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byhadleyburg
1, 2026 @08:01PM
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Attached to: Anthropic's $200M Pentagon Contract at Risk Over Objections to Domestic Surveillance, Autonomous Deployments
A large company contracting with the US military must surely be aware that the run the risk of being connected with something untoward.
That is comes as a surprise is somewhat surprising.
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byhadleyburg
1, 2026 @07:57PM
(#65963338)
Attached to: Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America
Tesla isn't the only player anymore - even in the US.
And of course Tesla has taken on quite a political tinge.
A Tesla car used to be a cool gadget, now is it is becoming a sort of statement.
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byhadleyburg
1, 2026 @07:41PM
(#65963320)
Attached to: Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief
There's a fine line between investment and gambling.
Investment is usually used to refer to putting money into some sort of industry. You can determine whether the industry is producing something of potential value.
Gambling is more of a chance affair.
The value of Bitcoin is not related to production of value, as such. Its related to how other people perceive the validity of bitcoin as a currency. It's inheriently more volatile.
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byhadleyburg
29, 2026 @02:13AM
(#65956054)
Attached to: Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us To Take Back the Internet
Suggestions like this show a lack of understanding of human nature. Many people do show kindness and consideration for others. But there are, and will always be, those who are motivated to do things that aren't so...nice. You know, people who are motivated by greed to do whatever they can to get more money from people, ranging from pushy sales tactics to outright fraud.
When you live in the country, many people don't bother to lock their doors. Everybody knows everybody else, and they respect the closed door. That's like the internet of old, when SMTP just relayed email without so much as authentication.
But when you live in a densely-populated city, you'd be a fool to keep your door unlocked, the chances of burglary are just too high. The internet is now just such a densely-populated city. Time to lock the doors.
Bad behaviour and crime is not necessarily a function of population density.
Crime is low in Tokyo.
Crime is high in Kyle, South Dakota (pop. 1,600, which has severe poverty, unemployment, ...)
I don't deny your point at all - that in higher density areas, in which people are more anonymous, we tend to see more bad behaviour. But there is also the effect of culture. We see less bad behaviour when the culture is more formal and where manners are expected - Crime in NYC rose in the '60s and '70s.
Even when the early internet started accumulating users, and was pretty anonymous, there was a shared culture - It was mostly computer people or science people, and they were quite happy about maintaining what, at the time, was called etiquette.
An agreed set of rules, and mutual respect has gone out of fashion in the last few years - it's more of a get what you can take world. It's been long enough since the end of the war, and we've forgotten why we wanted these niceties. But I am optimistic that they will return, some day.
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byhadleyburg
28, 2026 @02:57AM
(#65954014)
Attached to: Amazon Inadvertently Announces Cloud Unit Layoffs In Email To Employees
It's odd that in this sort of situation - delivering bad news to employees - the communication skills that HR departments usually promote, seem lacking.
Presumably in an effort to soften the blow, terms like "impacted", and "positioning for future success" are used, which to the impacted employees just sound like management-speak, and probably add a sprinkle of irritation onto the serving of bad news.
Management-speak is a dialect used to add the impression of professionalism to what is often a content of marketing or obfuscation. It can work on peers, but can be counter-productive when used on people who value precision, like computer folk.
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byhadleyburg
7, 2026 @06:07PM
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Attached to: Citigroup Mandates AI Training For 175,000 Employees To Help Them 'Reinvent Themselves'
Genuine question: Would ChatGPT still be useful if you broke up the 600 line project into more bite-sized tasks?
Even the task of breaking up the project into sub-tasks might be considered for ChatGPT. ("We need to write software for xxx. Can you first provide a breakdown of xxx. I want a list of sub-tasks that are reasonably self-contained").
Then each sub-task (presumably less than 600 lines) could be given to ChatGPT to code.
Do you think this approach might work?
Personally, I have found ChatGPT useful as an alternative to looking up programming language syntax and grammar in a reference manual. It is quicker to ask ChatGPT to provide the basic code or idiom, which reminds you of how it is done in the target language. You can then modify it as required.
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byhadleyburg
7, 2026 @05:11PM
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Attached to: Citigroup Mandates AI Training For 175,000 Employees To Help Them 'Reinvent Themselves'
Oh, nothing. Everyone loves a mandatory training.
Who said mandatory training is to be loved. It's an essential part of working life. Not something worth putting on Slashdot.
Yeah I was enrolled in mandatory CoPilot training too. Whoop de fucking do. We do training for various company tools all the time, some of them turn out to be useless.
I see what you're saying, but the article frames this as something bigger than just another new tool to be learned. And is sounds like the Citigroup management think that way too.
I wonder if it is similar to the introduction of computers on the desk for office workers.
I think this transition happened sometime in the 1990s. In the 1980s, only computer programmers had computers on their desk, with the occasional exception of specialised work like CAD (Computer Aided Design) which was just starting to come in. Other office workers might have a typewriter, but would otherwise spend their time writing by hand, talking on the telephone, or meeting people. These roles now probably spend most of their time operating a desktop computer.
I can't remember similar organisation-wide training programmes encouraging workers to "reinvest themselves" in a new computer-based world, although there might have been some. But it certainly resulted in significant changes to the way people work.
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byhadleyburg
7, 2026 @04:03PM
(#65953168)
Attached to: Washington State May Mandate 'Firearm Blueprint Detection Algorithms' For 3D Printers
What do you mean by "libertarian"? The three States you mentioned are among the least, as they are some of the most highly taxed and regulated States. If you are specifically thinking about gun laws, New York is one of the most restrictive.
The States with the least regulations on guns (which also tend to be the most libertarian) don't have Minnesota's issue. They are not "Sanctuary States" that refuse to cooperate with Federal immigration agencies, so there's little to no need for Federal agents to show up. The sort of large-scale enforcement seen in Minnesota and some other States is only necessary because those places refuse to coordinate with Federal agents. In Georgia, if someone gets arrested and is found to be an illegal alien, they are handed over to ICE. In Minnesota, they are released back into the community.
Or I could summarize that as "The people and places with lots of guns support ICE, the angry women and weak men who hate ICE also hate guns."
Ah, ok. So there is a strong correlation between "red" and libertarian.
And red/libertarian folk don't see this ICE activity as something requiring pushback...? Gosh.
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byhadleyburg
7, 2026 @05:05AM
(#65951818)
Attached to: Gemini In Google Calendar Now Helps You Find the Best Meeting Time For All Attendees
If I want to know if your private calendar has an appointment tomorrow evening, can I try to schedule a meeting with you, aiming it for tomorrow evening and check if the AI steers it clear of that slot?
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byhadleyburg
7, 2026 @01:09AM
(#65951626)
Attached to: Washington State May Mandate 'Firearm Blueprint Detection Algorithms' For 3D Printers
I'm no expert on American culture, but it was suggested to me that if these Minnesota incident(s) happened in a more libertarian state (they suggested the blue yet reasonably libertarian states Maine or New York), then the result might have been more violent.
While I understand the motivation, it would be a bit of a tinderbox.
Americans: Is this likely?
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byhadleyburg
2026 @10:59PM
(#65949122)
Attached to: Washington State May Mandate 'Firearm Blueprint Detection Algorithms' For 3D Printers
[...] being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms [...]
In case the government goes rogue on the people.
Just in case that ever happens.
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byhadleyburg
2026 @10:56PM
(#65949118)
Attached to: Washington State May Mandate 'Firearm Blueprint Detection Algorithms' For 3D Printers
"Thou shalt not kill"
Perhaps with an asterisk against the "not".
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byhadleyburg
2026 @06:24PM
(#65948744)
Attached to: Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM
He is a principled man.
That doesn't mean he is always right, or that he always turns out to be right, but he is willing to go to some lengths to practice what he preaches.
Most of us don't do that. We might feel that our personal data should be private to ourselves, but are willing to compromise on that when the principle just becomes too difficult to maintain. That's ok, but I think it's also appropriate to have an admiration for someone like RMS who sticks to his principles through thick and thin.
He's a bit like Pete Seeger in the folk music world, or one of the prophets of old. He might seem out of date. He might be made fun of. But there is something admirable about a principled man.
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byhadleyburg
2026 @04:35AM
(#65947676)
Attached to: Work-From-Office Mandate? Expect Top Talent Turnover, Culture Rot
- Commuting stress - [Similar] "Traffic" stress replaced by crowded train stress
Can't speak for Tokyo trains specifically, but for me unless you're, like, standing for an hour or more a crowded train beats bad traffic.
Driving is particularly horrible, you're operating in one mode, moving, with high awareness, thinking fast then you slam into a traffic jam and are stopped, and your brain's completely jacked up with suddenly nothing to do. I think that experience is horrible and why people get so rage filled. There's something uniquely unpleasant about heavy traffic and it makes people awful.
I agree.
Being stuck in traffic, particularly when you think it is going to make you late, is pretty stressful, and brings out the worst in people.
Being on a crowded train means you have to define a smaller personal space, but you can listen to a podcast, or music, read a book, and you are confident that you will arrive at the expected time. It's actually quite a luxury to not have to continuously focus on driving.
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byhadleyburg
24, 2026 @08:36PM
(#65947348)
Attached to: Work-From-Office Mandate? Expect Top Talent Turnover, Culture Rot
You missed one: taking care of family.
I have an elderly father, who is doing pretty good for his age, but is unable to live by himself. I was luckily enough to talk my boss into full time remote work. It makes a huge difference in my fatherâ(TM)s life.
Good point.
And respect to both you and your boss.
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