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The cameras seem vulnerable to a simple non-invasive opaque elastic-banded plastic shower cap
Re:Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:30PM (#50263655)
Amazon operates by capturing others margin, they’re just waiting for more to develop
Re:The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:10AM (#50255949)
Would an unlimited context window enable you to solve all requests instantly ? No
Re:How employment is changing at Anthropic on Sunday October 18, 2026 @10:48AM (#50141584)
They present and immediately take away their own value proposition. Do AI CEOs also buy tokens, or is that the reason for human employees ?

>"One possibility is single-person startups, each with a human founder steering swarms of agents to rake in billions in revenue. Another is companies built by AI genius CEOs employing human agents only to wield pipettes and testify before Congress."

Re:Codex is EATING my Mac's disk space on Sunday October 18, 2026 @07:49AM (#50140233)
They present and immediately take away their own value proposition. Do AI CEOs also buy tokens, or is that the reason for human employees ?

>"One possibility is single-person startups, each with a human founder steering swarms of agents to rake in billions in revenue. Another is companies built by AI genius CEOs employing human agents only to wield pipettes and testify before Congress."

Re:Why do LLM pelicans look like this? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:59PM (#50098222)
Laziness may denote intelligence, but not necessarily a desired part of it, according to Feynman
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:08PM (#50073972)
If they gave this a battery, removed the base, and allowed apps boy that would be a killer product
Re:GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:28PM (#49998376)
A Chat AI creating on the fly UX widgets is like Amazon’s brick and mortar stores
Did she visit a Russian wet market ?
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:58PM (#49897585)
Seems like a solution in search of a problem
April 2025: "Shopify CEO: "AI usage is now a baseline expectation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613079
'Bad guys' is debatable. It was the humans who scorched the sky
The starting value of felony
maybe have the default behavior for the phone to reset if it doesn't get the right pin every so many hours
Re:ChatGPT Work on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:03PM (#48850040)
All models I’ve used have been exceptionally bad at creating a high level business oriented vision and strategy from various inputs. The output just feels like it can’t see past the next word, or render distance, misses the big picture and anything not specified in prompt or input context
You need to splice in a looped recorded video like in a heist movie, otherwise the camera detects blockage from the tape and incessantly beeps
There actually was an episode of House with this very diagnosis from a hip replacement, https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Family_Practice
leadership knows that they get to charge those 150 sellers bidding based "advertising fees" to get the buy box
I wonder if code quality goes up if you include “as a rockstar ninja” in your prompt
add a less severe "Flag, as AI" button
I remember learning about matrices and using that to add DRM to a program, that I made and shared with friends, to prevent resharing, if you didn’t have the right matrix stored in the right spot it wouldn’t run, validated with some matrix math I can’t recall
The technology they are discovering is called "Language". It was designed to encode emotions by a sender and invoke emotions in the reader. The emotions a reader gets from LLM are still coming from the language
Drive to the office and sit on a video call you can hardly hear because the coworkers next to you are on their own video calls
Add a single pixel manually
Re:AI is going to kill app subscriptions on Sunday February 15, 2026 @08:25PM (#47029780)
like how Roombas killed the housekeeping industry ?
Dangerous only to your career and only if you posted about it on social media
Re:Only 5 Sears stores remain in the U.S. on Thursday January 01, 2026 @11:47PM (#46461518)
I tried to buy a vacuum from a Sears store once. The cashier couldn't price match against Sears' own website, which had a lower price. So while inside the store, I purchased the vacuum on my phone, and selected in store pickup, and showed it to the cashier. But they had a separate building for in store pickup I had to drive around to.
If the cameras are recoding public areas, isn’t it better the recorded footage stays public

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