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Re:We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance on Saturday September 26, 2026 @11:10AM (#49857324)
Yeah as a non-American I can understand why it might be that way, but I think you should understand that globally this is not normal and is indicative of deep problems

If you're taking cameras in high schools because of school shootings as your baseline of normality, you probably need to calibrate a little differently

Re:We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:15PM (#49852160)
Security cameras on the outside of a building to deter after hours crime is fairly normal.

Security cameras on the inside of a high school strikes me as deeply NOT NORMAL

Admittedly it's been many decades since I was at high school. I think some of your metaphorical frogs might be getting boiled here.

Re:How to Write with an LLM on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:54AM (#49752555)
Simply do not.
Re:OpenJev on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:38AM (#49752442)
You sure the answer should have been 1? As a human I'd say I don't have enough information to answer this confidently, but "argument effectively" strongly suggests soft skills to me
Re:Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:19AM (#49374932)
Interesting, I did very badly, 3/10!
Re:I Remain a Skeptic on Sunday August 16, 2026 @05:34AM (#49318430)
It's worth noting that the bun rewrite of rust is still not actually released to users, and has run to a total cost north of a million dollars now (factoring in tokens and CI costs)

It should still be taken with a grain of salt IMO

Re:What Happened to HackerOne? on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:40AM (#49240074)
https://m.slashdot.org/story/159162-- example circa 2011

I can think of 4-5 other situations from around that era (~2012) where people were at least charged and needed a lot of help to navigate the legal proceedings to avoid jail time.

In 2010 it was more than risky on paper.

2017-2018 is well into the established era and probably even the golden age of bug bounties when a lot of corporate and judicial thinking re: white hat cybersecurity had been shifted.

Re:Protopia on Sunday August 09, 2026 @11:33AM (#49232386)
We can do both, adding some additional upper tax brackets and clamping down on tax evasion can go hand in hand with other reforms.
Re:Software is about people, not code (2020) on Friday August 07, 2026 @11:45AM (#49212248)
Two things can be true simultaneously. Neither function works without the other.
Re:Beating Castlevania with Antithesis on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @06:13AM (#49180718)
"So called because it is a Metroidvania game in a Castle"

OMG please

Re:How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going? on Monday July 27, 2026 @09:08AM (#49069173)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canny

It means shrewd.

E.g. we should keep our wits about us when someone is making big hyperbolic claims about LLM that they directly benefit from, because maybe they have a motive to mislead either themselves, or us

Re:Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled on Friday July 17, 2026 @07:41PM (#48953533)
No it doesn't.
Everyone should have access to gender-affirming care
Re:Against Usefulness on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:57PM (#48887728)
The thing is you don't know that it's got actual future usefulness. You might think or hypothesize that it does, but for various reasons it may turn out to be a dead-end.

Almost every endeavour has non-zero potential future utility - even as a counterexample or lesson to learn from. I think that definition of "useful" is probably too broad to make an argument against, and so not a useful definition.

Re:Against Usefulness on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:29PM (#48885526)
Deep, paradigm-shifting research often needs decades of deep thought and experimentation, which will not yield weekly, monthly or even annual demonstrations of usefulness to customers or shareholders.

She writes as a VC (I think?) where her job is to allocate capital for shorter-term "useful" (read: profitable) outcomes.

Instant turn-off, couldn't finish it. The moment I sense this style, now, I have to close the tab
Re:- -dangerously-skip-reading-code – olano.dev on Saturday May 23, 2026 @08:52PM (#48253197)
It doesn't do that though. Understand. That's not how LLMs work.
Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' on Monday May 18, 2026 @09:54AM (#48179950)
Mu.
Re:Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @05:47PM (#47869705)
She is indeed some sort of wizard
Re:Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" on Saturday February 21, 2026 @03:38PM (#47104463)
Huh? The bot can communicate with me freely as it sees fit. A "conversation" in telegram parlance is not time-limited, it's ongoing once established, so no it's not only inbound. It can awaken and ping me whenever it wants. This can also work if it's added to a group chat.

If you mean it's not outbound as in it can't message arbitrary random users out of nowhere, well yeah, and that's a very desirable trait.

Re:Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" on Saturday February 21, 2026 @07:39AM (#47100247)
Once a conversation with a user is established, telegram bots can bleep away at you. Mine pings me whenever it puts a PR up, and when it's done responding to code reviews etc.
Re:How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick on Friday December 19, 2025 @01:53AM (#46322952)
Compared to what? What's your baseline for how much a user-interaction-required XSS vulnerability should be worth?
Re:How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:18PM (#46321172)
It's actually pretty on-par for most bug bounties. They used the same exploit on a few programs and got $11k total which ain't bad return on time.
There's generally no grey market for XSS vulns. The people buying operationalized exploits generally want things that they can aim very specifically to achieve an outcome against a particular target, without that target knowing about it, and operationalized XSS vulns seldom have that nature.

Your other potential buyers are malware distributors and scammers, who usually want a vuln that has some staying power (e.g. years of exploitability). This one is pretty clearly time-limited once it becomes apparent.

Re:The State of AI Coding Report 2025 on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @04:49PM (#46306026)
I've seen code persist a long time because it is unmaintainable gloop that takes forever to understand and nobody is brave enough to rebuild it.

So no, I don't think persistence-through-time is a good metric. Probably better to look at cyclomatic complexity, and maybe for a given code path or module or class hierarchy, how many calls it makes within itself vs to things outside the hierarchy - some measure of how many files you need to jump between to understand it

Or do people stop changing their minds because they're worn down, their brains no longer as capable of making space and joy for new ideas?

Which these stem cells, if they pan out, very specifically fix

Not really - that 1GB is the seed for a procedural generation mechanism that has been finely tuned to its unfolding in an environment over 4 billion years.

DNA is the ultimate demoscene exe

Re:EPA to Stop Collecting Emissions Data from Polluters on Friday September 12, 2025 @05:13PM (#45226834)
A bunch of us in the rest of the world are making great strides in reducing our greenhouse gas emissions without it tanking our economies. Australia is, per-capita, one of the worst offenders and we're on track to reach net zero by 2050.

I think your position is based on very cynical premises. There is no reason to assume with high confidence that humans will obliterate each other in that next 50 years (especially if we do something about one of the major stressors causing conflict)

There is also no reason to believe that reducing greenhouse gas emissions over 15-20 years will cause "more" damage than the worst impacts of climate change? Can you cite sources on this claim?

It is still possible to mitigate the worst effects of anthropogenic climate change.

Re:Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013) on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:15PM (#42914518)
YT's skateboard introduces the telescopic contact smartwheels pretty early on as a Courier essential.

I don't recall Hiro's motorcycle being much a part of the story, it might also have had the smartwheels but isn't discussed until later...

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