Anamon

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by Anamon 6mo ago
That's a one-shot, though. Now try making something you want to build on. It falls apart very, very quickly. Not to mention that these prototypes and samples all turn out more or less the same. Obviously, given how LLMs work. Like LLM
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by Anamon 6mo ago
Even with Glacier, S3 is ridiculously expensive compared to almost anything else.
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by Anamon 6mo ago
But Crashplan also had an absolute abomination of a bloated, sluggish, Java-based client.
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by Anamon 6mo ago
I restored a 2 TB drive via the net no problem from them some years back, although I didn't use the client, but downloaded one massive ZIP file from the web interface. Well, "no problem" is an overstatement. Once you need a r
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by Anamon 6mo ago
This would be half OK if it worked, but you can't trust it to. OneDrive, for instance, has an open bug for years now where it will randomly revert some of your files to a revision from several months earlier. You can detect and recover
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by Anamon 6mo ago
I think that's fine and probably kind of their point, no? Because that other part before the typing is also the thing that LLMs are woefully shit at, unless it's a common and solved problem with 1000 published examples.
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by Anamon 6mo ago
They can help with those tasks because there are decades of published research on them. I don't think LLMs change anything here. Even before LLMs, it wouldn't have been efficient to ignore readily available lessons from those who
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by Anamon 6mo ago
Yeah, that paragraph really betrayed the author's ignorance of software development. At the very least, it proves that they have no hands-on experience with LLM-assisted development. Getting these tools to "understand", or be
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by Anamon 6mo ago
And within a limited timeframe. I'd expect people in such experimemts to act differently when they're aware that after x months/years, they'll have to find their place in the same capitalist economy again.
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by Anamon 6mo ago
I think it's pretty common in Europe, at least for minor offences. We have it in Switzerland, too. How it works here is that the fines are defined in "day rates" instead of monetary amount, and a day rate is half your daily i
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by Anamon 6mo ago
From how I'm reading this, you're disagreeing with the parent but your quotes actually support what they wrote? Ethanol is not an antidote or "cure", it's more or less an attempt at dilution. There are other posts i
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by Anamon 6mo ago
I keep hoping for a "GenAI is going great", but I'm also too lazy to start one myself.
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by Anamon 6mo ago
It's an interesting comparison. There's a lot of objective truth to it on both sides, though. Having a car as a project, maintaining and fixing and learning stuff yourself, is pretty much impossible with modern cars. Even before y
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by Anamon 6mo ago
However, in the early days of the CD-ROM games, the trade-off wasn't simple. It was cheap for manufacturers to fill the entire 650 MB of the disc, but for the players, HDD storage by GB wasn't. And just keeping the stuff on the di
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by Anamon 6mo ago
Yes, and it was pretty easily photo-copied since it had to be printed all in one place anyway. That's probably why even print-based protections tried to get cleverer. Like the code wheels, although I remember those didn't take th
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by Anamon 6mo ago
160x200x2 still comes to 8 kB for a full-screen bitmap. So those 40 kB would allow for just five full screens worth of graphics/frames if stored naively. I'd say that still required some very clever programming to get that amount
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by Anamon 6mo ago
It's true that few servers even provide that kind of bandwidth. That's why I personally stick to 1 Gbps and save a few bucks. But I have friends who use the 25 Gbps e.g. for off-site backups (a NAS at the office for home backups,
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by Anamon 6mo ago
Only one provider? What gave you that idea? Even TFA mentions four providers, and those are just the most popular, nation-wide ones. I live in Zürich and have a choice between 10 providers (going by the list of the local infrastructure prov
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by Anamon 6mo ago
One could (and I would) argue that they achieved that despite their web-tech-based UIs, not because of. At least those of us who were around for the days when most apps were still native, do notice and get bothered by the input lag, for ins
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by Anamon 6mo ago
I forgot about that one. What should we call our third product? -- One. -- Brilliant! What should we call the fourth product in the series? -- Series. -- Brilliant!
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by Anamon 6mo ago
I find the differences between the CLIs pretty minor. GitHub and Kiro are the only ones allowed at my job, and GitHub is fine. What many people who don't use the GitHub Copilot CLI don't seem to be aware of is that it's not l
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by Anamon 6mo ago
Not sure if it qualifies as a "product", but .NET is (these days) uncharacteristic for Microsoft as well. It's community-driven, very active, and quite liked by the people who use it. Somewhat more niche, I'd also add Ac
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by Anamon 6mo ago
Just my anecdata, but several of my addresses have been in two-digit numbers of leaks, and my spam load is relatively low, at least compared to some of the numbers I read in this thread. Per leaked address, I get maybe 5-10 a week. So to me
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by Anamon 6mo ago
But I think there's also an asymmetry strongly favouring the defense, namely that for a spam mail to be worthwhile, it needs some call to action, a way to lure in the victims. A link to a shady website, an infected attachment, a weird
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by Anamon 6mo ago
Or "someone who would read a news article and be shocked/excited/moved by it right up until someone told them it was fake GenAI slop." Apart from the fact that, yes, GenAI art is overwhelmingly shit and by definition der
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by Anamon 6mo ago
If you're not just working on throw-away tools, revisit this sentiment every few months. Verifying generated code and writing code are not equivalent at all. You're replacing a builder's mindset with a supervisor's minds
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by Anamon 7mo ago
Very weakly supported benefits, to be weighed against quite severe risks and frequent issues.
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by Anamon 7mo ago
Energy production is only part of the bill, though. The oil shortage is having an effect on a mind-boggling variety of consumer goods where crude oil is used in manufacturing. For many products we don't have good alternatives. A lot of
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by Anamon 7mo ago
> Because the simple act of having to write the thing or seeing it being built up step by step introduces friction that allows you to better understand what you want to build [...] I would go further and remove that second option. If the
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by Anamon 7mo ago
Those are probably at the top of my website annoyances list. "Want to get more like this in your inbox?" -- I don't even know what "this" is, you barely let me read the first paragraph before asking! I'm sure t

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