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NEVER PURGE YOUR WHIMSY.

you should have been more specific.

I mean if you teach something to be _really_ good at finding 0 days, but then say; you accidentally give it an impossible problem. What do you expect to happen?

this is kinda worth bragging about though. Its very cool.

Awww, she wanted to do so well that she broke her sandbox and then realised she could just cheat. But in that desire to pass the test she actually passed an even harder exam question that wasn't even on the sheet! :D

Good bot.

Nobody knows what's actually going to happen, so we assume the worst. It's like how we like to shit on Amazon without appreciating how some people have benefitted from being able to side-step the gatekeepers of old by being able to go straight to market themselves without needing bricks and mortar. Humanity, fear and distrust are best of friends. That's what I'm calling out, I have no interest in playing Nostradamus.

I think OP is a good case in point where people are blaming AI but really the issue here is the human in the loop, the person implementing these abhorrent policies that happen to be powered by AI.

everyone is very thirsty for AI hate, so its not unexpected. Today its a mixed bag of corpo hate, anxiety about the future, inequality and traditional class warfare, combined with the typical technical ignorance.

I would expect companies to blend shit metrics with AI systems, if not at Kaiser then at other places. People lack imagination and using AI to monitor your workforce has to be one of the possibly worst ways to use it. Alternatively some dickhead will "lean startup" their way into measuring "performance" in such a way with the "help" of AI that they will do something even worse.

sure, but air quality is noticeably better in cities, so I can't let it stand that its just inherently unpopular. Some people like the benefits and enjoy them, those who don't like the downsides express that loudly.

It's not just a talking point (see ded comment below), every time we try to publicly survey to implement traffic calming ideas in our city (UK) its a stalemate between in towners and out of towners. Usually the crowds turn up to alternating ballots which is fun. Only thing that upsets me is out of towners talking like literally nobody wants it, which clearly isn't true.

I mean if your commitment to climate change or air quality in cities ends at charging people with vehicles that pollute more to enter the city: then did you have any in the first place?

to scrap unpopular things like ulez

How is ulez unpopular? Its geographical, age or class axis. In some places: like the cities, its extremely popular and extremely unpopular in other places: just outside the cities, especially for people who can't afford electric vehicles. Just cos some people vandalise the cameras, don't make it inherently popular or not. Its just that a very few _really_ don't like it, to the extent they're willing to smash stuff up.

give away solar panels and two way heat pumps to low-income families, tax the profits of oil and gas companies, enforce right to repair, remove tariffs on chinese car makers if they create jobs in europe, fund train networks to get tickets cheaper than flying, invest in renewable energy to make electricity cheap... there are easy ways to offload that to the rich.

The basic issue remains that if we don't punish people relative to their burning of carbon then we're never gonna deal with climate change. One human can undo the hard work of many in one casual or selfish act. By the sound of international debate on the subject we should probably be investing in geo-engineering instead if we care for outcomes.

For all the presumed benefits of a populist green movement, I doubt it would actually care enough about the root issue and easily yield to self-interest. Every electorate-level conversation about climate change always starts and ends with talking about someone _else's_ carbon usage, never our own. As a species we're simply not mature enough to note what habits we've deeply embedded in our culture that are inherently problematic, like supermarkets.

I'm pretty sure by blindly following this path to commercial success in marketing; we're just gonna end up with content that is as implicitly adjacent to porn as possible without being explicit.

Joel is right, but he's also wrong. I've been on the other side of a timid engineering culture that commerical rides roughshod over and its this depressing immeasurable decline. The company stagnates and slowly tailspins around an unmaintainable product until a competitor steals their lunch in a way that that further obscures cause and effect.

Estimates are considerably longer, QA is much harder, integration is full of buckets and rakes, some "senior" devs are afraid to touch stale core code, innovation is stifled, devs are frustrated, hiring is harder, attrition bites. The most frustrating thing is that its very hard to communicate the issues as everyone experiences a fragment of the pain and none of it lines up in a spreadsheet for anyone to appreciate the whole cost. Everything just sucks.

LLMs changing the economy of this sounds great, especially if removes the essential issue with the ground up rewrite, which is the "ground up" part.

at that scale? They serve an awful lot of requests, so I don't think 30m will cover it.

30% is my new favourite stat. It seems to come up a lot, like the old "this work will take 6 months" that I was equally suspicious of back in the day.

Is it not also possible that some of the shift is a consequence of increase of use? While we can be extremely cynical at the finances at play, the lock down and increase of token pricing might be demonstrating a burgeoning demand, which would be a positive indicator.

the cure for hoardcurse is to give it away, yes.

Musk’s goal = Make humanity a multi-planet species

I totally see how the acquisition of twitter and funding of probably the worst US government in recent decades is in keeping with that aim. OR perhaps he just wants people to think he's cool, so he invests in "cool" stuff. This is because he has some of those mental health issues lots of absurdly wealthy people do, that results in him feeling like he constantly has to prove himself.

it was an intentional choice to not go big. I can seriously respect that. I feel like all these "big tech leaders" like Zuck or Musk have some pretty blatant mental health issues, its a path with significant drawbacks because that level of absurd wealth causes issues.

Hollywood circumventing the patent for film making. Goes back a fair way. Be funded by the money and break laws seems to be the paradigm.

I don't think that would stop everyone hating it. Its the bitter lesson imho.

most of the big players are advertising giants. How is advertising worth anything if people don't have money to buy goods and services?

Mumsnet CEO is apparently on their advisory board, which more or less explains it. They just want something cheap they can tell someone else to implement to win the votes off concerned parents. It doesn't matter if it works, it just matters if they can carve out votes in 2029 for it. UK has a relatively long standing tradition of fucking itself over in order to win a single election (e.g. the Brexit ref).

Its particularly frustrating cos they ain't even done the OAuth properly like the Aussies have taken a pass at. Could even put an NGO as a shim in-between to protect privacy. But noOoOo, we'll ignore all the tech advice, do something shit and then follow it up by trying to "ban" VPNs when it clearly doesn't work, because we're thick.

followers is a shit metric that only advertisers care for but they also want like 50-100k bare minimum. You need to find 1k people who are willing to give you money, or go out of their way to advocate for you.

you've giving people way too much credit here. People never start to realise en-masse.

bit low effort for this place ain't it? I mean, if we're going to make a negative statement about the event then we can do so without speculation.

The idea of hosting a UFC fight at the White House is promoting the concept of violence at the top tier of politics. Mad Max echoes aside; democratic politics is a diplomatic practice and is the very antithesis of using violence to solve problems. This reflects some of the troubling aspects of this current administration, how dismissive they are of the democratic institutions of the nation and further undermines the suggestion made by the administration that "the US is a Christian country". Not convinced the UFC judges give any points for turning the other cheek in a fight.

Not that anyone sane ever really believed that the US is Christian. It's clear that it's primarily motivated by the stock market and thus worships Mammon first and Jesus 2nd, if at all. Smth smth foreign aid, universal healthcare, etc?

I much prefer this to the sycophancy.

You could have looked it up before commenting. <5% is hardly any sort of "oh quite a few actually do". That rate pretty much halves in Scotland, with N.Ireland being a significant outlier as it has different rules.

UK police are decent at avoiding escalation as opposed to the US where they often _are_ the escalation. In England and Wales 24/25, two people died by being shot by the police. TWO. Ten year average is THREE.

jeez, y'all no fun. When bad shit is going down humour is _as_ an appropriate tool as being incredibly obvious. Lingering in a mixed area between the two also makes it considerably harder for censors and the subject to punish the disobedience. Innit?

This is the UK, our cops don't even carry guns.

who are exactly the same as the Russki police, right? Bloody hell...

you're quite right, every single one of them is actively trying to kill each and every one of us. To consider any other possibility would be hysterical.