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ronbenton

2,022karma·354submissions·February 3, 2025
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This reminds me of when some government org leaked social security numbers in client-rendered html comments (or something similar) and people who discovered this were called hackers for using browser …
7mo ago·view thread
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Going to make this my LinkedIn headline
8mo ago·view thread
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I have done general process automation work (usually designing new web-based tools) for 20 years now. The underlying idea has always applied, even before AI: if your process is ill-defined and/or…
8mo ago·view thread
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At one point there was probably a notion that upselling better models would work, and I’m sure to some small extent it has. But to the general public the goodness of the model is too nuanced I’m guess…
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Can we talk about how awesome NASA's visualizations are for this? https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_voyager_1 …
8mo ago·view thread
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Microsoft being Microsoft
9mo ago·view thread
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Wow looks professional
9mo ago·view thread
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> and you just dump it in your project with limited vetting Well yes there’s your problem. But people have been doing this with random snippets found on the internet for a while now. The truth is …
9mo ago·view thread
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Currently working on getting back into a fitness routine. I got into this habit of hacking on side projects in my very little spare time but I have realized taking care of my body will pay off far mor…
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As someone who already has trouble with names, I endorse this. Now everyone will feel my pain
9mo ago·view thread
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I see headlines like this and always wonder how they establish causation. How do they know AI skepticism is the cause of a sell off? Is this an assumption or is there reasonable evidence of causation?
9mo ago·view thread
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Yes there are negative people here as well, and also people like you who are skeptical about the hype parts. But I’ve just noticed on other social media it’s like 100 naysayers for every proponent
9mo ago·view thread
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I have, but that should mean there is consistent backlash against it but I don’t see that. Reddit programming communities, for example, appear far more averse
9mo ago·view thread
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I too use a brittle, error-prone regular expression!
9mo ago·view thread
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it wouldn't be the first API service to disallow someone from selling a cache layer for their API. After all, this should likely result in OpenAI (or whatever provider) making less money
9mo ago·view thread
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Interesting... is it legal?
9mo ago·view thread
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Knowing this is the author makes me 1000% more interested in Wren. What a great book!
9mo ago·view thread
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$500K is like 1 or 2 fully loaded engineer salaries in the US. It’s not all that expensive.
9mo ago·view thread
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Cram it in everything, make a press release for the stockholders, and see what sticks. Microsoft is a particularly bad offender with copilot nonsense popping up all over the place. But hoo boy look at…
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I disagree with this take. What in the blog post sounds like overhead?
9mo ago·view thread
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Crazy how these outages ripple through the entire aviation system
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This guy's dedication is admirable
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