jackvalentine (u/jackvalentine)

jackvalentine commented on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world pcgamer.com/games/steam-p... · Posted by u/mrkramer

supermatt · 11 days ago

That seems like it cannot be true, given the percentage of customers from countries with their own currency storefronts. What is your source?

jackvalentine · 10 days ago

Own currency storefronts display in local currency and charge in USD.

I was extremely surprised to see the international transaction fees my bank charged.

jackvalentine commented on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zzzeek

benterix · 12 days ago

Yeah everybody compares traditional programming to using assembler now. This analogy would be great except that the current generation of LLMs is still quite unreliable and a large part of what it generates is a mess.

In a perfect world, there would be no problem - those of us who enjoy the experience would vibe-code whatever they need, and the rest of us would develop our skills the way we want. Unfortunately, there is a group of CXOs, such as the ones at Github, who know better and force the only right way down their employees throats.

jackvalentine · 12 days ago

These radiography AIs aren’t LLMs AFAIK.

jackvalentine commented on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zzzeek

frankc · 12 days ago

I think that is a good question and we don't really know yet. I think we are going to have to overhaul a lot of how we educate people. Even if all AI progress stops today, there is still a massive shift in how many professions operate that is incoming.

jackvalentine · 12 days ago

> I think we are going to have to overhaul a lot of how we educate people.

I agree.

I work in healthcare and if you take a tech view of all the data there are a lot of really low hanging fruit to pick to make things more standardised and efficient. One example is extracting data from patient records for clinical registries.

We are trying to automate that as much as possible but I have the nagging sense that we’re now depriving junior doctors of the opportunity to look over hundreds of records about patients treated for X to find the data and ‘get a feel’ for it. Do we now have to make sure we’re explicitly teaching something since it’s not implicitly being done anymore? Or was it a valueless exercise.

The assumptions that we make about training on the job are all very chesterton’s fence really.

jackvalentine commented on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zzzeek

frankc · 12 days ago

But it sounds like with AI doctors did better overall, or that is how I read the first couple of lines. If that is true, I don't really see a problem here. Compilers have eroded my ability to write assembly, that is true. If compilers went away, I would get back up to speed in a few weeks.

jackvalentine · 12 days ago

The compiler example is very helpful, thanks for posting it.

My follow up question is now “if junior doctors are exposed to AI through their training is doctor + AI still better overall?” e.g. do doctors need to train their ‘eye’ without using AI tools to benefit from them.

jackvalentine commented on Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm thurrott.com/music-videos... · Posted by u/thunderbong

jackvalentine · 12 days ago

Are there any retail Windows 11 ARM devices that aren’t Qualcomm?

jackvalentine commented on KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland neowin.net/news/kde-plasm... · Posted by u/bundie

ben0x539 · 21 days ago

I bet there's concerns with users who don't have a robust mental model of what applications/windows are currently alive or starting up or whatever just losing track of a window completely if it doesn't grab focus, and getting annoyed at programs seemingly failing to start up at all (because they only create a window hidden behind a newly focused window).

One-size-fits-all woes I guess.

jackvalentine · 20 days ago

Bring back splash screens! If your application takes ages to open, throw up a nice little title card.

jackvalentine commented on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

giantg2 · 25 days ago

This ban includes watching videos. The law says they must take action to prevent underage persons from accessing their services. This means they will likely have to require login and age verify any accounts. The carve out in the article is talking about teachers and parents being allowed to show the content to the kids.

"The govt doesn't need to enforce the age check themselves or even provide or suggest a mechanism."

I suppose it will be up to the courts to decide what is reasonable as an age check. However, the government has said that they don't want to include full ID checks, which is why one would assume they would provide guidance on how to comply.

jackvalentine · 25 days ago

> This ban includes watching videos. The law says they must take action to prevent underage persons from accessing their services.

The law, as written:

> There are age restrictions for certain social media platforms. A provider of such a platform must take reasonable steps to prevent children who have not reached a minimum age from having accounts.

No commentary I have seen supports your interpretation.

jackvalentine commented on Australia Wants to See Your Papers Before You Press Play reclaimthenet.org/austral... · Posted by u/like_any_other

Canada · a month ago

We need to simply take away children's access to the unfiltered internet, and we need this to be done by local device parental controls - children get iPhones that allow only a whitelisted part of the internet. We adults need to enforce it and make it a social norm, like you don't buy cigarettes for kids. Then this mass surveillance "for the children" concept can go away, and also the children really shouldn't be exposed to certain information, which we all know it when we see it, until they are old enough.

jackvalentine · a month ago

> We adults need to enforce it and make it a social norm, like you don't buy cigarettes for kids.

We could do it using some kind of law!

jackvalentine commented on Claude jailbroken to mint unlimited Stripe coupons generalanalysis.com/blog/... · Posted by u/rhavaeis

codedokode · a month ago

Maybe the model is supposed to work in a customer support and needs access to Stripe to check payment details and hand out coupons for inconvenience?

jackvalentine · a month ago

I think you’d set the model up as you would any staff user of the platform - with authorised amounts it can issue without oversight and an escalation pathway if it needs more?