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Sharing ideas involves communication which happens between two or more brains.

Prompted LLLM output only involves brains on the input side, the source training data. Nothing is communicated to the end user brain because they don’t try to understand the output and never had the knowledge or experience necessary to do so if they wanted to.

National cinema chain has a banner on their web site that says something like “film lovers prefer our app” so they manage to employ a little guilt / social proof as well.

It’s such a small thing in the grand scheme of things but it’s just that final straw for me, someone made the decision to be this shitty to their users because they want to employ extra tracking/data collection / advertising in their app.

Yeah they could have just not tracked by default. They could have just respected DNT. I mean it’s right there already built into the browser.

(And browsers could have set DNT by default).

But of course no website is going to do that.

I actually like the pop ups because they often show all the trackers used in a list of “our partners”. Many big websites have hundreds of these tracking companies listed as partners. It’s shocking. And a useful reminder of why web privacy matters and that if you don’t fight for it they will take everything they can just to squeeze out every last fraction of a penny from you and your data/privacy.

Making things better is Progressive, and Progressive is woke, and woke is DEI. So to fight back against DEI find the things that make peoples’ lives better (like bike lanes) and destroy them. Just tear them up, and you’ve won the culture war and saved America.

This is the official GOP policy, the best of what the GOP has to offer. Fight friends, betray allies, threaten your neighbors, drop bombs, smash bike lanes.

"This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda."

The government we deserve.

Nobody bother thinking coherent thoughts, insults and spurious non sequiturs are policy now.

This was always the plan. Code is no longer written by humans, code is LLLM output of broken slop that is mostly software-shaped, impossible for humans to read and make sense of it (because it makes no sense). So the only solution is that all code is intended to be read and written by machines. The human-in-the-loop era was always a stopgap.

Kinda. But the breakdowns about the visual language, balance, etc. were interesting to me (I have zero GD experience/education).

They are not a game, they are not playing cards. They’re more like flash cards although not intended to exclusively be used as such.

It appears the exercise is more one of representing the concepts as an info graphic.

The other sides of the cards are text explanation.

“But first, we need to understand how we got here.”

Enumeration vulns are very serious, it’s just luck that this one appeared to be low risk.

I was excited when it seemed like an art project / personal essay.

As a format for a data presentation it is not successful.

Right, but the analogy is very clearly about someone trying to hide / protect their identity, which doesn’t apply in this case.

Perhaps it was trying to stretch it to “unknown figure”, saying this programmer is mysterious, even though it was not by choice but circumstance: fame has eluded him. (Not implying it’s desired).

But on that reading, I would still say the metaphor fails: it’s not effective at conveying this meaning and reads more like an unnecessary Satoshi name drop.

1) renting is not the only way for a society to create affordable housing

2) rent being the only way to afford shelter has zero relation to whether it is a net loss or not

AI is turning 1x engineers into 0.3x engineers claiming to be 100x engineers.

Most have a cf slot to store the sleep data, it’s how the doctor / clinician can see if it’s working, make adjustments to pressure etc. but for convenience they can just upload the data directly.

They also do OTA updates.

However they also can perform an enforcement function: compliance. Insurers will penalize users of the device for not using it enough.

This isn’t something I know much about just have seen it discussed, I don’t think all jurisdictions allow insurers to access this data for enforcement but it does seem to happen in USA.

I think what happens is the insurers agree to pay for the device in installments. But they will cancel those payments if the person isn’t using it.

But disabling the modem won’t fix that problem, you’d still get caught by the cf recorded data, or failing to provide it.

This article is just an introduction to the math behind 12-TET, why it exists, the tradeoffs, etc.

The only thing that is absurd here is your bizarre strawman that discussing equal temperament is somehow non-musical and that engineers can’t understand what music is because they want to measure things.

People are interested in it as a form of trivia. It is extremely uninteresting from the perspective of the player and more importantly how the word was actually used, which was in reference to the quality of world generation.

Redefining “interesting” just so you can provide a completely irrelevant “correction” is bad faith trolling.

Do not use the Mercator for area comparison. You are off by 15 million square kilometers.

Asia is only ~50% larger than Africa.

Posting videos on YouTube is commercial use. Even if you earn no money, the intent is almost always to “grow the channel” to the point where you can monetize it, sponsorships, brand deals, etc.

Commercial use in most jurisdictions is handled differently from the “free speech” exception. There are generous carve outs for art though. Which is interesting. If I sell a photograph it’s art but if I sell it to an ad agency for use on a billboard it’s commerce?

But the world we live in is so changed, it is a very recent change where taking a photograph was almost always a 1:1 photo to print ratio. It’s very new the idea that everyone is carrying around an internet connected video camera that can publish live to billions of people. This absolutely changes the calculus and laws should be updated accordingly.

I don’t know what that should look like but it seems we should acknowledge that this activity is primarily commercial (clout is marketing and/or brand value a/k/a goodwill in accounting parlance) and that laws intended to protect art making maybe don’t / shouldn’t protect this form of commerce as much as they seem to presently.

To be clear: if you are in public and someone takes a recognizable photo of you eg your face and uses it to sell perfume congratulations on being beautiful and also call a lawyer because that use is not protected just because you were in a public space.

But you can make a print hang it in a gallery and sell it for whatever price you want. (AFAIK). Maybe there’s more nuance— could you put it in a book of your work and sell it? On the cover? Make postcards? NFT’s (remember those?) etc.

Anyway there are already limits and we should maybe enforce the ones that we have in some of these circumstances. I wonder if it’s already happening- I can’t be the first person to view this activity as commercial right? There must already be precedent somewhere.

Just like how every YouTube gear review says “company X sent me this but they have no say and no money changed hands” is pretending it’s not a sponsored video. It’s absolutely a sponsored video. 1. You are paid for views 2. People watch reviews on “release day” aka embargo day 3. If you get the product later you will have less views and less money, and you will miss the window of product hype cycle.

So just like every not sponsored review video is absolutely sponsored live-streaming a kids birthday or whatever is commercial and you need model releases. I guess these people will have to post notice of filming warnings at the door along with the balloons.

“[T]he privacy implications of using software built by someone whose productive output is directly tied to the uptime of Cursor is absolutely horrendous.”

The most perfect description of the world we live in right now.

The only thing AI is accelerating is our slide into idiocracy as we choose to hand over responsibility for the design and control of our world to slop.

When the AI killbots murder us all, it won’t be because they are taken over by an AGI that made the decision to exterminate us.. but simply because their control software will be vibe coded trash.

I recently ran into an issue where Toyota’s app/site was detecting and refusing Apple iCloud hide-my-email addresses when trying to sign up.

The error message was very clear: hide-my-email was not permitted.

I was just trying to check for available service appointments near me and didn’t want the spam. But I guess sending spam is very very important to Toyota.