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  • We got any spelunking enthusiasts out there?

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  • As a former spelunker, this story has been used to scare newbies straight ever since it happened. I assume the same goes for cave rescue folks. Point being: don't over-commit, plan ahead, exercise proper safety, and for crying out loud don't ever pin your arms and hands in a crawl.

  • Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

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  • It's worth adding that, if you are arrested, that phone is a treasure-trove of potential liability that will absolutely get used against you. Also, you're probably not getting it back, so you're better off without it. Carry cash, a map if you must, and coordinate rally points and fallback locations with your friends ahead of time.

    A proper camera is a good tip, but make sure the camera memory and storage card are wiped ahead of time.

  • Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

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  • just living your life without a phone is getting harder

    This is a bigger problem than most realize. Consider the barrier-to-entry for phones, internet access, and charging. Then add cashless payment on top of that. Combined, it creates a new red-line between economic classes, and a rather ugly one at that. At some point, this mode of commerce is going to get selected not for the convenience it provides, but for whom it excludes.

    I'll also add that getting access to a smartphone with total anonymity is impressively hard to do.

  • And then everyone stood up and clapped

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  • I mean, that happens with CloudWatch all the time. It's the most plausible part about this.

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  • It also helps that we're talking about rather dense nuclei too. So it's not just a neutron absorbing blanket, but a rather high-performing one at that. Which you need to convert fusion outputs to heat and power anyway. And gold is soluble in mercury anyway, so extraction is already a known (albeit incredibly dangerous) process. Win-win.

    yielding several tonnes of gold per plant-year

    Mother of god that's a lot to magic-up outta nowhere. At first I thought this would disrupt the market, but it looks like yearly global gold production is around 3000 tons a year. So it would take a lot of reactors to impact the gold market, so... yeah. Reactors really could start paying for themselves.

  • Misconduct Expert Says State Has the Right to Charge ICE Officer Who Killed Renee Good

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  • It's one of a few weaknesses they have. The whole "stick to your guns" strong-and-tough-guy ideology makes it impossible to backtrack, quickly pivot, or even feign concern, to achieve a quick tactical victory. All that is tantamount to failure and admitting defeat. Instead, they have to either build a massive smokescreen, lie their pants off, or dig even deeper into an already cursed situation. Then there's tribalism, making it impossible to publicly throw their own goons under the bus. It's a stupid and weirdly consistent mindset (i.e. lawful evil), but when it comes to this cabal and their supporters, it's kind of their whole deal.

  • F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email

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  • I haven't always been a fan of Go. It launched with some iffy design decisions that have since been patched, either by the project maintainers or the community. It's a much better experience now, which suggests that maybe there's some long-range vision at work that I wasn't privy to.

    That said, Pike clearly has a lot of good ideas and I'm glad Google funded him to bring those to light.

    I'll also say that after finally wrapping my head around Python and JavaScript async/await, I actually much prefer the Goroutine and channel model for concurrency. I got to those languages after surviving C++, and believe me when I say that it's a bad time when your software develops a bad case of warts. Better to not contract them in the first place.

  • Did Nolan forget which movie he's making a sequel for?

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  • You're welcome.

    I'm not sure if this is c/bmoviebonanza material, but it's up there. Anyway, that's a solid community if you enjoy shlocky "how did this happen?!" movies.

    Also, just dig through the Cannon Group movie list for more "throw crazy shit at the wall" gems like this. Some are hits, most are misses, and a few are really incredible misses.

  • Did Nolan forget which movie he's making a sequel for?

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  • Best I can do is Lou Ferrigno as Hercules. Just watch the whole trailer. The monster designs and other set pieces are pretty far out there for the time.

  • Monty Python and the One with the Whales

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  • How many atmospheres

    Professor Farnsworth: Well, it's a space ship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one.

  • Did Nolan forget which movie he's making a sequel for?

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  • With a helmet like that, may as well cast GWAR and call it a day.

  • Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer

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  • I use a system prompt that forces it to ask a question if there are options or if it has to make assumptions

    I'm kind of amazed that even works. I'll have to try that. Then again, I've asked ChatGPT to "respond to all prompts like a Magic 8-ball" and it knocked it out of the park.

    so I start a new chat frequently.

    I do this as well, and totally forgot to mention it. Yes, I keep the context small and fresh so that prior conversations (and hallucinations) can't poison new dialogues.

    I also will do the same prompts on two models from different providers at the same time and cross reference the idiots to see if they are lying to me.

    Oooh... straight to my toolbox with that one. Cheers.

  • Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer

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  • That's been my biggest problem with the current state of affairs. It's now easier to research newer tech through an LLM than it is to play search-result-wack-a-mole, on the off chance that what you need is on a forum that's not Discord. At least an AI can mostly make sense of vendor docs and extrapolate a bit from there. That said, I don't like it.

  • Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer

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  • When writing code, I don't let AI do the heavy lifting. Instead, I use it to push back the fog of war on tech I'm trying to master. At the same time, keep the dialogue to a space where I can verify what it's giving me.

    1. Never ask leading questions. Every token you add to the conversation matters, so phrase your query in a way that forces the AI to connect the dots for you
    2. Don't ask for deep reasoning and inference. It's not built for this, and it will bullshit/hallucinate if you push it to do so.
    3. Ask for live hyperlinks so it's easier to fact-check.
    4. Ask for code samples, algorithms, or snippets to do discrete tasks that you can easily follow.
    5. Ask for A/B comparisons between one stack you know by heart, and the other you're exploring.
    6. It will screw this up, eventually. Report hallucinations back to the conversation.

    About 20% of the time, it'll suggest things that are entirely plausible and probably should exist, but don't. Some platforms and APIs really do have barn-door-sized holes in them and it's staggering how rapidly AI reports a false positive in these spaces. It's almost as if the whole ML training stratagem assumes a kind of uniformity across the training set, on all axes, that leads to this flavor of hallucination. In any event, it's been helpful to know this is where it's most likely to trip up.

    Edit: an example of one such API hole is when I asked ChatGPT for information about doing specific things in Datastar. This is kind of a curveball since there's not a huge amount online about it. It first hallucinated an attribute namespace prefix of data-star- which is incorrect (it uses data- instead). It also dreamed up a JavaScript-callable API parked on a non-existent Datastar. object. Both of those concepts conform strongly to the broader world of browser-extending APIs, would be incredibly useful, and are things you might expect to be there in the first place.

  • Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference

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  • The genius of launching an attack of this scale from an address space that is already jam-packed full of hackers, should not be understated. Id say that, if not for doing it live on stage, law enforcement now has a giant haystack of needles to sift through.

  • Dick gets Tarred

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  • Naw, you're humanizing someone we've only seen on a TV screen. That's a good point to make.

  • 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular

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  • I have a USB-bootable thumbdrive with Ubuntu 24 on it. Two home systems down, two to go.

    My chief concern is that this wave of enshitifiation will eventually make it to Microsoft's security support. Historically, at least recently, the weekly updates and response to critical vulnerabilities and virus scanning have been pretty good. But now that they're attacking their own flagship products - Office and Windows itself - I think it's only a matter of time before they fumble Windows security in a big way.

    I'll also predict that Non-pro Windows will eventually be "free" (as in beer), but will be useless without a live internet connection and cloud services. So now really is the time to switch. IMO, all the money points in that direction.

  • First code coded

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  • The answer is: binary, sometimes with electrical switches.

    As late as the very early 1980's, the PDP-11 could be started by entering a small bootstrap program into memory, using the machine's front panel:

    You toggle the switches to make the binary pattern you want at a specific location in RAM, then hit another button to store it. Repeat until the bootstrap is in RAM, and then press start to run the program from that first address. Said start address is always some hardwired starting location.

    And that's a LATE example. Earlier (programmable) systems had other mechanisms for hard-wired or manual input like this. Go back far enough and you have systems that are so fixed-function in nature that it's just wired to do one specific job.

  • Gen Z men are moving away from MAGA in droves, polls show

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  • I feel like that's where we were before 2010 or so. Are these are the "traditional values" I keep hearing about?