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"AI dementia"? NB psychotic delusions are an optional feature of dementia

> One reason why journalists, activists, and residents have been able to learn so much about what police use Flock for is that the company has built auditing tools that the public …

It's absolutely nuts that there's so much volume of low effort cryptocurrency transfers that replacing clipboard contents with a different wallet address on people not blocking ads…

Would that require a watershed event to clearly establish the importance/risk of privacy though? For example, right now it seems like most big software companies w/ strong security…

There's a pretty good 2008 Mexican scifi film "sleep dealer" that covers this topic more or less

Sure, "authenticity" evaporates under close inspection but it's still a good proxy for quality

Brand differentiation, not art

> Confidence is flagged: ..... > The big picture > The structural reverse-engineering is comprehensive (every subsystem mapped, both cross-page mechanisms resolved ... > Confidence…

Ha, I agree most of his books evoke having been written during stimulant binges; rich and detailed world building in the beginnings transition to incoherent plot driven action at t…

Domain expertise combined with a QA mindset could replace SWE, but consistent QA mindset is rare

Lower lift to add accessibility tree as a new feature to Linux desktop environments, vs de-enshittifying MS and MacOS desktops?

There is some real world value to selecting for people whose learning is more resilient under pressure

All of Silksong did this really well - Killing the bosses is the point of the game; each boss fight starts out frustrating and becomes quite fun, but at the point where the fight b…

Honest question, what isn't compatible? Where I work we've simply replaced node with bun across a lot of overcomplicated + crappy projects, and on my work+personal computers I alia…

A picture is worth a thousand words; this article about pictures contains no pictures and too many words. Probably AI slop

A lot of discussion about self-checkout fraud, but these tags are only for shoppers' convenience and don't control pricing - One tag goes in front of that SKU on display so you can…

Oh FFS claude code is the only reason I have a pro claude subscription. I don't even use my personal subscription all that much after spending all day with claude/bedrock at work. …

> Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to produce quickly or cheaply. It takes time, rare expertis…

I'm a big fan of soaking in hot water and have noticed that cardiac function seems to have a massive effect on heat tolerance as measured vs body temperature. For example, if I've …

I'm familiar with Haxe through the game Dead Cells, which has absolutely exquisite controls/gameplay and graphics

Should have hired marketing people instead of app developers

I'm sure the article is broadly correct but in 3 separate academic institutions I've worked for in labs the assigned/monogrammed PPE coats were light blue, light red, and dark blue…

That being said it's maybe a valid claim under "tortuous interference" theory, i.e. OpenCode damaged Anthropic by interfering with the contractual ToS agreement between Anthropic a…