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sillywabbit··on Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobs
Rushing prematurely into precipitate does sound pretty dangerous.
sillywabbit··on Elite Overproduction
What game-changing insights did the philosophy and political science classes leave out? I'm all ears.
sillywabbit··on Privilege is bad grammar
Hoodies are very comfortable.
sillywabbit··on Suicide Linux (2009)
Maybe you could strive to be better than that.
sillywabbit··on Suicide Linux (2009)
How about Rogue-like Linux?
sillywabbit··on Suicide Linux (2009)
The name seems a little insensitive.
sillywabbit··on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
I wonder if that's why it's called Transport Layer Security.
sillywabbit··on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
End-to-end encryption only means something if you trust the endpoints.
sillywabbit··on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
The editing of the dictionary in that book is more troublesome than the surveillance state and propaganda campaigns.
sillywabbit··on cURL removes bug bounties
Start a lemonade stand?
sillywabbit··on Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
Trotting out fallacy names on regular basis isn't going to win you any points.
sillywabbit··on Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies
I read your piece. Your title is clickbait, and you know it.
sillywabbit··on FFmpeg dealing with a security researcher
For a bug in the LucasArts Smush codec? Why didn't you verify it was an mp4/h264 first?
sillywabbit··on No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off
Not to be confused with:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262731423/the-idea-factory/

sillywabbit··on Django: One ORM to rule all databases
You're working with bits. It's turtles all the way down.
sillywabbit··on Django: One ORM to rule all databases
A brochure for the cult of PostgreSQL and Django by default without a compelling reason otherwise.
sillywabbit··on Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management
As opposed to the person who watched Star Trek and thought scribbling down something they saw on that counted as having vision.
sillywabbit··on I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform
If you're building a website that is accessible to the public at no cost, I don't see the distinction.
sillywabbit··on I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform
If I use the product, I'd expect that feedback to get the same weight as any other customer. And not be dismissed because it came from a 'technical' person.
sillywabbit··on I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform
God forbid an engineer should have an opinion on UI/UX.
sillywabbit··on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
If someone's out to uniquely identify your activity on the internet, your User-Agent string is going to be the least of your problems.
sillywabbit··on Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010)
BASHIR: Out of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?

GARAK: My dear Doctor, they're all true.

BASHIR: Even the lies?

GARAK: Especially the lies.

sillywabbit··on Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism' (2014)
Not even my theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_empathy_problem
sillywabbit··on Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism' (2014)
Having worked with some brilliant people who don't have autism, I'd argue that their hallmark is deficits in cognitive empathy / inability to understand intuitively what autistic people are thinking in real time.
sillywabbit··on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
Two of those three sound more like a bored customer service rep.
sillywabbit··on I've seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI
Sound likes vulnerable people experiencing potentially temporary states of detachment from reality are having their issues exacerbated by something that's touted as a cure all.
sillywabbit··on Media's AI Anthropomorphism Problem
Those experts will generally ask clarifying questions if they don't understand what you're asking, rather than spin you in circles. The reason they're considered experts in the first place is they understand the topic they're sharing information on better than you do. It's not the end users fault that the LLM is spewing nonsense in a way that can be mistaken for human-like.
sillywabbit··on Media's AI Anthropomorphism Problem
Do you think of your non-AI conversational partners as tools as well?
sillywabbit··on I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
There's probably some benefit to having people who will tell you about security issues rather than exploit them. You can't really blame businesses / app devs for wanting to be left alone though.
sillywabbit··on Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?
I really hate cooking.
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