ago
This is brilliant. Future enhancements can match the inner design of the plane to the actual plane used for that route by that airline, and the ability to choose economy, premium plus, busines class, etc...
Comment · 1 month ago
The 486 chip came out in 1989. The 586 came out in 1993.

The pace of change ("practically obsolete") is different then and now.

Comment · 2 months ago
If you ever listen to more than a couple of Zitron interviews, it's clear that he's not the "reasonable centrist" viewpoint on AI. He's the doom-and-gloom guy.

Maybe there is someone out there positive on AI itself and calling out reasonable objections to some of the extreme things. But that's not Zitron.

Comment · 2 months ago
I think cable news channels like CNN and CNBC like to have a "counterpoint" on to make their coverage seem balanced. There's always a guy saying the stock market is about to crash. There's always a guy saying oil will hit $200 per barrel. There's always a guy saying AI is a bubble.

Zitron is never right but he exists so that media can claim to be balanced.

Comment · 2 months ago
Or smarter yet, not bare. Looks like a normal phone - innocent-looking vacation photos, innocent-looking social media accounts, innocent-looking email....
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
The worst case of refusing to unlock your phone is that they keep your phone for some days/weeks/months while they investigate.
Comment · 2 months ago
One is destroying evidence and the other is not.
Comment · 3 months ago
I will say, moderation is a valuable thing on websites that intend to be useful for people. Wikipedia being another example. Ynews also has moderation.

Sites like Quora don't have good moderation (nor social media sites) and they become less useful for "how do I do X" questions.

LLMs do the moderation of the underlying source and just give you the answer.

Comment · 3 months ago
I just went to the Stack Overflow homepage, showing newest questions first, and the latest question just asked 13 minutes ago is already closed.

And the majority of the questions on page 1 have negative votes.

Comment · 3 months ago
How eager people are to find something better IS a factor in the decline of websites/businesses. Not just that there is something better that exists.
Comment · 4 months ago
I believe OpenAI actually wanted their next model to be seen as a potential cybersecurity threat because they were jealous that Mythos got that label

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