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Chrome's model is based on copyright infringement and court cases are pending regarding legality. Even if spellcheck dictionary was 4 GB, installing bloated but legal software is different.

Hold on. Does this mean ER diagnoses are marginally better than pure chance?

No, because randomly guessing from a list of diagnoses is not 50/50

And ER generally does not involve key decisions being made by someone isolated from the patient given only an incomplete set of notes to make their diagnosis

Good point.

At least for private households, it's not mandatory to have surveillance cameras at home. If you do have one though, they will demand footage and can deny your claim if it was off, or worse. https://youtu.be/UMIwNiwQewQ?t=903

Yeah, I wouldnt have that in my house

> The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built. Since the second half of December 2025, agentic development workflows have accelerated sharply.

So, it's because of LLMs guys.


I don't want my audio interface to run SSH (and have some random authorized key added), personally.


I agree that it shouldn't have SSH enabled, but I do like that the firmware isn't encrypted or signed, so it's not hard to mod it, at no cost to thr manufacturer


Fact.


Just don't expose it on a public network?


Ordering is inconsistent.


They use MPH in the UK.


Their hours are pegged to the hogshead, and are about 3 seconds shorter than American hours.


The US use of units is worse than the UK.

Said from a proudly metric country, New Zealand, where everyone knows their weight in kilograms and height in feet and inches.


at least it's not stones


My parents used to measure us in feet and stones. I still know my height in feet, because it hasn’t changed in decades. My weight, unfortunately, I could only tell you in kilograms.


The metric system is the tool of the Devil! My Tesla gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!


Gimme five bees for a quarter you’d say!


s/Watch/Smartwatch

Regular DYI watches aren't big news...

(I would be over the moon for a DIY smartwatch with zero AI and e-ink screen.)


I would consider a DIY mechanical/analog watch to be far bigger news/more impressive than a smartwatch.


To be honest there is not much to it, you buy the movement, put it in a case, and put the hands on it. you can get everything from aliexpress. it's easier and often cheaper to just buy a normal watch if you need one.


It's impressive you start with a lathe and make the movement yourself!


Not nearly as impressive as designing and fabricating your own integrated circuits and display!


buying movement is like buying whole PCB

DIY analogy would probably be about acquiring individual gears


Is it different with a smartwatch? You buy the kit, it's not like you solder much as far as I understand.


I thought so too, but after quick research apparently there are kits. For various values of "DIY", I guess...


Sure but buying a movement kit is no different than buying a pcb. Writing code is not impressive any more.


Watchy fits the bill:

https://watchy.sqfmi.com/

I have one, its a bit bulkier than I'd thought it would be, but its a fine piece of timekeeping ..


I had one, broke 2 screens before I gave up wearing it... It's really not meant to be work in daily life, which is sad because an e-paper screen makes a lot of sense on a watch.


IMHO it just needs a better case. The watch itself is fine - the bulky case it comes with, not so great.

> He never writes about the erosion of race and the universalization of knowledge.

Who said that erosion of race and universalization of knowledge is a good thing? The article sure didn't.

If we agree that diversity is better than monoculture, we agree that we want more different subspecies with different ways of seeing reality.


> The stones were an unreliable guide to action, since what was not shown could be more important than what was selectively presented. A risk lay in the fact that users with sufficient power could choose what to show and what to conceal to other stones: in The Lord of the Rings, a palantír has fallen into the Enemy's hands, making the usefulness of all other existing stones questionable.


I thought mass quitting in solidarity would happen when programmers realize how their work is used to train AI and replace them. How many quit because of that? Doesn't seem like many.

Apparently, money wins over principles for 99% of us. How is this different and how are we better than Meta employees?


I don't think the two things are comparable. While it would be inconvenient for me personally if I was replaced by AI, it would be an enormous social good as the resources saved could go somewhere else. The same could not be said about everyone under constant surveillance by some megacorp or the government.


Are you so sure that replacing humans is "enormous social good"? For whom is it good, exactly?

Also, capturing keystrokes and mouse movements only when at work and on work computer isn't really constant surveillance. Capturing all our code, text, photo and video (made at work or at home) seems worse and we don't bat an eye.


I work in a non-profit sector, if they could save money by replacing me they could use the money elsewhere where they desperately need money. So lots of people would benefit. That same principle wouldn't apply if I worked for some mega corp of course.

But the discussion was about Meta employees in general. They're heavily involved in the second type of surveillance that you alude to.


They could help more people but by replacing you they might just create another person who may also need help.


They are somewhat involved but when AI is mentioned Meta's thing is far down the list...


> it would be an enormous social good as the resources saved could go somewhere else

they can, will and are going directly into like 9 sociopath's pockets at your peril.


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