30 May 2024

Ah, Jan Leike has joined Anthropic. Congrats.

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Cybercriminals are posing as "helpful" geeks on StackOverflow, and suggesting that users download their solution to the problem posed. This loads malware.  You just can't have something nice without a**holes ruining it.

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Knots for (almost) every occasion.

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Someone keeps trying. Spinnr is trying to be an app that connects lonely people. How long before jerks infiltrate the app and ruin it for everyone? These things never work in real life.

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Using drones to photograph overhead is not protected by the First Amendment, at least not in North Carolina. Because the state wants surveyor's license fees paid.

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Study finds that 52 percent of ChatGPT answers to programming questions are wrong. I don't use ChatGPT.  Claude3 Opus and GPT-4o are my go-to bots. Even if something doesn't work, you get immediate feedback and you can ask for another suggestion, which usually works. I don't think this is a problem.

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