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I mean, it is obvious for a human inspecting the one specific input and output sample, but how do you do this at scale ? (Spoiler: cross your fingers and hope, that's how)

Except when they "extract" something that wasn't in the source. And now what, assuming you can even detect the tainted data at all ? How do you fix that, when the process is litera…

In which case...what good is a model that predicts semi-randomly? Oh. ("But it works - when it works" is a tautology, not a useful model)

That is, literally, faith-based business management. "We suck, sure - but wait, a miracle will SURELY happen in version 5. Or 6. Or 789. It will happen eventually, have faith and s…

By then, the startup will have folded, and the C-levels will have moved on to the next Idée Du Jour.

- terminally online - DLC - IRL As in, "things that happened before my Xth year of life are Normal, nay, Traditional even. Everything afterwards is Ephemeral, and possibly Heresy a…

HTAs were equal parts great (for their time) and terrible (plus they stuck around until IE died): a bog-standard webpage, but IE-only and with local-user process execution powers. …

I am afraid that you underestimate the power of organic, human stupidity.

How I envision this to work: - vibe code a thing - it doesn't work, but it was CHEAP - hire someone "to fix it" - actually means "rewrite most of it, but cheaper" - also means "bec…

Data at rest, also? Meanwhile, same govt. invests in LLMs slurping power by the megawatt, but surely that is an unproblem.

IDK if any pulse dialing phones (as opposed to DTMF) are still capable of reaching the phone network at large, but I'd imagine that's the use case.

An opportunity to rant about South Africa, because that's surely what the email said - honest, that came out the request to transcribe! In other words, a singularly noisy pipe. (ye…

And they're a best-effort, asynchronous store-and-forget^Wforward, reply-whenever-if-at-all solution.

It moves slowly enough that the wheel will approximately never turn enough to generate significant torque.

Well that's a bit of a balancing act, isn't it? "Why isn't this feature on the site, it would be more useful to me; also, that feature is annoying and useless to me" - says literal…

TLDR: files a flight plan, then does something completely different. FAFO ensues.

And that's a great example of missing the context right there. "There's this impossibly great offer here. OF COURSE I take it, because there's no way everyone's getting fired after…

Attempting to unionize. Then the factory owners hired thugs to decapitate the movement. Oh wait, that's not the disneyfied technooptimistic version of Luddites? Sorry.

Once you start taxatively naming "these are the Only Blessed Ranges," you'll be bitten by the usual brouhaha "email address ends with .[a-z]{2,3}". We all know how it went, and ".[…

The Artist Formerly Known As Prince has entered the chat. (the name was a unique symbol) Yes, all abstractions leak, there will always be edge cases. Doesn't mean "JUST USE ASCII D…

There seems to be a vast gap between "free" and "more expensive than running LLMs". Also, the water seems...more necessary. Going without LLMs for three days will not threaten your…

"Any speech" meaning "any speech you wish to suppress," obvs. Although "make all speech technically illegal, only prosecute where convenient" has been historically authoritarians' …

And then of course, all you need to do is declare any speech pornographic. Voila, the 1st - neutered.

I have been trying. As I may not have been entirely clear the first time: It's not that hard to wrap your python/java/whatever app in a polyglot executable that will run on your Li…