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I kind of think the AI boom is the worst for (non-inference-providing) companies. If all companies are using the same "frontier" LLMs, and if they are competitive, what gives one a…

i feel like ai would be very beneficial here. use ai to create massive amount of fake facebook accounts with fake picture and fake friends. meta wants all the data so we give them …

When a researcher discovers that smoking is damaging to the lungs, do they need to provide a solution that allows people to smoke without damaging their lungs? Would their inabilit…

potentially to stop bad actors from poisoning datasets by just adding the filter to real pictures?

I have a new personal policy of avoiding any products that advertise to me blatantly. Yes, use these trucks, force me to watch the ads and help me avoid these products forever.

As a developer, I kind of feel like this all smells like job security. After using LLMs for a while, I have to admit it's pretty nice, and I like using it. I've been vibecoding a f…

Migrated from archlinux to nixos. I don't think I can use anything else now... I have a CI at home that builds my nixos config on a weekly basis with the latest flake. The artifact…

My unproven theory is that agent skills are just a good way to 'acquire' unspoken domain rules. A lot of things that developers do are just in their heads, and using 'skills' force…

I guess it's pretty much impossible to stop these companies from gathering data, there's too much money in it, it's too easy to implement, and there's no cohesive force to stop the…

Big fan of devenv. I moved away from a Docker-based setup for local development at work to devenv. At least on macOS, the Docker setup was making my machine too hot, and the perfor…

I find the belief that government is the only limit to wealth creation very intriguing. I also find it interesting that the talking points usually contrast "free markets", which I …

Is there an upper bound to the creation of wealth? Is it infinite? Are there any limits to its creation? Is there any inherent value to it without being able to "transfer"?

I feel like AI is already changing how we work and live - I've been using it myself for a lot of my development work. Though, what I'm really concerned about is what happens when i…

Why do we think its Elon 'doing' this? Just curious, since it could just as well be that its the engineers and other leaders who could be the differentiator.

And could this be defeated because the video itself is static and identifying the ad would then be around the unexpected changes to it? :D

I've started using worktrees recently and I have nothing but praise for it. It's especially useful to me because I work on multiple features and want to reduce friction from contex…

I recently started using Ledger this year, and I've been really impressed with its utility for me. I think, for my personal needs, https://pypi.org/project/ledger-autosync/ is a mu…

I find it even more interesting that people are defending either corporation. Neither of them is our friend, and they do what happens to be profitable. The core problem here is tha…

You can still choose automation. The easier route for me is to use wallabag to save the article. Then on my remarkable tablet I can grab a very readable document with https://githu…

So much missing context here, at least for me. What is the rollback they are talking about? Is it in terms of something new in google chrome? From what I can tell, they are looking…

Not depressed but just makes me question the value of our existence. If we are truly able to create machines with our intellectual potential, where does that leave us? Do we compet…

FWIW, Firefox and uBlock on my Android phone will always keep me on that ecosystem. My desire to go into the Apple ecosystem (because of supposed privacy protections) faded as soon…

Is the issue you have with the group of people doing the moderation, or with the idea of the moderation in the first place? Are you certain that its the 'SV engineers' that are doi…