Eji1700's recent activity
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Comment on ArXiv is separating from Cornell University, and is hiring a CEO, who will be paid roughly $300,000/year in ~science
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Comment on Reuters reveals Banksy's identity in a long investigation in ~arts
Eji1700 Link ParentIt is monetized. Heavily. Journalists have been muckrakers for attention without political need.- It is monetized. Heavily.
- Journalists have been muckrakers for attention without political need.
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Comment on Casino AI misidentifies man; Reno cops arrest and prosecute him anyway in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentThey did. Height is self reported and often incorrect (or at least within that margin of error), and in the video they even talk about how shoes could change it, because it often does. For guys...IIRC they said they measured his height when they trepassed the other guy. That didn't line up with the height of this guy that got arrested. 5ft9 vs 6ft.
They did. Height is self reported and often incorrect (or at least within that margin of error), and in the video they even talk about how shoes could change it, because it often does. For guys especially a lot of people who are 6ft+ on the ID that just aren't by any reasonable standard.
Playing devils advocate, what if the first ID was the fake one?
Yeah and that's the "reasonableish" line. Mr Killinger had shown up previously with a fake ID identifying him as Mike (as is publicly documented in multiple court documents at this point so i'm not sure why the video is referring to him as ME) and got trespassed under that ID. Then he shows up again later with his actual ID and now they want to trespass him again.
That's the charitable interpretation of what the cop might have been thinking, although it's certainly an extremely unlikely event that this person happened to have their fake ID on them when they got in trouble. The part that makes this weird is that the player HAD a players card which I assume has a sign up date which implies at some point before or since he was allowed in and had signed up.
So compare that with just a basic investigation from casino security that lines up "huh this original trespass doesn't seem like the kind of behavior we'd expect from this guy" would've made this easy.
I "hope" the player was asked to leave and refused, as the casino does reserve the right to refuse service, and then that would've forced the trespassing issue, but this seems to be a case of just straight up detaining him for the police on sight. The entire thing feels odd because unless the original trespass was due to violent or dangerous behavior (which it appears to not be), the handling of the whole thing feels fucking weird. The facial match doesn't help anything, but honestly if they look that alike the same thing probably would've happened without it (again, not okay, but people are not known for their judgement).
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Comment on Casino AI misidentifies man; Reno cops arrest and prosecute him anyway in ~tech
Eji1700 (edited )LinkHaving dealt with Reno, I more than believe it. Having dealt with lawyers, I don't love some of the presentation of the story (the real ID star is very easy to fake at first glance, so I...Having dealt with Reno, I more than believe it.
Having dealt with lawyers, I don't love some of the presentation of the story (the real ID star is very easy to fake at first glance, so I understand that not being enough off the jump...obviously plenty more was).
Think the video is worth a watch since it's got a ton of the body cam, although I wouldn't be shocked if it's fast forwarding past things that don't support the case being presented (not that there's any doubt even with that that this guy hasn't been 100% wronged)
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And having dealt with fake IDs more than at least the average person, again, I don't love the Lawyers presentation of some of this. It's very common for fake IDs to have "roughly" correct data since even normal ID data is self reported. Things like Weight, Height, Eye Color don't really prove or disprove much, especially when they're close.What DOES disprove a TON is the ID being confirmed as legit and the guy being arrested supposedly having multiple forms of ID on him with the same data (drivers license, debit card, teamsters card, vehicle insurance, etc). This is where the cop is just doubly fucking stupid because coming up with this criminal mastermind theory is absurd, and probably just because "well the software can't be wrong" which is doubly fucking dumb.
I would love for the Casino and even maybe the software provider to get sued as well in this.
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oh jesus fuck and they dug in and prosecuted. God reno is such a shit show.
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Honestly this seems to be skipping the important part which is the fucking DA that decided to actually move forward with this. I assumed the headline was misinterpreting things (as cops cannot prosecute) but the fact a DA ran with this is fucking gross or something MAJOR is being left out of this story.
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Okay i have better things to do but to be clear the casino already settled their case, and this is the suit against the officer in question. Found this to be helpful, especially near the end: https://allaboutlawyer.com/jason-killinger-lawsuit-ups-driver-sues-reno-police-officer-r-jager-after-ai-face-scan-put-wrong-man-in-jail-for-11-hours/
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Comment on AI was eroding trust in my classroom — so I got rid of typed papers and bought my students notebooks instead in ~life
Eji1700 Link ParentThat's fine, but I don't agree your solution will actually lead to that, and it seems more like an arbitrary hurdle that's got research from some ideal setting rather than well tested. I had a...And in my experience as an instructor, many students desperately need to practice working through their thought process and developing arguments.
That's fine, but I don't agree your solution will actually lead to that, and it seems more like an arbitrary hurdle that's got research from some ideal setting rather than well tested.
I had a teacher in high school who said we should have to write only on unlined paper because that's what would be expected of us going into college. That was NEVER true, never helped, and made me drop out of the class because it unfairly punished people like me with bad handwriting as I'd get docked points for not following where the lines should have been (we were supposed to put lined paper underneath the white sheet to adhere).
She was a good teacher, and instead I chose to drop because of the arbitrary restriction. I don't think yours is objectively as bad, but I doubt you're going to see the results you want. I wish you luck with it though.
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Comment on AI was eroding trust in my classroom — so I got rid of typed papers and bought my students notebooks instead in ~life
Eji1700 Link ParentFor what it is worth, I hate this line of logic and it's caused me no end of friction. People learn in different ways, I did plenty fine typing out my stream of consciousness notes and despised...For what it is worth, I hate this line of logic and it's caused me no end of friction. People learn in different ways, I did plenty fine typing out my stream of consciousness notes and despised the classes that forced me to "slow down" because their definition of slow was much much slower than mine.
I understand the good intentions here, but I would outright refuse to take a class that wouldn't let me type in this day and age. I also think it's doing a disservice to the students to not prepare them to use the tools they'll actually be using in real environments.
This feels like the kinda of academic optimization that's far better in ideals than reality.
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Comment on open_slate: private and powerful 2-in-1 tablet in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentI kinda disagree. Even if they obviously have the money (which the number of tech projects i've seen get this far and fall apart because they didn't sure isn't 0), I think getting a temperature...(Side rant: I absolutely hate companies using Indiegogo as a preorder platform. $100,000 is nothing for something like this. They obviously have the money or they wouldn’t have gotten this far.)
I kinda disagree. Even if they obviously have the money (which the number of tech projects i've seen get this far and fall apart because they didn't sure isn't 0), I think getting a temperature for the market when making something novel is important.
You might hear about how everyone wants physical kill switches or audio jacks or whatever, but it's easy to be stuck in an echo chamber, so having campaigns like this to test the waters can be beneficial to all involved, as if it doesn't hit 100k at whatever price point then you KNOW you've messed up and there's not actually that much demand, so you shouldn't throw your million+ at development and manufacturing only to find out you'll never recover costs.
I'm not saying THIS project is a great example of that, but I have seen others that I think hit the line, and it helps smooth the early process as well.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
Eji1700 LinkNAS. The 8 drives I got from seagate all have problems so returning those. Also familiarizing myself with how to really point things at it and back it up. Looking into paperless-ngx as well for...-
NAS. The 8 drives I got from seagate all have problems so returning those. Also familiarizing myself with how to really point things at it and back it up. Looking into paperless-ngx as well for better file storage/sorting.
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Home Assistant. Was looking into getting into some light smart home stuff (literally just getting the lights on it). Dear god I hate it. This feels way more complex than it should be and often very poorly explained.
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More AI testing. I've been poking at it on and off. Again looking for areas in which it might improve things that I haven't already identified. Mostly unimpressed still.
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Comment on What are people using instead of VS Code? in ~comp
Eji1700 LinkHelix, although I default to code due to QoL stuff often and because F# support is lacking. I like the idea of it, but I also need to get used to using a terminal editor more, and it seems to be a...Helix, although I default to code due to QoL stuff often and because F# support is lacking. I like the idea of it, but I also need to get used to using a terminal editor more, and it seems to be a mixed bag on too little vs too much intellisense.
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Comment on I don’t know if my software engineering job will still exist in ten years in ~comp
Eji1700 Link ParentYeah i'm using this task as a benchmark for now and going to try some more complex/expensive models to see what i get out of it and how much it costs. I'm still hard pressed to see this...Yeah i'm using this task as a benchmark for now and going to try some more complex/expensive models to see what i get out of it and how much it costs.
I'm still hard pressed to see this eliminating a ton of work through. Driving down pay surely as the barrier to entry just got lower but I'm not sold this is going to magically erase entire departments. The main way i see that happening is if companies decide that having a "AI friendly" environment is more important, but I can't see how that will cost less than having people given the obscene behind the scenes costs being carried right now.
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Comment on Survey reveals almost 50% of California teachers may quit teaching soon in ~life
Eji1700 Link ParentThe parents are going to court. I have witnessed it. The claim damages far beyond reasonableThe parents are going to court. I have witnessed it. The claim damages far beyond reasonable
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Eji1700 LinkMarathon 2026 Love it. It’s smack dab in the right spot for me. Resources, gunplay, TTK, vibe, etc. I’m worried bungie will screw it up but so far I’m happy. The battle pass is dumb but it’s also...Marathon 2026
Love it. It’s smack dab in the right spot for me. Resources, gunplay, TTK, vibe, etc. I’m worried bungie will screw it up but so far I’m happy. The battle pass is dumb but it’s also just cosmetic.
Actual gameplay is great. Solo/teams/randoms/rook I love it
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Comment on Survey reveals almost 50% of California teachers may quit teaching soon in ~life
Eji1700 Link ParentThe admin that won’t back up teachers isn’t going to be in yearly small claims court suits over supposed damage they may or may not have caused.The admin that won’t back up teachers isn’t going to be in yearly small claims court suits over supposed damage they may or may not have caused.
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Comment on Survey reveals almost 50% of California teachers may quit teaching soon in ~life
Eji1700 Link ParentIt’s a liability thing. You ban phones. The kids show up with them anyways. What do you do? If you take them and the kids claim damage in any way, congrats, the school is more in a screaming match...It’s a liability thing. You ban phones. The kids show up with them anyways. What do you do?
If you take them and the kids claim damage in any way, congrats, the school is more in a screaming match with a parent over a potentially $1000 device.
If you tell them to just put it away, well that’s the current status quo and it’s not really working due to the rest of the paragraph (toothless teachers because admin sides with parents)
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Comment on I don’t know if my software engineering job will still exist in ten years in ~comp
Eji1700 Link ParentThat’s partly why I started with a very simple and known problem. To a human “oh okay swap this with that” is pretty easy but the AI just face plantsThat’s partly why I started with a very simple and known problem. To a human “oh okay swap this with that” is pretty easy but the AI just face plants
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Comment on I don’t know if my software engineering job will still exist in ten years in ~comp
Eji1700 LinkOut of curiosity I decided to put free model cline to the test. I code in F#, a non standard language, and have wanted to try sse datastar, a non standard library (but using more and more standard...Out of curiosity I decided to put free model cline to the test.
I code in F#, a non standard language, and have wanted to try sse datastar, a non standard library (but using more and more standard HTMX style stuff).
I basically tried "vibe coding" it from scratch to see how it did with various prompts like "build a snake game using F# and datastar" after making a basic F# console template.
Several hours and 2 totally different programs later, i've had minimal success. There's a LOT of going in loops, walking off cliffs, and the code that started clean devolved quickly. Eventually Cline itself crashed and I called it there. I did of course do iterative prompts, and it CAN be very impressive when it gets it right or solves its own issues, but i also watched it push identical code 5 times before I went in and manually fixed it's capitalization error.
My general thoughts after testing (again):
- Obviously, if this was all AI could do it might be an ok starting tool, but it's hardly threatening.
- Also obviously "Use a non standard language and a non standard library" is probably a worst case scenario for AI, but I did ask it to do a VERY standard thing (give me a working snake game). Asking for the same output with something more standard I'm sure would work.
- Using the free cline model (i forget which one) is much weaker than other models available.
So the question becomes "is it realistic to stop using tooling that AI isn't already good at and just stick to tooling that it's well trained on" and I thin the answer is still "no not really".
The issue is on several levels.
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Novel solutions are game changers. I get that letting lower skilled and thus lower paid workers bash out your results could be useful, but a lot of the big players are big BECAUSE they found some tech stack that helped them change the game or punch above their weight. This could be useful for things like "make me a website so I can sell my things" but that's already kind of a thing with templates/services/tools/abstractions.
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"Free" is not Free. We're still in the "get em hooked" phase of AI and even then this shit is EXPENSIVE. Companies hate having expensive devs on staff, especially when they feel like they're "wasting time", but i'm not sold that the math is going to work out on AI replacing them especially when it can so easily blow through cycles. Any company forcing AI beyond what's reasonable is probably going to see a higher IT spend. They might be okay with that if they're the kind that panics at payroll but doesn't care about department budgets though. And that's right now while all these companies aren't even profitable.
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Personally, most of my job these days is about communication between departments and then working from there. The coding is an important step, but you probably still need someone like me to compile everything into something sane. I don't see many of the people I help actually using these tools themselves to get the proper output, especially since I doubt they'll notice when the AI shanks them in the back and starts dumping out garbage.
Honestly this all reminds me of photoshop. It undoubtedly has changed the game for images time and time again, but you still need the right people using the tools. Few people complain that you can do color correction easier now, but at the same time this doesn't strike me as at the point that a random consumer will pay the extreme costs to be able to do so.
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Comment on I don’t know if my software engineering job will still exist in ten years in ~comp
Eji1700 Link ParentBecause people seem to think these things are magic reasoning boxes and they just aren't. It's not going to scale linearly, there's a reason a ton of progress was made early and the more recent...Why do you think LLMs wouldn't be able to do exactly that in a couple of years?
Because people seem to think these things are magic reasoning boxes and they just aren't. It's not going to scale linearly, there's a reason a ton of progress was made early and the more recent benchmarks are mostly about how people use the tools rather than massive changes.
They ARE powerful and it will shift what skills matter in the industry, but time and time again tech shows that it's burst not consistent.
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Comment on US Pentagon leverages AI in Iran strikes amid feud with Anthropic in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentYeah it's been a frustrating marketing problem in my world because you have standard algorithms for things like trend behavior (peak times/dips/identifying outliers) which all got repackaged as...Yeah it's been a frustrating marketing problem in my world because you have standard algorithms for things like trend behavior (peak times/dips/identifying outliers) which all got repackaged as AI! and marked up.
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Comment on US Pentagon leverages AI in Iran strikes amid feud with Anthropic in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentBecause to the average street person these days its not. Someone already provided a definition of the difference between AI and algo (deterministic), which Facial recognition is. The entire...Facial recognition has been around for years. but that doesn't mean it's somehow not been AI that whole time.
Because to the average street person these days its not. Someone already provided a definition of the difference between AI and algo (deterministic), which Facial recognition is. The entire problem is AI is a very ill defined term. LLM is a very clearly defined term.
So long as we package these movements and decisions under something as vague as "AI" they are mostly useless. IF you want to say "no weapons that use facial recognition" that's fine, and a hell of a lot more useful than "no AI" which has always been vague.
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Comment on US Pentagon leverages AI in Iran strikes amid feud with Anthropic in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentI do not. You can spin one up in a home lab right now with the right (if now stupidly expensive) equipment and do it. The question is where the tradeoffs lie in doing so.There are parameters that can make them more predictable, but these do not come close to actually making them deterministic in any practical sense of the word (Eji more or less admits this in his comment while trying to claim they are deterministic).
I do not. You can spin one up in a home lab right now with the right (if now stupidly expensive) equipment and do it. The question is where the tradeoffs lie in doing so.
If we just stopped feeding 90% of people everything else would sort itself out with time as well.
This is not a remotely strong argument for this kind of policy and is handwaving a ton, especially when you consider global markets, high demand scarce resources (like beach front or high traffic property), and the fact that people probably aren't pro "give the government even more power to decide things" given current and recent admins.
I personally know 3 people who make near that.
None of them are anywhere near the top of their companies (although they are on the high end of their fields).
All of them are in cost of living situations for their career where that income bluntly puts them at upper middle class or the very entry to well off.
All of them have COLOSSAL student debt. They are well aware that they're probably each an example of why you should allow absurd student debt, and also the first advocates of how fucking insane the entire thing is.
Economies are complicated and magic "cap the number" solutions do a massive disservice to the reality and the actual effort being put in to solve these problems.
I'll bet it's a lower number by far. Coordinating and managing an environment of 18,000 people is very much a skill, but i'll get more into that in a moment.
While there's 100% situations like this there are very real skills that people don't like valuing because they think they're unfair. And they're right, and that doesn't change anything about their value unfortunately.
If I can pick up the phone and get Trump on the other end in 20 minutes with the understanding he'll rubber stamp what I say, or at least listen, because we once went to school together, that's worth millions.
In planned economies, the people who can get things through the bureaucracy are worth millions.
Musk is an overvalued hack BUT his ability to promote and con both people and the government is obviously worth billions because it gets you those billions.
I'm not saying most of these people should be in power or that this isn't fucked, but the problem isn't "oh they're paying the wrong people". The problem is very much on the incentive side as well, and that's NOT an easy fix without kicking the doors open even wider to tyranny. When the goal is "make more money NOW" the people who do that best rise up.
Even with companies like Steam sitting there as proof of an dominate alternative long term strategy (whatever else you think of them, their company size to earnings is fucking nuts, as are many of their other metrics) the system is currently geared towards next qtr's earning report and all the chaos that causes. There's not a magical wand to easily stop that though and boiling it down to 'oh just don't let them' isn't helping.
Fully agree.