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Lol, my partner wants to do this for our faucet cat
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Too scared to be a good shit bird it seems like.
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Controversial
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Nobody remotely left of center complains about leftists more than this man. He's unbearable to follow.
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Using LLMs has become compulsory in software engineering partly bc of the hyped promise of increased productivity and partly bc it actually increases productivity. They still suck sometimes and create issues, but tools in the space are evolving rapidly
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I love to see how fast I can toggle it tho
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They already have that with smartphones. Apps on your phone sell your location to shady third party data brokers. Gov buys data. Technically not snooping. All good and legal.
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No that graphic is fucking insane and you're right to call it out
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Tracts like the JWs use!
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Truly cuckoo wall of text. Hard not to dismiss this like you do your Qanon uncle on FB but this is the fucking VP
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End of the article said they have stolen 200k from citizens over the last two years! Neat!
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I still want to believe performance art.
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How's Solana? The crypto that Trump's shitcoin uses?
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People are finding this. Because of the reinforcement training, they maximally provide output that will please the user which does include lying and manipulating. It is not a "good faith" companion but just fishing for thumbs ups.
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When JPMorgan is scared, shit...
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I've always found this very interesting. On one hand, professional athletes seem dramatically overpayed, on the other hand, their bodies are at least in part, instruments of someone else.
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Im not cheering on this advancement, but you can put crypto on a small device and put it under your mattress. There will be evidence you sent it to a bitcoin wallet but if they can't find the wallet it's very well secured.
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What a braindead and disconnected headline. Thanks.
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That is very thorough. And shocking
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That story seems like some marketing spin by Grok
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WTF. How is that her read? I'm left handed by choice bc it seemed cool. NO!
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Only compelling case Ive heard from coworkers who use Cursor over copilot is that cursor let's you define cursor rules which it uses as context to write better code. You can do something similar with copilot but it doesn't use them by default (yet)
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So tasty!
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Under the guise of efficiency and without explicit legal approval, the world's richest man is working tirelessly to acquire direct access to all government systems. Access to the computers means direct control. His cuts to foreign aid have already killed. He's cutting US aid to its own citizens next
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Uhhhhh
> “If the government buys a tank, that’s GDP,” Lutnick said Sunday. “But paying 1,000 people to think about buying a tank is not GDP. That is wasted inefficiency, wasted money. And cutting that, while it shows in GDP, we’re going to get rid of that.”
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It's the next paragraph that gives readers permission to not dig too deep. They said they'll fix it!
> That's something Scott is well aware of.
"We are going to do our job," he said. "We're going to make sure that we don't take a problem from one neighborhood and plant it in another neighborhood."
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Less worried about complete hallucinations and more worried about obscure solutions that pass the test suite but create confusion for future devs and make code harder to maintain over time.
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Have you tried beta features like using o3-mini or copilot edits?
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Not that weird. Programmers don't sell books or paintings.
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I know just enough to have a vague idea of what you mean when you say "flipping the vector". I think this is a surprising result. Semantically, is fulfilling a request for code maliciously directionally similar to fulfilling a request for a short story with a story of helping Hitler? I guess it is
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Not just young coders but managers and vps. Fast is superior to secure and maintainable for many. At least some companies will be willing to make the trade offs.
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I've seen enough movies to know where this one is going!
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There's a saying in security communities I've heard come up. Something like "if you have access to the hardware, you control the machine". Id love to read from a security minded person who knows the topology of the targeted departments kinda from that angle
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Buying a competitor is a creative idea. Is it possible he was convinced we could quickly scale to AGI and now he's been convinced we can't?
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Without knowing any historical context on how US has participated in Eugenics in the past or knowledge of how deeply upset Elon is that apartheid ended, the actual policy in the EO looks kinda good. You're so right to call it out early bc these are warning signs!!
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Yeah $790 for the lowest is way more challenging to come up with for the lowest bracket than 36k for someone making nearly a mil a year. Truly sickening