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exe34··on Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn
It's all about consent, isn't it, we don't consent to advertising in every public space and yet we can't get away from it.
exe34··on Sylphide OS: a general-purpose OS for microcontroller-based computers
Claude managed to get idf v6 to work in a docker container, but I've ripped that out now. would you say that most of the issues you had with the p4 was the board, rather than the underlying cpu? the one I have in mind is more this sort of thing: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009278783008.html (as opposed to a SBC like the rpi).
exe34··on Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
Could you explain for those of us who are a bit slower? Why would the absence of a rich sugar daddy for python be evidence that it can't be done?
exe34··on Sylphide OS: a general-purpose OS for microcontroller-based computers
Thanks! I too am going baremetal, as I prefer 5 second builds to 45 minutes - but yes the board sounds like a bit of a pain...
exe34··on Sylphide OS: a general-purpose OS for microcontroller-based computers
Hi, Could you say a few words what makes this board tricky? I've wanted to get one for a similar reason as the OP, although I'm thinking a scheme-like VM with GUI.
exe34··on Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
No react then?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39019001

exe34··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
I'm closing this down as duplicate and pointless.
exe34··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
Yes, the law is an ass.
exe34··on Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents
This is not idiocracy. It's the prequel. In idiocracy, they understood that they were dumb and put the smart guy in charge.
exe34··on Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
This looks like the classic "AI can do everybody else's job but mine still needs me".

I know knowledge workers who throw what you give them into the slop machine and return the slop, but I don't need them, I can feed the slop machine myself. I still need those who have experience and taste that the machine hasn't got yet.

exe34··on Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit (2025)
Couldn't they just build a runway there for the private jets?
exe34··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
I was referring to the comment about private vs public funding. Yes, the only relevant fact is about the morality of hiding knowledge behind exorbitant pay walls. Academics submit papers freely, and sometimes pay for the privilege, peer reviewers work for free, and then the rent seekers charge everybody to read it. It's immoral. I agree.
exe34··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
> he was again concealing his actions because he knew they were wrong.

No, you conceal your actions if you believe others will try to stop you. It has nothing to do with right or wrong.

exe34··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
What annoys me is that when I asked Claude to use code I had already written with selenium to scrape a web page, it refused and told me it wasn't going to get into an arms race with cloudflare. One rule for them and another for us.
exe34··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
Eh, I assume the humanities are a tiny portion of the funding for academia. Their equipment is what, coloured pencils and expensive tea? Hardly anything compared to a large hadron collider.
exe34··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Cries in mid2012 mac book air. This one refuses to die, and it does everything I need except LLMs (but I have a desktop with a 3090), so I'm stuck with it...
exe34··on Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
The only issue right now is that the "free press" begins l belongs to the few. Their purpose is mostly to entertain and drive up antagonism towards the enemies du jour.
exe34··on US designates helium as a critical material
The rocket equation is a very harsh mistress.
exe34··on US designates helium as a critical material
The waiting list for your mri is going to be very long.
exe34··on US designates helium as a critical material
There are other sources of energy. With helium, once it's gone, there's nothing to replace it.
exe34··on Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections
> I can only see Meta dissolving as a solution

I wonder if an alternative could be found - for example the state funds an independent news organisation that gets access to everything they are doing by law, and turns up at offices, and asks questions, joins meetings, etc. Refusing to share information counts as criminal and a director gets shipped to prison every week until the situation resolves itself.

exe34··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
> This is also leading into the prospects of we have these massively profitable corportations who are on the cusp of firing large % of high income people. Whats the tax implication of losing 60K engineering staff level saleries

Muh job creators! You can't tax your way to growth!

Well actually, they are now job destroyers. Tax the fuckers.

exe34··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Hah I know a professor that retired and never stopped working on his projects. He just stopped handling paperwork at the university.
exe34··on Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless
Nothing is obligatory - you can always choose to starve.
exe34··on Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless
I route my own domain email to Gmail and do a regular Google takeout, but even the domain can be taken away if you're naughty.
exe34··on Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
I was going to comment "I bet it's pissed" and then worried about drawing dang on myself, but you started it... Also: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1254917172263794.

"Wild? I was absolutely livid!"

exe34··on Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers
Blasphemy, the invisible hand of the market is supposed to ..... somehow lower prices.
exe34··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
Only if they can show their work and argue how they came to the conclusion. Otherwise they have the same "subconscious" bias which is the training corpus.
exe34··on Mini brain organoids ‘reading’ Braille key step towards biohybrid computing
I have no fingers and I must read Braille. (But I really want to scream).
exe34··on Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened
Yes that's the obvious case for the "we can't be sure". It's the classic example really. It's not what I asked.
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