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Comment Re: They're either going to find a path to profita (Score 1) 44

So far its overall worth is massively, massively negative. I do not see that changing anytime soon. Maybe in a decade or two with very carefully trained small specialist models that have been fitted with result checking by actual reliable deduction tools.

Comment Re: They're either going to find a path to profita (Score 1) 44

"Top-tier" means unreliable, hallucinating, tech-debt, insecurity, hard to review code, and code that is hard to maintain. Oh, and you make yourself dependent on a single product from a single company.

It surely is the best available coding agent. But it is pathetic and using it is a very bad idea. Remember that "best" does not imply "good".

Comment Re: We also need better programmng (Score 1) 93

Yes. LLMs cannot exceed their training. They can sometimes make statistical connections that humans overlooked, but that is it and that is not insight. Usually it is just hallucination, sometimes it is something of limited worth that then gets blown all out of proportion by the propaganda machine feeding the stupid.

And the choice of the programming language is another key point.

I used to think that, not anymore. Good programmers can write good software with any language. Bad programmers can do it in no language. These days I am firmly convinced language choice is a matter of convenience and efficiency, not of result quality.

Comment Re:Trespass the "Unmarked van". (Score 1) 73

By "unmarked" they mean it doesn't have a corporate logo. It'll have plates and shit. Who's required to have what markings on what vehicles varies from location to location, I'm not looking that up for this case, are you?

As far as the contract, it certainly gives them permission to access the campus in order to maintain the cameras, including removing foreign objects which obscure the view blah blah blah, why else would they have a contract? It'll also indemnify them from acts of god like lightning striking the pole while a student is using it to reenact a scene from a stripper movie. And no doubt it would also give them the right to seek some kind of redress from the school for covering the cameras, as they spent some money to put them in there and expect the data to flow, but they certainly don't need that kind of negative publicity.

Since they didn't just remove them, I would imagine that the school didn't have a contract that allowed them to require their removal for other than safety reasons.

Comment Re:Bump glare is the worst. (Score 1) 69

This is mostly a problem with all projector and some LED headlights. It isn't a big problem with dual-reflector headlights because they are much more diffuse, but since projectors just have a big lens they have hot spots. With LED headlights it depends on what kind of diffuser is between the LED element and your eye.

Comment Re:How about height above the ground (Score 1) 69

Lifted vehicles can be a problem, but the most common problem for "lifted" pickups is someone has installed a leveling lift and not re-aimed their headlights, or have not done it correctly. Leveling lifts specifically lift the front of the vehicle only in order to make them sit more level when empty (or mostly empty.) Obviously this raises the headlights' aim. Usually you can just adjust it out, but you might have to shim the headlight or make other changes to fix the aim on some vehicles where there is not enough adjustment to fix it, and then you also have to care.

Comment Re: Wow! (Score 1) 39

There is a provision in there restricting how much of insurance premiums can go to overhead; something like 80% must go to patient care. Assuming that's being enforced, the problem isn't entirely there.

No, this is the exact reason why the ACA is a disaster. Insurance company profits are capped at a percentage of the cost of care, so they are motivated to drive up costs. But what about the uncovered treatments that the hospitals have to eat?

Comment Re:Get out a backhoe (Score 1) 73

Simply make it known nobody's going to investigate their disappearance, and they'll be gone by morning.

How can you declare someone else's property won't be investigated by someone else? It's not the college campus's call to make. The cameras disappear Flock can still go after you.

I can promise you I'd personally have cheerfully harvested them for parts the same day, and I'm by no stretch unusual in that regard.

Will you be so cheerful in telling that to the police or the courts after flock comes after you?

Comment Re:Get out a backhoe (Score 3, Informative) 73

If the cameras are the property of Flock and Flock won't retrieve them, declare them abandoned property.

That's not how abandoned property works. It's not abandoned, the cameras are there under contract and in active use.

Remove them and charge a storage fee like any abandoned vehicle.

The same applies to vehicles. You can't declare a vehicle abandoned until a parking contract ends.

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