Posts by kskropf

AI code helpers just can't stop inventing package names

Re: I really wish "hallucination" hadn't stuck.

Full treatment of the misdirection in 'hallucination'.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381278855_ChatGPT_is_bullshit

Thanks Harry Frankfurt, sorely missed.

Crypto for cryptographers! Infosec types revolt against use of ancient abbreviation by Bitcoin and NFT devotees

Uhm, what about the the use of the prefix in 'crypto-Christian', which goes back to at least the late 19th century? And then in other formulations crypto-Communisit, crypto-Conservative... practising in hiding or underground.

Why I just bought a MacBook Air instead of the new Pro

Perhaps it's time to refer to Apple in a way appropriate to what they have become:

Purveyors of luxury goods and services.

Not a tech company any more.

Would you like a Chardonnay with that MacBook Pro?

Microsoft's paid $60 per LinkedIn user – and it's a bargain, because we're mugs

Re: Reintermediation?

Or contribute to a cooperative effort.

Reintermediation?

Having just 'given' the Reg some information in order to post this comment, the question becomes how do 'we' start to charge for the information? I will admit to a signal failure of imagination. As an individual, which union or cooperative do I join? Where is the information exchange that brokers the deal - the ticker tape to check the current going rate. Is it possible - necessary - to reintermediate the relationship? But then, what's the difference between my address and the old fashioned address lists advertisers and PRs used to - still ? buy. Work to make stuff that's worth selling, Buy stuff that's worth buying and stay away from 'free' stuff.