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It seems disingenuous by our government. Create a tax strategy that is so complicated, people feel like they have to hire professionals. However, if the professionals err, it's the citizenry that pays the penalty.

Seems like simplify or just erradicting the tax code would be more just at this point.

Re:Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:22PM (#50268231)
I wouldn't be surprised lower security on a government website could be an artifact of the fact government websites tend to have crap security, at least in my experience.
I was hesitant, so I went with a hassle-free return route when I bought mine.

My stack uses a local llamacpp ROCM build, modified by https://github.com/stew675/llama-cpp-rdna-boosts

The build uses my machine's ROCM and I just link it instead of embedded all that in an image, like the published ones do.

Then deploying it via docker compose to my local machine. The models I want to run are stored in a docker volume, so it's easy to switch the model while keeping the same build.

The biggest negative for me is that I don't think it's enough to do parallelization through llamacpp (I'd prefer to work on one thing faster than two things slowly). I haven't gotten vllm working yet. Also, once you have one, you constantly start thinking about a second card...

Put the liability on the AI companies, and they'll slow down.

However, that also means AI will be even more lobotomized since the cloud providers will panic over being liable

If you already have a machine, throwing an r9700 in it is one of the cheapest ways to get qwen3.8 27B Q6 with 100k+ context working.

Sadly, the r9700 has gone up in price, but it's still the cheapest route. I use It on an old x99 Linux desktop and it achieves 50 tps decode and 1000+ tps prefill.

You could do smaller increments and script it so your only doing 10GB at a time.
Probably should still consider voting with your wallet though...

Why trust Google of they aren't acting in your interest?

It's not a transfer. If a trust owns a game, then the trust owns the game. A transfer of trust is not a transfer of ownership of the trust's property.

Now, moving a steam account into a trust might be a breach, if they care. Even using a trust to buy a game might also be a violation of some form, perhaps, buried in the toc.

But the trust itself is a legal entity and it can own things. Just because the people behind the trust changes doesn't mean it was a transfer on the public side of the trust.

I'm not sure it's legal to do a dog search just because you pulled over a car for a turning light violation.

No one gets pulled over for turning light violations for safety reasons, but that's beside the point. I just hate how many laws we have that are just selectively enforced.

Re:Linux 7.3 Released on Monday October 19, 2026 @06:10AM (#50150515)
If the human is doing a proper workflow for the AI, I'm not so sure it's big central. Yes, AI needs to be guided strongly, and if it's not, it makes very poor choices/decisions routinely, but that's why you keep an engineer controlling the process.

I force all work to be split up into chunks, properly investigated, spiked, and planned out, and then implemented via TDD (with only system-boundary mocking permitted). It's not perfect, but I've seen regression bugs very much cut so far.

Beyond that, if it's a GUI app, I also require the TDD cycle to require GUI tests with screenshot evidence, and proper assert statements.

How so? Companies and trusts are legal persons, just like anyone else...
What if my trust or business buys it? My trust/business is a legal individual that can be passed down to other owners over time?
Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:46PM (#50098114)
The spec doesn't matter. The implementation of the spec against users freedom matters.
Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:39PM (#50098068)
I think the point is I can make a physical copy of my backup email and password. How do I print a passkey for safekeeping?

In other words, my email can be signed in from anywhere on purpose. It's a feature. The chances of me forgetting my password is zero, because I can back it up 7 way to Sunday.

A passkey seems to miss these basic accessibility issues. For a random website, that's fine, but for the service all of websites use to auth me, access is more important than locking it down to one device.

Re:Passkeys Are Not a Trap on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:23PM (#50097970)
The real problem is that companies/institutions should procure one domain name, and stick with it. There's no reasons so need to be redirected through 6 domain names when signing into Microsoft, all of which look like a phishing attempt URL.

One domain, one account.

EU should probably stop sending money to Russia if they actually cared about the war...

They don't really have a leg to stand on.

How would a county like Ukraine go about regulating a company like Starlink in this manner?

You can't nationalize another country's business, especially when their assets are floating in space disconnectes entirely from your country.

If they want to regulate it, they need to build it first. Ukraine has no ability to regulate Starlink. It's not theirs to regulate.

Re:Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along? on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:32AM (#50069538)
Correct, however, I'm a maintenance developer already. We rarely get to build whole brand new systems or programs. Most of work is maintaining crap from 20 years ago

Few people are thrown into a codebase that they understand because they wrote it. Not every developer is issued their own greenfield project and said go have fun.

Re:Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along? on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:30AM (#50069521)
Building a landing page is not something you require a software engineer for.

Any programmer should be able to hack one up. LLMs are good at _programming_, but I haven't seen evidence they are good at engineering yet. But then again, many people with the title "software engineer" are not great at it either.

Re:I'm sorry, but you still have to think on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:00PM (#50045943)
I'm probably one of the heavier AI users for agentic workflows. I'm really enjoying it.

However, it doesn't take away the concern of architecture, design, etc. and questioning if the current solution is well designed or not.

In other words, if you can't question the AI and refute it in a topic, you aren't expert enough to use AI in that area in a engineering manner.

Granted, not everything needs an engineer behind it. A shack to store some tools will survive long enough probably

Re:Don't Put Tilde In Your Path on Sunday October 11, 2026 @09:48AM (#50043279)
What Latin letter(s) are you referring to?

The (classical) Latin alphabet can be fully described by the English alphabet.

It's naive and short sighted to think American financial and geopolitical and inflationarh worse started with Trump
Because government is the reason for inflation.

The government should face a punishment for targeting constant inflation.

The 2nd amendment doesn't accept the premise - in a civil society, if you attack someone, you should expect the entire society to attack you back.

It's quite uncivilized to see a situation where someone is mugging someone and hundreds of people are just passing it by like it's another Tuesday

> If you select your produce, you can prefer Jim Bob's local farm over the Monsanto option.

Maybe. I've seen cases where the local Farmer's market was reselling produce from grocery stores at higher prices (because Farmer's market).

Farm stores may have similar problems - they might stock things they don't make so they can sell it for convenience. Just because you buy corn from them doesn't mean they made the corn.

Innocent until proven guilty. Every citizen has rights until there is reasonable suspicion, probable cause, etc that they are commiting a crime.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...

Re:Sonnet 5.5 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:04PM (#49903088)
Also, if you then resume your conversation, and the LLM discovers the change, it might revert the "accidental" change.

If your working with an active context, and changes you do then need to be conversed back to the agent, and even then, it might still find it jarring and wrong.

The ability by the supplier is the problem, regardless of there is an upfront clause or not. The upfront clause is the problem
If Ford told the DoD you can't use the tanks they bought however they need to, and had a kill switch in it in case they wanted to cut the DoD off, then that would obviously be a supply chain risk.

The military and it's suppliers need mitigate risk, and that includes suppliers intentionally causing harm to soldiers on the front lines, or in the backend logistics supply chain.

Honestly, every company should be treating Anthropic and OpenAI as supply chain risks, and should completely avoid dealing with them.

I think the answer is the military finds another vendor willing to deal, or move it in house.

It's not like Anthropic will be nationalized any more than the bankrupted auto companies of 2008.

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