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IcyWindows··on Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground
I don't see how this is different than things replaced decades ago:

Music is a human endeavor and musical recordings hurt musicians, bands, orchestras, etc. Especially those starting out.

IcyWindows··on 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug
Sure, given infinite time, they could diligently try to reproduce every bug across every version of any given product or open source library from a team at Microsoft.

However, if you have 1000s of reports a day, many of them vague with the person hoping it's close enough to a real issue to get paid, it makes sense to me personally that one needs prioritize active issues over tracking down when other issues were fixed.

IcyWindows··on Microsoft Doubles Down on Controversial Quantum Computing Claims
It sucks to have your work made redundant, so it's hard to understand if their critism is founded or just sour grapes.
IcyWindows··on Microsoft Is Bricking the Perpetual Version of Office 2019 for Mac
Is that really correct?

Reading the page, the software needs an update due to Apple breaking it, but 2019 is out of support so Microsoft won't fix the breaking change.

IcyWindows··on Performance of Rust Language [pdf]
Do they even count towards safety if they aren't in release mode?
IcyWindows··on That Methyl Methacrylate Tank
Which "Other jurisdictions manage this"?

I have lived in places with more rules, but that meant we just didn't do it. We eventually gave up.

IcyWindows··on Don't Roll Your Own
I don't know. Someone above mentioned that don't like their browser's date picker. Maybe they are a "middle management figure", but probably not.
IcyWindows··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
Which company doesn't do that?
IcyWindows··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
I'm trained on protected works. Do I need to pay royalties?
IcyWindows··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
One could argue most screenplays are derivative.
IcyWindows··on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]
The video makes the argument that there is a lot of efficiency loss by converting to mechanical energy twice.
IcyWindows··on GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
If you are a person that installs extensions from public sources, it doesn't matter what IDE you use.

If you don't (or can't) install extensions, it also doesn't matter which IDE you use.

IcyWindows··on Hawaii passes law bypassing Citizens United, governor signs it
Individuals should be able to get together and crowd fund a movie about a political figure without the government stopping them.
IcyWindows··on Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)
Yeah, undefined behavior just means not defined in the specification.

I would argue that most languages only have one compiler so it doesn't matter what is in the specification.

IcyWindows··on AI slop is killing online communities
I think sock puppets that reply with text are a lot persuasive than just "likes".

However, I might be not typical in that I don't look at vote scores very often.

IcyWindows··on IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
I worked on a software project make years ago. We spent a lot of money over months doing users studies to figure out the best UI for a narrow demographic.

The final UI was simple and intuitive, but it took a lot of money figuring it out.

I don't think the money would have been spent if our competition could immediately copy what we figured out.

Customers did benefit then, and now, 20 years later, anyone can do it, and humanity is little better off than if no research was done.

IcyWindows··on Talking to strangers at the gym
I think it can be cultivated.

Most people like watching movies or reading books. Other people are the main character of their own life, and I think you can learn to enjoy learning about them.

IcyWindows··on Reverse Engineering SimTower
I see it in 4.6
IcyWindows··on American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were
Isn't the point that there is no way to get reliable data on this?

How would aggregation of unreliable data help?

IcyWindows··on American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were
I've had CPS call me up and question me about about play someone observed through a window.

It's a real thing.

IcyWindows··on I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
I'm talking about the knowledge people "steal" by reading. LLMs and humans both absorb knowledge by reading. You want to tax using that knowledge that was absorbed.

It will be applied to people soon after.

IcyWindows··on Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them
They are where I live
IcyWindows··on I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
So your complaint is that they didn't pay for training data by buying every book found online?

That does seem more reasonable, but makes public libraries also evil.

IcyWindows··on 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet
It happens at the country and/or city level. I figure that counts as a society.
IcyWindows··on 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet
I think it's a good thing that more people are aware that it is a possibility. It was a possibility before, but people would just say "we don't have evidence this has ever occurred"
IcyWindows··on I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
This kind of thinking seems like a road for people to have to pay a license for the rest of their life after going to school for the knowledge they "stole" from their textbooks.
IcyWindows··on 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet
It's now that poorer, less powerful, were caught. I'm sure it's been caught before, but buried.
IcyWindows··on 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet
Example, some countries have laws about operating factories or construction sites in when the outside temperature is too high. So they have artificial underreported those for decades.
IcyWindows··on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
Enabling hyper-v turns your base windows install into a VM host, not a virtual machine itself.
IcyWindows··on Union types in C# 15
The article mentions that one can implement a union type that doesn't do boxing.
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