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New comment by bippihippi1 in "Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year"

bippihippi1 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:44:32 +0000

how sure are you that facial grouping data means the same thing to you as to MS lawyers?

all facial grouping data will be permanently removed within 30 days

New comment by bippihippi1 in "Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year"

bippihippi1 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 05:00:27 +0000

where does it say turning it off deletes the data? it doesn't even say that turning it off stops them scanning your photos. the option is "do you want to see the AI tags" Google search history is the same. Turning off or deleting history only affects your copy of the data.

New comment by bippihippi1 in "Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year"

bippihippi1 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 04:52:10 +0000

most people probably won't know MS is doing this at all until their data is leaked

New comment by bippihippi1 in "Email immutability matters more in a world with AI"

bippihippi1 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:23:38 +0000

removing methods to circumvent monitoring and control of information makes it easier for a bad actor to take advantave of these tools. Yes it's nice for the good guys to be able to keep their code secure, but do you want a dictator to be able to do that?

New comment by bippihippi1 in "No Figma, I won't fit in your little box"

bippihippi1 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:34:09 +0000

can you use css in the design tool? a designer needs to learn some way of specifying layout and interactivity so it might as well be css

New comment by bippihippi1 in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

bippihippi1 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:18:37 +0000

Is this confirmation bias?

Do you think Autistics are a small group so you're finding a way to argue that?

Why do you care if a person you think has minor struggles labels themselves autistic?

New comment by bippihippi1 in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

bippihippi1 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:09:55 +0000

he's saying that the label Autism includes different traits that various people have or don't have. He's falsely using that semantic manipulation to imply that people use it as an excuse not to deal with the conplexities of life.

saying "that's insulting" doesn't impact his assertion. you have to meet their logic where it is to disagree. lucky this case was so easy.

New comment by bippihippi1 in "Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras"

bippihippi1 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:29:57 +0000

democracy is the process of defining what the laws are and who enforces them. The executive branch is not allowed to decide what laws to enforce. That's what an autocracy is.

New comment by bippihippi1 in "Traps to Developers"

bippihippi1 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:54:57 +0000

what is the advantage of using that over 2 variables? the cost is extra mental load, what does it buy?

New comment by bippihippi1 in "Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way"

bippihippi1 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:45:10 +0000

also should consider how easy it is to hole each shape steady as you cut it. how hard is it to actually implement the radial cutting procedure?

New comment by bippihippi1 in "TODOs aren't for doing"

bippihippi1 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 03:08:07 +0000

sometimes I use todod for regex search and replace to refactor later. like to mark all the places where I want to later change the logging level, but for now I want to info log the query headers.

New comment by bippihippi1 in "US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel"

bippihippi1 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:20:45 +0000

maybe that includes the software and hardware to run the stoplight, the salaries of the operators and maintenance etc and their admin staff, and the all the analysis to figure out when it should be red/green, all that stuff.

New comment by bippihippi1 in "Google AI Ultra"

bippihippi1 — Wed, 21 May 2025 01:45:19 +0000

how long you amortize the R&D prices over is important too. Do significant discoveries remain relevant for long enough to have enough time to spread the cost out? I'd bet in the current ML market advamces are happening fast enough that they aren't factoring the R&D cost into pricing rn. In fact getting user's to use it is probably giving them a lot of value. Think of apl the data.

New comment by bippihippi1 in "TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale"

bippihippi1 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:46:44 +0000

so make it

New comment by bippihippi1 in "Why it's hard to trust software, but you mostly have to anyway"

bippihippi1 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 19:55:44 +0000

if a bear poops in the woods, does it make a sound?

New comment by bippihippi1 in "Why it's hard to trust software, but you mostly have to anyway"

bippihippi1 — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:25:53 +0000

it takes a lot more time to understand code and find meaningful bugs than it does to read most novels

New comment by bippihippi1 in "Why it's hard to trust software, but you mostly have to anyway"

bippihippi1 — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:22:48 +0000

build from source or bust!

New comment by bippihippi1 in "The humble for loop in Rust"

bippihippi1 — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:42:52 +0000

afair I've mostly only used fold when doing maths not covered by the standard sum or product. Fold is similar to map reduce but it's just one expression.

New comment by bippihippi1 in "A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2 (2023)"

bippihippi1 — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 07:06:23 +0000

the point seems to be making a small binary to run language model. How useful is that? From a functional perspective, I guess not very but the model can be improved. From a performance / cost perspective, also not very because most of the cost is in training the model and small binary isn't necessarily indicative of quick. I guess it's just kind of interesting that it doesn't take that much code to run the model.

New comment by bippihippi1 in "Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era"

bippihippi1 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:11:25 +0000

why not just make a business / project account?