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It will also inject a tons of information that it shouldn't. I do a lot of data pipelines and comments will be like, "this line is because there's 943,048,032 events in the blah table and it forms a conjunctive set with the 43,390,042 rows of the bar table..." but doesn't include the context that was run against a dev instance.

And if I don't catch these and remove the bad information, subsequent passes will flag those comments and get stuck on the fact that numbers don't match and start digging into that "problem" instead of staying on topic.

Even when I add multiple prompts into the claude.md file not to be so sycophant sounding and just be blunt, it's responses are full of "the reason it lands...", "that's not X, it's Y" "Your understanding of X — it's better than most people's" or "you already own the right question...".

I don't like that I like it.

A) Don't flush your wet wipes please. They go in the trash bin.

B) They make bidets that are trivial to install/remove. I have one that connects inline with the water lines and it took like 4 minutes to install. But you can also get a portable one. They range from squirt bottle for your bum to fancy battery powered devices with USB-c charging.

If TP gets wet, even slightly, it's unusable. Since it's designed to disintegrate upon contact with water.

Maybe just have Claude rebuild the app in a non-scummy way. Analyze the site for the relevant data APIs, while avoiding the tracking stuff. Maybe someone maintains an MCP for these popular websites so people can use agents on them.

There's a solution to both:

1. Not make web browser general-purpose runtimes for arbitrary software.

2. OS builds a general-purposes runtime that's completely sandboxed. So users can run more complex software without needing to worry about cruft being installed on their system.

Unfortunately, browser builders have decided that web browsers are #2.

You can't make them pay. And even if you could, real people wouldn't see the revenue.

It's far cheaper to buy local politicians.

> they never think to ask “why does regulation x exist?”

They do, but they think the answer is always some riff on, "government overreach because bureaucrats need to justify their jobs."

That attitude has been firmly ingrained into (at least) a generation of people.

What makes you think this farce of an operation will be successful in any manner that benefits the USA?

From where I'm sitting, the USA already lost, it's just a matter of how badly bruised they are when they leave the fight. The outcomes so far are:

- Depleted munitions stores, so much so that defense systems have been relocated

- US and ally bases have been successfully attacked. - Tolls have been exercised on tankers going through the straight by Iran.

- Depleted the strategic petroleum reserves of many counties.

- The President had to flee talks due to "credible threats" from Iran. When was the last time a adversarial power was able to hit a sitting president?

- Iraq is discussing allowing pro-Iranian to operate unimpeded within their territory, allowing them to continue to strike Saudi-US assets in the region.

- A "pressure campaign" that isn't working. The USA killing Iranian citizens is just helping the IRGC stay in power.

- An inability to contain the situation has cast doubt on the USA's general military capability.

Maybe the situation sorts itself out. After all, everyone the region is losing out on sweet oil revenues the longer this goes on. So leaders get together, form a "spread the wealth, not the bombs" initiative that allows the USA to exit while saving face, and the oil pie gets sliced up a little differently.

Hand out pamphlets at the voting station with your name and, "I'll get Flock cameras removed." That's probably all you need to do.

It depends on where you live, but some local offices are decided by as little as a few dozen voters.

That's what their training requires and if they don't engage that way, they will be reprimanded.

Sounds like your argument is that wealth is objectively a good measure of a good life. Below some level of wealth, your life sucks, above it, it's great.

You're just pointing out that it's not linear, but sigmoidal. There's a range at which small changes in wealth rapidly improve or deteriorate ones life, but outside of that range, being much poorer makes your life suck only marginally more, and being wealthier makes your life improve marginally more.

Presumably the new CEO would like to stay out of jail and will fix things?

Rain usually just cakes the dirt. Unless it's a downpour, it doesn't move with enough velocity or volume to remove the dirt. So the dirt just gets damp, maybe moves a few cm with gravity, then dries as a mud cake.

> both parties

I'm sorry, but only one "party" is comprised of fascist plutocrats speed-running the end of democracy in the USA.

The USA and world would be a vastly different place had a different party maintained power in the USA 10 years ago.

Luckily for the peace side, the USA's inability to achieve their mission objectives in a war against an adversary that was perceived as being substantially weaker means they are very much less likely to engage in one with a "near peer".

The take away from modern conflicts is that massive military size disparities don't translate into successful invasions anymore.

In other words, it's unlikely USA will pursue a conflict with China, and it's unlikely China will pursue a conflict with Taiwan.

How much of that is due to inflated RAM prices though? I wouldn't assume the current trend is going to continue.

He is not prohibited from "regurgitating source material" in many cases. Facts are free. It doesn't matter who first measured Young's Modulus of aluminum, anyone may state that fact as originally presented.

The professor is free to lift all the facts and formula they want. They just need to rephrase explanations. Which is pretty much what an LLM is going to do.

GDPR compliance is good IT practice. It's easy to do, good for users, and states are rolling out similar laws.

But now, instead of their story being read by people all over the world, having gone viral, it's just going to pirated. Not only losing them out on revenue, but recognition as well.

This is part of the long death of online local news. They can't be bothered to do the simplest things for their site (make personal data collection optional). But they have tons of time to fill them with online cancer and make them unusable without ad blocking.

More like, is a professor who learned from books prohibited from writing his own books on the subject?

I wish my company would do this. A coworker pulled an all nighter before a vacation and just left me with a million line claude summary of their work then just fucked off. The message was two-part due to size and lacked basic stuff like, "how to run".

He's going to be annoyed that none of that work was used. But the reality is, at least 75% of claude generated text is pointless.

Just because a party is in power doesn't mean that party hasn't worked towards reform or correcting an issue. Lot's of arguments of "it happens under both parties" completely ignore corrective actions taken under one party and subverted by the other. Police in particular have an insane amount of political power and it would take decades to clean out the rot.

They half-ass crack down on them. Not even that, it's dime-assed crackdown at best. You get that little "experiencing issues?" note that the bottom of the screen (which goes away after a few seconds), and an occasional 3-5s delay before video starts.

I explained exactly why I think they are important in that entire paragraph. And the evidence I'm right is the fact that YouTube could trivially prevent ad-blockers tomorrow, but they don't. They've tried it and quickly rolled back the changes. Presumably they lost a lot more audience than expected.

PèreTube. Just videos about golf, lawn care, cars, and Fox News clips.

PearTube (PoireTube) would just have the Fox News clips.

Maybe the live where the feds can't get them?

Those ad-blocked viewers are important, which is why YT doesn't actually crack down on them.

Those are the people who will happily go to an alternative product. And while that product might start as a pirate YouTube, the one that nabs 30% of YT's traffic can certainly make a pivot to legit. If you're a content creator whose audience is mostly in that group, you're likely to start posting content directly on the competitor's site.

I'm guessing OP had their account banned for using a tool like yt-dl too aggressively. Then again, doing that does give a warning.

Realistically, how many viewers will be retained should YT shut the OP down? Right now, that number rounds to 0. Practically speaking, YT is free internet video streaming for long-form videos on the US market.

Nobody is going to go to OP's personal site to watch videos. They are going to fire up YT and eat what the algorithm feeds them.

The reason PeerTube and Nebula are important is it provides the potential for a true alternative destination for people looking for videos. Once these platforms have an enough content to draw an audience naturally, then content creators will be able to survive a post-YT world.

For people like the OP, it's probably best to follow the model video games do with DRM. Post on YT first, to get the ad revenue, then repost on other platforms after some time to build up an alternative subscriber base. Presumably, in-video sponsorships will pay for these views as well, even if there's no direct ad-sense like revenue model.

You can doubt this. But the fact is, the Xbox One was secure for it's entire operational life without a crack. And the Series X/S has held up as well.

It's completely possible that future consoles are secure enough that the components fail long before the security does.

The PS5 has been pretty secure (though, not perfect). They learned their lesson from the PS4 and took some pages out of the Microsoft playbook - brought back the hypervisor and implemented e-fuses.

Byepervisor did crack the hypervisor, but it requires an old version of the firmware and the console has to be kept offline to avoid being upgraded. There's no mechanism to downgrade the firmware like there was with the PS4, which limits the blast radius of potential jailbreaks.

Of course, even offline consoles can be updated, since games can ship with firmware updates required need to play the game.

Counter-argument: I have a Steam account associated with a day 1 purchase of Half Life 2 (so, 25 years or so). Every game I've ever purchased is still available for me to download, while I lost probably 50% or more of my physical games collection.

If I'm renting those games, it sure seems like a good deal.

I do appreciate that console online market places have not historically been as well managed as Steam.

But also, GoG exists: you can buy a PC game and get a DRM-free download that you can play offline and store forever.