notJim
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Is that really true? At least at large companies, the components are not usually fungible in my experience. At startups or smaller companies I'm sure it's a lot more flexible.
I can see where there might be a truth to it. My company offers a fairly generous monthly token budget. If I were evaluating an offer from another company, but they offered a lower monthly budget, it would definitely influence my decision, all else being equal. It's not compensation, but it does affect my day-to-day experience at work.
God I'm so sick of this "everything-is-a-conspiracy" mindset. Equally likely that they're incompetent, that they simply forgot, that it's difficult because of legacy code reasons.
I have a logitech mouse that allows you to unclick the scroll wheel so you can scroll at tremendous speed (the scroll wheel has a bearing). I highly recommend this both because it's surprisingly useful and because it's incredibly satisfying.
Sure you can buy a niche product from a niche store, but it's gonna take them 3 days to get to the post office, and 2 weeks to get it to you. And they're gonna charge you $9 for the privilege.
Even the great stores like McMaster-Carr are kind of unpleasant to use, because the shipping is so slow (even though everything else about the experience is far superior to Amazon.)
Of course it doesn't hold for FBA, if it's not FBA, then it's not Amazon's logistics.
Oh I meant that I'm in the US, so maybe this issue is specifically a problem outside the US.
I really don't understand this monopoly argument at all for Amazon. What category of product is sold there, but nowhere else? Between big box stores, Wal-Mart, Target, eBay, B&H, local stores, independent online stores. I don't feel at all that I'm forced to shop at Amazon for lack of choice. Is this an American thing?
Can you not just use the reset password flow any website has?
The 1password integration works great IME. When a site supports passkeys, 1password seems to offer to save the passkey, and at login time, a little popup appears from 1password asking if I want to use my passkey, and I can either enter my password, or use TouchID to unlock 1password.
I use this across iPhone, MacOS and Windows, and haven't run into any issues.
> (re-enroll attacker's key or register attacker's passkey).
What is the mechanism to do this? As I understand it, the passkey is basically a public/private key pair. You'd have to download the attacker's key pair into your passkey system? What passkey system allows you to provide a key pair, rather than always generating one? I'd like to see a step-by-step walkthrough that doesn't involve a straightforward phishing scenario, or running privileged commands on the users computer (if you can do that, all bets are off.)
In this attack, it sounds like the key step was that the user entered their username and password, thinking they were preparing to enter a passkey. It wasn't the passkey system itself (which would prevent this attack), it was the transition from password → passkey system that was attacked.
In any case, if you can get the user on the phone and convince them to let you walk them through a bespoke auth flow, I doubt there is any auth mechanism that would stop this. This is why every auth system these days is constantly telling you "We'll never ask for X", because at that point, the game is over.
The unchanged AI style is grating to read. I'd rather read the bullet points you fed to your AI than this style. Of course I'd really rather read your own quirky writing style (which identifies you as a human), but if you don't have the bandwidth for that, just post the prompt.
In recent years, I have not been able to find a human CPA who can accomplish this feat. (If anyone has a reco who's taking new clients in the US west coast, feel free to email me.)
They're saying it's not the only way, it's just one way. Some people post on LinkedIn, other people have shared hobbies w/ their management chain, it's just looking for any edge you can find.
I was not agreeing or disagreeing with that point, I was answering the question that was asked.
I think if there's a $6T market, it will come via integrations with the products and workflows of large companies, which is obviously also happening. Apparently the tech sector as a whole is worth $5 to $10T, so it's actually not inconceivable there's $6T worth of value there (especially since the value will not be constrained to the tech sector).
I'm seeing a ton of niche apps being built that otherwise wouldn't have been. As an example, NegPy is an app that gives you much more precise control when working with film negatives, and has been built largely w/ AI tools. There are a small couple of other photography related niche apps I've seen taking off, for example, for managing your Fuji recipes. I'm working on a Lightroom replacement myself, which I never would've taken on before AI tools.
In terms of personal life, I certainly find AI tools pretty useful especially given how awful Google is now, and coding tools are indispensable at work.
literally one of the main reasons america spends so much on healthcare
What's interesting is that the LLMs' coding personalities seem to match their policy WRT to strategy, which suggests an underlying consistency.
Claude, for example, is very eager to begin coding, and very persistent. It tends to exit plan mode even when the plan is half-baked, and will go as far as deleting tests to get the suite to "pass."
ChatGPT on the other hand is very hesitant. It loves to pause and ask for permission before it starts coding, and gives up quickly if it runs into a problem. This is similar to its tendency toward passivity in the strategy simulation presented here.
A lot of agricultural water usage (more water than AI) is for growing corn to turn into ethanol so we can add it to gasoline. It's not a small amount either, 40% of all corn in the US is used for this purpose.
This was the same logic that was used when building nuclear weapons, and many of the scientists involved in that tried to find a different path (most notably Niels Bohr). I think we would be in a much better world if they had been successful. It's good that we're trying again w/ LLMs.
They also removed the words build, develop, deploy, and technology, indicating that they're no longer a tech company and don't make products anymore. Wonder what they're all gonna do now?
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Could also be great for maintenance dosing. I'm reaching the end of my ~
weight loss journey~, and it's not a sure thing that the insurance company will continue paying for the injections once I'm no longer overweight.
I'm definitely willing to keep taking it. If insurance won't pay for it, I could pay for the pill out of pocket if I had to, which would be cost prohibitive for the injections.
You can't call something a bad-faith argument just because you disagree with it. I mean, you can, but it's not at all convincing.
As I said, if AI companies reproduce copyrighted works, they should be sued, just like a human artist would be. I haven't experienced that in my interactions with LLMs, but I've never really tried to achieve that result either. I don't really pirate anymore, but torrents are a much easier and cheaper way to do copyright infringement than using an AI tool.
Every artist and creator of anything learned by engaging with other people's work. I see training AI as basically the same thing. Instead of training an organic mind, it's just training a neural network. If it reproduces works that are too similar to the original, that's obviously an issue, but that's the same as human artists.
The navy comment is a bit unfair, as it's well-known that Amazon is more of an airpower (hence "the cloud" etc.)
You think the SF parking enforcement agency is tracking everyone?! That's one of the wilder conspiracy theories I've heard recently.
Well, it's not the first time Germany has had a problem with Marx.
I mean, if you're that fatalistic, why worry about AI (or even climate change) in particular? If we're all just doomed no matter what, you may as well just enjoy what you can from life and not stress too much about any particular development.