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Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:10PM (#50317961)
In the current LLM cybersecurity climate, I honestly can't say with 100% certainty anymore that something like a VM acts as a completely infallible sandbox environment for the next couple decades.
Your phone alarm isn't adjusting your dosage or treatment plan like ChatGPT was. Your phone alarm isn't recommending you hide symptoms from your physician. It's not giving you medical advice by facilitating your medical treatment, just like how your drinking glass for any pills isn't giving you medical advice.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:25AM (#50245375)
To be fair, this account is 4 hours old and created 2 hours before the S-1 post.

With the amount of money involved here and the current agentic tooling context, how am I ever to take comments like from accounts like this on topics like this at face value?

Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:09AM (#50119349)
Describing Montreal as "sheer chaos" only makes sense in the north American context. Karachi and other such cities are actually chaos.
When I'm visiting developing countries, I'm often in awe of the increased social activity and wondering why we don't have that in the western world anymore. One thing I think about is the cost increase like this.

Baumol's cost disease often comes to mind - in my (might be wrong) application of it - western society simply has had too much productivity and efficiency improvements. You can make more money as a software developer or as an investment banker because those jobs have gotten more efficient and have higher payouts to employers who want the best employees.

There can't be efficiency improvements in efficiency for child care, so the only way to have people want to become child care workers is to pay a competitive salary, so the efficiency increases in the other unrelated fields directly increase the cost of child care.

Developing countries don't have this problem and domestic labor and child care are still cheap.

This is one of the reasons why diverse medical teams and having nurses/doctors/pharmacists etc from other countries is a great idea.
Garmin venu series has 10 days which I love.
I think you're going to need to elaborate a fair amount on that take... That runs contrary to the general concensus that having freely and easily accessible information is good for people.
Bots don't matter if you aren't connected to accounts you haven't tapped phones with though.
Re:I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog on Monday March 30, 2026 @06:59AM (#47572732)
Great article, should make sure to attribute xkcd comics though.

https://xkcd.com/about/

Re:AI-First Company Memos on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @01:44PM (#46978995)
There was an Apple memo like this though that said they were word processing first.

https://writingball.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-infamous-apple-...

I find it hard to believe that Oneplus is spending engineering and business recourses, upsetting a portion of their own userbase, and creating more e-waste because they want to reduce the global demand for stolen phones. They only have like 3% of the total market, they can't realistically move that needle.

I don't understand what business incentives they would have to make "reduce global demand for stolen phones" a goal they want to invest in.

Phone thieves aren't checking which phone brand I have before they knick my phone. Your scenerio is not improved by making Oneplus phones impossible to use once they're stolen.
It ain't normal to me. If I bought a phone, I should be able to decide that I want to run different software on it.

Let's say OP takes a very different turn with their software that I am comfortable with - say reporting my usage data to a different country. I should be able to say "fuck that upgrade, I'm going to run the software that was on my phone when I originally bought it"

This change blocks that action, and from my understanding if I try to do it, it bricks my phone.

Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @07:46AM (#46691254)
I'm back in school part time for a bachelor's, and have recently had a class where I had a professor who really understood how to implement LLM's into the class.

Our written assignments were a lot of "have an LLM generate a business proposal, then annotate it yourself"

The final exam was a 30 minute meeting where we just talked as peers, kinda like a cultural job interview. Sure there's lots of potential for bias there, but I think it's better than just blindly passing students using LLM's for the final exam.

Re:Gliding behind existing aircraft, Aerocart cargo gliders on Thursday October 09, 2025 @01:36PM (#45530725)
There's no way to make these safe - it's almost comical and this could be an April 1st joke.

Case 1) how are you handling potential rapid TCAS climbs/decent? You're making the targets a lot larger and less responsive. If TCAS commands a decent and slow down, you will be overtaken by the tow.

Case 2) landings thay require rapid braking, such as short runways for emergencies or engine fires (rapid brakes used so emergency vehicles don't have to chase 2km to get to you)

Case 3) aborted take offs. Brakes will need to be more performant and reactive than the ones we have on the main aircraft

Case 4) taxiing across active runways now has reduced margins.

Case 5) go-around performance is diminished. Already sometimes tight margins on that, what happens if you need to do a go around but the landing gear on the glider collapsed and is now a ground anchor?

Re:Global Peace Index 2025 on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @08:05AM (#45274810)
A lot of indexes and measurements are like this though when there is a potentially infinite range on one side.

Erdős numbers for instance, a higher number indicates less distance to Erdős.

If you are making this comparison to build quality, I think there are some large problems in your logic.

The Chinese combat ships were at a much higher level of combat readiness, and hence a lot more crew who knew what they were actively doing and had their stations prepared accordingly.

The Norwegian vessel had most of her crew asleep and we're navigating in friendly waters.

Re:Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects on Friday August 15, 2025 @07:53AM (#44911240)
This topic is naturally viewed through a survivorship lens, but I don't think it is a bias in this situation.

If the facts of the situation were reversed, of course we would draw the reverses conclusion. That golds true for just about any argument.

Re:Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games on Saturday June 21, 2025 @07:36PM (#44341523)
Adguard DNS works amazing and the only way these sites are usable for me.
Re:I Use Zip Bombs to Protect My Server on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @08:27PM (#43839762)
This doesn't work if you pay bandwidth and CPU usage for your servers though.
That's exactly what the author was trying to convey...
Re:An end to all this prostate trouble? on Saturday April 26, 2025 @12:07PM (#43804819)
We require heavy burdens of proof before we subject tens of thousands of people to potentially needless surgeries.
The average person doesn't have capacity to care about policies that lead to the long term development of drug-resistant bacteria.

We couldn't even convince everyone to wear masks, this won't be an issue people will rise up in mass protests for... People are literally being kidnapped and thrown into detention centers without due process and there are not massive protests.

It takes a lot to make people protest, this ain't a battle for it.

Re:Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @04:30PM (#43475593)
I think we're a long way off from the communities when Jane Jacobs lived. An except that I frequently think about, I can't even fathom in a large city in the current era, and not because technology has solved the key problem.

>Joe Cornacchia, who keeps the delicatessen, usually has a dozen or so keys at a time for handing out like this. He has a special drawer for them.

>Now why do I, and many others, select Joe as a logical custodian for keys? Because we trust him, first, to be a respon sible custodian, but equally important because we know that he combines a feeling of good will with a feeling of no personal responsibility about our private affairs. Joe considers it no con cern of his whom we choose to permit in our places and why. Around on the other side of our block, people leave their keys at a Spanish grocery. On the other side of Joe's block, people leave them at the candy store. Down a block they leave them at the coffee shop, and a few hundred feet around the corner from that, in a barber shop. Around one corner from two fashionable blocks of town houses and apartments in the Upper East Side, people leave their keys in a butcher shop and a bookshop; around another corner they leave them in a cleaner's and a drug store.

>In unfashionable East Harlem keys are left with at least one florist, in bakeries, in luncheonettes, in Spanish and Italian groceries.

>if men got periods, there would be 30 alternatives to midol by the end of the month

Not trying to get political or anything, but seems women make up like 40-50% of the biotech and pharmaceutical sciences jobs from my quick search. It seems like there are plenty of people making drugs that know what periods feel like.

Re:Resident Physicians' Exam Scores Tied to Patient Survival on Saturday March 01, 2025 @04:31PM (#43223891)
The people who ran the study also thought of this and controlled for it.
Re:Kevin Mitnik FOIA Final on Friday February 14, 2025 @04:15PM (#43053140)
Why do we need to have the names of people like a random security guard that was duped by social engineering? To make sure he pays for a mistake or something? What is the reason for not reacting his name?
This is just still a sample size of three for a data period that is stated to be less accurate" not "has lower values"

Just because the error isn't presented the same here doesn't mean it's error free...

This is exactly what I do. I'm also confused by this article...

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