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In my world "just works" means "we blew away all of the security controls and best practice to get this thing hobbling across the finish line." I see COTS products using ldap membe…

....And then feel OK resorting to ChatGPT for the explanation. Seriously that threw me, and maybe it makes sense in this context but it seems strange for someone with such an appar…

Wild idea: what if we evaluated research on its merits, looking at things like methodology, controls, and reproducibility?

There's a reason that students are taught on day 1 of Statistics 101 that observational studies can only establish correlation, NOT causation. Otherwise we might as well just admit…

Aspartame's potential risks, as compared with sucroses? Because I don't recall hearing about any aspartame-linked deaths ever, while I know that diabetes is a killer.

Aspartame has been a boogeyman for literally decades, and yet no solid experimental study has shown evidence of carcinogenic activity nor of any negative health effects at realisti…

Funnily enough 'sweeteners' as a class are so diverse that any claim that 'recent studies' universally show a common effect can be thrown straight into the rubbish bin. Erithritol,…

>the US has been murdering children in almost a dozen countries around the globe for the past two decades. Do you want to spell out what countries, specifically, you have in mind h…

The idea that the CIA is naive to what Russia does is pretty amusing. Yes, if only they frequented social media, they might have some clue what Chinese, Russian, and Iranian securi…

And it's your belief that the State Department-- let alone the CIA-- are totally ignorant of what Iran does to its staff?

For many years the keyboards were only skins, and for many years after that they would periodically lose their default status and revert to the built in keyboard. Now it seems that…

So we're effectively saying, "infrastructure is expensive" to justify burning the piles of money instead of using it to improve the situation?

For the same reason people got suckered by FTX and the same reason so many got burned in the many BTC crashes: They got taken in by the wild promises of cryptogains.

The article (and Bhutan) are strangely cagey about whether this process has actually generated a return. Spoiler: it hasn't.

Bitcoin mining generates literally no value for 99.99% of the population, so anything that improves the infrastructure is going to be more valuable than that.

You need to do those things for a datacenter too.

The tech field is the sad story of execs, marketing types, and end users continually relearning the lessons that they refused to accept from the developers.

Imagine suggesting a literal plotpoint from an Orwell novel with a straight face on hackernews. Dont forget to update the Wolfram database with who we're at war with!

It really doesn't. It's a language model. Literally every webpage on this topic mentions that. This is why it will happily tell you that a director directed a movie before they wer…

If that were true then why buy the LotR franchise rights?

That only works for so long. It's burning money for warmth instead of spending a bit of time to buy firewood.

If someone is rolling into a Tolkien IP believing they're better at high fantasy than Tolkien, it goes from "arrogance" to "megalomania". Sometimes it really is best to minimize th…