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Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

  • Gov. Greg Abbott signs bill requiring Ten Commandments to be displayed in Texas classrooms

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  • I can understand the appeal of the Ten Commandments to conservatives. Each commandment has its own prescribed punishment and for Texans, especially, I'm sure they all sound fantastic:

    1. Death.
    2. Death.
    3. Death.
    4. Death.
    5. Death.
    6. Death.
    7. Death.
    8. Death.
    9. Death.
    10. Feces on their faces.

  • Gov. Greg Abbott signs bill requiring Ten Commandments to be displayed in Texas classrooms

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  • Actually I believe the correct term is, "fascism"

  • Teachers Are Not OK

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  • Correction: Education is not OK.

    AI is just giving poor kids the same opportunities rich kids have had for decades. Opportunities for cheating the system that was made specifically not to give students the best education possible but instead to bring them up to speed on the bare minimum required to become factory workers.

    Except we don't have very many factories any more. And we don't have jobs for all these graduates that pay a living wage.

    The banks are going to have to get involved soon. They're going to have to figure out a way to load up working-age people with long term debt without college being involved.

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  • Just hoof it down to your nearest library and ask the librarian. They know how to horse around 🐴👍

  • JD Vance gets suspended from Bluesky 'just 12 minutes after first post': reports

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  • Ah yes. I'm actually impressed that they were able to determine that he was "Verified BS" so quickly.

  • Researchers are now vacuuming DNA from the air

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  • It's just like that scene in Gattaca where the police use a DNA-testing handheld vacuum to collect evidence after that beautiful mechanical keyboard was murdered.

  • ‘Abolishing FEMA’ Memo Outlines Ways for Trump to Scrap Agency

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  • When that happens it will derail their entire argument. These people are the opposite of trained professionals.

    Even if you bring it up they'll try to change the subject, "this conversation is getting off-track."

  • Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging - What we're seeing: More hate, more fear, less freedom.

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  • To me, this is like saying, "4chan has turned into a cesspool!" Yeah: It was like that from the start. YOU were the ones that assumed it was ever safe!

    You're posting stuff on the public Internet to a website for adults where literally anyone can sign up and comment FFS.

    If you want good moderation you need community moderation from people in that community. Not some giant/evil megacorp!

    There's all sorts of tools and platforms that do this properly, easily, and for free. If you don't like Meta's websites move off of them already!

  • Trump’s Border Czar Dramatically Changes His Tune About Arresting Newsom

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  • Who knows, maybe we might even let them come back to US soil they might leave CECOT alive—some day.

    FTFY.

    When you kidnap people without due process on the regular you're encouraging people to fight back. When you send them to foreign gulags known for literally torturing and killing people and forcing them into slave labor you're encouraging them to fight back with deadly force.

    Dying—fighting for your life—sure sounds better than just giving up and letting ICE take you away. At this point the Trump Administration and ICE cannot be trusted to execute due process. They're operating outside of the law. They are the lawless ones.

    They're hoping for deadly conflict and I fear they're going to get it. Though, on the plus side I'm 100% certain they will be unhappy with the outcome. In both the short and long term.

  • Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well.

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  • To be fair, the world of JavaScript is such a clusterfuck... Can you really blame the LLM for needing constant reminders about the specifics of your project?

    When a programming language has five hundred bazillion absolutely terrible ways of accomplishing a given thing—and endless absolutely awful code examples on the Internet to "learn from"—you're just asking for trouble. Not just from trying to get an LLM to produce what you want but also trying to get humans to do it.

    This is why LLMs are so fucking good at writing rust and Python: There's only so many ways to do a thing and the larger community pretty much always uses the same solutions.

    JavaScript? How can it even keep up? You're using yarn today but in a year you'll probably like, "fuuuuck this code is garbage... I need to convert this all to [new thing]."

  • Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well.

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  • Define, "reasoning". For decades software developers have been writing code with conditionals. That's "reasoning."

    LLMs are "reasoning"... They're just not doing human-like reasoning.

  • Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well.

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  • That just means they'd be great CEOs!

    According to Wall Street.

  • Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well.

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  • I'm not convinced that humans don't reason in a similar fashion. When I'm asked to produce pointless bullshit at work my brain puts in a similar level of reasoning to an LLM.

    Think about "normal" programming: An experienced developer (that's self-trained on dozens of enterprise code bases) doesn't have to think much at all about 90% of what they're coding. It's all bog standard bullshit so they end up copying and pasting from previous work, Stack Overflow, etc because it's nothing special.

    The remaining 10% is "the hard stuff". They have to read documentation, search the Internet, and then—after all that effort to avoid having to think—they sigh and start actually start thinking in order to program the thing they need.

    LLMs go through similar motions behind the scenes! Probably because they were created by software developers but they still fail at that last 90%: The stuff that requires actual thinking.

    Eventually someone is going to figure out how to auto-generate LoRAs based on test cases combined with trial and error that then get used by the AI model to improve itself and that is when people are going to be like, "Oh shit! Maybe AGI really is imminent!" But again, they'll be wrong.

    AGI won't happen until AI models get good at retraining themselves with something better than basic reinforcement learning. In order for that to happen you need the working memory of the model to be nearly as big as the hardware that was used to train it. That, and loads and loads of spare matrix math processors ready to go for handing that retraining.

  • Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well.

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  • The only reason we're not there yet is memory limitations.

    Eventually some company will come out with AI hardware that lets you link up a petabyte of ultra fast memory to chips that contain a million parallel matrix math processors. Then we'll have an entirely new problem: AI that trains itself incorrectly too quickly.

    Just you watch: The next big breakthrough in AI tech will come around 2032-2035 (when the hardware is available) and everyone will be bitching that "chain reasoning" (or whatever the term turns out to be) isn't as smart as everyone thinks it is.

  • Computer science has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • NOTE: Computer Scientists are the folks that do lots of math to figure out the best algorithm to use to solve any given computational problem. It's a very specific subset of programming.

    For a long, long time companies sought to hire people with computer science degrees as software developers under the impression that these were the best people for developing software. This was a very bad assumption.

    Turns out, computer scientists are often terrible at software development! They don't usually teach things like how to best organize large projects or even basics like source code management or software deployment/management in CompSci programs. Yet those are the actual skills employers need these days.

    Want to get a job in software development? You don't need a degree at all! What you need is to demonstrate your skills with whatever tools/software employers are demanding. The simplest way to do that is with posting some open source code to GitHub (or similar).

    When hiring—if the person I'm interviewing has a public repo that uses the tech we're using—they're basically hired immediately. At that point the only thing I care about is, "does this person seem OK-ish to work with?" LOL! Easiest hire ever 👍

  • 'Should be embarrassed': Trump admin slaps back as it's caught in major lie

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  • This assumes the people in the Trump administration are capable of feeling embarrassment or shame.

  • Superhero content fans, what kind of media do you want to see in the future?

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  • More interesting superpowers. I want stuff like the powers in Sagrada Reset. Not stereotypical stuff like strength, speed, invisibility, etc.

    I also want to see a shapeshifter character as one of the good guys! Why are they always the bad guys?

    Give people some superpowers with interesting limitations and make them work together in clever ways to accomplish amazing feats that would never be possible on their own.

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  • So... You were lovin' it and they were having it their way.

  • Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer

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  • The big difference is that updates in Linux happen in the background and aren't very intrusive. Your hard drive will be used here and there as it unpacks packages but the difference between say, apt, and Windows update is stark. Windows update slows everything down quite a lot.