BoppreH

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by BoppreH 6mo ago
Other commenters gave good reasons, and here are a few more: - If you like long books, an e-reader is much lighter than a tome. Not only more portable, but also easier to hold when reading. - When lying down you don't have to fight the
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by BoppreH 6mo ago
> Byterun is a Python interpreter written in Python. This may strike you as odd, but it's no more odd than writing a C compiler in C. I'm not so sure. The difference between a self-hosted compiler and a circular interpreter is
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by BoppreH 6mo ago
I've seen computer games where any input device is accepted, and on-screen instructions refer to the last type of device used. Seemed like a good idea. And how does input-based parental control work? Do you hide the adult's contro
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by BoppreH 6mo ago
In my case I did, but it's still wasted time and money. And when breaking TOS there's always a chance of getting related accounts also banned, though I don't know if that has already happened with WhatsApp or not.
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by BoppreH 6mo ago
I wish it mentioned how safe this is. Some years ago I got banned for just logging in with a third-party client, without sending any messages. Given how critical WhatsApp is for some people, and how permanent the bans are, that's a big
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by BoppreH 6mo ago
It's very different for Google, the giant faceless corporation, to know someone's search history. Making it _public_ is a different ballgame. I can't believe I have to say this, but you can't simply delete an important f
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by BoppreH 6mo ago
Sad that no real pages can load successfully, but I thoroughly enjoyed the writing. > We turned on crash reporting on the way. I haven't burst out laughing like this in a while! You'll probably make for some horror stories to a
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by BoppreH 6mo ago
YouTube search is one of those services that is pointlessly hostile. Most recently, they've removed the "order by upload date" filter, and changed the way that blurring works. Previously, sensitive videos had blurred thumbnai
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
1) It's not clear to me that this is only for internal tooling, as opposed to publishing commits on public GitHub repos. 2) Yes, it does explicitly say to pretend to be a human. From the link on my post: > NEVER include in commit me
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
You're right, I missed the \b's. Thanks for the correction.
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
I don't care who is using it, I don't want LLMs pretending to be humans in public repos. Anthropic just lost some points with me for this one. EDIT: I just realized this might be used without publishing the changes, for internal
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
It's fast, but it'll miss a ton of cases. This feels like it would be better served by a prompt instruction, or an additional tiny neural network. And some of the entries are too short and will create false positives. It'll m
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
Undercover mode also pretends to be human, which I'm less ok with: https://github.com/chatgptprojects/claude-code/blob/642c7f94...
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
An LLM company using regexes for sentiment analysis? That's like a truck company using horses to transport parts. Weird choice.
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
Excellent project, unfortunate title. I almost didn't click on it. I like the tradeoff offered: full access to the current directory, read-only access to the rest, copy-on-write for the home directory. With stricter modes to (presumabl
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
And there's also fraud. If there's no periodic check, a single diagnosis from a corrupt doctor can give someone disability benefits for life. This might not be the right frequency, though, and only accepting post/fax is bulls
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
It's assumed that in this scenario you don't have access to a trusted compiler; if you do, then there's no problem. And the thesis linked above seems to go beyond simply "use a trusted compiler to compile the next compil
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
The proposed solution seems to rely on a trusted compiler that generates the exact same output, bit-for-bit, as the compiler-under-test would generate if it was not compromised. That seems useful only in very narrow cases.
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
Paradox of choice? It's more related to the number of choices and the impact on people's anxiety, but it's close.
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
I believe you only need a unique phone number to create the account, then you can use WhatsApp Web as client. Be very careful with alternative clients, as I've had an account banned in the past for this (and therefore a phone number bl
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
Thanks. I'm already doing something similar, but I feel like the background that is visible on the sides is still somewhat distracting. Might be my imagination though.
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
Those are excellent! The orange shingles are my favorite. Though I think some of them are not working on Firefox; the blue and green vortices are rendered as a single blue rectangle and a single green hexagon. I wonder how people are using
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
We're probably thinking about this at very different levels. Here's what I meant: I can ask Claude for "a bilingual German-Russian poem about the side effects of the most common drugs used in anesthesia". I would bet my
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
It's not a value judgement, I'm no misanthrope. But it's a fact or life that we humans must specialize, while LLMs can afford to have "studied" a staggering variety of topics. It's no different than being slowe
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
Yes, "street". Typing from my phone, sorry. And search engines are narrow tools that can only output copies of its dataset. An LLM is capable of surprisingly novel output, even if the exact level of creativity is heavily debated.
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
Controversial opinion from a casual user, but state-of-art LLMs now feel to me more intelligent then the average person on the steet. Also explains why training on more average-quality data (if there's any left) is not making improvem
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
> Without explaining that, the rest of this blog post is just rambling notes about developer ergonomics. That's how I took it, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. If you're making a small app by yourself, sufficiently bad developer er
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by BoppreH 7mo ago
Lots of good ideas here. Flow-sensitive type inference with static type checks is, IMHO, a massively underrated niche. Doubly so for being in a compiled language. I find it crazy how Python managed to get so popular when even variable name
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by BoppreH 8mo ago
Ask and you shall receive: https://stacktower.io/
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by BoppreH 8mo ago
I would suggest adding the /r/ProgrammerHumor version too: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1p204nx/ac... The AI crank always cracks me up.

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