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It's impossible to do with perfect accuracy, but that doesn't mean it isn't done.

Just ask the dad who was investigated for taking pictures of his toddler for the doctor: https://www.koffellaw.com/blog/google-ai-technology-flags-da...

The locally running application is one of the 'ends' of the end to end encryption.

I have a 'bootstrap' system... I have recovery codes and a backup for critical things encrypted and stored in a public git repo I push to both gitlab and github. If I lose everything, I can use those recovery codes to access the things I need to recover my digital identity.

A CLI interface has been perfect for my coding work, why is it bad?

You do that by properly pricing in externalities, not by making everything harder to do so we can't put as much strain on the environment.

You are probably right that we need to have less stuff, but if we are going to have less, I would rather work less, too.

The solution isn’t to stuff everything it needs to know into the context, it is to have it write out what it needs to know for every part. It should write out plans, infrastructure decisions, etc, and then use those in future work as needed.

Well, the guy who invented the horseshoe died thousands of years ago.

And the idea that one location making all the horseshoes means each village is minus one living is ignoring the other effects.

Now, all the villagers can get cheaper horseshoes, so they don’t have to spend as many resources on shoes for their horses, and can now invest more into what their village is best at, and sell those goods to other villages.

Basic Ricardian Economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardian_economics

Of course, that doesn’t mean the blacksmith isn’t out of a job, but I always hate that so many people think the solution to that problem is to just give up the economic benefits of specialization instead of working to improve the distribution of the gains.

I am not sure how this would help with piracy? It can only play a stream you already have access to, it doesn’t break encryption or anything.

The magic of computers is that a complicated workaround can become modularized functionality very easiily.

It sounds like this was a bug where slight updates to geolocation data (his address updated its physical location, probably to be more accurate) triggered a "location moved" process. Annoying, but not indicative of a new policy.

I still quote this line at work all the time. Basically whenever anyone asks me if I know how to do something on the computer

Yeah, the context collapsed into a uni-context

I used to experience the quality degrading with large context issue before, but I haven't in months. Is this still the case?

It's because their actual motto is "Don't tread on me, tread on them"

I don't think the answer is as simple as "The Dutch have better traffic light engineers"

There are a ton of factors that go into traffic and traffic patterns. For one thing, I would be curious to see total traffic numbers.

How would Google help with a carpooling profile?

They are looking at ways they can improve traffic that are actually in their control. They can change how they route traffic that is using their app, they can’t change public policy or driving choices. They are working with what they have.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/277/

Most cities have some intelligence on their traffic lights, and they do have traffic sensors to know where cars are waiting.

You might not see any cars and are annoyed waiting at the light, but you don’t know what downstream things they are trying to control for. Maybe if they send you through the light, you are going to join some other traffic event that will cause an issue.

It could also just be suboptimal, but it very hard to know just from what you observe as an individal

It was confusing hearing that Facebook was recommending people to you when you made it sound like you were choosing to opt out of those things.

I am not sure how your anecdote would show you are all tracked by Facebook even if you aren't on facebook; you only received recommendations for people to friend on facebook because you are on facebook. I am not on facebook, so i have never had facebook recommend anyone to me.

Freedom is pretty useless without food

well .0014 is 40% more than 0.001, so it isn't THAT close.

Although even if we grant you your assumption about 99.9%, doesn't this show that you can still have a business if that is true? 12 million customers is a sustainable business.

I feel like a lot of the success of an AI project currently still comes down to the skills of the operator. I don't think it is possible to say "AI can't create this because I told AI to create it and it failed" any more than you can say "You can't write this in Rust because I tried and failed."

There is still a TON of skill involved in guiding an AI to create something, and how good it turns out has a lot to do with how the AI development process went.

And the gullibility of his investors is bottomless

You can certainly have a problem with Elon Musk, but the people who have invested money with him over the years have done quite well for themselves.

Which is unrelated to Starlink?

for 99.9% of everyone else? we're good!

Well Starlink has 12 million subscribers, which is already more than 0.1% of the population, so clearly you are incorrect that 99.9% of people don't want it...

I doubt the transmission path is longer, fiber optic cables aren't laid in perfectly straight lines between all points.

Obviously the author has irreversibly became AI-pilled and the day API costs balloon or APIs are down, what work will the author do?

I am old enough to remember having these thoughts when documentation for things moved from books to being online. I thought looking things up in the internet was a recipe for failure, because the internet was new and unstable and changing, and what happens if you run out of your 10 hours a month of being online, or if someone in your house picks up the phone and you are disconnected?

Clearly those people were internet pilled, and the day the internet costs ballooned or was down, what would they do?

Most of my vagrant usage is from when a coworker has set up a vagrant file for a project.

I think this is just a sign that AI is now participating in the normal evolution of language over time. Language has always been about imitating... someone or some group comes up with a word/phrase/saying and uses it, other people hear/read it, and if they like it and/or find it useful, they incorporate it into their lexicon. This process is constant, and words and phrases are tweaked and morphed over the years as trends come and go.

Now, AI is participating in that process. It reads human words, and some of those words end up getting used more based on the algorithm, and then people read those words and copy some of them. This will feed back in to the AI as it ingests more content, and the feedback cycle is complete.

I think this is exactly what the person you are replying to is saying; everyone knows it, but the people in charge of setting up the incentives still don’t seem interested in changing the incentives.

A few years back I underwent an effort to image a bunch of old 3.5” floppies I had from when I was a kid. I used KryoFlux, and had a close to 100% success rate (eventually)

Some things I learned:

1. Different drives could read different sectors. I am not exactly sure why, but some disks would show bad sectors when read from one drive, but would have a different set of bad sectors when read from a different one. I had 5-6 different drives I was using (I bought a bunch of used drives, they are pulled from old hardware and resold). I think it likely has something to do with the heads being slightly misaligned or something, so they would struggle with different sectors.

What I would do is scan a disk with one drive, and if I found any bad sectors, I would re-scan with a different drive. I would repeat this process until I had at least one good scan of each sector. I would then pull the missing sectors in one scan from a scan that succeeded on that sector, and would patch together an entire image.

2. I didn’t realize how varied the formats are for disks I had. I remember single vs double sided, but there were quite a few other variations I found in my collection.

3. If you hang out with computer nerds of a certain age, you are going to be surprised by how many of them still have a collection of old floppies that they can’t access anymore. I had so many requests to help archive many different collections!