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walt_grata··on US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
If that new economic activity has lopsided benefits and will never pay off for those negatively impacted by those price increases, then yeah shut it down or regulate it so that the benefits are shared equally by all. Shorter version, if the new economic activity is exploitive of people and their communities, then shut it down hard.
walt_grata··on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
Or we can prioritize single payer and ubi along with other social safety nets to try to ensure its there for anyone who needs it and not those lucky enough to win the capitalism lottery
walt_grata··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
They absolutely try to. Who do you think is lobbying for increased technology in classrooms?
walt_grata··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
There is a stark difference in sorting addresses and reading a test you wrote in a subject you're an SME/teacher for.
walt_grata··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
is there a way to use it that prevents "tell me the answer", if not that is what enough students will gravitate towards that it will be harmful to society at large. If there is an agent that only works as an infinitely patient tutor, that will under no circumstance do the work for you, then sure. Just have expereience educators dictate the way the agent works and is used, not some marketing dweeb or MBAsshole.
walt_grata··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
If the Agent is designed for that type of interaction and not "do it for me so i don't have to know the details" then yes, but currently that is not supported so teenagers and children will absolutely use it as a "don't make me think" button
walt_grata··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
You still have to double check the Agent's grading as they still make frequent minor mistakes, that while they don't really impact coding as much or can be caught with tests, that is not the case here.
walt_grata··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
using AI to tell you the answer means you don't actually know or understand the answer. You know the entire point of education
walt_grata··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
that is an absolutely repugnant take from anyone at Google (I will not attribute this to a legal entity that cannot think, a human being made this call and is accountable for it). They are not educators and should have absolutely zero say in how schools do things.
walt_grata··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
Its also an approach backed up by research and studdies. I still cannot believe there are people in education that can maintain that humans under 25 arent done neurologically developing ans have issues managing distractions and that tech in the classroom is a good idea (outside of classes deliberately teaching technology)
walt_grata··on Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot
I'll bet the person protesting would be of the opinion that it should be delivered by a person regardless of what it was.

Regardless there is a stark difference between medication, which is necessary, and hot prepared meals, which are a luxury.

walt_grata··on NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
Heres what you should do to be safe. On the user's settings/profile/whatever user page you have, add a cancel button. When the user clicks it say "are you sure? Yes/no". If the user clicks yes, cancel the account.

No extra hoops at all.

walt_grata··on The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding
Im one of the more mid to resistant folks and this has never been just a job to me. I did take immense satisfaction from learning, deeply understanding how things work and the consist and repeatable behavior, which is just not there with ai. Especially the consist/repeatable behavior, which to me computers that behave inconsistently aren't nearly as worthwhile.
walt_grata··on A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
I love how some people think the scale of a problem doesnt matter. Like yeah we has data brokerw 50 years ago, way less of them and the scope they could collect data about was significantly more limited. That matters a lot
walt_grata··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Its going to be an uphill battle. Every story about job losses, consequences to the community from building a datacenter (real or perceived), eminent domain case that blows up, plus all the slop on every platform. Not to mention a lot of normies think techbros are obnoxious, and that is who is hyping ai.

They'll need to show their goal is to help humanity and that all the other peoole arent acceptable collateral damage. Since those other people get to vote.

walt_grata··on The JavaScript Midlife Crisis
When did the love of learning disappear from this field? I remember when everyone i talked to was learning something new just to better themselves?
walt_grata··on Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits
I swap between kindle and audible daily. The syncing is generally good, byt i have had issues with some books.

This alone has caused my reading to skyrocket. I swear i do 1-2 books a week this way

walt_grata··on Salesforce Global Outage
They wont feel good if the product they pay for doesnt work
walt_grata··on Dario, Please
Then go broad. It being slightly challenging to legislation and hold people accountable as soon as the model does something.
walt_grata··on AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
Dont they also create and score the tests
walt_grata··on Making Startups Powerful
Very much so in my recollection
walt_grata··on Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco
Dont forget beef
walt_grata··on Making Startups Powerful
Once YC companies started having a negative impact on people and communities. Airbnb and gig worker stuff seems to be the start of it.
walt_grata··on LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
Im 45, and i can tell you getting a cell phone absolutely destroyed my ability to memorize phone numbers. During the 90s when i was in highschool i has all my friends numbers, parents work numbers, etc... memorized, i only know my parents and wife now.

If you don't use a skill, that skill atrophies

walt_grata··on Making the Internet Boring
I deleted almost every app on my phone. I use reddit a bit and hn, but that's all the social stuff i do. Hell i use a pixel and disabled YouTube. It's a bit of a challenge at fist, but much much better after you adjust
walt_grata··on The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI
Is there a company that has been more damaging to the software industry than these jokers?
walt_grata··on Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
In ops we call it monitor blindness. Just constant asks get annoying and folks just want to make it stop
walt_grata··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
I read it as management only knows how to evaluate and reward change even if its just for the sake of the promotion process
walt_grata··on Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
Sure it does. I still nees to know the correct mathematics to type into the calculator and the calculator is deterministic. If you don't understand it without the llm explaining it, how can you be sure you actually understand it? How can you catch mistakes made due to it being non-deterministic? Ask another llm? Same problem
walt_grata··on Why write code in 2026
We have more code than we need. Proof for me is every "smart" device that worked better before we put a computer in it.
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