lazystar

An AI-assisted invention that solves climate change would pay some pretty good dividends, i think.

> LLMs do not desire

Isn't that what the goal is, though? we're coding them to close the delta between what currently exists and some nebulous end-state - to me, that sounds like a formal definition of 'desire'.

> The users are, presumably, both sober

heh... the Ballmer Peak is still going strong, even with AI.

> but the safety of driving cars is far worse than that and most of us do that daily.

this "whattabout"ism is brought up during every safety discussion. can we please accept that 1/ everyone knows about the car issue, and 2/ the car issue being a problem does not mean we should stop talking about other issues that exist.

on a similar note... what statistics show the accident rate of each model of car? or rather, a single driver's accident rate in various types of cars?

a high rate of mutations would be an advantage in a new environment, though.

in the 1800's, were the vast majority of horses produced through state owned companies? that process was upended by human ingenuity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benz

begging governments to solve the problem has obviously failed; focusing our efforts on fostering ideas and inventions is our best hope at getting our of this mess.

acceptance; the problems identified. efforts now should focus on innovative solutions that dont rely on nation state investment.

from OP:

>setting off commercial grade fireworks bursting hundreds of feet in the air. The house was shaking,

I'm in Bellevue, WA, and experienced house-shaking fireworks for the first time this year. I was inside with my cats - theyve always been more or less fine with fireworks, just hiding under the bed - but this year's house shakers were on another level. When the first one went off, I thought an accident had happened and a cache of fireworks had exploded. Scared the hell outta me. Then there were about 5 more like that spread across the next 5 hours. 0% of pets would be ok with these ones, I guarantee it. Idk if theyre new this year or what but Ill be doing the same as OP next year.

you pay for upvotes from a third party upvote service.

the biggest issue with reddit/digg/hackernews style comments is how top comments can be gamed for profit. old forums had the problem of "first" and "bump" comments, but steering the conversation was harder.

ironically, you wont get a reply from the author...

nice. i guess AWS still had nothing to fear from GCP/Azure. ty for this

> ELIF: You trick the CPU to display screen data at a different starting point than as designed by the hardware. This is tricky and need to be executed cycle exact.

heh, is there a new meaning for ELIF? im not sure that there are many 5 year olds who would understand that ;-)

> I mean it's possible that I just haven't found the secret sauce

its possible that no one cracks it during the window of time where the product is useful and would pose a risk if cracked, but never forget that the first rule of security is nothing is ever 100% secure.

well... just because you know how to ssh into the prod DNS host and manually update the prod zone files in vim to remove orphan A records + duplicate CNAME records, in order to fix an ip address exhaustion issue that is blocking new VM's from spinning up for your customers... it doesnt mean that you should, lol.

that was 8 years ago in my first gig. now i kinda wonder... having those skills made it easier to put off implementing a robust long term solution. it was playing with fire, sure, but i was a rookie

or more likely, like we the public do not have the full context of whats going on behind the scenes.

every time this comes up I feel it's worth reminding people that this already happened before in American history - 1890's and the robber baron industrialists that monopolized everything.

tc less than 190k. in this year's salary meeting thing in april, i asked my manager if they were trying to get rid of me lol.

been here 6 years, making less than that first top left number, 190k.

idk what to do about it. every manager just gets a cheshire cat grin whenever i complain about it. i know i should boomerang but ugh.

same here. gas is $6 in seattle; every business uses gas, explains the extreme cost of living. i'm going broke working for AWS.

> Because if you tell me directly that you have asked Claude, next time I will probably ask Claude directly as I don’t need you.

and what if i tell you i asked stack overflow?

well, once they do, kohberger and who knows how many others will be let loose on the public. sets up a hell of a bargaining chip for the feds to prevent it going to the supreme court.

also makes you wonder if any of this would happen if the usage and post trial application of the death penalty were higher. less of a bargaining chip.

the counterpoint is that allowing unlimited discourse places an enourmous amount pf power in the hands of the chatbot owner, who has access to all logs and input from each user. this prevents one chatbot owner from advertising "you can say anything here!!" then using the logs as blackmail down the road.

> Earlier in October, an Amazon Web Services incident resulted in Canvas and Piazza outages that lasted around 12 hours.

...what does that DDB DNS issue have to do with anything?

> doesn't generate any for later.

"any" is quite an assumption.

I don't see the point in comparing photos of snow coverage in feb 2026 to the same area in march 2026. March is a spring month, of course snow coverage will be worse. Itd be more shocking if the snow coverage increased. they should show march 2026 vs. march 2025/2024/2023 etc.

aye, fair assessment.

funny story, figured out the root cause behind 3 years of brain fog just a few hours after i left this comment. it wasnt long covid; turns out my eyes were so swollen from screentime, that they were cutting off blood flow to my prefrontal cortex. started using a portable eye massage device, and poof - back to normal. just have to clean up the mistakes i made while i was sleep deprived and caveman like.

aye, totally correct.

funny story, figured out the root cause behind 3 years of brain fog just a few hours after i left this comment. it wasnt long covid; turns out my eyes were so swollen from screentime, that they were cutting off blood flow to my prefrontal cortex. started using a portable eye massage device, and poof - back to normal. just have to clean up the mistakes i made while i was sleep deprived and caveman like.

my team is anti-AI. my code review requests are ignored, or are treated more strictly than others. it feels coordinated - i will have to push back the launch date of my project as a result.

another teammate added a length check to an input field, and his request was merged near instantly, even though it had zero unit testing. this team is incredibly cooked in the long term, i just need to ensure that i survive the short term somehow.