I went back to an MacBook pro M5, after being away from Apple for a year or 5 (Lenovo etc).
I tried to re-enable my apple account but I had to wait 5(!) days to change the password. I ended up making another account.
Readit Newstiku commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau
That's why you treat it like a junior dev. You do the fun stuff of supervising the product, overseeing design and implementation, breaking up the work, and reviewing the outputs. It does the boring stuff of actually writing the code.
I am phenomenally productive this way, I am happier at my job, and its quality of work is extremely high as long as I occasionally have it stop and self-review it's progress against the style principles articulated in its AGENTS.md file. (As it tends to forget a lot of rules like DRY)
I enjoy finding the problem and then telling Claude to fix it. Specifying the function and the problem. Then going to get a coffee from the breakroom to see it finished when I return. The junior dev has questions when I did that. Claude just fixes it.
tiku commented on Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon the307.substack.com/p/rev... · Posted by u/cramsession
I believe 972mag.com have reported on Palentir tech involved in the "AI target selection" programs that the Israeli military has used in Gaza. My recollection is they use a logic similar to the subprime ratings agency scandal: collate info on individuals (cell tower proximity, movement patterns, social media leanings), and find the top 5% of target candidates, call those "high quality" regardless of any absolute metric of quality, and then rubber-stamp approve air strikes on their homes by the human lawyers "in the loop" -- then repeat with the next top 5% and call those "high quality" again. The implication was that Palentir worked on the ranking system itself. (The 5% is arbitrary here, a stand-in for whatever top slice they do use)
There are a couple such systems, and I am speaking without the ability to take the time right now to find those articles to confirm/counter my recollections, so consider this a prompt for a proper review -- ironic.
This comment may be a good stepping stone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222724
The human in the loop gets a few seconds to decide if it's a target or not, do not know the exact number.
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tiku commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84
I can send a billion dollars to someone in Uganda with no intermediary or oversight. This was not only impossible before but most likely would never have been a possibility. Being able to hold massive amounts of value in the ether and control it from anywhere, you don’t find that impressive? Sure, this is mostly used for nefarious activities, but let’s not pretend it’s solving no problems. It’s incredibly difficult to transfer money into a third world country without incurring massive fees, unless you use crypto.
A lot of countries don't have access to bank-accounts, by not having valid id's for example. But they do have cellphones so they can download crypto apps to accept payment for jobs etc. And then there is the money receiving from relatives in other countries, yes.
I'm not switching from Claude code. It did the job but didn't do it as good as Claude Code with the details and context.
tiku commented on I caught Google Gemini using my data and then covering it up unbuffered.stream/gemini-... · Posted by u/JakaJancar
Anything you type into a web form is going into the web. Why are we still surprised about it?
tiku commented on Manganese is Lyme disease's double-edge sword news.northwestern.edu/sto... · Posted by u/gmays
Do you know if the panels can be bodged to be non square? There shouldn't be a lot of fancy wiring to screw up if it's all WS2812. Can you (delicately) chop a few LEDs out and bridge the connections?
(hoping I have seeded this idea, so I'm not the first one to attempt this)
Perhaps a stupid question but why not just not use those LEDs? Shut down in the software..