mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Can you just do the same and let the AI'S have a nice chat? 000
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This reminds me of when NPR tweeted out the whole thing line by line on July 4th and people--who didn't realize what it was--were up in arms. 052
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And leave Vanilla Ice at home, he steals under pressure. 040
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I work as a software developer, sure you can use AI to help you, but your name is still on the commit. You can't blame the AI for shoddy work and you will be held accountable to what you push. It is still your code, full stop. 010
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Did Boutros ever represent to the court that he was unaware of things and Mecklenburg's testimony calls those representations into question? 1120
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 08/09/2026ngl, I just assume I can't afford an artist so any time I'm thinking it would be cool if I had an artists to do something I just don't do that. 001
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026And you need to root it out in a way that isn't exploitable in 4 years. Ruining the apolitical nature of so much of the daily running of our government is an absolute disaster. The CDC shouldn't be controlled by a political ideology. Disaster relief shouldn't depend on whom a state voted for! WTAF? 120
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Just like cyber security, the weakness is always the people. It has been since the dawn of civilization. People being inept, lazy, lax, short sighted and also nefarious. 030
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The problem with any of these controls, checks, balances, etc, is that they still depend on people executing them. We have at least 2 things that could help us here, the 25th amendment and congress could impeach and remove him. The people in the position to do that though don't want to. 330
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 09/07/2026For sure, BLAS and LAPACK are great examples that we will always have with us ;) 110
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I remember in the 2000's having to deal with Java programmers writing C++ code. You could always tell. My biggest problem with perl was people tend to use their own subset/style and it could be pretty different due to the philosophy of theres more than one way to do it. 210
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 29/06/2026This is why c++ is nice... I'll be glad when we can use all the C++20 features. 010
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 27/06/2026This is one of the things I hate so much about the current US administration. They are cutting and politicizing basic research that absolutely has to be publicly funded because it doesn't make economic sense for businesses to do. It was one of our competitive advantages that is being squandered.to.be 010
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 16/06/2026So you're saying you can't know that you are suffering from psychosis? It's very similar to a catch-22. 110
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 14/06/2026While I totally agree, I struggle to see exactly what we would charge him with related to the cutting of aid. Maybe a better legal mind will know (and I dont really know the details of what he did.) He probably also broke many other laws related to how our country runs. 000
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I've totally intentionally written bad tests just so I can seem them fail. I have some sympathy for test first development where I write the tests and watch them fail then write the code. (Yes, I assume you know that, but maybe someone reading this doesnt) 110
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I @deviantollam.bsky.social has talked about the fact that given enough time you will always be able to break into any safe. The goal isn't to make it impenetrable, rather to make it take long enough/loud enough that someone can't get in before someone else notices. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_J...youtube.comAttacking Classified Safes and Vaults from the Cold War to Now [CackalackyCon 2025]YouTube video by DeviantOllam 0202
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 08/06/2026We're not safe till were all safe! I'm a white straight married cismale who still cares about LGBTQA+, immigrant and any minority rights because if they get taken away, mine aren't safe either. (Though to be fair, I'm not doing a whole lot other than making sure my kids care too). 140
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Legit question, I agree they and other constant surveillance tech are a problem. How do we regulate them? Which features are a problem? For example, should I be allowed to have an always on camera on my car or bike? What can I do with that data? How about my home/doorbell? Can it be subpoenad? 100
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Ugh, I've definitely seen this argument and it sucks because it implies we're already doing everything as good as possible and that there should be no change. Just because people did as good as they could with the time, resources and knowledge doesn't mean its the best. Everything as constraints. 020
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Related but similar, there also is a risk aversion to change. People see the current thing as working to some degree and fear that a change will make it worse. Kind of a Devil You Know argument. That said, they usually don't argue its good or normal, merely that its tolerable. 010
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Wtf? We're going to poll the internet trolls they use to train the llm on? That seems a poor idea. 010
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I wonder about its usefulness with new technologies where there isn't data to scrape from. 010
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 04/05/2026We need to teach them how to figure out the truth from the bullshit. It needs to be applied to the results from AI, news, advertising, politicians, wikipedia, etc. Trust but verify (or in many cases, be skeptical until further proof is found). I.e. critical thinking ;) 000
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 04/05/2026That would be amazing. I've not hear of that in the U.S. for sure. 010
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 04/05/2026For sure. I've read about this in other industries like script writing. It's interesting question of whose job it is to raise the next generation because for an individual firm it doesn't necessarily make economic sense to do it. Bigger firms can have a pipeline because they will nab some of them. 110
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 04/05/2026One thing it does give the Sr. is flexibility to try out a number of ideas rapidly. When code is cheap, you don't mind trying several options and throwing away most of it. Don't underestimate the power of rapid prototyping with a llm. 110
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I do really worry about this too. There's so much you have to learn to be an effective developer just on the tech side let alone the design and the people side. The only way they can learn it is though experience and really someone has to basically "pay" for that. 131
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I mean I love me a good book and have may how to books... that said, I still turn to youtube videos for a lot of things like this. 000
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 29/04/2026This is the opposite of the U.S.'s engagements in Iran! 010
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I use one (expressVPN) on my phone and there's an annoying number of things that then fail sometimes. I'm thinking mostly streaming services. That said I still stick with it most of the time and turn it off when I need to. 010
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 25/04/2026There are massive unintended consequences of these laws where companies will wholesale completely stop moderation or massively overdue it due to legal risks. Either way, the average consumer loses out. 010
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 25/04/2026This reminds me of the arguments around section 230 in the US. We had a problem where companies that were trying remove bad material were being sued because they inevitably missed some. Whereas the companies that didn't do anything were fine because they weren't trying to have a safe place. 120
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 24/04/2026One year in college, the very first really nice day out the whole campus lost power. Everybody was outside just enjoying the day with no classes and most of their homework done. (This was before smart phones would have ruined it) It was a great day! 010
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I think so often we forget how much the reader brings to the equation. I can read the same thing a decade apart and take something completely different from it because I have changed. I don't envy the crap an author has to go through because of what the readers bring and bitch about. 0170
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Just make sure to spell it out in your instructions you pass along as part of your context when you call your trainer. 010
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 19/03/2026If we're talking LLMs, they have contracts where they pinky swear that they won't retain any of what you send them and the would never train their models on that. Obviously they care deeply about the laws around IP, it's very important to their business. 131
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 16/03/2026With how cheap they can produce drones it seems less than ideal to put troops in range of them. 112
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 10/03/2026So what happens when they expand their search and find a pattern of these mistakes in all their cases? What recourse do the defenses have? As a lay person is seems that all the cases that have these AI mistakes should be thrown out. 000
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Floating point double numbers that computers use to do all kinds of things are only rational numbers. (And there's all kinds of weird rounding that happens with them) 000
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Never had Orwell be more essential to read, understand and internalize. It's like they thought it was an instruction manual. 2285
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 19/02/2026How far do the European subpoena powers go? And what can they uncover? That's what I'm hopeful for. 110
mdprice 🫘 @mdprice.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I do find it pretty good for stackoverflow type questions with the obvious grain of salt needed. It really has saved me time for this kind of thing. I am sad to see stackoverflow's downfall, I'm old enough to remember the days before. 120
