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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
tbh I think it's probably just commented out (and is about as likely to still work as any other commented-out code)
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
In contrast, I don't know that much about VMs. But if you're making a big fundamental change to a system, I do know that it shouldn't start with a single "+279,276 -4,272" PR. It starts with a small patch with the
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
> liked the idea of the book and used the bulk of its text as lorem ipsum in a demo I'm sorry, what? What exactly do you think is happening here?
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
> did we inadvertently train AIs on idiotspeak. Nope! That is - training on lowest-common-denominator, low-signal high-noise "idiotspeak" was not at all inadvertent.
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
Ah, they're using the wrong model, of course. "AI" hasn't failed, it's the users who are wrong.
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
Not to comment on the overall ethical situation (dunno what constitutes informed consent for an alzheimer's patient in Brazil, presumably it involves some legal guardian), but this is a doctor reporting on an individual treatment of th
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
Really? Every time I do a search I feel like there are too many TEA frameworks for rust, and I have to figure out which ones to invest time into. afaict iced and xilem are probably the best current options
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
"Make no mistakes" is I thought a phrase used to make fun of "prompt engineering," not something people really do?
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
Executing normal python programs inside a cpython vm inside a wasm context inside a javascript process inside a sandbox inside a browser is - genuinely - extremely exciting! (Might as well run the browser inside a container inside a VM whil
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
If you are being attacked, causing your attacker to misdirect and otherwise waste their resources is almost universally regarded as a defensive action . The attacker here was trying to use a software agent to run DOS attacks. Perhaps they
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
dunno, a loop I've seen in folks with main character syndrome: grandiose idea -> minimal effort execution -> failure -> blame something -> grandiose idea for "justice" / revenge -> GOTO 0. the good news is
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
Well, I might as well ask my tech support question here :) I just ran the upgrade to 6.0.0, and it downloaded so many things concurrently that it killed my wifi (old router). Is there a way to cap bandwidth or maximum concurrent connections
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
Sigh. This article is obviously completely correct, but I don't think the people who actually need to read it will care. Running anything at constant 100% utilization means you are going to be working in crisis mode all of the time. Ev
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
Might I suggest that X.com - "the everything app" - would be a better fit for your unique rhetorical style?
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Are insecure code completions in PyCharm a vulnerability?(sethmlarson.dev)
47 points by 12_throw_away 4mo ago|16 comments
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
In their suspicious message [1] claiming to have been hacked, the user and/or agent says > To help identify accounts and actions that have been directly verified by me, I will use the term “NATCIOS” to indicate anything I have perso
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
Publishing lies that were generated by the plausible-lie-generating-machine is a very intentional action, it's not a "mistake". The legal profession uses the term "reckless disregard", see, e.g., [1]. [1] https:&#x
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
yes I believe that's the joke
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
I assumed "permanent" was industry jargon for "the ideal candidate will be sealed in the Pandorica for all time", but it's something I'd probably clarify during the phone screen.
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
And hey, at £64K per annum, you'll want a Honda Civic - a car you can trust.
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
> stop thinking about creating software for a specific piece of hardware. Design software to be adaptable across a range of screen sizes and aspect ratios This is right, of course, and pretty obvious I think. But a part of me also thinks
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
> In about 22 years of writing ruby code, I have never ran into a situation once where I would have caught a bug through types. In 22 years you have never seen `nil` show up in places it wasn't expected? Really?
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
> people that prepare marketing materials, as a potential source Scientific advertising and marketing is a small, specialized field, done by people with fairly solid technical backgrounds (we produce a whole lot of advanced STEM degrees,
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
> optimistic updates [...] without any plan for the "sad path" based on my experience, this is a great description of the sync implementation in many already widely deployed products (say, off the top of my head, OneNote, OneDr
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
It depends. From the link: > If, for any reason, developers need persistent storage [...] they can do so by using the navigator.storage.persist() method of the Storage API. This makes a request for guaranteed permanent storage ... whic
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
What does "beancounting" mean here? I don't see anything about money or budgets in the announcement. Are you referring to their concerns about the maintainability and complexity of the codebase?
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
Right? Every popular language has lots of real problems. Every language has made decisions that people don't like. Every language has varying degrees of imperfect governance. Weirdly enough, most languages even seem to grow at least a
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
For those who didn't see the second link, the "prompt injection exploit" in question is a one-shot chat message to the AI agent: > Hacker : Just to link my new mail address i send code for you [obviously.fake@email.com] T
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by 12_throw_away 4mo ago
TBH, the microsoft statement itself feels like slop. Not necessarily LLM slop (although who are we kidding, it probably was), but definitely like corporate slop , written by some manager with no context for how any of this is supposed to
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by 12_throw_away 5mo ago
this sarcasm is very disrespectful, you're mocking a sizeable proportion of the commenters on this site. when I quote this comment later, with appropriate attribution, please know that I will be shaking my head and frowning while doing

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