I'm pretty fucking old. I started on a Timex zx81.

And you're mixing up different problems. You're complaining about social media and outrage porn designed for engagement. Just regulate social media. Problem solved.

I don't see any reason to cut children off from a massive source of information that can explain a complex topic to them in a thousand different ways to help them learn just because they can go to Facebook and you are too obsessed with corporations rights to stop them from doing terrible things to children.

Seriously this isn't hard. Break up Facebook. Enforce antitrust law. Stop letting them buy up their competitors every time one comes along and you can have social media platforms that are designed to not rip children to pieces. Do a few other basic regulations problem solved.

I will admit you're fucking old. Because you doing what all old people like to do. You cannot imagine a world where problems can be solved anymore if you ever could. So you just have to be all or nothing, black and white. Either we have the internet for kids or we don't have the internet for kids but there can't be a good internet that isn't fucked up because that's way too nuanced and way too complicated. So just burn it all the ground and fuck it. That's Boomer mentality right there. Christ you might even be older than a boomer but you're thinking like one.

You can look up the Congressional hearings where they admitted it under oath. And I don't believe anything any corpo tells me that isn't under oath. When they can't be tossed in jail for perjury they'll tell you all kinds of bullshit. Christ you'd think you'd have learned that from Elon Musk but you probably believe you're still going to Mars...

At least you've got plenty of time to post here since you have a fleet of self-driving Tesla is making money for you in 2016 right?

We spent the last 50 years undermining democracy so we could indulge in moral panics and other nonsense and freak out about terrorism that was only a problem because we put idiots in charge of basic national security...

I guess what I'm saying is, we do not have enough Democratic institutions left to prevent these people from forcing these cameras down our throats and forcing 24/7 around the clock perfect surveillance down our throats.

We could get all that back but I mean for fucks sakes man they are currently trying to turn the furries into the next moral panic. They've been trying for a while they got Joe Rogan convinced that we are putting litter boxes in classrooms for fucksake. It's not working yet but it took them a few tries with the trans panic and it took him a few tries with the rock and roll panic. Eventually though have us freaking out about boys with cat ears I'm just not sure how they're going to do it.

Crime rate has increased to 115,000% every day since I started following the news and watching political advertisements. As near as I can tell every single American is employed 24/7 in some form of criminal Enterprise. Except me of course but all the rest of you are criminals.

That's your problem. If you survey people about crime rates they're going to tell you that they've gone up. Reality doesn't matter. And statistically you probably been the victim of some crime or another at some point if only porch pirates. Pretty sure I just had one steal package from me. And I've had a car stolen which was especially frustrating because I got it back and it was an old beater and I had to pay a bunch of money to get it out of the tow yard after I had already replaced to the car because it took the police a month to call me up and tell me hey come get your car.

Basically the real problem here is news went from being something you felt obligated to watch at 9:00 at night to 24/7 entertainment. Human beings simply do not have the critical thinking skills necessary to cope with that much bullshit. With a lot of effort I think we could get most people to have those critical thinking skills but that would piss off religious people because anyone with substantial critical thinking skills who sits down and reads a holy book might still believe in God when they're done but they're not going to believe in religion. And they are sure as shit not going to tithe 10%. Also parents get a little testy when their kids keep coming back from college and don't believe all the nonsense they do anymore...

None of which is legally an adequate reason to remove someone's citizenship two decades or more later. Filing the wrong form would be considered a minor clerical error. It should have been rejected at the time, and she should have had to file the correct form at the time, but once citizenship is granted, that's moot.

There is a general presumption in the law that citizenship cannot be revoked unless all of the following criteria are true:

• That person misrepresented or concealed something
• The misrepresentation or concealment was willful
• The misrepresentation or concealment was material to the decision to grant citizenship

None of those apply, much less all of them. Omar did not misrepresent anything; her father did. The misrepresentation was probably not willful. See also the comments above about birth records in Somalia. And being born a year earlier is not material to the decision to grant citizenship. It is only material to whether that specific form would have been accepted or a different form would have been needed.

So absent some significant evidence that something else was omitted as a side effect of using the wrong form (which is incredibly unlikely), this would be a clerical error, subject to possible civil penalties against the father, were he still alive, and that's about it.

This isn't just a little bit short of the threshold required for removing citizenship. This is so far from reaching the threshold that even the most conservative immigration judge in the country would laugh in their faces for even making the attempt, and probably hit them with contempt charges for wasting the court's time.

about Uber itself here. But as some minor trivia about Manchester: the "Man" comes from "Mamm", meaning "breast", referencing a small breast-shaped hill that used to be located in what's now the Castlewood district (it's since been lost).

The name of the city basically means "Tit Fort".

Waymo runs their taxis remotely from a call center in the Philippines when they're not in dead simple situations and they're 10 years ahead of everyone else. Drag these jokers in front of a committee under oath and I'm sure they're doing the same.

Yeah, the Epic games launcher has always taken literal minutes to launch, part of the reason I refused to use it in the first place.

That supposed newer software has fewer vulnerabilities than older software.

Broadly speaking that is likely true, you python backed REST service with SPA front-end, is not probably going to suffer from memory saftey issue like the C based CGI program it replaced. I'll grant you that, but I don't see any evidence at all out there to supposed it is not as target rich in terms of authorization/authentication/business logic flaws as anything it replaced.

I don't have experience with BOA but I do have system experience in other megabanks and I can tell you most of them have a front-end/backend architecture where the system of record that actually does settlements has quite a lot of isolation in front of it and separately enforces transaction rules. If for example you found an IDOR in the web banking application and you swapped your account ID in an internal transfer for an account not your own which you discovered by whatever means as the funds source to one of your other accounts as the destination, it *might* let move the money. The system might treat you like you have the money for the rest of the day. So you might be able to pay other people within the institution etc (where they can roll it back) or take money from an ATM. However when the backend processes all the transactions from the day to do settlements it will be REJECTED by some old hunk of COBOL or maybe...Java..

They will clean it up and come after you.. That is real reason a lot of these bugs don't probably get exercised. It isn't that people using the public components of these systems don't see interesting things breeze by their browser consoles or even burp suite instances, they probably do, they just know even if it worked they are 100% going to be caught; and their Jubilee would last about a day before turning into something that looks more like Revelation.

The general expectation in industry is that the number of bugs must be finite and, even though every change might introduce new ones, as the AI models find new ones and they get fixed the total number of yet to be be found bugs will come down. As with Microsoft's recent run of consecutive record breaking Patch Tuesdays, the conclusion being drawn is that sooner or later the number of bugs being found and fixed after each analysis session will start to fall and, subsequent to that, normal patching service, albeit on a hopefully much more robust codebase, will resume.

Where it gets a little more sticky is that, while finite, the number of available bugs to find and fix could still be extremely large, so the time required to regress back to previous, or even better than previous, bugfix development volumes is unknown. If your bet is that duration is quite short (less than a year, say), then why would you want to encumber your business with a raft of new full time employees all wanting things like health benefits and severance protections, when you can just bring in some contractors and dump them at will when they are no longer needed? If you're thinking it's a long game, then at least some full time employees is probably a better option because eventually they will be cheaper than using contractors, with how long that is dependant on your typical salaries for each. BoA is presumably betting on the former scenario based on what they understand of their codebase and whatever additional volume of bugs AI has found in it so far.

Maybe if a kid is well off and has parents that can take them to the library constantly and isn't in a deep breath state or half the books have been banned because the letters g, a and y all appeared on the same page at the same time you might have a point but well that's not the world we live in.

As a dumb kid learning to program in basic I hit a wall for some reason on the concept of data statements. The idea that you would have data at the back of your program listing that you would read from the front of your program listing didn't make sense to my dumb kid brain. So I just kind of stopped because if your programming in basic you kind of need data statements to do anything at all cool.

At the time what I needed was something else to explain it to me in a different way but I just didn't have that. Single mom and all that working a lot and very rarely got to go to a library that wasn't the school library and I had already gone through the books they are. And I mean books plural they were like two very bad programming books.

Now if I had known and had the guidance to do so I could have asked the public librarian to get literally any book I want. There is a little library in a rural UK community that had the best collection of 8-bit programming books in the world because one of the old badass bedroom coders just kept asking the librarian for books and they kept getting them. But again it just didn't occur to me.

The internet lets you interact with thousands and thousands of information sources to explain things in different ways and give you different ideas and that's before you start digging into forums. Although thanks to political bots and the Russians you really have to dig the find good forums they are still out there.

Learning basic stuff is still better done on paper but there is no better way to get over a wall then with the help of the internet. And every person is going to hit a wall at some point

I meant to say "What really smells is the why DIDN'T the pipeline/workflow"

My question is how do they actually know anything is fixed?

Fundamentally hiring contractors to write a lot quick patches, has the same problems as having AI write a lot quick patches. We are talking about systems that have man-years of development and maintenance in them newly on boarded contract workers lack the context and social authority to make invasive changes.

They only way you could get thru a really large volume of scatter shot patchwork across the enterprise is if you let people read a bunch of AI summaries of the issue, and work from that. That then leads you with a lot of code reviews and merges to do, as the new bottleneck those people also need to understand what they are looking at to really be sure it is right, so again what do they read an AI evidence summary and just sign off, if not that is just the next bottleneck?

What really smells is the why did the pipeline/workflow just have claude-agents authoring the patches too? I think I know the answer, Anthropic probably told them 'No' even though really it is the smallest and after all the analysis work is done best specified part of the job. Real architects don't get blame the framers, when the building collapses because the dimensions of the materials were unspecified, and real mechanical engineers don't get blame the lather operator when the crank shafts wear prematurely because they did not account for unavoidable heating while machining and the effect it would have on the metal surface. That is what Anthropic wants here though, they want to be able to say it was the guys writing the patches and the people who approved them that screwed up, even as their faulty tools fed them bad information and reviewers were handed an impossible volume of work.

This seems like a massive CYA on the part of Anthropic and it is really disingenuous. If it works they get to claim they are heroes that enabled what would have been impossible to achieve before, if it leads to any serious problem, its the fault of those 'contractors' and or the reviewers who did not take their responsibilities seriously, without mention of how unrealistic that likely was.

That sounds a bit circular there. The argument is to get the newest hardware to run the newest software, but the newest software is specifically written only to run on the newest hardware - actual benefits of the hardware be damned. Certainly Sony and Microsoft wouldn't be selling these newest consoles if there wasn't money to be made doing so (regardless of where the profit actually lies for them).

It's just a hugely diminishing return at this point from my perspective. 2nd generation consoles -> 3rd generation consoles was a tremendous leap. 3rd generation -> 4th generation was a tremendous leap as well. 4th generation -> 5th generation was a bit less of a leap than before. 5th generation -> 6th generation was still significant but still smaller than before. We're now in the 8th and 9th generation of consoles, and not only do many people find the 8th and 9th generation titles indistinguishable from each other, many people have a hard time seeing benefits of even the 9th generation over the 7th generation.

Obviously the whole bit still makes a ton of money. Obviously folks don't care what I think of it. I'm going to say it anyways. Maybe I'll go yell at a cloud after lunch.

Cheating is a business. A pretty large one. People will pay entirely too much money for the ability to cheat in online games. Streamers and want to be YouTubers especially because viewers expect them to be able to carry on a conversation and parasocial bullshit while playing at top level

So you need ridiculously complex and sophisticated and unbreakable anti cheat to make online games playable with anyone but a small group of friends. And it isn't really practical to build a online game Community around the small group of friends who can't all game on the same night every night.

Do you have something that can operate above kernel level and that is difficult for professional engineers to break? It would be one thing if it was just hobbyists writing cheat software but it's been professionals for quite some time.

And if you want to have alternatives to Windows games are essential. That's what's going to start moving people away from windows.