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I’m unfamiliar with the show, but a search turned up the January 13th episode: “ChatGPT Transforms a Classroom and Is ‘M3GAN’ Real?”

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034...

I dunno, he asked for a Mai Tai and they brought him a Piña Colada. And he said no salt on his margarita, but it had salt on it.

Sounds like people still don’t listen to him, poor Milton.

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I first asked GPT-4 “james (a boy) has four sisters, and each sister has three brothers. how many brothers does james have?”[0] and it told me 3 brothers. I then asked it to think though step by step and it said 2.

[0] https://chat.openai.com/share/859baa94-3edb-40f0-9c74-8b1403...

likewise, Worms 2 on PC here (Windows 95)

I wholeheartedly support the blog author.

When my eldest was born I posted the following note on my Facebook wall:

Today, I met you. My words cannot adequately express the hope and happiness you bring to your mother and I. After months of anticipation we are delighted that you are here and healthy, safe and sound.

Like all parents we want to protect you and nourish your individuality. Today I'm making a promise: your identity is yours alone to express.

In this digital era, we share more, more often. But that decision to share is not one we will make for you, we won't create an online presence for you. Only you can decide how you want to be seen by the world.

I later realised that I had posed this on the day they were born, revealing their legal date of birth. I screen-shotted the original, deleted it and then reposted it, adding the following quote:

I don’t share photos of my son online because he hasn’t consented to that sharing, and doesn’t understand what posting photos online means.

I have seen friends post photos of their children on Facebook/Instagram while potty training and in the bath. Who knows how much those kids are going to get bullied in middle / high school when a classmate finds those photos, makes a meme out of them or prints them out and posts them around the school. All because their parents were chasing a dopamine high from a few likes.

It's great to see kids like Gwyneth Paltrows' pushing back[0] against their parents oversharing very publicly, creating a great example for other kids, empowering them to stand up to their parents oversharing.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47722427

Yes.

In 2015 Facebook launched a feature (Scrapbooks[0]) specifically designed to encourage parents to upload and organise photos of their kids.

Their help centre still has an article under /help/scrapbooks [1] titled "Manage Photos of Your Child" with the first heading "How do I create a scrapbook for my child on Facebook?"

[0] https://about.fb.com/news/2015/03/a-new-way-to-organize-phot...

[1] https://www.facebook.com/help/scrapbooks

The first link of Wulf Hein playing the Star-Spangled Banner on a 30,000 year old flute is incredible. To think that someone noodling on a flute could have produced that melody before dogs were domesticated is fascinating.

Doesn’t Laurene Powell Jobs still hold 5.5% of AAPL through the Steve Jobs Trust?

Do Google host their own products on Google Cloud, or are there different sets of data centres for Search/Drive/Gmail vs Google Cloud Customers?

I used to have connectivity and data speed issues at music festivals and large conventions, but both permanent infrastructure at convention centres and temporary towers at parks used for festivals have mitigated this (in my experience).

In both cases the event is planned many months in advance, and there are incentives for both event organisers and telcos to ensure phone subscribers have a good experience (avoids “reception was terrible at Glastonbury” or “I couldn’t make any calls on Vodafone, I should switch network”).

But protests typically lack the timeframe, and (I expect) a sympathetic ear from the telcos. Even if the timeframe is know well in advance, gaining permits to stand up towers (and associated labour, equipment rental) costs money, and spending the money signals implicit support for the cause.

While load sharing among neighbouring towers could alleviate minor increases in traffic (maybe 2x) I can’t see the networks over provisioning the radio and back haul for permanent infrastructure to support a possible 10x surge and then let it sit 90% idle. Dedicated fiber leased lines are expensive.

Maybe protests should instead be organised near convention centres which already have capacity for surge traffic?

> No studies have shown that the potential existence of a protective effect for cardiovascular diseases or type 2 diabetes also reduces the risk of cancer for an individual consumer. Evidence does not indicate the existence of a particular threshold at which the carcinogenic effects of alcohol start to manifest in the human body. As such, no safe amount of alcohol consumption for cancers and health can be established.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...

I see you’ve never met a Gen Alpha tween who spends their free time in Roblox

As a European who moved to California the societal stigma around young ambition in Ireland was brutal. When I started my first company in my 20’s and spoke to friends and family about it a phrase I frequently heard was “ah here, why would you stick your head above the parapet?”[0]

Having seen the kinds of Irish startups that get funding from Irish VCs they both tend to be run by Irish men in their 50’s/60’s who’ve been senior managers at big companies. Having reviewed a couple dozen Irish pitch decks it looks like funding flows based on who you know with little scrutiny given to ideas or even business fundamentals.

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/put-h...

Not entirely accurate. They don’t own 49% yet [0].

Microsoft invested $10B, and get 75% of OpenAI’s profits until they receive $10B and _then_ they get their 49% stock certificate.

[0] https://www.semafor.com/article/01/09/2023/microsoft-eyes-10...

> MCST’s proprietary C/C++ compiler and bootloader will be provided only as binary, because we do not have access to the source code of this part.

Buy a “security focused” computer where the compiler is not open source, and the CPU/ICs have not been decapped, imaged and analysed from a manufacturer with ties to the Russian government? No thank you.

I would not be surprised if there is a hardware Trojan in this machine.

Poor Anguilla - http://ai./

Higher quality product, better customer service, better returns policy.

Make the experience painless for the user, at every stage of the product's lifecycle.

There were $256.9m of trades on FB stock ~14m49s before he announced the story on his timeline. Two trades of 4,287,969 shares.

What is likely to have happened here? Did an institutional investor get wind of the story early? If so, why did the share price jump up?

Rowan is right; this was by far the best conference I've attended.

We invited rms to speak at SkyCon '07[1], but he double booked and ended up not coming to Ireland.

The rider has changed significantly since I received it in late 2006 - http://diffchecker.com/851d9eU

Can anyone point me toward more unique copies of this rider? I would like to be able to keep track of the changes over time.

[1] http://skycon.skynet.ie/2007/

I'm seeing two different WHOIS records (from AS6473 and AS1213), both look compromised. http://pastebin.com/UDWfZuTF http://pastebin.com/jEgvHt8j

I've been eating ZeroCater provided food for the last two weeks, they offer a great selection and it's always of a high grade.

I highly recommend them.

Damn sorry I'm missing it this year, but I'd be useless for a sold 2 days after it.

I can't remember using the internet much at DEFCON. It was pretty solid partying. Now CCC, that's a different story...

Glenn Chapman of AFP is another great old-school journalist who focuses on tech. Well researched, concise, balanced - as good wire stories should be.

http://google.com/news?q=author:Glenn+Chapman

It's fascinating to think that in 1869 there were Transatlantic telegraph links. One could have sat this entrance exam in London while it was being sat in MA simultaneously, with Questions/Answers transmitted digitally.

Having worked as a CSR for three separate telco's, two car companies and an electricity provider, this would be a far slower system to access information than anything I've used.

Someone working a job full-time, 40 hours a week doesn't need a shiny interface, they need a fast interface. That means menus with up to fifty items, memorised TLA's and keyboard short-cuts. It's not pretty, but it get's the job done, and for a CSR that's really all that matters.

‎"Our fibre backbone conforms to the highest level's of physical security", Mr. Ionatamishvili later said - calming worries that any curious eavesdropper could Man-in-the-Middle his countries communications. "We hide at least 70% of it under train tracks or shrubbery."

I like this quote from the conclusion:

"The most important lesson to be taken from my experience with this project is that no single tool is sufficient to solve a reasonably complicated engineering problem"

Our good coverage is in part due to analysis by the likes of Ericsson on user movements/density. Make the laws harsher on storing location data and we could see a drop in network quality down the road.

Having worked as an employee (not contractor) for 3 of the 4 major Irish cell companies I know that data like this is heavily protected internally (I never saw any subscriber location information). There are data protection laws already in place to stop this information leaking.

Why do you want to limit the information a company can keep on its users? Are you a fan of this new EU cookie directive?