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Bug bounty programs were overrun with low-effort slop nearly a decade before LLMs were introduced; I can't imagine what they're like now...

The weather app isn't a native app either: > According to Windows Latest, the high memory consumption is due to the fact that Weather is not a fully native Windows application. Ins…

> Let's just pause for a second and steep in the irony of "we're all in on AI, except where there are visible consequences." I've got Alanis Morissette jamming in my head right now…

> At first I was gonna say that if a person prefers the response of an A.I. to yours it is a reflection of your own lack of understanding, articulation, effective communication, et…

People used to Google for information; before that, they used to read books. If you use LLMs for that kind of information-gathering purpose, and then do the work to read and check …

> but it's not the tech companies' fault that it's perennially underfunded, it's politicians and the voters who put them there. Disagree there. Tech companies and their owners are …

Cause civilizational collapse then. And of those nuclear tests, 528 were above ground, and only 200-300 of them were probably true airbursts. And all of them were in areas like ato…

Yeah, arguably the war in Ukraine is teaching everyone who is listening that nobody is willing to be the first to use nukes and destroy the planet, which means that nuclear powers …

https://xkcd.com/793

Yeah, if we had a country that was run by Unions, rather than Corporations so that abuses of power by those that ran the Unions was a big deal, I'd have a different opinion. But ri…

From the intro to the paper: > In J. C. Maxwell’s 1873 treatise on electricity and magnetism he discusses the number of equilibria of the electric field generated by n point charge…

> What's the benefit of this type of stacked PRs over a well-curated set of commits, and reviewing per commit? What I can see is that you can easily append commits to e.g. the firs…

Yeah, I'm on a gaming Discord where the 30+ year-old game modders who run it had to ban memes. If you don't, you'll end up with 15-year-old kids spamming memes into channels becaus…

Liberals are going to find it very comforting that they're not one of "the lowest white men". The people the quote is referring to won't be persuaded at all. It solves nothing. The…

And the condescending tone of that quote only further strengthens the culture wars--liberals love it.

> All the stuff all these people post on X is just regurgitation of 4chan circa 2016. You can trace a lot of what is wrong with 2026 back to the right-wing countercultural movement…

They've leveraged the culture wars to the point that a good chunk of the rural, economically disadvantaged voters are cool with a northeastern elite billionaire looting the country…

Yeah, this is just regulatory capture. Make the safety tests abusively expensive enough to run, and if you're not a trillion-dollar corporation, you won't be able to certify the mo…

> I personally believe laws should always be enforced and followed. Laws are written by imperfect humans. Bad laws exist.

Cumulonimbus has been separated from its etymological roots. It now refers to the physics that can produce deep convection, high clouds, and the formation of an anvil shape (along …

I couldn't get through it. I find it exhausting trying to read anything that smells remotely like linkedin AI slop at this point.

> As someone who’s had bikes stolen and car broken into, I sympathize with the desire for surveillance (especially in San Francisco). That isn't what it is being used for. That wou…

> One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism... oh no, not communism.

American Capitalists don't really need any help there; they're making Americans hate Data Centers all on their own.

I wonder how long it takes before someone instructs an LLM to design and launch a "Morris Worm 2.0" and cripple the Internet for a good while. Might even wind up happening by accid…