Overzeetop

@Overzeetop@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops: Digital IDs make it tempting to leave your driver’s license at home — but that’s a dangerous risk.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was under the impression that Digital IDs are not a picture you bring up and hand to LE - it’s a RFID token transfer that you tap to authenticate on a reader. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be LE officers who will bully people, or that people won’t be smart enough to recognize that the picture on their phone isn’t their ID, but that not how digital IDs (are supposed to) work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops: Digital IDs make it tempting to leave your driver’s license at home — but that’s a dangerous risk.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something you have, something you are, something you know. Are you willing to give up proper security for your cause?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Cheating Is Getting Worse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an engineer. I use all of it. I use it whether I’m writing technically correct and accurate forensic reviews or doing math in my head (or on paper) to analyze a condition in real time or checking a complex finite element model to ensure that there are no improper assumptions or invalid boundary conditions. AI/ML is really useful for some things, and deadly for others.

  Rote memorization may seem unnecessary, but a mental catalog - whether it be quotes, body parts and systems, equations of natural phenomena, or even manufactured parts and specifications - is the hallmark of someone who can work independently in a real time industry. It may not matter for some jobs, but it’s make or break in others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet. Infrastructure on this scale moves slowly and the transparentness of pricing changes on short time lines in physical stores is hard to track. It exists in emergency economies - we call it price gouging - but that’s usually quite obvious. The idea of dynamic pricing has existed forever - hotels, airline flights, movie tickets, taxi rides, even electric rates. As technology advances it offers the opportunity to use the technology to shorten the time window for pricing changes more and more. An extra two tenths of a percent profit seems like a trivial amount. Amazon and Walmart combined for more than a trillion dollars in sales last year. 0.2% is a very non-trivial $2 Billion. If it becomes available, it will be exploited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Against all odds, an asteroid mining company [AstroForge] appears to be making headway⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  o7

  Fly safe, cmdr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iron Lion⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t quote the old AI to me, witch. I was there when the LLM was written.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Humans are so massively susceptible to gamification. It’s nice for providing motivation, but it ends up being like an addiction the way companies leverage it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook introduces another way to track you - Link History⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I saw it the other day. I would bet a lot of money that the information was already stored. In fact, if their data group didn’t already store that information (link clicks to external websites) they should all be fired. This is just a way that you can find something that you’d previously looked at on facebook (which, oddly, may be the only site on the planet with a worse search function than reddit).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christopher Nolan Says Buy ‘Oppenheimer’ on Blu-ray ‘So No Evil Streaming Service Can Come Steal It From You’: ‘We Put a Lot of Care’ Into Home Release⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I download all my movies and tv shows. My personal server never removes movies and always streams to my devices without restriction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Skip smoking and vape limits. Outlaw nicotine and other addictive synthetic nicotine-like compounds. For gods sake - you’re not allowed to buy acetaminophen or pseudoephedrine in bulk in the UK.

  Stop allowing the sale of the addictive drug and a good deal of the problem will correct itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mayim Bialik Declines to Host ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ Amid Strikes, Replaced by Ken Jennings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If an accountant leaves his profession to become a commercial pilot, does he get a pass to fly when the rest of the pilots go on strike?