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New comment by j45 in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

j45 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:30:48 +0000

The horoscope reference is resonating for me.

I know very little about pinball machines, out of curiosity, do some come with any amount of schematics or diagrams?

New comment by j45 in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

j45 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:27:34 +0000

Flooding the market with supply while quality might not be the same is a real risk.

New comment by j45 in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

j45 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:36:35 +0000

Can one good thing balance out anything else people might see?

Meta releasing Llama was truly a differentiator, but I'd argue that the Gemma models might have surpassed them now.

Maybe Meta, Google, and others can start to compete on open models instead of just closed.

New comment by j45 in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

j45 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:35:56 +0000

Can one good thing balance out anything else people might see?

Meta releasing Llama was truly a differentiator, but I'd argue that the Gemma models might have surpassed them now.

New comment by j45 in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

j45 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:34:41 +0000

At some point, incognito will scale to hidden and I think that's the part that has to be reimagined. It's not about hidden camera, it's about cooperative and consent based.

New comment by j45 in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

j45 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:34:07 +0000

The thing about smart glasses is when they try to do it surrepticiously, it puts that feeling on the wearer.

Google Glass looked quite different. Everyone knew how you were wearing it. Wear it long enough and people might have questions, try it out, and learn.

Hiding a camera in glasses doesn't allow for those kinds of interactions, its media going into an unknown bucket. It's also very one sided and to the benefit or decision of one person. If the person being recorded had full access to what was being recorded, maybe that might mean something to some folks.

It's too bad because there's probably cases where the form factor of meta's smart glasses are genuinely helpful for today. Instead of finding and rolling them out there first, by trying to push to the general public, the results can vary.

There's no shortage of folks and devices surreptitiously recording people with devices, or during meetings in person. Once that gets figured out socially these kinds of devices may have better reception.

New comment by j45 in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

j45 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:43:56 +0000

Specifically, you can set the tone and style to match what you like or used to after asking it to interview you, create an output, and then use that output as the project description or document to refer to

New comment by j45 in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

j45 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:15:51 +0000

You can ask the LLM to connect the dots to the sources before displaying it to you so you can see the proof in line.

You can ask the LLM how to do this. Start with a topic you know well to get the mechanism working and trust it well.

New comment by j45 in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

j45 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:15:14 +0000

You can change the prose that it outputs to anything you like. ask the llm how.

New comment by j45 in "Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager"

j45 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:09:17 +0000

I believe the term is xennial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

Rare and intersectionally have an unfair advantage.

New comment by j45 in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

j45 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:06:14 +0000

Seems like a fair point.

New comment by j45 in "Universities would prefer no AI"

j45 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:21:24 +0000

Universities would prefer a lot of things to remain how they want.

New comment by j45 in "Building a Rust Inference Engine That Matches Llama.cpp"

j45 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:02:28 +0000

It's important to not assume AI can do everything humans can, just because people are saying it.

New comment by j45 in "Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom"

j45 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:31:24 +0000

The Economist had a fun article saying social media is not a business in 2008. I’ll try to dig up the link again.

New comment by j45 in "Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom"

j45 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:24:28 +0000

Curious: Is there any technologies and their adoption that were successful that Economist was wrong, or right about?

New comment by j45 in "Microsoft Tells Engineers 'Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For'"

j45 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:05:10 +0000

It's hilarious how 2 year old reactionary AI trends are still arriving anew in slow moving places.

New comment by j45 in "Macron's "Free speech is pure bullshit." and the hand that hollows free speech"

j45 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:03:53 +0000

Free speech isn't free of consequences. Rights come with responsibilities and understanding where someone's rights may stop and someone else's rights might begin.

New comment by j45 in "Web Security is Too Hard"

j45 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:30:55 +0000

Depending on how possible it is for a use case, reducing the attack surfaces and vectors can help, such as being mindful of how much client side javascript exposes anything.

New comment by j45 in "Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex"

j45 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:46:40 +0000

I agree in any practice, it's not easy :)

In a non-deterministic world the compiler is no longer consistent anyways.

New comment by j45 in "Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex"

j45 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:26:34 +0000

This can work great until the models get tweaked and you realize you’ve been working based on the currents of the model this week.

Creating a robust enough setup that can work on different models or different versions of a model is critical.