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3 days agoThey typically condemn the land before using eminent domain.
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The adult entertainers are the VC investors. They’re pretty world-wise, but can’t be well versed on everything. So when someone sells them on something that sounds pretty good, they bite. The CEOs are the bros laughing about how great everything is, except in real life they don’t have consequences. All the CEOs get paid like it might be their last job so if they never work again they’re still fine.
It’s still impressive to see what the LLMs cook up when asked about programming problems. I’m coming back to programming from some time away from it, and it’ll give you the answer to the question you asked. If you ask it for an old way of doing something, it’ll tell you that. Then it slips and shows you a new way of doing something (I’m specifically talking about std::cout versus std::format and std::print), and the doors are wide open all of a sudden.
Then it gives you a technique for something and you spend hours debugging code only for the LLM to say that the solution it provided won’t work.
Prompt engineering is going to be a real thing whether we like it or not.
I know :-)
Here’s hoping for more red today.
4·4 days agoThe market is full of things like raspberry PIs (too expensive to start up right now), arduinos, ESP32, and so on. Python only gets easier to learn. Are these things truly not in use anywhere, or are the successes not being reported on?
I guess I read here about a case where a company was blowing through LLM tokens because people were using them to convert PDFs, so maybe it’s just not sticking.
Replying to myself to put up a link to the jenga tower scene of The Big Short in case nobody has seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbiDrzTd8fE
It’s there in the S&P 500 between MSFT and PLTR on the left kind of in the middle (size of the box is the market cap of the company). It’s in practically every 401(k) in the US. BBB is somewhere in the middle of the jenga tower.
2·6 days agoAh, sorry.
D-Bus has a similar mechanism to the one that got this hacker arrested. I guess I was expanding upon the previous conversation about how much stuff is considered inside the inner security circle for d-bus.
You shouldn’t forget about selective enforcement.
Long story short: Microsoft just helped pop an alleged hacker using some windows device ID. I linked to a post in the hackernews thread about d-bus:
Ft. Knox
Did anyone ever go in there and show the gold? I thought someone campaigned with that as a promise.
it would be able to detect
“It” doesn’t have to be any good at it:
https://blog.princelaw.com/2009/07/08/nfa-and-constructive-possession-myth-or-reality/
15·13 days agohttps://johncderrick.com/dinosaur-timeline
The timeline stuff always gets me.
Pretty good resource for that kind of thing if you have another interested kid and access to the internet. There’s also this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_law_of_universal_gravitation
Most still will. Like I’m sure a lot of people are doing, I was trying to reuse old hardware for a new purpose. Perfectly good computer with 16GB of RAM with an AMD A8-3850. I’m not complaining about progress’s march towards the future, but I missed the warning signs about the changes. I’m sure some other folks probably did as well.
I’m going to drag out my same soapbox: a lot of systems old enough to use DDR3 RAM will have x86_64 v1 or v2 processors. Some projects have already removed support for those, the big one being the RHEL kernel as of RHEL9.
Replying to myself here and including a link that just dropped:
- https://lemmy.world/post/48881740
- https://nsa.2026.action.cr.yp.to/
- https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260405-votes.html
Apparently the debate was more spirited than I thought. The argument appears to revolve around whether it’s OK to jump to the new stuff directly, or use a combination of the old and new.
I think this is how I can message people…
reddit cant afford [the V3 captcha system] but google lets them use it in exchange for AI/datamining
Had no idea they used that. I edited all my comments to crap then deleted them around the time the admin monkied with the backend database, and stopped using old.reddit to browse once I found lemmy. I once went through the effort of making a temp account to comment on someone else’s comment there because they had suggested trying something specifically dangerous and didn’t seem to know about it. I doublechecked later and the comment I wrote was caught in some filter, likely the result of the account being too new. I can’t imagine what garbage that site will be in the years to come.
abusive scraping
As opposed to the plain old scraping they do to train AI, and generate revenue by selling user comments for others to train AI.
I read a half-cocked internet theory that a certain someone might’ve purchased twitter just to gain access to an ex-gf’s personal tweets. I judged it as possible but unlikely, as that’s a lot of money to spend on such a thing.
Now, we’ve all heard stories about reddit blocking accounts for no published reason, and tracking folks down across accounts/IP addresses/etc. That code must be pretty expansive to do the things they’ve done. So one has the thought: if you’ve ever reached out to the reddit hive mind for some kind of support with a personal issue of any kind then that data about you is still floating around in their database and tied to whatever alternate accounts you have, even if it was the “good old days” when you did it.
Abusive scraping, my ass.
34·18 days agoMake a bingo card out of the phrases:
- “We didn’t do anything wrong.”
- “We paid Company X to do that.”
- “What’s a computer license?”
- “How much do they want?”
- “If it’s free then why are we talking?”
- “If it’s free then what did we pay Company X for?”
- “What does GNU mean?”
- [… some time later …]
- “Can’t we just pay them?”
- “Don’t pay Company X because they fucked this up.”
- “Why do we have to give everyone the changes we paid for?”
- “Whatever. I don’t want to hear about this again.”
Add your own phrases. It’s a fun game for all ages.
When reached for comment the family said, “how could this happen to us? We’re not even trans?”
Have the day you voted for, know that you won’t be the last people in rural areas that this happens to, and that when the AI bubble pops you still won’t get the land back. It’s gone forever.