They were introduced as a way to crowdsource OCR
Google would give two words, one they knew and one they didn’t
4chan screwed with them back in the day by all giving the same wrong answer on the second word so their OCR would scan wrong
I think it’s done this way because framing it as a “setback” gives the impression Rockstar is in the right and will overcome their setback to succeed in the end.
They don’t want you to think the workers were right
As long as they produce a PoC like fuzzing tools, I don’t think anyone is complaining
It’s the theoretical attacks that nearly always turn out to be impossible, wasting time, and making it harder to find the real issues that need investigation that’s the problem with slop reports
Pretty sure that just implements HOTP/TOTP
You could replace it with FreeOTP
Somewhere around the end of Windows 8, they fired all of their testers
Now they’re using AI to make patches
It’s been a steady decline, not a fast decline
Commodore’s patent-pending technology blocks social media
Certainly feels like they’re claiming more than just journalistic hyperbole
BSDs are also monolithic kernels, just like Linux, macOS, and Windows NT
FreeBSD has been trying to make it easier to run as a desktop OS by supporting the Linux APIs so they can use the WiFi and Graphics drivers from Linux
OpenBSD handles security by supporting fewer features. E.g. they do not support Bluetooth as it’s an insecure protocol, and they disabled SMT due to the hardware bugs in AMD/Intel/ARM - so they are more secure, but slower
My cat has only ever torn up the couch, but a friend of mine has a cat that goes ham on their banister, and the wood is probably missing ~2 inches after a few years
“Facts that happened to be true” is such a ridiculous statement…
If it wasn’t true, it wouldn’t be a fact
Well, they at least rejected letting Apple release without “Trusted System Agent” and a pinky promise it would be implemented in a year and a half…
Claude 4.6 was doing shit like
extern char grid[5][5]
…
fgets(grid[i], 6, fp); grid[i][6] = '\0';
So, it’s the same answer as every other time I’ve tried to talk to people supporting AI…
If it didn’t work, I just I didn’t guide it enough, and if I did guide it, it’s a skill issue…
It is pretty hard to come up with an easier problem for it to solve for an example case
If it can’t output ~50 lines of code that is reasonably common from textbooks with one minor modification, I’m not clear what the benefit is
It’s certainly not faster
I already stated I kept prompting it for over 30 minutes and it still hadn’t fully completed the problem
Not OP, but I was pretty disappointed trying Claude 4.6
Prompted
Write a C program to find the longest word in a static 5x5 array of characters.
These characters shall be defined in a header file, you may allocate it with any letters for now
This program should find the longest word, using words available in a file at /usr/share/dict/words
This file will have one word per line
The rules of the longest word are that you may select the next letter in any direction from your current letter one character away, including diagonals
Any index may be the starting point, and you may not repeat a space on the grid
It did a breadth first search for the longest path, then checked if that longest path was a word, rather than checking each step, so it never found any words
When I asked it to fix that, it then opened and reread the entire dictionary for each character
Once I got it to fix that, I asked it to read the input array from a file, and after 30 minutes of asking it in different ways, it never managed to successfully read that file in
All in all, it took longer than just writing it myself, even for what I would call an interview question
To help with 4)
Pricing models changed last month, and what was $500 is now like $15,000
There has been a lot of news of people hit with unexpected bills larger than that
Cars started becoming popular around 1885, and people started to change their mind (specifically because the vehicles improved massively, not just because they were wrong initially) in maybe 1910?
Tesla made them popular in what? 2017? so we should see enough improvements for widespread adoption by 2040
They promised one back in 2014.
I think 12 years is much longer than “soonish”
Its a pretty small prank when the recovery is git checkout HEAD@{1}
Tommen’s walk after the sept was one of my biggest WTF moments in the series
They’re also required to be paid minimum wage in the US by the restaurant if tips don’t cover it
Minimum wage being below poverty in the US is, of course, a separate issue