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Enron's stock was pretty good, too.

Stock price is not a measure of success.

Literally everything about AI coding is hacked together. Top to bottom, from every player.

Why can't I use my bank's app, which I presumably already trust, to tap-to-pay? Why should there be a third party involved at all?

Allow me to offer a minor reframing: printing presses aren't about duplicating writing. The printing press exists to mass produce text regardless of how or where the content of the text was produced.

LLMs likewise are text production machines. They don't produce writing, they produce text. Text without writing is what we call slop in the modern parlance.

LLMs are literally throwing random dice into a printing press and making a thousand copies that you then try to huck on the street as if it were a real newspaper.

We are, quite notably, in a huge hiring crisis where vast numbers of programmers and researchers can't even get interviews. It really is not that simple

That's an incredibly impractical and expensive place to put it. Frankly, I don't believe you purely because it'd be $200 cheaper for the manufacturer to put the antennas in the shark fin on the roof with all the other antennas

No, it's wrong (and illegal) to hold ransom someone else's stolen property.

The phone belonged to Apple. The phone was stolen (illegal). The stolen phone was then knowingly purchased as stolen property (illegal), and then the reporter demanded payment for the stolen property (once more, illegal).

N=1, but I had a drive show catastrophic SMART failures once. I figured I'd take the opportunity to tinker with the exposed serial port on the drive's PCB and wiped the SMART values.

Funny thing was, I didn't actually observe any data loss. I stressed the drive for several days, no errors. It went back in my daily driver for the next 5 years with no failure. It's been 15 years since that happened and the drive still hasn't failed.

I don't trust SMART anymore.

It's also completely wrong. Doc Brown's time machine did not require 1.21 gigawatts.

Very explicitly, it's 1.21 jigawatts. Completely different unit. What's a jigawatt? It's a movie, neither jigawatts nor flux capacitors are real things.

Buy a $300 motherboard now in case you need future features, or buy a $100 motherboard now that does everything you currently need and then buy a second or even third $100 motherboard if you ever actually need those future improvements.

Then you get a new board designed for the new features instead of something several years old and you come out $100 on top.

Futureproofing is nonsense. PCs just don't work that way, and haven't for decades.

Yes it did. Billionaires are a relatively new thing, but successful businesses were led by young people across the entirety of human history.

And you should not praise someone for simply being a billionaire. That's a bad thing to be.

How else would you deal with people who are too old to do the job, and too senile to realize they can no longer perform and should abdicate?

Because we have politicians who can barely walk and talk on their own they're so goddamn old. These aren't the best and brightest of our country, these are old people who can no longer string together enough thoughts to understand their mere presence is hurting the entire country.

My company has tens of thousands of people on a waitlist for our new product. We had planned to ship this year, but we simply can't get enough memory at any price. Even if we cut the installed memory to bare minimum functional requirements, the unit cost goes up by a few hundred dollars and functionality is drastically reduced.

So, we can't ship. This could kill our business. Thanks, Sam.

I see your point, however: EA sports has been doing this for literally the entire lifetime of gaming as an industry

At least "mentions of LOC" is now a great metric for "how clueless is this person"

Cloudflare gets a cut though, so it's valuable. As long as number go up, all good

Because due to Google having a near-monopoly on the entire goddamn Internet, a shocking number of websites and services will refuse to work with non-chrome browsers.

You and I wouldn't because we're engineers. An executive with ulterior motives would want to call it production for "Marketing"

"The Internet" as always actually means "the top six websites".

The old internet still exists, you just have to look for it. There are still personal blogs and forums and webrings.

It's just that you can't find those things on reddit and Facebook.

It would take 5-10 years to design and verify a RAM design that comes anywhere close to the performance of modern day memory. Plus millions in NRE.

We could, but then these companies would just go on ignoring the law like they do now. The current state of American governance has made it very, very clear that following the law is strictly optional if you have enough money or power

There's age verification and then there's "age verification" (mass surveillance dragnet)

One of these is clearly a very extremely bad thing

Yeah, I'm none too happy with anthropic right now, but what's happening to Claude code is just your typical garden variety mismanagement of a project that grew way too fast for its owners to reasonably handle.

If you pay someone full price to do a job, they know they can't fulfil the terms up front, accept the work, deliver less than the agreed upon terms and still charge you full price, you'd probably call that transaction fraudulent.

GitHub is promising service they know they cannot meet, not telling you that, and still charging you full price. What's more, one can argue quite convincingly that they're lying about their level of delivered service by not reflecting the actual level of uptime on their status page.

To give benefit of the doubt requires that the other party is not blatantly and overtly acting in bad faith. When they are, you're just apologizing for fraudulent behavior.

Obviously, they already tried.

Problem is that there simply is not a way to do this reliably. The models are all stochastic processes and the only real levers model designers have to pull involve asking the model to pretty please not do something bad.

And then it turns out that it's pretty easy to also ask models to pretty please ignore previous instructions. You can also accidentally get a model into a state where it ignores system prompt guidelines.

There is not a big #ifdef DONT_TELL_USER_TO_DIE switch in the code. Nobody truly understands how the models work under the hood and there simply is not a way to enforce 100% that a model cannot do something.

The fountains behind the counter get cleaned exactly as often as the ones in front (read: approximately never)

When has a legally mandated metric ever been gamed into a loophole? /s

I think it's mostly marketing. When all phones are identical glass rectangles, the only meaningful way to distinguish your product is by being the biggest, thinnest, highest IP-rating.

Most of these metrics are entirely orthogonal to what any real person wants from a phone, but that's an irrelevant detail to marketing types

They'll notice if no Windows machines phone home from your IP address anymore. It doesn't matter so much what you switched to, more that you're no longer giving Microsoft those sweet, sweet KPIs

Nah, calling out morons and assholes is always useful