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JamesStuff

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JamesStuff··on Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons
Personification of AI is what’s going to get us in the end.

I think we need to draw a hard line in the sand over this. An AI didn’t hack into a company, the engineer set an automated tool to. An AI didn’t make an egregious security mistake, the engineer did.

We can’t blame the chisel for messing up our sculptures, when where just throwing the hammer!

JamesStuff··on WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
You can always really on the MBAs
JamesStuff··on Why TUIs are back
There is only so much rounding of borders you can do in the terminal! On a 16” MacBook, you can’t have Activity Monitor take up less than about 2/5 of the width of the screen! There is so much padding around every single element.

I don’t need pretty buttons, I need usability and readability. Without having a 50” display!

JamesStuff··on For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
The banks cost of insurance goes up, cost of running an account goes up, how do we correct for this? offer worse accounts to customers...
JamesStuff··on C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
Not sure about that, seems pretty controversial to me. Are we forgetting about the UNIVACs?
JamesStuff··on JetBrains CEO Transition
I'm already not keen on the dumbing down of the new editor UI, there is a reason I use JetBrain's products and not vscode...