Anamon

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by Anamon 1mo ago
That's a problem of visibility, though. No one in management currently cares much that the delegator is actually the one 5 times less efficient in the long run (or just the one leaving the rest of the team with years of technical debt)
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by Anamon 2mo ago
It was routine for preteen and teenage me to put any game CD or game magazine coverdisc in the Hi-Fi CD player at some point, and see if the track number indicator would show anything higher than 01. It was definitely quite common. Some tha
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by Anamon 2mo ago
Corel once gave a German magazine a time-limited version of their graphics suite to put on the cover CD. You could overwrite a few .EXE files with their .BAK copies to turn it into the full version. That issue of the magazine sold out prett
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by Anamon 2mo ago
Yes, our first family PC was a 386 that we could slow down from 33 to 16 MHz with the Turbo button. It even had the segment display to show the current clock rate. I knew what it was for and had some old games that ran too fast, but from wh
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by Anamon 2mo ago
Just a regular reminder that cookie banners are not mandatory. In most cases, they are a case of malicious compliance. The choice is between (a) not doing shady stuff with people's information, or (b) having to tell people about the sh
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by Anamon 2mo ago
That's exactly how I see it. And 99% of LLM-generated comments are just that: annoyingly wordy repetitions of what's already in the code. Just redundant noise that is a waste of time to read. Usually because the LLM has no concept
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by Anamon 2mo ago
Depends on the corporate environment. Refusing to look at oversized PRs makes good business sense, there's an argument to be made that working like this sabotages the quality of the product.
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by Anamon 2mo ago
Neither were. They're also broken on Firefox for Android, because they're both displayed immediately and permanently.
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by Anamon 2mo ago
Not tongue in cheek, but called that to distinguish it from ROM BASIC. AFAIK, Advanced BASIC had to be loaded from the DOS disk and mostly added disk management and graphics features.
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by Anamon 2mo ago
Hidden side channel inputs for compilation? You lost me there.
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by Anamon 2mo ago
It's vibecoders all the way down. I'm sure Anthropic et al. would like to reduce their resource waste if they could, seeing the insane amounts of money they're bleeding. But I had to come to the conclusion that these LLM comp
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by Anamon 2mo ago
One of the problems with this is that documentation is increasingly also written with LLMs by the vendors, and now is often so vague and riddled with errors to be basically unusable, if not counterproductive by sending you the wrong way. Mi
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by Anamon 2mo ago
A more benevolent interpretation might be that they, too, see that this AI bubble will crash on the near future, and they'd be sitting on expensively built-out capacity that they don't need.
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by Anamon 2mo ago
My guess is that most of these ads are run from hacked accounts and/or paid for with stolen credit cards.
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by Anamon 2mo ago
"I just know it gives you really, really bad diarrhea." -- "As opposed to really, really good diarrhea?" (Bob's Burgers)
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by Anamon 2mo ago
Did the goalposts move? I thought the discussion was about restaurants being required to declare allergens, not that they have to be able to accomodate every allergy under the sun and be able to offer a meal for everyone. I don't think
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by Anamon 2mo ago
I don't see how it's such a big barrier to business for a food place to have to make sure their staff can answer the question "do you use ingredient X in dish Y?", which, at least in Europe, is sufficient. It's bare
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by Anamon 2mo ago
> People aren’t dropping dead from not being catered for their allergies. They literally are, though. Restaurants have a choice of refusing service to people with allergies (not allowed in many places; not a great idea anywhere), allowin
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by Anamon 2mo ago
You mention further down that you're in academia, and with that knowledge this post makes some kind of sense to me. I used to do academic research. Like you, I almost only worked on my own code and nobody else worked on mine. I also kn
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by Anamon 2mo ago
LLMs don't understand a damn thing. They can't. They're not built to. An LLM doesn't "understand" its own slop. It can use that slop as further input for generating more slop on top of it, but at no point of th
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by Anamon 2mo ago
It's not just about the digital readiness. I assume it's the same in Germany, but in Switzerland there are many smaller stores that very proudly only accept cash, or even used to accept cards and stopped. Some shops around where I
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by Anamon 2mo ago
German dubs used to be great in the 80s and 90s. Check some TV shows from that time to see what I mean. They used to take care that the voice fit the actual situation, mood, and character. There were many good dubbing voice actors who somet
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by Anamon 2mo ago
It's also related to having a social healthcare system. People who keep stepping into traffic and get run over really rack up the hospital bills which, ultimately, are paid by everyone. So the country decided that they need to adopt so
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by Anamon 2mo ago
I love that. It's part of what's hilariously called the "Beamtendreisatz" (roughly, the three rules of public servants) 1. Das haben wir schon immer so gemacht (that's how we've always done it) 2. Das haben wir
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by Anamon 2mo ago
My experience living and travelling in Europe was that this is definitely true for TripAdvisor, but much less so for Yelp. Mostly tourist traps (that you'd find anyway) on TripAdvisor, while I found some amazing, hidden, non-touristy (
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by Anamon 2mo ago
Yeah, just doing some basic maths in my head when I'm eating out -- cost of ingredients, salaries, rent, taxes, ... -- I wonder how any restaurant can even turn a profit at all, even with meal prices as high as they are. Except maybe f
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by Anamon 2mo ago
A Japanese former co-worker of mine once said the best sushi in the world is served in Vancouver BC :)
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by Anamon 2mo ago
It's explained in the readme. Granting access to folders on the file system is a process independent from permissions. This is from the Android documentation[1]: "Because the user is involved in selecting the files or directories
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by Anamon 2mo ago
They're not great for accessibility, either.
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by Anamon 2mo ago
Keep in mind that the model will in all likelihood keep gaslighting you. It's just designed to make you happier with the output. Now it will sometimes generate text about direct reasons for refusal because that's what you directed

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