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chrisjj··on I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious
I too am entertained by LLMs.

Morbid fascination.

chrisjj··on I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious
> I struggle to believe at an intuitive level that autonomous R&D is so ingenious.

Why would anyone go to the effort of struggling?

chrisjj··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
Thank you Misanthropic for reminding the world you cannot be trusted to organise a piss up in a brewery.
chrisjj··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
> While no chatbot can ride a bike currently

Let us skip the strawman.

The point is knowledge not ability.

> not a scientific claim

Ain't that the truth.

> it's a colloquial exaggeration

Agreed.

chrisjj··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
Odd. Claude says it does not.
chrisjj··on Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues
Each status page update requires preapproval by the PR dept.
chrisjj··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
> why a JIT wouldn't work

Uh? It would work via a file - as AOT.

chrisjj··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
> all human knowledge

I know how to ride a bike.

Does your chatbot?

chrisjj··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
Audit queries do not require control access.
chrisjj··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
> I still don't see why the expert has to be remote

Because then he can get paid more.

chrisjj··on Northflank Breached
> and in the meantime you can secure software.

... in fantasy land.

chrisjj··on Northflank Breached
> There is zero reason to suggest security is impossible.

One reason: There is zero reason to suggest security is possible.

chrisjj··on Northflank Breached
> Presumably it means much more behavioral security and inherent friction built in to everything we do.

Ironic, after decades of defrictioning.

chrisjj··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Intetested to know then why you'd think some are not.
chrisjj··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
How on earth would anyone think they can cover you?
chrisjj··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
> who knows maybe the Binance guy actually made a deal to send $5B of crypto for a really cool NFT when drunk

... or when sober.

chrisjj··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Someone else's?

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ledger-crypto-wallets-comp...

chrisjj··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Perhaps time to face up to the fact that computers are not a safe place to store crypto.
chrisjj··on Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic risk' to humankind ahead of blockbuster share
It is a disclaimer. "We warned you, so you survivors on Luna can't sue us."

And no, they don't control it.

chrisjj··on Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
Needs reporting to the RSPCA.

:)

chrisjj··on Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?
A: Exhaustion.
chrisjj··on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
> I understand the truth is upsetting

To you, for sure.

Your quote fails to corroborate your claim.

chrisjj··on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
> Europe is too busy mandating that every citizen use a Google or Apple phone for digital ID

Total fiction.

chrisjj··on Apple Music 404 Not Found
Would... and was! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Zen
chrisjj··on Apple Music 404 Not Found
I did not find pulling the wheel down to push the cursor up to be satisfying.
chrisjj··on eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media
True title: eMudhra: Private key compromise of Intermediate Certificates
chrisjj··on The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
So might be corrected if the agent's output is found not what the programmer intended.
chrisjj··on The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
Show us a C UB that went off hacking a website.
chrisjj··on The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
And does the "agent" say when the agent's output is not what the programmer intended?
chrisjj··on Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
"it remains unclear how the actor acquired exploit information prior to disclosure."
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