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Obligatory link to Suasn Calvin, robopsychologist from Asimov’s I, Robot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Calvin


As I recall, Susan Calvin didn't have much patience for sycophantic AI.

  ‘You can’t tell them,’ said the psychologist slowly, ‘because that would hurt them,
  and you mustn’t hurt them. But if you don’t tell them, you hurt them, so you must
  tell them. And if you do, you will hurt them, and you mustn’t, so you can’t tell them;
  but if you don’t, you hurt them, so you must; but if you don’t, you hurt them, so you
  must; but if you do, you-’

  Herbie was up against the wall, and here he dropped to his knees. ‘Stop!’ he
  shouted. ‘Close your mind! It is full of pain and frustration and hate! I didn’t mean
  to, I tell you! I tried to help! I told you what you wanted to hear. I had to!’

  The psychologist paid no attention. ‘You must tell them, but if you do, you hurt
  them, so you mustn’t; but if you don’t, you hurt them, so you must-‘
   And Herbie screamed! Higher and higher, with the terror of a lost soul. And when it
  died away Herbie collapsed into a heap of motionless metal.


“ This also has the reputation of being terribly impractical, which is always a selling point for me.”

That was truly LOL. Thank you.


posting related vinyl record collection comic: https://www.ratherrarerecords.com/wp-content/uploads/AlexGre...


Tallyfor - Better Software for Tax Professionals | Remote | Full or Part-time | Senior Clojure/Clojurescript | SF, US

“nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin [0]

Tallyfor is working on the second of those certainties (taxes). Our values are “Be right. Have fun. From anywhere.”

We are a small team and we are winning customers with a modern cloud approach. Taxation in the US is strangely complex and could use a little help.

Right now we, Tallyfor, could use a little help. We’re looking for expert Clojure/Clojurescript programmers who are wanting to join a small team. Re-frame, mostly. Remote hires because that’s one of our values... from anywhere.

Founded by a programmer (me) and a CPA-turned-product-person-while-at-Xero.

No recruiters, please.

jobs@tallyfor.com. Thanks for reading.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_taxes_(idiom)


Tallyfor - cloud tax software | Remote | Full or Part-time | SF, US You: a Clojure/ClojureScript programmer looking for a small team to join. Curious. Capable. Kind. Us: A small team. Using Clojure (Re-frame and friends). With customers, angel financing, and a set of values that includes "Have Fun" as #2. careers@tallyfor.com for the curious. No recruiters, please.


SEEKING FREELANCER | Tallyfor - Better Software for Tax Professionals | Remote | Full or Part-time | Senior Clojure/Clojurescript | SF, US

“nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin [0]

Tallyfor is working on the second of those certainties (taxes). Our values are “Be right. Have fun. From anywhere.” We are a small team and we are winning customers with a modern cloud approach. Taxation in the US is strangely complex and could use a little help.

Right now we, Tallyfor, could use a little help. We’re looking for expert Clojure/Clojurescript programmers who are wanting to join a small team. Re-frame, mostly. Remote hires because that’s one of our values... from anywhere.

Founded by a programmer (me) and a CPA-turned-product-person-while-at-Xero.

No recruiters, please.

jobs@tallyfor.com. Thanks for reading.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_taxes_(idiom)


Tallyfor - Better Software for Tax Professionals | Remote | Full or Part-time | Senior Clojure/Clojurescript | SF, US

“nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin [0]

Tallyfor is working on the second of those certainties (taxes). Our values are “Be right. Have fun. From anywhere.” We are a small team and we are winning customers with a modern cloud approach. Taxation in the US is strangely complex and could use a little help.

Right now we, Tallyfor, could use a little help. We’re looking for expert Clojure/Clojurescript programmers who are wanting to join a small team. Re-frame, mostly. Remote hires because that’s one of our values... from anywhere.

Founded by a programmer (me) and a CPA-turned-product-person-while-at-Xero.

No recruiters, please.

jobs@tallyfor.com. Thanks for reading.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_taxes_(idiom)


Borland Turbo Lightning, TSR (terminate and stay resident) spell checker for the lowly 8088-based IBM PC.

https://winworldpc.com/product/turbo-lightning/1x


Maybe Computation Structures by Ward? Lecture notes for the class from which it was born show a two-stage Laundromat model (with snarky MIT/Harvard humor) https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...


This seems to be _less_ secure. I noticed yesterday that my iPhone's Microsoft Authenticator app emitted at least three notifications to "Approve sign-in request...ABCDE".

I almost never log into my Microsoft LiveID account, the only identity that uses that app for 2-factor. I thought it was a little screwy, so largely ignored the first request. By the time the second and third notifications came in I had read the news about MSFT's move to go to a simple "Approve/Deny" single-factor. An attacker could just go through a list of LiveID's and try and authenticate. With a large enough list, a few folks will just hit "Approve", I'd wager. I doubt the app use any other factors like GPS or IP address. NB: There does seem to be a timeout.

Or am I missing something here?



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