EvanAnderson

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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
You're being reductive or just obtuse. The company that employed the developer ultimately holds the accountability in the marketplace. The employed developer maintains (or loses) their job because of their accountability to their code
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
> What quality does it have that humans had eyes on code? The human who had their eyes and hands on the code has accountability. I think how accountability is going to work, in the case of LLM-generated code, is still an open question. (
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
That we don't have to heavily scrutinize the code generated by compilers is a result of the huge amount of human toil that went into the compilers and test suites. Compilers are deterministic mechanisms so tests can be constructed. LLM
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I don't think that's accurate. Until recently the code we rely on wasn't blindly trusted. People wrote and QA'd it. We may not have reviewed it personally, but that's one of the functions we outsource to software ma
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I inherited an old Sharp LCD TV that has a serial port. I did some digging and discovered I can power it on and off thru the serial port (amongst other commands). It serves a role in my home where it needs to be on part of the day. Turning
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
> I reached out to Flume. They were very responsive, and their CTO shared an overview of their already-in-progress plans to further improve the product’s privacy and security. Read: There will be a firmware update that further "secu
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I got this book as a discard from my public library when I was a young kid, having only ever used standalone computers. The networked future it described re: home computers (which Kemeny characterized as terminals) seemed like fantasy. Late
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
High head pressure on startup is the problem I'm thinking of. Generally there is a delay after shutdown and a lockout on restart until the head pressure is lower. In the old refrigeration compressors I am familiar with there was an ele
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
The lack of feedback from the AC unit makes using a switched outlet potentially problematic. You really need to know the state of the compressor cycling before you go mucking with turning it on and off. (At least this was the case with the
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
The "couple a stepper motor to a shaft" API is so much better than any "smart" appliance API. Speaking more seriously, I wish classes of appliances would expose some simple analog and digital interface pins in a standard
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I don't mind p=none. I'm more bent out of shape about policies that tell me to reject that, if followed, would result in the loss of legit email.
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
"Someone brought the black bass to this lake from far away, changing the biological distribution of the lake." https://youtube.com/watch?v=5w35n0Hm_m0
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
> LLMs are vulnerable to classes of attacks that humans just aren’t. Assume a human with complete credulity and gullibility. That's a human whose behaviour would be reasonably analogous to how an LLM processes input. The mitigation
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
BTW, when you say "former colleague" are you referring to _the_ (non-fictional character) Howard Wolowitz? I don't much care for the show the namesake character was featured in, but between knowing the name from the lore of t
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
My spirit was broken for that kind of work a long time ago. More often than not I end up talking to someone in the sender's IT who fancies themself an expert and is completely incredulous that there could possibly be a problem on their
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I mind email for a number of small orgs (<1000 recipients each). There are so many SPF and DKIM failures from senders who you'd think would know better (Fortune 100-type companies). I don't want complaints from users missing me
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
Aside: I support a court who uses a FilePro-based application that dates back, at least, to the mid-90s. I don't have to deal with the actual app-- just the underlying Linux boxes that run it. It seems reasonable.
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I'm afraid to leave the country precisely because I worry about difficulties upon return. I understand that as a citizen I can't be denied reentry, but I also understand they can make the process extremely difficult or uncomfortab
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
> I genuinely don't think there is a "get out of jail free card" ... Being rich and politically connected would probably do it.
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by EvanAnderson 3mo ago
I'm sorry my "equating" is so offensive to you. The gist of my reason for commenting was more musing about how the AI might interact with the digital flight control computer (i.e. are its inputs mediated by software in the sa
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by EvanAnderson 3mo ago
A macabre counterpoint to "It's xxx year, where's my flying car?"
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by EvanAnderson 3mo ago
The flight control system in modern fighter jets makes human-induced departure from controlled flight difficult to get into. That's the point of the system. There's a good F-22 pilot talk recorded at MIT a few years ago you might
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by EvanAnderson 3mo ago
A computer is "flying" the F-16 all the time anyway. It's a statically unstable aircraft. I wonder if the AI control is giving inputs to the same flight controls system a human pilot would, or if it has a lower-level interfac
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by EvanAnderson 3mo ago
Speaking about hardware tokens: If I have to go get the backup out of "secure" storage each time I want to add a new Passkey it's not really a backup. The design should have allowed, even if it was just within only the purvie
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by EvanAnderson 3mo ago
Money makes so many things easier. How leverage that ease determines if it brings you happiness.
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by EvanAnderson 3mo ago
Oregon Trail held up well but, man, Kings Quest is brutal with the killing you and having to start over.
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by EvanAnderson 3mo ago
Odds are good that EXE you made will run on 32-bit Windows 10, too.
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by EvanAnderson 3mo ago
Turning things on and off with a computer is always fun to me (think X10 modules, blinking LEDs with an Arduino, etc). That in itself makes this neat to me. There's probably a way this could be used to floating batteries at around 80%
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by EvanAnderson 3mo ago
That's an excellent link for getting down into the details. Thanks for posting it. > This editorial argues that the long-standing cap on residency slots, originating with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, is the key structural constrain
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by EvanAnderson 3mo ago
The number of Medicare funded residency slots are limited by law. Medical schools won't graduate more doctors because residency can't be guaranteed. Who wants to be the med school who graduates doctors with >$100K debt and no p

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