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New comment by javcasas in "Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data (2020)"

javcasas — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:57:42 +0000

I work in HR. We had to mangle our salary analytics stuff because it kept suggesting that clients should pay more to attract talent. Like most employees in the same sector and position were being paid more that what they wanted to pay and that meant our analytics were wrong.

New comment by javcasas in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"

javcasas — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:52:34 +0000

I would like to know where that 1% retail business is located. My family has a bunch of hardware/electricity retail businesses and the margins are way more than that. Like 30%-500%.

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

javcasas — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:13:13 +0000

If there is an extra buck to be made, or another promotion to be handed to a middle manager, it will be enshittified to get it.

That is why we are seeing paid streaming services with ads.

New comment by javcasas in "5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe"

javcasas — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:45:57 +0000

For as long as I can remember, I turned off the lights in the bathroom. Yet, I just checked, and turns out they are on.

Feel free to remember the past how you want, that doesn't change it.

New comment by javcasas in "Grok Bot"

javcasas — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:05:03 +0000

It will protect Elon and friends.

Ah, you mean guardrails for _your_ protection...!

New comment by javcasas in "It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism"

javcasas — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:00:35 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_protests_against_D...

ctrl+f "arrested"

For how long?

I mean, you can also mock xinnie the pooh if you are willing to be lost in the ICE detention center web - I mean the Chinese prison system.

New comment by javcasas in "Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined"

javcasas — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:41:54 +0000

You are so sure they used AI. It looks like you didn't bother asking them, yet know more about what they do than themselves.

BTW, this sarcastic comment didn't use AI. I can put some em dashes if that helps you on your little crusade — — — — —.

New comment by javcasas in "It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism"

javcasas — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:33:33 +0000

Don't forget they will also downgrade the quality, like Claude has shown multiple times.

New comment by javcasas in "It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism"

javcasas — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:30:53 +0000

> it’s a totalitarian regime without freedom if speech, without worker’s rights and without many/most of the freedoms we take for granted

You know, the USA is kinda going that direction.

> modern hyper/technological communist totalitarian regime wins

Yup, remove "communist" and be afraid of the semblance.

New comment by javcasas in "It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism"

javcasas — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:26:25 +0000

You know, there are services out there to put whatever stuff you want to end up in the LLM training data. No need for an evil government to do it.

Here you have something to start reading: https://www.seerinteractive.com/insights/how-to-get-your-bra...

New comment by javcasas in "Don't be a meat proxy"

javcasas — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:19:43 +0000

I call it "surviving by fighting fire with fire".

New comment by javcasas in "SpaceX wins $1.6B Space Force contract for 18 Falcon 9 launches"

javcasas — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:49:20 +0000

DOGE didn't bother to look in the mirror, didn't it.

New comment by javcasas in "Don't be a meat proxy"

javcasas — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:44:38 +0000

Sure, your frontier model in 2026 will know in the team who is responsible for what part of the tech stack.

No?

Then, in the document where it writes who has to do what change, it is hallucinating. And this time you or me are not the ones who are mistaken.

New comment by javcasas in "Don't be a meat proxy"

javcasas — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:42:01 +0000

I am that person on the blast radius. The most effective response I have found is dumping the documents into the AI, and asking it to review them, then posting back the AI response.

Any resistance to this is met with a "But I'm also using AI as the board demands!"

New comment by javcasas in "SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?"

javcasas — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:58:11 +0000

Snyk routinely tells us that we need to upgrade urgently because they found a vulnerability in the Windows version of a package. We run everything in Linux.

New comment by javcasas in "Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos"

javcasas — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:10:18 +0000

Would you like for OneDrive to scan your photos?

Yes

Ask me again in 30 minutes

New comment by javcasas in "Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?"

javcasas — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:54:50 +0000

Well, then it is not your problem anymore.

Alternatively, I smell a business opportunity, as I know some people that deserve depression and misery, and "pay me to dance near them" could be a thing.

New comment by javcasas in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

javcasas — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:08:27 +0000

> OK, produce a SHA-2 collision.

- Why a collision?

> Because man made SHA-2, so it must be breakable. I don't dispute that there are systems humans make that are breakable (that would be weird given my career).

Thus implying there are man-made systems that are not breakable, and furthermore SHA-2 is one of them.

> I haven't discarded any date.

Going back so quickly?

New comment by javcasas in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

javcasas — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:51:54 +0000

You are the one discarding every date. I'll take the opposite bet: it will eventually happen, on some date.

New comment by javcasas in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

javcasas — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:59:43 +0000

Well, if you are that picky, then you will have to wait. MD5 was created in 1991, the first collision was found in 2004.