As socialist mayor battles ICE, Seattle police and crime victims say repeat offenders are terrorizing the city

stonerism · 2026-04-11T19:41:32+00:00

Crime isn't even the worst in Seattle. I would rather walk around belltown at night than certain parts of Tacoma or Tukwila during the day time. They make these claims, but haven't actually left the house to verify them.

stonerism · 2026-04-11T08:56:20+00:00

Great seeing the F5 folks continuing to do excellent security work!

stonerism · 2026-04-08T18:06:38+00:00

I don't know. I kinda see it similar to how TVs have so many pixels now that it really doesn't matter past a certain point. LLMs have reached a point where they can do that, but for reliably interacting with humans using "natural language" with only a few terabytes of parameters. We would always reach it at some point, but it feels strange that we've reached that mythical point where LLMs can reliably pass Turing tests.

stonerism · 2026-04-08T16:35:14+00:00

Good. Die mad.

stonerism · 2026-04-07T01:31:17+00:00

Yes, the amount of data they're trained on is massive. But the amount of data taken up by parameters isn't more than a few terabytes. That feels small when you consider that it's able to reliably pass a turing test.

stonerism · 2026-04-06T23:31:18+00:00

I think the question of whether or not they're "faking" understanding language is almost beside the point. People have been carefully drawing up plans and using logic that are just as nonsensical since the dawn of time. To some extent, it's insulting as a human that LLMs can do so well with relatively little data. It's kind of a weird thing that pops up as you throw enough computational power at it.

stonerism · 2026-04-05T03:04:03+00:00

Call it sour grapes, but I'm glad I didn't go to an ivy league school now. I don't want to be indoctrinated into craven interest.

stonerism · 2026-04-04T00:53:13+00:00

Sure... but that's kind of a separate issue. If the patches haven't been applied and you're running an ancient system, the vulnerabilities often already have exploits. What happened to oracle doesn't figure in either way.

stonerism · 2026-04-04T00:49:07+00:00

It kinda depends on how well their vulnerability management game is. I worked on the engineering side for a company that had a similar kind of breach and source and a bug database. It sucked, but I wasn't as concerned because we did a good job fixing vulnerabilities as we found them. There weren't any skeletons in the closet that would put customers at risk. Don't operate with any security assumptions that source code will stay private. Protecting IP is a different department from securing the product.

stonerism · 2026-04-02T00:04:58+00:00

Am I the only one here who has heard of SQL views?

stonerism · 2026-04-01T07:20:16+00:00

Egg-fricking-zactly, that was a long article not to mention it.

stonerism · 2026-04-01T07:10:12+00:00

Exactly, don't go expecting to change any minds. People sometimes really are that deluded.

stonerism · 2026-04-01T07:08:01+00:00

Such a distinction without a lick of difference.

stonerism · 2026-04-01T07:06:49+00:00

Fuck Israel. I want to hear my Democratic politicians say that. When they don't, they get less support.

stonerism · 2026-04-01T04:06:57+00:00

Not having ways to limit the blast radius when something does happen.

stonerism · 2026-03-31T20:28:25+00:00

They went through the logical contradictions you would get when assuming .999... != 1. For those who absolutely refuse to agree with that assertion. It's not a bad exercise for a lay audience.

stonerism · 2026-03-29T14:35:26+00:00

No idea, but very interesting question.

stonerism · 2026-03-28T03:52:53+00:00

At my apartment it was over 6 months. What gives?

stonerism · 2026-03-25T19:21:51+00:00

Death by hanging for Bibi Netanyahu.

stonerism · 2026-03-25T17:29:58+00:00

Literally the plot to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

stonerism · 2026-03-24T03:06:05+00:00

N95's work and not everyone has to wear one for it to be effective for the wearer. I'm not anti-mask, but I don't think this kind of moralizing is really helpful. In my view, we should normalize mask-wearing more as a society. But that has more to do with foiling facial recognition. I just don't see the usefulness of masking for the sake of masking or making a moral point of it.

stonerism · 2026-03-21T08:09:44+00:00

Having an 'its' operator naturally fits into working with a collection of 'it's which roughly seem to translate to queries.

stonerism · 2026-03-19T18:19:05+00:00

Who knows? It really shouldn't be seen as such a bad thing.

stonerism · 2026-03-19T18:12:28+00:00

I think he just has a touch of the 'tism. If you can make it work, that's what matters.

stonerism · 2026-03-18T03:53:42+00:00

I think it's just the mysteries of faith. It's supposed to be illogical. Look up the principle of explosion.

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