Anamon

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by Anamon 1y ago
I see these approaches a lot when I look over the shoulders of LLM users, and find it very funny :D you're spending the time, effort, bandwidth and energy for four carefully worded questions to try and get a sense of the likelihood of
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by Anamon 1y ago
There are also many non sequiturs. The sentences only read fine if you don't think about what the author might be trying to say. I also think that this reads like the "author" was an LLM and, therefore, isn't trying to s
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by Anamon 1y ago
I don't know what you guys are doing with your Angular buttons, or if you haven't looked at it since AngularJS (which I never used, so I don't know what it took there). Adding a button to Angular is just adding a <button&g
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by Anamon 1y ago
That's absolutely not my experience from any of the SPAs I've worked on. If the API used by the SPA is so "specialised, single-purpose", then that isn't something inherent to SPAs, only inherent to developers (or ar
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by Anamon 1y ago
I guess one man's exceptional is another man's borderline unreadable (:
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by Anamon 1y ago
It works for people who don't really look at the code, or try to understand what the LLM spat out. It's right there in this article: if it compiles and runs, just commit and push. They usually don't write this kind of blog po
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by Anamon 1y ago
A nice article on this was in the January issue of the Communications of the ACM [1]. With a reference to a piece by Dijkstra predicting that this is never going to be effective, back in 1979. Being able to write code in a programming langu
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by Anamon 1y ago
What about the audience which appreciates software that actually works without one billion subtle bugs and devastating security issues, and which also can be built upon and extended?
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by Anamon 1y ago
You can either keep it quiet, im which case it's useless to the rest of us because no ad blocker would've been using it, or share it with developers, in which case I'm not sure the time it would've taken to write the exp
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by Anamon 1y ago
I wouldn't say that this implies they really are selling user data. By that definiton of sale, I can understand why their lawyers would consider it almost impossible to fully comply with. I totally understand why the Act would use such
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by Anamon 1y ago
No other app can get to that backup data though except the original one that made the backup. Not even the owner of the account is allowed access to it (which I'm almost sure is a GDPR violation)! I'm not saying it's impossib
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by Anamon 1y ago
I don't think it's quite as simple as that. The keys are stored in a storage area that Android locks off as WhatsApp's alone; no other app can get to those keys. At the very least you'd need to root your device, but ev
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by Anamon 1y ago
That was my main reason for having dropped LLM coding assistance completely for now. It wasted so much of my time and energy. I got the occasional helpful response, but not before four that were almost correct, which of course is a much big
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by Anamon 1y ago
"Also an observation: once the LLM gets it wrong, it will continuously get it wrong" Oh yes, so very very much! I often see people keep iterating, not just with coding assistants but also general knowledge or research queries, whe
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by Anamon 1y ago
First step? I think we're a few thousand steps along that way already, and rapidly approaching our final destination.
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by Anamon 1y ago
TCM is also my go-to example for why linear TV still has value in the age of streaming. You not only get curation and exposure to stuff you didn't know about, but also knowledgeable people putting it in context and explaining backgroun
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by Anamon 1y ago
What the heck would I want translucent displays for? To be able to increase my screentime even more? And have a harder time reading stuff when I do?
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by Anamon 1y ago
Isn't macOS the one, though, which immediately closes menus if you accidentally click or release over a divider? That always bugs me.
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by Anamon 1y ago
This is also one of my predictions. LLM scrapers have made me add the "no derivatives" descriptor to the default CC license I publish all of my writing and side-projects under (for now, CC considers ND a valid legal defense agains
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by Anamon 1y ago
Hunter S. Thompson claimed to have re-typed The Great Gatsby because he wanted to know what it feels like to write a great novel. Apparently, he actually meant this as a somewhat serious piece of writing advice, but I still prefer my initia
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by Anamon 1y ago
I disagree with that. I was around when the web grew into the mainstream, and almost everybody was sure that it would have a huge impact on every industry and activity it touched. There wasn't even remotely a level of skepticism compar
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by Anamon 1y ago
Yeah, this was one of the weakest pieces of writing on GenAI that I've ever read, and I've read a lot of it. We should flat-out dismiss the issue of licenses and copyright violations because... all developers pirate TV shows? Seri
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by Anamon 1y ago
"In a memo to employees in April, the chief executive of Shopify, a company that helps entrepreneurs build and manage e-commerce websites, announced that “A.I. usage is now a baseline expectation” and that the company would “add A.I. u
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by Anamon 1y ago
Also not true in Switzerland. Amazon was ranked #4 overall, #2 in tech, based on sales in 2024, with a massive distance to the leaders. It's not that popular around here, and with current U.S. boycotts I expect it to drop further this
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by Anamon 1y ago
It's a very different thing from SO, in my opinion, because SO involves human discussion. One of the most valuable, educational things about using SO is the comments underneath some answers saying that it's a bad idea, and explain
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by Anamon 1y ago
Stuck in the old ways of reviewing code? In other words, what you're suggesting should be the new way is to simply accept the LLM's code salad and push it to production as soon as the pipeline lights up green?
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by Anamon 1y ago
One anecdote doesn't support that conclusion. Talk to anyone who travelled to Canada and the U.S. frequently, about how the two compare. I used to work in academia, and know many people who travelled to both places every year for the p
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by Anamon 1y ago
Meanwhile, the Trump administration claimed to have saved 258 American lives with their drug busts. In contrast to Harris, who I'm sure realised her mistake and would've corrected it if asked about it, the Trump admin actually bel
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by Anamon 1y ago
I recall Whittaker talking about it in an interview, mainly complaining about how mainstream media kept referring to Signal as an "insecure messenger" when that was not at all the issue. Can't seem to find that interview now,
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by Anamon 1y ago
There is no precedent here. There are politicians advocating for this kind of stuff everywhere, that doesn't indicate the likelihood of a law like this passing. Anyone can suggest a law. The stage this one failed in is explicitly meant

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