NietTim

Thanks for the extremely weird rabbit hole to go down during lunch. Lot's of weird stuff going on in that twitter thread, I chose to believe most of those replies are not from humans.

It is :) Mostly because it's easy to interface with!

Neat! I've been slopping together various games to have AI play them, balatro, poker, blackjack, it's just so fun. Was just thinking about chess, wondering if, if I gave them an unrestricted sandbox, they'd start using existing solvers or not. They're surprisingly good at doing cardcounting, by the way.

It's so sad that Meta of all companies is leading this space.

Is your llm force pushing to main? If so, why are you allowing that?

No LLM will destroy any code base in any time frame without permission from an human operator. That person is responsible for allowing the code base being destroyed.

Wow what an opener comment thread. One thing is for sure, this is a very contentious topic lol. I have had this opinion since way before this ai boom; someone who pushes code to prod is responsible for what happens in prod with that code. This blogpost is very relatable

If you only have ios and mac clients why not icloud?

Makes you wonder if it really was "noobs" and "slop kiddies" that found it.

> Mixed - 67% of the 355 user reviews for this game are positive.

And 10 euro, lol. I'll just go with the free one, thank you.

Out of all the ignorant comments in this thread that clearly do not know what is happening in the netherlands and are just assuming wild stuff, you made the most insane one. Congratulations.

Prinsjesdag is held on the third tuesday of september. You are trying to insinuate some weird stuff.

It should be noted that today is Prinsjesdag and the new yearly budget is being presented, or however that is properly translated in english. Especially now that farmers are also lighting hay bales on fire next to highways the most likely explanation is nationals doing this

Sounds like the same issue as with Mastodon. The vast majority of people are not interested in a 'protocol' (or even know what that is), they do not care what protocol powers their _app_, they just care about their app

Because it makes them money and for some reason people (and governments) have accepted their lie that they can't police this. Comparison to the olden days; if a paper magazine knowingly allowed scammers to advertise they 110% would've been prosecuted. It is really weird that we let google (and others suchs as meta!) get away with this.

Some comments make it seem like this is a new thing, it's not, this has been going on for at least 10 years now.

Over the past 3 months we've been using it a LOT. I made one for our admins so they can work with the CMS and get statistics in their client, the statistics part has been a huge unlock. The big advantage here is that a normal API, direct tool integration or CLI are unpractical to set up for my less technical coworkers.

Other then that I've been building MCP's in pretty much all (personal) tools I'm making now, it's very useful to have a central way for an agent to look at production data without having to ssh into a server.

Ah yes, 33 feet, the suspiciously not round number which suspiciously translates to almost exactly 10 meters. Just use meters, lol.

This seems like a very sane take. At no point during my career up until now would submitting code to production that you didn't understand be acceptable. Over the past months/year, a lot of the discourse around AI-written code I've read comes down to responsibility, and IMO for that we've had a solution since way before this AI boom: as a developer, you are responsible for the code you put into production. This really isn't/shouldn't a wild concept.

Pro tip: you can ask claude this

These price drops are absolutely bonkers. Gotta love competition! Glad we didn't end up with a duopoly of openai and anthropic, we got a glimpse of what nightmare that would've been and it wasn't pretty

Thanks, didn't notice it before you pointed it out (and I already made my comment), actually turned into quite an interesting retrospective for me

Governments don't need flock or AMG, that's where the flaw in your argument begins.

Very flawed argument, anyone can go for a walk without their phone on them and have a conversation, nobody would ask them why they don't have their phone on them.

Edit; wrote this comment before I realised this is a blog post from 2013. In 2013 I would've agreed 110% with this.

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This is one of those things that make for great post title and gets you all riled up at first but when you think about it, it's really shallow.

Most civic databases can be abused by any sufficiently authoritarian government. A homeless shelter's records may contain exactly the sort of information that could be used to get "undesirables" off the street. But those same records are useful for coordinating beds, outreach, medical care, etc. Surely the conclusion isn't that the shelter shouldn't keep records.

It seems much more useful to focus on limiting what gets collected, who gets access to it, and how long it can be retained. In other words, boring things like data-minimisation and retention laws. Somewhat amusingly, that gets you pretty close to the sort of principles behind GDPR, which isn't exactly universally loved around here.

I don't really disagree with the blog post's moral intuition. What bothers me is the emphasis on individual moral choices by the people building these systems. I've seen plenty of my peers happily work for companies that have spent the last twenty years building exactly this kind of technology, there will always be someone willing to build it. That's not an argument for abandoning personal ethics, but it is an argument against treating personal ethics as any form of serious societal safeguard. "good engineers should refuse to build them" means nothing.

We have that in the EU, they mandated it. It finally made instagram use-able for me again. Did instagram geo-gate that feature? Wouldn't surprise me, but still.

The same way we already distinguish between card games and gambling. I can think of quite a few to distinguish normal platforms from addictive ones;

  - non-chronological timeline  
  - promoted content from people you don't follow   
  - Rewards for using the app (reddit is a great example of this) 
  - Dark patterns to take control away from the user about what they see

And I'm sure I can think of a bunch more if I spent time on it.

In classic reddit fashion the post you linked to is now deleted

Very cool! A twist on the "generic" live map we've seen many times

You just repeated an outdated meme. Go compare our punctuality statistics with our southern and eastern neighbours. Then do the rest of the world. Make sure to account for differences in definition of punctuality between providers.

Yes, delays are annoying and there are things the train companies can do better, but our system is most of all reliable enough and we are doing just fine.

Yea was scratching my head why this is news, 90% of dutch webshop for the past 15 years have had ideal (precursor to wero) lol

Seems to be a weird marketing article

So let me get this straight:

- Currently travelers to the US need to give biometric data each time they enter

- New DB connection between EU and US for this purpose

- People will _still_ need to give biometric data each time they enter in order to validate that they carry valid information

Further more, they claim that _the US_ will only request data from travelers. But, my country doesn't know if I travel and where. So the supposed privacy guarantees are empty claims. It's not 2012 anymore. Everyone knows better, as soon as they get access to that DB, they will start working on scraping all data from it.

There is 0 upsides to this.