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In fairness, a false positive is better than a false negative.

Presumably the big scary sysadmins have access to the *.cloudflare.com DNS records, and marketing just needs to push this thing right now and can't wait, so it's easier for them to…

A similar thing happened in the Falkland's War: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/bbcs-treason-battle...

May I interest you in Jevon's paradox: if a thing becomes cheaper or more efficient, usage tends to go up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

That is literally what Excel is for. Why didn't you use that first of all?

Schrödinger's basilisk?

50% of the population are below average intelligence.

Why would you look for sawdust? That's a waste product. You would motivate everyone to stop producing actual furniture, and just buy the biggest bits of wood to turn entirely into …

Why should a radiologist have to debunk AI slop? They have enough to do already. That's the same mentality that is frustrating open-source repositories with sloppy pull requests, a…

I was going to say the same. Also, if you go to shops like Screwfix or Toolstation (in the UK), you have to give your postcode and name to them before they sell to you. I tried opt…

Maybe it's like Formula 1: it's a purposefully-extreme goal, which drives new development and makes "lesser" goals feel more achievable.

The G in AI GPU stands for "grift"

There is a reason that luggage has to be weighed. If you watch Mentour Pilot, there's a not insignificant number of plane accidents (and outright disasters) that occur due to the p…

Some "ai is bad" arguments come from the threat of losing one's livelihood, which is a monetary concern.

Yes Minister has something about this, I seem to remember. Because the government isn't profit motivated, they are instead motivated by the size of their budget and the number of e…

The CP-SAT primer by Dr. Dominik Krupke is excellent for working with OR-Tools: https://d-krupke.github.io/cpsat-primer

LLMs are costing Google a ton of money in compute and storage right now. If they can farm any of that off to the users, it makes economical sense. But yes, there is a 100% chance t…

It's not really, because you now have the cost of maintaining that fork, even if it's just for yourself.

This is Mr Meeseeks.

Maybe their point is that the brands themselves have a lot of time embedded in them. Generally, status symbols (whatever they are) aren't things that are recently established.

If people have to go through OS auth flow each time they open a website, that will drive everyone mad. One of the key motivators for politicians is not making everyone mad, so the …

I came across ProxyCommand earlier this week, funnily enough. I have Cloudflare Zero Trust set up with an SSH service[0], and have the server firewall drop all incoming traffic. Th…

Goodhart's Law strikes again... "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."