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itopaloglu83··on Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death
Unjust justice delivered fast is not justice, it’s systematic injustice.

Companies are not doing this for faster problem resolution, they’re doing this to shield themselves from the consequences of their own actions.

itopaloglu83··on Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death
In general, most issues are being redirected to forced arbitration and not enough people can or effort to sue these companies, so in actual effect, they’re immune one might say.
itopaloglu83··on Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death
Forced arbitration is creating a parallel legal system where certain companies are excluded from the consequences of their own actions. One might even say they’re becoming a protected class even.
itopaloglu83··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
Let’s reverse the situation, they were able to add ads to sport events, so they can definitely remove ads and show the main event cameras if they wanted to. But they’re picking up showing ads indirectly through some other service.
itopaloglu83··on New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb
I genuinely wish there was a magical way to just disassemble the whole pyramid and put it back together without any damage.
itopaloglu83··on New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb
Do you blame them for trying to protect and control things? It might be a little extreme, but we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun.
itopaloglu83··on The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
Well, as far as I remember, the Link 16 was invented around the 1970s where aircraft could share real-time data in a combat zone.

The weather information can easily be transmitted every minute and it can be nicely visualized in the cockpit instead of being crammed into cryptic abbreviations and ancient codes.

Similarly, we are aware of the precise aircraft location and it's intended course, I'm talking about commercial airlines here, so we already know where they're going and what the approach path will be etc.

I find it hard to accept that we're collecting terabytes of telemetry from engines and all the other equipment on the aircraft, but we expect to communicate the weather and traffic information in verbal ways.

There are so many good ways we can solve the underlying requirements, but I think it's all stuck on the cost of implementation and who's going to be making money from it.

itopaloglu83··on The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
There is no need for pilots or anyone to type anything.

Weather data can be published every minute and shown live as a full map over the screen, not as random abbreviations of wind and cloud coverage.

And we already know where each aircraft is, and where they took off, and where they're headed. So practically speaking the radio talk can be limited to only the important communication and emergencies, while increasing the situational awareness by at least ten fold.

itopaloglu83··on The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
That sounds like a system that was bound to fail, because it was kept limited to a certain range of capabilities.

One can easily imagine a system that broadcasts the weather and clearance, and even aircraft location data close to real-time, and provide great situational awareness to everyone involved.

I don't think it's acceptable to put tens of thousands of people within a crowded airspace and not do everything in our power to keep things organized and secure.

itopaloglu83··on The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
I don’t understand why we’re using a voice based system to pass along a couple of structs worth of data for decades now.

You want to get your approach clearance or weather report? Just call up the ATC on busy line with bunch of people talking fast and over each other.

itopaloglu83··on Claude is a Contrarian
On a daily basis I find myself telling Claude to stop over complicating things and to follow my instructions, not what it wants to do.

It’s simply exhausting.

itopaloglu83··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Or they would start accepting money for remotely installing apps, just like the bloatware most phones and computers come with.
itopaloglu83··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Since they're not liable for damages, they simply don't care enough to check the ads.
itopaloglu83··on Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
Arbitrary code execution in Notepad. That’s just insane, regardless of how they added as a “feature”.
itopaloglu83··on Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
My neighbor thinks that they can increase their 100Mbps ISP speed by having 5 or 6 access points at 2.4GHz in their 1400sq ft (~140m2) apartment.

There’s so much interference that the package dropout rate is around 40% at 2.4GHz usually.

itopaloglu83··on Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
Then we calculate the Bytes to see how fast we can download a file.
itopaloglu83··on YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing
Exactly. We already have a lot of videos with the phrase “what until the end, you wouldn’t believe what happened” and similarly we’re now going to have a lot of mumbling in the first part of videos.
itopaloglu83··on Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
+1

I keep finding myself typing “stop overcomplicating everything” multiple times a day as well.

itopaloglu83··on Man loses so much weight employer doesn't recognize him
3500 Calories per pound of fat, so he was running a daily calorie deficit of around 930.
itopaloglu83··on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere
Exactly, and frequently it also responds to the latest prompt forgetting everything else in the conversation.

I don’t remember where I saw it, but I think there’s also a smaller agent paraphrasing my requests to the agent because I remember being angry and saying aiming sarcastic about an issue and the thinking notes said the user is angry do this blah blah, but then the Claude claim I asked for that specific solution.

I think they’re running some optimizations and multi level agents etc. tests to reduce costs.

itopaloglu83··on FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies
In other words, now that the public funding dried up and everybody is asking for the results, let’s change goal post, so that we can claim victory.

An incredible amount of money has been granted and taken as profit for private companies with little to show and now the prices are unaffordable, but not because of the cost of infrastructure but because of the monopolistic market.

Capitalism for profits, socialism for costs.

itopaloglu83··on What the $20 Burrito Debate Gets Wrong About Affordability
The article feels very disconnected from the experience of millions of people to tone of gaslighting.
itopaloglu83··on YouTube Offers Creators Millions to Not Work with Netflix
YouTube spent millions promoting shorts at the expensive of long form content and now that people are leaving they’re scrambling to keep only a few big names. What about every small channel that makes me come to YouTube to begin with?
itopaloglu83··on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere
Yes, maybe there should be an STE100 only mode.

I still have some promotional credits and use them with Fable, and the answers are night and day in my particular use case.

itopaloglu83··on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere
Kind of unrelated but a while ago I was trying to cancel a Zoom contract and the contract manager’s emails had urls to their articles etc. with utm source ChatGPT in them.
itopaloglu83··on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere
I frequently find myself instructing Opus 5 to stop overcomplicating things.

It just wants to talk jargon heavy and add unnecessary noise to the conversation.

I wonder it’s related to text watermarking somehow.

itopaloglu83··on Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
I used to use my emails to find where I bought something and got bitten by this as well.

When searching a particular term or a brand name, let’s say an electronic equipment, it’s showing me everything with electronic in it.

Surely they will start hiding stuff from our purchase history or start adding ads there as well.

itopaloglu83··on US Government is pushing to gain unprecedented access to your medical records
Someone is going to scoop up all the health data and either train a new AI or just sell it to the highest bidder or both.
itopaloglu83··on Comcast Is Turning Its Routers into Motion Detectors
Philips Hue does something similar with their lights, where at least three lights can be used to automate lights within a certain zone.

Of course Comcast will sell this information and track us, and find more dystopian new ways.

itopaloglu83··on Why packaging is moving from 1D to 2D barcodes
Why does it require internet connection to read the 2d barcode though?
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