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robbywashere_··on Now that's what I call an hacker
Agreed. No bad boys allowed in the Good Boys club!
robbywashere_··on A $300k Salary Feels Like $100k in the Priciest US Cities
$1,136 for Cleveland ?!
robbywashere_··on A $300k Salary Feels Like $100k in the Priciest US Cities
What sort of power plays are we meant to be doing? Is this like 'The Alpha does x y z' type stuff?
robbywashere_··on Spinning Diagrams with CSS
If Leonardo Da Vinci knew css
robbywashere_··on Why Perl?
For a bit of fun, I'd recommend starting off with an ugly bash script when you just want to hackily and happily get something done, then asking chatgpt to convert it to another language(go? perl? ruby?) It is interesting to see the trade-offs.
robbywashere_··on Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
It’s interesting to see adware go from being this undesirable loathed and parasitic thing being covertly installed on a users pc to Microsoft now shipping their own.
robbywashere_··on Ageing studies in five animals suggests how to reverse decline
Meanwhile... the life expectancy in the United States is on the decline.
robbywashere_··on Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno Functions
What does deno give you over node? I am assuming by first impression there are some standard libraries in these functions which aren't available otherwise in node?
robbywashere_··on Show HN: Live coaching app for remote SWE interviews, uses Whisper and GPT-4
That has to feel so awesome to reject these wannabe posers. Please please please tell us more :)
robbywashere_··on We need a more sophisticated debate about AI
Irrational emotional humans utilizing AI for destructive purposes will come way before “ AIs becoming sentient and causing harm for their own ends.”
robbywashere_··on Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters
What's the alternative for short distance traveling then? Honest question. Does one hail a cab? Or ride hailing apps still banned or looked down on?
robbywashere_··on Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping
This leaves me wondering. Who and what is the biggest existential threat to humanity, sentient artificial intelligence or tyrannical governments?
robbywashere_··on If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason
I tend to think people who are out to profit from AI, like to push the powerful and dangerous narrative. They want the notoriety.
robbywashere_··on Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down
This is so asinine. A superb example of how people fear what they do not understand. Technology often is no exception to that.
robbywashere_··on That “Dreaded” Commute Is Good for Your Health
Propaganda
robbywashere_··on Employees are feeding sensitive data to ChatGPT, raising security fears
The real innovation of chatgpt will be how you go about getting permission to use it from your corpo middle management overlords.
robbywashere_··on Scientists developed simple way to cook rice that cut calories absorbed by half
Who is getting obese eating rice?
robbywashere_··on Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume
In 5 years time everyone is just going to be hurling pages and pages of ai generated babble at each other. Either party not bothering to read any of it.
robbywashere_··on ChatGPT Plugins
Is this how product placement and advertisements find their way in? I am anticipating the usefulness to decline in the same way google.com search has by being so absolutely inundated with ads. Maybe I am cynical
robbywashere_··on People had to be convinced of the usefulness of electricity
Curious about how the blogs and aggregators of the yesteryear referred to these proponents of this new technology, was it A/C-bros or D/C-bros?
robbywashere_··on A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview
The current state of tech interviews is a zero interest rate phenomenon
robbywashere_··on 'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True'
I mimic language, therefore I am.
robbywashere_··on Experts say humans could be wrestling AI for control by 2035
All this talk about big scary AI technology being our ruin when really all I see is another tool wielded by old fashioned brutal capitalism.
robbywashere_··on Qualified Immunity Is Burning a Hole in the Constitution
It’s bonkers police are under no obligation to protect citizens[0] and also immune to any personal consequences of their actions (qualified immunity)

It’s like they have a license to do whatever in the hell they want.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po...

robbywashere_··on The rise and fall of Microsoft’s new Bing
Google propaganda
robbywashere_··on The save icon is a floppy disk, even though they became obsolete 20y ago
There are plenty of words and expressions with by-gone etymology. Why would iconography be expected to be any different?
robbywashere_··on An investigation into Apple’s new Relay network
Very fancy! Currently in Thailand, defeated by:

“Private Relay is not available in Thailand due to local laws and regulations.“

“Privacy is a fundamental human right.” Unless local laws and regulations say otherwise.

robbywashere_··on Portugal’s digital nomad bubble
There’s a comment somewhere about colonialism of the past and irony in this thread but I haven’t found it yet
robbywashere_··on EFF Takes a Stance: San Francisco Shouldn’t Arm Robots
I think the term “robot” is being used incorrectly here. Police are using military grade killing machines, not robots.
robbywashere_··on EFF Takes a Stance: San Francisco Shouldn’t Arm Robots
Police are trained to aim for center mass because that is the most effective take down of a target by a human hand. So I would assume, the machine with a gun attached to it, would have the technology to instantly kill said target with a headshot. I have no question that the tech exists to instantly see and aim with millimeter precision. Could this same precision be used to non lethally incapacitate a target ? —- I’m a cynic. I am having trouble assuming a precise machine with a weapon attached to it in the first place would exist as an effort to employ non lethal force.
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