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Anyone else assume this was about computer viruses and exploits...

I know.

I had the same reaction but then I showed it to my partner. She completely didn't get it, in her words "how can it be thinking of a good answer when it's that quick?" I tried to ex…

This won't work in the UK/Europe. B-RNAV has been a requirement since 11 April 2011 at all ATS controlled routes and levels (previously only above FL95). The only reasonable equipm…

Of course - though many of them have been decommissioned or are in the process. Though recent developments have probably reduced the enthusiasm for removing them so quickly. Howeve…

Yeah, I agree that GPS is too easy to jam and should ideally not be used exclusively but if you are flying anything from a newish C172 to a Cessna Citation (or any other non-long h…

> GPS is not essential to air navigation. It’s nice to have, and there are some approaches that legally require it to be operational in order to fly them (IFR procedures) but aviat…

I've recently been using AI a lot for performance optimisation during a particularly busy period at work. I would say it was almost completely useless at the high-level direction -…

In the UK I could get from Central London to Central Glasgow in 4.5 hours on the train. The same trip on a flight, it takes an hour to get the airport (assuming it's not one of the…

After getting sucked into "I bought this to repair it" YouTube I started looking for things on eBay. I was amazed to find that things like PlayStations with declared faults which m…

This has become a running joke with a couple of the people in my office who have recently visited China (from the UK). The next 2 years will be interesting for democracy as a whole…

It depends on the size of the project (mostly in terms of number of active developers) and how close you are to the running code in production. On a large project it's probably the…

Find is a great example. It's such a useful and powerful tool but it's arguments get me on a regular basis.

The logical choice would be to kill the the (relatively) rich people who eat and waste far more food per capita.

One of the upsides of AI is that now all we need to do is prompt our way to native versions of these apps...

I can't honestly think of a case where this would be remotely useful. This goes somehow beyond vibe coding to vibe interaction, where the only feedback comes via the AI. I'd love t…

I think for many people, maybe even most people, the story and the people behind the music is every bit as important as the music itself. I don't see how an AI can capture this.

I think the only point that matters is that having Anthropic owning a project which is written in a programming language where the community (or at least the leaders of it) have co…

There is at least some concern within their camp that they could lose the election to a guy with a bin on his head. That for me is a win.

I think there would be no point in making the claim if the probability estimates were truly in good faith.

I suspect the easier option is to use AI to review your own code. The arms race between developers and attackers might even make some of the AI valuations come true.

It really feels like we've crossed some kind of event horizon with AI exploding in so many seemingly unrelated directions.

I guess life would be boring if we were all the same. I found the 1.0 litre turbo in the Sandero to be perfectly adequate in power. I hated almost everything else about the car tho…

Isn't the fix to constrain the abilities of a user agent to only the permissions of the user inputing the prompt? I guess that's not a lot of fun because you have to implement some…

Chances are most manufacturers are going to use a cheap USB camera. Can a raspberry pi emulate webcam? Just place the same video of you diligently staring out of the window on repe…