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New comment by peteradio in "FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users"

peteradio — Thu, 09 May 2024 13:51:36 +0000

> The lesson is, business people will gladly let safety lapses occur with software because

I'm going to stop you right there and refer you back to the 4lb hammer. If you are being pushed around to build violently shitty stuff you are part of the problem.

New comment by peteradio in "FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users"

peteradio — Thu, 09 May 2024 13:43:55 +0000

> DAG of other devices

Its well known you can infer the safety of a specification by assessing a small subset of its features. Quod erat demonstrandum. /s

But seriously, this is how backdoors are trivially integrated.

New comment by peteradio in "FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users"

peteradio — Thu, 09 May 2024 13:27:28 +0000

That was 40 years ago! What lessons were learned from that are even relevant to this? Should I be worried about early days development lessons today or the billion of lines code dependency for a simple medical device? You are aware of the trillion dollar target on the smartphone back? You want to incorporate that into you medical device for what possible reason?

New comment by peteradio in "FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users"

peteradio — Thu, 09 May 2024 13:17:44 +0000

> slapdash in-house solution that will almost certainly be worse.

Truly libelous shilling for the app store.

New comment by peteradio in "Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You by David Graeber (2000)"

peteradio — Thu, 09 May 2024 02:08:32 +0000

Ok but hands off my chickens hoa clucker

New comment by peteradio in "I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code"

peteradio — Wed, 08 May 2024 21:57:06 +0000

I've seen self described "product owners" claim to build using LLM outputs without knowing how to code.

New comment by peteradio in "Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)"

peteradio — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:04:57 +0000

Money won by definition is not lost so therefore I'm rich!

New comment by peteradio in "Microsoft working on 'far larger' in-house AI model"

peteradio — Wed, 08 May 2024 14:36:01 +0000

I guess a general application of statistics and control is going to be called ML then? If that's the world we're living in then I wonder how the missing fraction are being governed. Pure malice?

New comment by peteradio in "Cybertruck Owner Breaks His Finger Trying to Show Vehicle Is Safe"

peteradio — Wed, 08 May 2024 01:44:46 +0000

> All he had to do to win was use a different stick shaped object for the test.

His WEEEENNUS?????

New comment by peteradio in "Microsoft working on 'far larger' in-house AI model"

peteradio — Tue, 07 May 2024 22:31:24 +0000

I'm saying that forcing particular technology leads to worse products in many cases.

New comment by peteradio in "Microsoft working on 'far larger' in-house AI model"

peteradio — Tue, 07 May 2024 21:24:00 +0000

Teams doesn't even do copy paste or open Microsoft based formats in under 10 seconds (IME)... I rest my case.

New comment by peteradio in "Microsoft working on 'far larger' in-house AI model"

peteradio — Tue, 07 May 2024 19:02:31 +0000

I'm not talking about LLMs in particular. I guess this is a company wide mandate to grow knowledge of how to do this stuff well, I mean that makes sense. But in the trenches (aka hells-ahole) that means a lot of bad bad stuff is being relied on and it generates calcification of business segments and kafkaesque anti-patterns for the uninitiated. This doesn't only apply to "AI" its a generic feature of shoe-hornings. The problem with the shoe-horn is that its politically costly to resist even if it makes good business sense to resist at the micro level.

New comment by peteradio in "Microsoft working on 'far larger' in-house AI model"

peteradio — Tue, 07 May 2024 12:45:13 +0000

Does it make a difference of context whether or not they've successfully shoehorned only 99%?

New comment by peteradio in "VC Says Half of Google Staff Do 'No Real Work'"

peteradio — Tue, 07 May 2024 12:43:48 +0000

> Half the time an engineer is sitting around thinking or drinking all the coffee.

Is that supposed to sound like a bad thing?

> tangible improvements, process cranking, or institutional knowledge, the most valuable people are the admins

Valuable like a splinter in your big toe. "It hurts when I move it!"

New comment by peteradio in "Microsoft working on 'far larger' in-house AI model"

peteradio — Tue, 07 May 2024 12:34:30 +0000

It's true I'll hate on micrsoft for about anything but they didn't say "some products" "some services" "some processes", they said "EVERY SINGLE THING!!!", see the difference?

New comment by peteradio in "Microsoft working on 'far larger' in-house AI model"

peteradio — Tue, 07 May 2024 11:55:55 +0000

> AI models are used in almost every one of our products, services and operating processes at Microsoft

Oh boy. Any insight from microsfot peoples on this apparent hell-hole?

New comment by peteradio in "People with gas and propane stoves breathe more unhealthy nitrogen dioxide"

peteradio — Tue, 07 May 2024 00:27:44 +0000

In particular I'm refuting the study that purports to measure NO DIFFERENCE with or without a hood. I am saying that is so far outside the realm of the every man's experience with vent hoods that I think the study is busted in some way. UFP is coming from the food you cook, its irrelevant for gas vs electric right?

New comment by peteradio in "People with gas and propane stoves breathe more unhealthy nitrogen dioxide"

peteradio — Mon, 06 May 2024 21:35:59 +0000

Hate to say it, but I don't know how trust worthy those studies are especially the one claiming vent hoods have no impact! If I cook bacon on my stove without a venthood the entire main floor would reek and require opening windows and doors to air it out. With a vent hood there is literally no issue with smell. Are you telling me that the vent hood is somehow picks and chooses which pollutants to expel leaving behind NO2? What mechanism would there be to cause it to behave this way? I'll choose to believe my lying eyes.

New comment by peteradio in "Social engineering takeovers of open source projects"

peteradio — Mon, 06 May 2024 11:34:37 +0000

Indeed, in python you can just eval.

New comment by peteradio in "Social engineering takeovers of open source projects"

peteradio — Mon, 06 May 2024 11:20:28 +0000

Nah uh! We are still warring! Israel winks at Gaza, Iran squeezes the U.S.A's ass.