I don't like the idea of a persistent id for my machine. Would there be any harm in rewriting the machine-id at every boot? Or just deleting it as part of the shutdown sequence?
And you need to stop telling everyone what we need! "You might be interested in this <thing> if you have this and that" sounds so much more reasonable.
... And watch stupid people do stupid things even faster
I am sure there are reasons why this won't work, but could it really be so hard to show both the faked number, and where the call actually comes from, so I could choose which one to add to my block list.
> Oh no I got 5 emails I better write a post complaining about this massive inconvenience hmph ONE unsolicited unlawful (EU) spam mail is quite enough reason to get angry, block mail, and to complain to the relevant…
> Every interaction I have with a store or site signs me up for some promotional thing, which I unsubscribe from immediately, only to find it's one of 4 different lists I was added to. Luckily this kind of thing is very…
Sounds interesting. But I suspect my astigmatism would kind of exclude just turning the lenses around
I don't buy "Anywhere, anytime, by anyone" - no language can be that. Different people and different projects have wildly different needs. It looks like it tries to provide a single binary offering most of the compiler,…
Oh yes, I cut my teeth on a Finnish 1802 based TELMAC in the 1970s. It all of 2 kb of RAM (in 16 chips manually soldered on the board), and room for another 2kb if anyone would need so much, as it said in the…
> It's patently insane to demand that humans alter their behavior to accommodate the foibles of mere machines You mean like stopping at a red light?
> Of course all governments want to control every move and thought of their citizens. It makes governing easier. We expect that in autocracies. Are you implying that all governments are autocracies? Rather pessimistic…
Ownership is one question. IMO, a more interesting question is who is responsible when the code does some real-life damage.
I started to use github copilot with vscode, but have never been too happy about the system. Over the months I gravitated to much more agentic workstyle, hardly ever editing much code by hand. The vscode IDE was getting…
Why would FBI ever announce that they are investigating something? Is it that time of the year where they have to convince budget makers about their importance? Or are they trying to direct attention from something…
Yes, that is the law here in the EU. You are not allowed to send me emails unless I took some positive action to subscribe. Rightly so.
I use SqLite for a small hobby project, fine for that. Wanted to read the article to see why I should not, but it attacked me with a "subscribe" popup, so I stopped there. The comments here seem to be based on…
I guess EU will have to retaliate, and forbid any US based routers, for exactly the same kind of reasons
> Saying you are not your work is wishful thinking. Try giving it up and check in on how much of you is still the same. I retired a few years ago, and I believe and insist that I am very much the same person. To see a…
And before that, COBOL was supposed to allow computer users to write in almost plain English without even knowing the machine instruction set. It did change the programming landscape, but there was still a huge need for…
I like their privacy policy
> I find it interesting that a substantial number of people seem to think it's wrong or unethical to cold-email someone about a potential recruitment or business opportunity if they post their email in a public place I…
Well, if you have a perfect evaluation function, you don't need to search. And if you can do a perfect search to the end, you don't an evaluation function. Un(?)fortunately none of these extremes seems reasonable for a…
I just bought Kampot peppers from https://www.unclespepper.com/ which is in Germany, the name notwithstanding. And yes, I paid with my Danish Visa card. No problems except that I had to adjust my ad blocker once.
If we consider the prompts and LLM inputs to be the new source code, I want to see some assurance we get the same results every time. A traditional compiler will produce a program that behaves the same way, given the…
A bit too mathematical for my taste. I learned my tuning theory by owning a harpsichord, and learning to tune it. A harpsichord is more sensitive to the "rounding errors" in equal tuning, owing to the richer overtones,…
I don't like the idea of a persistent id for my machine. Would there be any harm in rewriting the machine-id at every boot? Or just deleting it as part of the shutdown sequence?
And you need to stop telling everyone what we need! "You might be interested in this <thing> if you have this and that" sounds so much more reasonable.
... And watch stupid people do stupid things even faster
I am sure there are reasons why this won't work, but could it really be so hard to show both the faked number, and where the call actually comes from, so I could choose which one to add to my block list.
> Oh no I got 5 emails I better write a post complaining about this massive inconvenience hmph ONE unsolicited unlawful (EU) spam mail is quite enough reason to get angry, block mail, and to complain to the relevant…
> Every interaction I have with a store or site signs me up for some promotional thing, which I unsubscribe from immediately, only to find it's one of 4 different lists I was added to. Luckily this kind of thing is very…
Sounds interesting. But I suspect my astigmatism would kind of exclude just turning the lenses around
I don't buy "Anywhere, anytime, by anyone" - no language can be that. Different people and different projects have wildly different needs. It looks like it tries to provide a single binary offering most of the compiler,…
Oh yes, I cut my teeth on a Finnish 1802 based TELMAC in the 1970s. It all of 2 kb of RAM (in 16 chips manually soldered on the board), and room for another 2kb if anyone would need so much, as it said in the…
> It's patently insane to demand that humans alter their behavior to accommodate the foibles of mere machines You mean like stopping at a red light?
> Of course all governments want to control every move and thought of their citizens. It makes governing easier. We expect that in autocracies. Are you implying that all governments are autocracies? Rather pessimistic…
Ownership is one question. IMO, a more interesting question is who is responsible when the code does some real-life damage.
I started to use github copilot with vscode, but have never been too happy about the system. Over the months I gravitated to much more agentic workstyle, hardly ever editing much code by hand. The vscode IDE was getting…
Why would FBI ever announce that they are investigating something? Is it that time of the year where they have to convince budget makers about their importance? Or are they trying to direct attention from something…
Yes, that is the law here in the EU. You are not allowed to send me emails unless I took some positive action to subscribe. Rightly so.
I use SqLite for a small hobby project, fine for that. Wanted to read the article to see why I should not, but it attacked me with a "subscribe" popup, so I stopped there. The comments here seem to be based on…
I guess EU will have to retaliate, and forbid any US based routers, for exactly the same kind of reasons
> Saying you are not your work is wishful thinking. Try giving it up and check in on how much of you is still the same. I retired a few years ago, and I believe and insist that I am very much the same person. To see a…
And before that, COBOL was supposed to allow computer users to write in almost plain English without even knowing the machine instruction set. It did change the programming landscape, but there was still a huge need for…
I like their privacy policy
> I find it interesting that a substantial number of people seem to think it's wrong or unethical to cold-email someone about a potential recruitment or business opportunity if they post their email in a public place I…
Well, if you have a perfect evaluation function, you don't need to search. And if you can do a perfect search to the end, you don't an evaluation function. Un(?)fortunately none of these extremes seems reasonable for a…
I just bought Kampot peppers from https://www.unclespepper.com/ which is in Germany, the name notwithstanding. And yes, I paid with my Danish Visa card. No problems except that I had to adjust my ad blocker once.
If we consider the prompts and LLM inputs to be the new source code, I want to see some assurance we get the same results every time. A traditional compiler will produce a program that behaves the same way, given the…
A bit too mathematical for my taste. I learned my tuning theory by owning a harpsichord, and learning to tune it. A harpsichord is more sensitive to the "rounding errors" in equal tuning, owing to the richer overtones,…