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by BoppreH 3y ago
Probably has a similarly short-sighted prompt as Dalle3[1]: > 7. Diversify depictions of ALL images with people to include DESCENT > and GENDER for EACH person using direct terms. Adjust only human > descriptions. [1] https:/
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I'm shopping for an IDE with Vim keybindings, but this doesn't seem to be it yet. Points for having Vim-like support out of the box, but most of what I tried failed, including: - Exiting insertion mode with ctrl+c or ctrl+[ - Shif
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I've always been a fan of generating mazes by randomly printing /, \, or a space. It ends up slanted, and there's obviously no guarantees of solvability, but it's surprisingly good for how simple it is. Here's a bas
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Three thoughts: 1. It's a brilliant idea that came at the right time. It feels like people are finally losing patience with flaky software, see developer sentiment on: fuzzers, static typing, memory safety, standardized protocols, cont
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by BoppreH 3y ago
The plastic covers are slightly raised from the wall, and if you're willing to look silly you can peek behind them. They're three colors.
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Which is why I was always baffled by the decorative lights in my old office. It was a wall with small scattered lights in different colors, so they used recessed LEDs. Fine. But instead of color LEDs with a neutral diffuser, it had red+gree
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I'm surprised that random comparison functions were not mentioned in the article. An awful idea, sure, but oh so tempting. Maybe everyone who tried it quickly saw the crashes...
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Huh, I never thought about using length extension attacks as a protocol feature. However, you still need the initial secret, analogous to the HMAC key, and it's not a complicated algorithm to justify much effort in removing. And don&#x
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I've tried updating it to 2024: https://gist.github.com/boppreh/3b88231b7af15af54d292963f3d7...
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I agree that "changes the generated binary" and "displays information to the user" are separate use cases, but the compiler already does both. There's even a compiler error for unused imports and variables. Doesn&#x
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I understand the frustration with login systems, but why is the title "Passwordless: A Different Kind of Hell" if it doesn't talk about passwordless authentication, like passkeys, magic links, and biometrics?
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Sounds like excessive paging, aka Thrashing[1]. Newer software uses more memory, and when the OS has no more physical memory to allocate, it moves some data from RAM to disk and back until the process frees those pages. This destroys perfor
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by BoppreH 3y ago
This is coming late and you might not read this, but I think you're reading too much into that quote. Scott has an uncanny ability to cherry-pick facts, usually absurd ones to paint funny narratives. He even wrote a whole fiction book
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Assistants are cool, but I want better tools . Give me a timeline with all my emails, chats, documents, and pictures shown together. Full text search on my entire browsing history. Exporting my Booking.com search results as a spreadsheet.
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by BoppreH 3y ago
The keynote is near science fiction, but the actual implementation is leaving me badly confused. - Did it really scan the whole table to add a new column? As in, OCR? What would happen if I had more than one screenful of data, and who in th
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Not the person you're asking, but I think it's clear from context that they meant "no artificial neural networks" and other forms of AI that are trained from data. From the Github repo: It provides: Finite State
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I tried doing something similar on Windows, and realized that PowerToys[1], a Microsoft project I already had installed, actually contains a very good OCR tool[2]. Just press Win+Shift+T and select the area to scan, and the text will be cop
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Reading source code also helps steering you away from unfit projects. I've decided to replace dependencies after trying to submit a PR and realizing the code was not as robust as I hoped, or was doing too much.
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by BoppreH 3y ago
That's a really insightful view. Perhaps one can extend it to automated UI tests too: if it breaks a test by moving an element/adding a popup/changing the flow/taking longer, then it would probably undermine existing use
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Justine is killing it as always. I especially appreciate the care for practicality and good engineering, like the deterministic outputs. I noticed that the Lemur picture description had lots of small inaccuracies, but as the saying goes, if
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by BoppreH 3y ago
That's weird, I confirmed it on https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values before posting that comment, but now I can't find it anymore. Thanks for the correction.
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by BoppreH 3y ago
You gotta love CSS naming, where " relative em" is the version of "em" that is not relative to the parent.
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I've just finished reading Refactoring UI, and the author has a good point against `em`: nested uses lead to fragmented sizes. Let's say you have a fixed list of font sizes (and you probably want to), that goes like this: 0.75em,
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by BoppreH 3y ago
But at different rates from humans? I ran into the exact same issue myself today, while studying German flash cards. I could remember e.g., "ruhig -> quiet", but not "quiet -> ruhig".
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by BoppreH 3y ago
> it doesn't understand its own limitations, ie it has no self awareness. And how much self awareness do humans have, exactly? We walk around with heads filled with false memories[1], accidentally ignore surprisingly prominent stimu
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I think this is a good place to ask: are there any tasks left that LLMs still fail significantly more often than average humans? Not "sometimes it writes buggy code", or "it refuses to discuss ethics", but getting someth
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Thanks, that's exactly the right direction. But not yet the right magnitude . You're still limited to what's representable as single CLI invocations.
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I'm really, really excited about these GUI frameworks. Native desktop experience is so much better than web-view amalgamations. And kudos to PySimpleGUI for the simplified event loop, and multi-backend approach, that is genuinely new.
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Loved the analogy. Also tracks with the fact that devs hold all the power in the user x dev relationship. > that by making the code better for the user, Did you mean the dev ?
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I also believe that the 'zip' name hurts intuition by favoring `zip(long_list1, long_list2)`, when `zip(*pairs)` is just as useful. From a mathematical viewpoint, 'zip' is just transpose, and therefore its own inverse. B

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