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But that can't be true! From the article (with a probably irrelevant fact added by me): "Sexual exploitation is horrific, and we work aggressively to keep it off our platform" a Me…

Dunno, there are very few universal knowledge checks that would work across the entire industry, but my two absolute baseline standards for anyone who would be coding are 1) knows …

I believe this would nucleate a cosmic string (and annihilate everything in its vicinity obviously)

A very very limited defense of Microsoft and their whole "support vendor" "ecosystem": if you are selling a complex product, there is value in having a robust knowledge base of kno…

From the facts that came out at his trial [1], it seems like Baugh, the guy who ran the operation, was basically feral. At one point during his cross-country trip to harass these p…

And on the other hand, let's see how the C-suite made out: Wymer was appointed chief of the non-profit Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. Wenig has been on General Motors’ boa…

42% of the apps on LG's platform have these quasi-malware SDKs in them? Seems kinda bad, whether it's due to negligence or just pure incompetence? You'd think there might be legal …

> None other than Einstein refused, all the way to his death, to accept a probabilistic interpretation in spite of all evidence pointing in that direction. [...] Of course there ev…

You're describing "negligence", and "our legal and philosophical perspectives" are in fact quite familiar with it

Right? "Never attribute to malice what [... etc]" is always just a thought-terminating cliche these days. TBH I have a hard time imagining how anyone, in the year 2026, thinks that…

Any individual human (or frog, obviously) is getting out of the pot when it gets uncomfortable. True stupidity requires a group of humans, all sitting in the pot, telling each othe…

I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day "more than a billion"? What are we doing here? Do you have any idea what your target …

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IMO it's worth watching the video rather than reading someone's writeup of it. My favorite part is this (written) list of everything that went wrong [1] ... and how much of it is d…

Literally some of the first advertised uses for LLMs were both "You can feed it bullet points and it will compose an entire email" and "You can take long emails and condense them i…

> for people to hold different definitions of words [...] is the single biggest reason for all arguments in recent human history. IMO this extremely, extraordinarily true. And in m…

Corollary: If a computer makes a business decision, the person who delegated the decision to the computer must be held accountable. Consequence: All business decisions will eventua…

> If you don't want people to optimize against your filtering process, you have to make it somewhat nondeterministic. I'm sorry, I'm not following this at all. When you say "better…

This is, indeed, the next generation of AOP: they've managed to evolve it from "extremely complex and hard to understand runtime behavior" into "completely undefined runtime behavi…

> it could be reviewers and others intentionally trying to sabotage other people's work Anyone with even a tiny bit of knowledge about the topic being discussed would know that eve…

Right? A lot of journals make a big deal about submitting your manuscript in the proper format (sometimes even LaTeX if you're lucky) and then you get the galley proofs back and ha…

Well, maybe no competition when we're talking about institutional access rights on dry land. However, for everyone else, there's quite a bit of competition out there in the high se…