Trivia: the most popular method of using Siri, per the analytics, is "accidental activation".

Hopefully by then local models will be more useful or more accessible on decent hardware.

For now, all my Codex projects include instructions to comment all code for human readers, develop unit tests, and document everything in human readable formats with a human audience in mind.

Caveat: I was a pretty decent programmer before AI.

Warren's son has been a leader at Berkshire for a very long time. He was voted in by the board, not Warren.

Here's his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Graham_Buffett

I’m sure his dad had nothing to do with it and it’s just a coincidence.

His dad probably has a lot to do with it.

You think he didn't teach his children anything about finance?

The guy is 71 years old and has built a life long career of his own, people are acting like he just elected a 21 year old nepo baby to run the company.

Exactly! They elected a 71 year old nepo baby to run the company. Vastly different.

His son isn't running the company. The company has a CEO, who isn't a member of the Buffet family.

If you want to split hairs as to what the responsibility of the Chairman of the Board of Directors does, you win.

IDK, maybe I'm a mushbrain but it seems like if someone said they're the chairman of the board, and you told them to their face "well it's not like you run the company..." they'd finish their drink and go talk to someone else for the rest of the night.

I saw this post in my RSS feeds early this morning. The post was so poorly thought out, pessimistic, and full of anti-AI myths that I unsubscribed from this blog's RSS feed. I'm surprised to see it make the front page of Hacker News.

And I’m now inclined to subscribe to this person’s blog. So I guess everything remains in balance.

.... enjoy the articles and fight against the inevitable future?

The only secret option I know of is to have a popular social media account and complain online.

Other than that, I copy/pasted your post into Claude and it had some good ideas.

I think what the commenter meant is that by using the GPS in mobile devices, these devices and their apps report their locations to various other places, including data collectors, which is probably how the US determined there was an Iranian commander at or near the school.

A paper notepad with stickies all tucked inside and stored in a safe. Then I try to get them MFA'd.

They ain't going to figure out or tolerate the likes of what 1Password has become. Anything on their Windows PC is going to get pwned.

AI is just another tool to nerd out and tinker with. The question was "Is anyone else losing their motivation to nerd out and tinker".

If you're using AI (to wit: another tool) to nerd out and tinker, then you're obviously not losing that motivation.

So my genuine answer to the original question is: No, I nerd out and tinker more than ever.

Right now, I am using AI as a tool to do stuff I otherwise wouldn't do, like reverse engineer a Whoop band for use with Apple Health sans a Whoop subscription.

I don't really care about percentages, either. But for some industries, the difference between "two 9s" and "five 9s" can be millions of dollars, so that's why they're published that way to the customer.

Except that customers lean so hard on those extra nines that they create processes where no work can be done when the service is down.

Less reliable products aren't allowed to become bottlenecks in the first place, at least at any B-tier or better businesses.

My working assumption based on what I hear out of Flock is that they have a public feature set (mass license plate surveillance for LEO) and a covert feature set (even more mass surveillance, beyond license plates and privacy agreements, for intelligence communities).

Didn’t realize Jefferson misquoted Franklin

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants"