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Harris Taunts Trump After He Backs Out of Debates
  • Yeah lol spinning this as "backing out" seems like a stretch. But if the headline was like "Trump campaign prefers to wait for formal nominations before planning debate," then it would not drive much engagement.

    Kind of a nothing story, IMO.

  • Gish gallop
  • Ben Shapiro is exactly who I've heard this in reference to. In his case, it's like an avalanche of "facts" and stats and stuff, which may be real in some sense or have some grain of truth, but it's not like you're going to be able to fact check them on the spot, or look at the data with the appropriate care and nuance to figure out how to interpret it... He just looks informed and the opponent looks baffled so he wins I guess.

    Donald Trump on the other hand just does this free-associating stream of consciousness rambling that I'm not sure is even lucid enough to count... Like I don't think he's usually trying to mount arguments or seem like "the smartest in the room" the way Ben Shapiro is, he just... Says stuff.

  • We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny
  • Oh, no, I mean I have an account, but I never (...exceedingly rarely) go on Facebook itself. messenger.com is just the messenger with no feed or other features, and there's a standalone mobile app called Messenger as well, same idea. I use those when I need to interact with someone over Facebook so that I'm not exposed to most of the crap.

    I don't know anything about using it totally without any account.

  • Programming Is Mostly Thinking
  • Right! For music, I think it's even like saying... The process of making music is much more than just literally performing it... But it'd be weird for the creative process to not contain any playing-of-music that looked in some ways like performance.

  • OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole
  • I don't think it's just marketing bullshit to think of LLMs as AI... The research community generally does, too. Like the AI section on arxiv is usually where you find LLM papers, for example.

    That's not like a crazy hype claim like the "AGI" thing, either... It doesn't suggest sentience or consciousness or any particular semblance of life (and I'd disagree with MW that it needs to be "human" in any way)... It's just a technical term for systems that exhibit behaviors based on training data rather than explicit programming.

  • Tesla Cybertruck gets vandalized by climate activists
  • That makes sense. Different populations have different needs! Maybe in your part of the world, things are set up so that even the rural folk can meet their truck needs some other way... I think that's totally possible for much of the world, even if it's not practical for, say, most of Saskatchewan.

  • Programming Is Mostly Thinking
  • Tbh I think alot of the "thinking" still looks like visible work though. I feel like the article makes it seem a little too much like there's nothing observable, nothing to show or demonstrate, until POOF the code comes out.

    But I find that I often need to be doing visible stuff to make progress... Like devising little experiments and running them to check my assumptions about the system (or discover something new about it), and making little incremental changes, running them, using the output to guide the next thing I do... Even occasionally spending the time to write a failing test that I plan to make pass.

    So I'm 100% on board with letting managers believe this "80% of the work is invisible" thing... But I think as advice for programmers, it's really important to not get too stuck in your head and spend too much time not kinetically interacting with the system that you're trying to change.

  • Is there a reason that mobile devices are considered more "trusted" than desktop/laptops?

    I keep interacting with systems-- like my bank, etc.-- that require (or allow) you to add one or more trusted devices, which facilitate authentication in a variety of ways.

    Some services let you set any device as a trusted device-- Macbook, desktop, phone, tablet, whatever. But many-- again, like my bank-- only allow you to trust a mobile device. Login confirmation is on a mobile device. Transaction confirmation: mobile device. Change a setting: Believe it or not, confirm on mobile device.

    That kind of makes sense in that confirming on a second device is more secure... That's one way to implement MFA. But of course, the inverse is not true: If I'm using the mobile app, there's no need to confirm my transactions on desktop or any other second device, and in fact, I'm not allowed to.

    But... Personally, I trust my mobile device much less than my desktop. I feel like I'm more likely to lose it or have it compromised in some way, and I feel like I have less visibility and control into what's running on it and how it's secured. I still think it's fairly trustworthy, but just not categorically better than my Macbook.

    So maybe I'm missing something: Is there some reason that an Android/iOS device would be inherently more secure than a laptop? Is it laziness on the part of (e.g.) my bank? Or is something else driving this phenomenon?

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    Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers

    👀🍿

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    Who would you recommend opening a bank account with in 2024?

    I'm planning to open a new chequing account in the near future, and I'm contemplating bailing on RBC. I've been with them for a very long time, and one possible outcome is that I'll just open a new RBC account and be done with it. That'd be... fine.

    But for a variety of reasons (including my satisfaction with RBC trending steadily downward), I'm thinking about opening this new account elsewhere. I don't have a ton of hard requirements, and I'm not really sure what to look for in a bank, but the following would be nice:

    • Good online banking experience, particularly desktop (RBC is shockingly bad at this)
    • Good credit card; easy to make payments from the new account
    • Minimal fees
    • Easy e-transfers
    • Real security (another thing RBC is terrible at)
    • Neat rewards would be cool
    • Low-fee, low-friction investing would also be cool-- I don't really do much investing, but I'd like to be able to

    Any suggestions would be great, including anti-suggestions if you happen to know of a bank that I should avoid.

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    Sure Todd, lol

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    "Managers are the real architects," concludes manager

    For reference (as per Wikipedia):

    > Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. > > — Melvin E. Conway

    Imagine interpreting that as advice on how you should try to design things, lol.

    Tbf, I think most of the post is just typical LinkedIn fluff, but I didn't want to take the poor fellow out of context.

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