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Please no. The last thing we need is mindreading AI

Yeah, isn’t this a classic kind of scam the would-be scammer situation? If you think there’s some way to buy one cheap device and somehow get around subscribing to streaming servic…

Honestly I’m shocked this took so long. For years and years this has smelled like a massive vulnerability to me, just because so constantly I find myself getting docusigns from peo…

When you get other people’s money, you have to be accountable to them. Sorry. I don’t release apps, but I do teach at a university. I’m also accountable to the people whose money I…

What. The author of this post ought to be ashamed of their desperate effort to avoid being called out for making shitty and/or obnoxious software by blaming the people to describe …

bash scripting has ergonomics?

Good rule to apply to companies too. If someone sics AI on me through their customer service line, I feel totally free to sic AI right back at them

I was thinking of this when I got to the bit about color assignments and happiness levels too!

I feel like this is a lost cause, but why do people who publish these online free book-like-substances never make the files available as a single download? Do I really need to run …

Ooh thank you!

Does anyone know of any good write-ups on how to carry out this sort of task, for people who are reasonably technical (i.e., know how to code) but aren’t deep in the AI world? I fe…

Ok this might be the coolest thing I've seen all month. You must be a Recurser, right? This is so very Recurser.

Glad someone finally stopped pulling punches in describing Yarvin's wickedness and imbecility. There's a kind of elegance and charm to this style of just heaping abuse on people wh…

Hah, can we do that for recipes next?

Do people actually do this in things like slack? (One of the best things about being a professor in a non lab field is that I don't have to use things like slack.) This seems like …

There are actually really interesting tech intersections here, possibly. 8 years ago I published an article[1] that ended with some speculation about the possibility of automating …

I mean, yeah, if you’re selling someone a product it’s pretty fair for them to expect, or at least hope, that it will reduce their workload and advance their personal interests…

While this strategy is fine for clueless users, I suspect that it will lead to immense frustration for the ones with clues

I'm a little puzzled by what this actually is supposed to be. The marketing material on this website suggests that it's meant to be used with a firm's Gemini or Claude API keys. ("…

Do people really not use it? I use my iPad cellular all the time. Constantly. One of these days I'm going to buy one of those old MS Surfaces with cellular and stick Linux on it. B…

Hard disagree. The iPad is a fantastic mac replacement for many purposes. I use the iPad Pro w/ the “magic keyboard” case for working essentially whenever I’m not physically in hom…

Based on the name I’d thought it was going to be another militarization project, thank god it isn’t.

Hah, what I wish Cloudflare would supply in the email space is a “prove you’re a human” except for access to my inbox

This is awesome… the code of federal regulations would be a fantastic next project.