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New comment by Avshalom in "The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You"

Avshalom — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:25:38 +0000

I mean you kinda are just expected to ignore angry outbursts directed at you from anyone. That's not even about disability, it's just part of the social contract that you don't start throwing blows when people yell at you.

New comment by Avshalom in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

Avshalom — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:39:45 +0000

So if it gives you bad advice it's your fault.

New comment by Avshalom in "Premier league bans gambling sponsors"

Avshalom — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:34:57 +0000

You're right, only about half of them are less than £5.93m with one of them being almost the same.

New comment by Avshalom in "Premier league bans gambling sponsors"

Avshalom — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:54:18 +0000

About half of those kit numbers are less per year than a single 30 second ad during the superbowl.

New comment by Avshalom in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

Avshalom — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:55:40 +0000

If your biscuits are getting anywhere close to the smoke point of crisco, you are doing something very wrong.

New comment by Avshalom in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

Avshalom — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:43:54 +0000

Software's absurd margins was like the whole pitch.

New comment by Avshalom in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

Avshalom — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:38:31 +0000

Nostr isn't really p2p it's just that if you stick to text it's cheap to host a server

New comment by Avshalom in "Who Is America's Homer?"

Avshalom — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:42:41 +0000

Lotta obvious answers left off because this seems to be about poets specifically.

New comment by Avshalom in "Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data"

Avshalom — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:54:13 +0000

Of course one of the reasons social housing won't get built is the faircloth limit from 20 years ago.

New comment by Avshalom in "Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students"

Avshalom — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:51:04 +0000

Communicating in a clear unambiguous way doesn't actually help with using llms.

New comment by Avshalom in "Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students"

Avshalom — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:10:48 +0000

>>"Can LLMs provide access to timely constructive feedback in specific educational contexts?"

"Can they" is not the same as "do they" and "specific educational contexts" is not relevant to "all educators"

Is it possible to get constructive feedback? sure, maybe. Is it possible to get a specific teacher's feedback? Not really. Is it possible to guarantee it will be productive feedback? No, especially if the student has to/gets to interact with it.

Is it likely that the reason "all educators" aren't tripping over themselves to have their students submit some number of drafts to an llm is because that's not actually a good idea? sure, probably.

New comment by Avshalom in "Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students"

Avshalom — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:12:26 +0000

>>It doesn't mean they shut their own brains down, or that they are suggesting that students do so

It doesn't not mean that either.

New comment by Avshalom in "Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students"

Avshalom — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:10:18 +0000

Because LLMS don't provide access to timely constructive feedback.

New comment by Avshalom in "The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower"

Avshalom — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:06:36 +0000

>> I'm forced to use my eyes, which also means I probably have to use a massive screen. I have to pay attention to some hyperactive Intellisense-like feature

What the hell are you talking about?

New comment by Avshalom in "One million passports leaked online"

Avshalom — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:46:41 +0000

the whole "not being an automatable remote sql injection away from everything" quality of physical objects grants a filing cabinet a tremendous amount of inherent security compared to anything digital.

New comment by Avshalom in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

Avshalom — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:55:37 +0000

Right, that's more or less my suspicion.

New comment by Avshalom in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

Avshalom — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:36:02 +0000

That's the thing though, I do doubt that. Surveillance that you don't need a warrant to put in front of a jury is a perfect thing to use for the ostensibly-legal construction in parallel construction.

New comment by Avshalom in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

Avshalom — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:19:59 +0000

That seems like a lot of effort when you can just take the license plate off and if you're really worried print off a convincing temporary license and tape in the back window.

New comment by Avshalom in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

Avshalom — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:11:03 +0000

That's not what that says though.

>technology and professional analysts with helping detectives make arrests in 53%

"technology and analysts" "help" "make arrests" not surveillance, not convictions and only the implication that they wouldn't have made the arrest otherwise.

Like look at the example: somebody calls in an OD and a guy sees that the dude ODing matches (the clothing of) a suspect in some other crime and so they arrest him.

Once again an arrest is not a conviction but also what part of that needed/used pervasive surveillance?

ALSO a conviction is not the same thing as truth.

ALSO ALSO by basic subtraction the panopticon wasn't even helpful 47% of the time.

New comment by Avshalom in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

Avshalom — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:17:59 +0000

>>Flock and law enforcement regularly cite documented cases where LPR helped solve violent crimes, recover stolen vehicles, and locate missing persons. Those outcomes are real.

My opposition wouldn't change regardless but are those outcomes real?