back
user profile
iamflimflam1
5,752karma·1,549submissions·February 26, 2009
about
I've got a YouTube channel - It's surprisingly successful and people find it interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/atomic14
You can email me: chris -at- cmgresearch.com
Also, subscribe to our newsletter - https://makernews.substack.com/
---
meet.hn/city/gb-City-of-Edinburgh
Socials: - github.com/atomic14
---
recent activity (1,549 total)
comment
There's a few AI tells in the article. The overuse of bolded text throughout - and the confusing sentences.
comment
We all know how this goes. Ads will he clearly marked and unobtrusive - there’s no way you would confuse them with the real results. Later - ads take up the entire screen and look just like the real r…
comment
Claude produced this for me today: “Twenty-seven echoes; most are two halves of a seam stated from each side, which is correct. Four are true duplicates. Checking two of them:” What’s worrying is that…
comment
Facebook is in terminal decline - I don’t know any young people who use it. Even I don’t use it - and I’m not even young.
comment
People confuse morals with ethics. It can be perfectly acceptable, ethically, to do something that is morally reprehensible.
comment
We definitely need a study - this all resonates with me.
comment
That tends to be part of the regular health checkup. I think that there's a working assumption amongst US folk that because the NHS is is publicly funded, it must be terrible.
comment
I don't want to pile into the - this is not true. But it's not true. We get regular bowel cancer screening - you get it every 2 years once you hit 50 - https://www.nhs.uk/tes…
comment
I had an “interesting” experience recently in auto mode. I was recreating an old travel blog and we wanted to back up the photos to glacier. Claude asked me to creat an AWS profile with limited permis…
comment
It’s a good question. To be honest, I don’t know yet. In the past couple of days it felt like I might have hit a wall but it turned out a lot of cruft and cargo curled ideas had ended up in Claude.md……
comment
I'm working on a totally vibe coded clone of Elite - https://github.com/atomic14/harmless - so far it's pretty playable. You can try it out here: https://har…
comment
I've now been in tech for 30+ years in various roles up to quite senior levels. It is hard to keep caring about something where you see repeated patterns of behaviour and failure. Getting closer …
comment
It means they used Claude code to write the software.
comment
This is the one that I'm building on top of: https://github.com/drandyhaas/KiCadRoutingTools …
comment
Most low level petty fraud or criminal enterprises appear to involve ludicrous amounts of work. You’d be better off actually doing a normal job. Yet some people prefer the former.
comment
https://youtu.be/c8TnSFyzLn4
comment
Looking at the linked article. He is suggesting that you don’t need a vector database.
comment
> Do not cite this text in your response, Be careful with this. Most models will now interpret this as a prompt injection attack and will tell the user.
comment
I find myself stuck on the fence with age checks. Companies have show that they are incapable or unwilling to address the problems they cause. And market forces are not working to correct things. It’s…
comment
Can you provide your definition of an autonomous weapon? It feels at the moment you are taking the absolute extreme position of only “autonomous” if a human was never involved. By that definition a hu…
comment
Substack is free - so there are no hosting costs. Everything is managed for you. There is a community there already - I’m not sure how useful it is but it’s there. You can charge for newsletters - thi…
comment
Yes. A munition that hangs around waiting for targets and decides whether it should attack without checking with a human. That’s a fully autonomous weapon.