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smallnix··on Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it
> in order to do anything with CTP over USB, you first have to do challenge-response authentication with the device. The key is static [... ]

Is this some legal thing so they can claim that a protection was circumvented? E.g. to void warranty or be able to sue?

smallnix··on Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions
> I routinely have them design their own experiment loops,

Exactly, so that's the person required in the dev loop. You directed it, a person.

smallnix··on Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
You took the time to write out this comment. To the benefit of those who read it, please expand upon where the article is shallow and what content you miss.
smallnix··on NASA Announces Realignment
Basically, NASA is reshaped to fit the white house mold.
smallnix··on Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)
Imagine the factor overlooked is the nasty but nutritional hospital food they got when receiving the transplant (assuming they got hospitalized).
smallnix··on Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
Oh no. I did not want to cause someone to work on the weekend. I hope it's his hobby!
smallnix··on Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques
But why do we have to rely on experts to experience 'proper' art?

My naive thought was, that Art is not like a bridge, which would collapse if built by amateur's.

But perhaps art has effects on us which are beneficial and these would actually 'collapse'.

smallnix··on Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
There's a minor bug with chrome in android where the menu will not close when you tap outside the menu or on the menu link/button
smallnix··on First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
> likely to be sorely disappointed if/when they get their hands on Mythos.

At first they will be delighted. So much money and time saved. When their adversaries get their hands on their system (with or without Mythos), then they'll be sorely disappointed.

smallnix··on Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
I thought this has been done to capture keystrokes of a keyboard next to the phone already

2011 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221609349_spiPhone_...

smallnix··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
The main issue with account suspension is not boring to me.
smallnix··on Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
A nailgun hitting nails? This is going nowhere..
smallnix··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
Yes, in the EU they call it 'sharing'
smallnix··on Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
It doesn't matter if you specify system behavior in code, as a LLM conversation, agent instructions, or UML. In all cases you need to be able to translate business needs into very specific computer behavior. This isn't something a layperson can do. But it democratized software development to all who can, but can't write code.
smallnix··on Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer
What is the difference between a consultant with coding experience vs a FDE?
smallnix··on Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)
Would love to see a study looking at people who spend significant time in video games that require spatial navigation.

That could even be a form of therapy after diagnosis (which seems to become easier with biomarkers).

smallnix··on Reddit considers Face ID to combat spam
Is this a mem or where does this global cross platform push to gather biometrics come from?
smallnix··on How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers
He does have a German wikipedia page
smallnix··on Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists
It's not useless. It might be expected, but now it's more certain. This allows planning with it.
smallnix··on Warranty Void If Regenerated
You can look at a tree and feels things by yourself. Also there's the shared readership.
smallnix··on Levels of Agentic Engineering
Reminds me of a colleague who said they don't need to learn to type faster, since they use the time to think what they want to write.
smallnix··on Levels of Agentic Engineering
A good rule would then be to capture such reasoning, at least when made during the session with the agent, in the commit messages the agent creates.
smallnix··on Meta acquires Moltbook
Good PR move Meta
smallnix··on First Multi-Behavior Brain Upload
The dystopia nobody saw coming: eternal life in a mosquito infested matrix.
smallnix··on I resigned from OpenAI
Uighur concentration camps? Falun Gong organ harvesting?
smallnix··on Put the Zipcode First
The visit Japan website for faster customs clearing does that. Zip first with auto fill. Very nice: https://www.vjw.digital.go.jp
smallnix··on NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]
Prediction market?
smallnix··on Writing code is cheap now
I think I misread this as an encouragement to pick up work out of order w.r.t prioritization.

That coding got cheaper shouldn't change prioritization post planning. It should definitely factor into prioritization at planning time.

smallnix··on Nobody gets promoted for simplicity
> you also understand what the point of the interview is

Exactly, it's also a test of ability to conform. Especially useful to weed out rogue behavior picked up in startups.

smallnix··on Writing code is cheap now
> any time our instinct says "don't build that, it's not worth the time" fire off a prompt anyway

I disagree with this sentiment. This approach leads down to huge maintenance burden.

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