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Comment Re:Re-purposed as a marketing buzz-word (Score 1) 90

It all comes down to the definition of what the "ends" are in the process. You are arguing that the end is kohler's servers - but I honestly thing many consumers would genuinely consider the "end" of the process to be the smartphone app where your gamified shit appears. That fits with how Signal uses "end-to-end" encryption, it travels from one device to the other without the servers being able to decrypt the data. You could absolutely keep the encrypted images on the server and do the turd analysis on the users smartphone so there wouldn't be any way for another device to access them. However (unless it's changed today) the kohler website makes no mention of end-to-end encryption. Only "encryption at every step" which is some fine marketing-speak

Comment Re:Banking License (Score 1) 57

I mean sort of yes, but they also have to have some money to begin with and nominally that fraction is based on an actual deposit. They can probably structure ways of looping that round on itself too which seems like it'd create some very risky exposure. But it's still considerably more concrete than being able to press a button and make a trillion dollars

Comment Re:Banking License (Score 1) 57

Plus this isn't bank-style behavior. A regular bank can't magic up $1M out of thin air, much less $1T. I suppose a few banks are authorized to print paper currency and could conceivably do something on a small scale, but that takes a lot more effort to pull off covertly. Being able to create currency from absolutely nothing is firmly in the domain of central bank territory, there are really only a handful of entities round the world like the Federal Reserve or Bank of England that have amassed enough trust to do things close to that.

Comment Just BS (Score 1) 49

In a basic sense, this is true
Not really it's just wrong. The one approach that came from Western cultures is the scientific method which is both objective (to the maximum extent any human method has yet achieved) and universal which is why there is no such thing as Chinese, Canadian or Indian etc science there is just science because it is universal. As you alluded to the scientific method has often (including now to some degree) found itself at odds with western culture so I would argue that the scientific method is a product of western culture but not part of it.

Arguing that it is "culturally situated" is nonsense. While science has definitely impacted western culture it has also impacted every culture around the planet and today there are scientists in every continent from a myriad of different cultures. Your culture may impact which questions you want to answer with science but, if you are doing it correctly, it will not affect the knowledge you find and that's why it is both universal and acultural. Indeed, the universal nature of science means it is one of the few things that can bring people of different cultures to work together towards a common goal: to understand the objective reality that we all share.

Comment Re:I agree (Score 1) 187

I'm less sure about that.

I'm finding Claude is really good at removing layers of abstraction - i just went through a stack of shipping code that created Fedex labels, there were multiple layers of abstraction on top of some code written years ago. I had the LLM go through and develop a spec for what each method needed to do, propose a clean interface and then rewrite the existing code into the new architecture.

Then I can have it find a common interface between my UPS and FedEx code and wrap those up and correct all the code that has ugly ups-specific hacks in it.

I don't think there's a magic bullet for technical debt, but with clear instructions it's very good at working through the kind of stuff that "I should get to someday"

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