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I find it amazing people don’t believe this. I lost about 50kg and people treated me better. They didn’t randomly shout ‘fat fuck’ in the street for a start.

P.P.S. Assuming you are replying to me, you seem to be projecting very powerfully. Rust isn't my favorite language, and I just asked about how much of your code was safe vs unsafe.…

Do you find most of your rust code is unsafe? Because I also find I do some unsafe stuff, because of the algorithms I work on I often end up with some unchecked array accesses and …

Except it's 1,000x worse with the American models, because Trump might just decide that everyone in Europe get their access cut off, or gets a 5,000% tarriff. Or the companies just…

The problem is you can't ban open models. All you can do is say that Americans have to pay whatever stupid prices OpenAI / anthropic / Google / Grok wants to charge you, while Chin…

I'd much prefer NFC if I could see how much I was paying and had to always confirm it -- I understand this wouldn't have worked with physical cards but I wish it was an option on m…

This type of thing (scan QR code) is how basically all payments were done when I was recently in China, via wechat or alipay (either you show your QR code for big shops, or scan th…

This is where 'reasonable doubt' comes in from a jury. Would I believe that someone set up a 'wipe my phone' code, something that would be catastrophic, it was one digit different,…

From the article there's this. If this isn't proof, well, I don't know what would be: A 97-page internal presentation, “Teen Fundamentals,” in May 2020, described its goal as to “l…

Because most people can't set up a DNS blocker. There are lots of things we, as a society, decide we want to ban. I think social media is closer to illegal drugs. We don't need to …

No, not at all. Students all have different voices. Yes there are similarities but if I read two pieces of work that sound in the same voice I assume there has been cheating — exce…

This is my biggest concern. Speaking as someone who recently had to read 60 AI generated reports (the whole issue of how much students are using AI is one discussion), it was genui…

I feel this is on of those examples of where humanities and the softer sciences can teach us things. This is exactly how 'normal' languages work. New things are introduced and peop…

Has writing secure C really changed that much? Lots of the world still writes in C99, 27 years old at this point. I think they can use a 9 month old AI model is they want.

Wow, that might be the worst name for a project I’ve ever seen. I think every programmer who sees this is going to assume it’s a Python thing. With regards the library itself —- I …

They are going to make it a thousands times worse. It wasn't perfect before, but it at least took some time to fake a paper. The problem is now people can produce a very plausible …

I think what upsets me the most isn't that companies do this, it's that no government seems to have any interest in stopping them. To me, it should be a fairly easy, short, and ext…

So do we get rid of all laws which distinguish children? Why bother with limiting selling alcohol to children if we can just let the parents do it? My problem is I don’t think anyo…

While you could send a letter anonymously, it was also trivial for the government to read any letter it wanted. The problem is we have switched from a world where it was easy to le…

The problem is there used to be a fairly high correlation between ‘security report’ and ‘real vulnerability’. Not perfect but good enough. Now the two are almost entirely disconnec…

Many people run older versions of Mac OS X (because their machine won't upgrade), so their safari is aging -- they use an alternative browser, firefox and chrome support older mac …

One big advantage I’ve found — people get attached to models (including me). With open models if you find one that works perfectly for you but the next version doesn’t, you can run…

In the UK I see a medical practitioner before any tests, always.

Even at a smaller scale, I was shocked to go to the hospital in China and literally the first thing done was a blood sample, scanned under about 30 metrics, took about 15 minutes a…

That's genuinely good to know. The thing that often hits me nowadays is using pandoc (or pandoc via quarto) to go markdown -> latex -> pdf, which tends to bury these issues (and in…