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xthexder

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  • METR AI Coding Research Inconclusive Because Dev Participants Refused to Complete Tasks Without AI

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  • If anything my personal experience is the opposite. When using AI the way work wants me to, with multiple agents going in the background, I've completely lost any sort of "flow state" I normally get when focused on a problem. It's no fun anymore, and the only thing keeping me going is working on my personal projects without AI in my free time... I didn't get in to this to become an AI babysitter.

  • Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead

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  • I've seen it personally at work where the AI generates its own metadata files containing uuids that it made up, and they end up being duplicates from elsewhere in the project. Unfortunately I can't really share links.

    I'm sure you could find examples in GitHub issues

    Edit: I had an honest look, and can't seem to find anything that isn't AI slop in web searches anymore... GUIDs aren't exactly the most common thing in the first place, so maybe I overstated how common this is.

  • Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead

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  • There's actually lots of evidence of people using AI to generate GUIDs that are infact not globally unique.

  • Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own

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  • First time?

  • ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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  • It's things like this that make me glad I'm still renting. Anything that breaks is the landlord's problem.

  • 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

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  • Can confirm, my linux server with ECC RAM has 1040 days of uptime now without a single issue.

  • Canadians are drinking the least amount of alcohol in the last 20 years on average: Statistics Canada

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  • I still don't think vaping in public is a great idea. Vape "smoke" still does have a smell until it dissipates (your lungs aren't a perfect THC filter), and if you're in the room with someone you would definitely notice. At least it doesn't stick around for too long after like actual smoke.

  • 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

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  • This checks out with Linus Torvalds saying most OS crashes across linux AND windows are caused by hardware issues, and also why he uses ECC RAM.

  • An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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  • I'm just not sure. It seems contradictory to me, since the manufacturer of a physical device is also "a person or entity that controls the operating system". Unless they sell the hardware with no OS installed? This exemption doesn't seem to mean anything.

    With how they've defined "App Store", basically any product that can download applications is affected by this, including devices that don't even have the concept of a user account. I'm a little unclear still on what's required of an entirely offline OS.

  • An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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  • Is a mobile phone not a "physical device"? An operating system is always has to run on physical hardware, so does this just invalidate the entire thing?

  • Sorry, can't do scarves.

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  • The last two-minute-papers video on the subject makes it look like a solved problem, until you notice the stats in the corner are measuring "minutes per frame"

  • Sorry, can't do scarves.

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  • Careful, that table is critical for getting airflow over that server in the corner. If you move the table it will overheat and cause a cascade of failures and bankrupt the entire company.

  • AI advice

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  • Bold of Gemini to imply any sort of liability for what it says. Google's lawyers really don't want that to be the case.

  • The green lean mean killing machine

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  • I had a whole wild mushroom farm going on my front lawn earlier this winter

  • Please @Dessalines, I bet all my savings...

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  • Please don't use these betting sites...non of this is regulated and insider trading is running rampant.

  • OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’

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  • The classic:

    Somebody: "I like pancakes."

    The crowd: "Oh, so you must hate waffles then? You monster."

  • Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents

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  • How large a number are we talking? This might be impossible for a computer as well considering this being a hard problem is effectively the basis for most encryption.

  • Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.

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  • Certainly if they falsified a federal crime, the penalty shouldn't be any less than wire fraud, which is up to 20 years in prison.

  • 17 years*

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  • 10 Gigawatts is actually a conservative estimate considering one of the figures I found was "In 2023, bitcoin consumed about 121.13 TWh", or about 14 Gigawatts 24/7