Philip-J-Fry

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by Philip-J-Fry 6mo ago
I think the difference is that with LLMs, in a lot of cases you do see some diminishing returns. I won't deny that the latest Claude models are fantastic at just one shotting loads of problems. But we have an internal proxy to a load o
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by Philip-J-Fry 6mo ago
We have AI companies constantly fear-mongering that their next model is somehow too dangerous to release. But they just continue to go on an acquisition spree. This just confirms to me that we are no where near AI being able to write any co
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by Philip-J-Fry 7mo ago
I don't buy this at all. Code quality will always matter. Context is king with LLMs, and when you fill that context up with thousands of lines of spaghetti, the LLM will (and does) perform worse. Garbage in, garbage out, that's st
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by Philip-J-Fry 7mo ago
Parrots can't "talk". They just mimick noises they've heard before
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by Philip-J-Fry 7mo ago
>The use of IEnumerable as a "generator" mechanic is quite a good hack though. Is that a hack? Is that not just exactly what IEnumerable and IEnumerator were built to do?
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by Philip-J-Fry 7mo ago
Right, encryption would protect the data. But still, at the end of the day you're trusting the permission model of the database. Encryption won't prevent you updating a row or deleting a row if the database permission model failed
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by Philip-J-Fry 7mo ago
Can you give an example of more than one layer of logical separation at the data layer? We all know that authentication should have multiple factors. But that's a different problem. Fundamentally at the point you're reading or wri
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by Philip-J-Fry 7mo ago
Conceptually that's no different to any security measures that prevent you from accessing data you're not supposed to? At the end of the day with all data that is colocated you're trusting that some permission feature somewhe
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by Philip-J-Fry 8mo ago
What is this app and what does it do? Can we see it? I find it very hard to believe anyone could code anything complicated with Claude that 5-6 competent developers could do. I am currently working on a relatively complicated UI on an inter
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by Philip-J-Fry 8mo ago
>Some new value will be discovered in the code itself - maybe conceptual clarity, algorithmic novelty, structural cleanliness, readability, succinctness, etc. Those values will become the new foundations for future gatekeeping. It's
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by Philip-J-Fry 8mo ago
The work involved in maintaining a standard library is things like bug fixes. A larger standard library (or multi versions) means there's more likely to be bugs. You also have performance improvements, and when new versions of the lang
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by Philip-J-Fry 8mo ago
I find it quite funny how this blog post has a big "Ask ChatGPT" box at the bottom. So you might think you could ask a question about the contents of the blog post, so you type the text "summarise this blog post". And it
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by Philip-J-Fry 8mo ago
By selling virtual billboards within the street view
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by Philip-J-Fry 8mo ago
>allowing API users to return everything at once can be a problem both for our server (lots of data in RAM when fetching from the DB => OOM, and additional stress on the DB) You can limit stress on RAM by streaming the data. You shoul
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by Philip-J-Fry 8mo ago
This was the same for me. M4 Pro is my first Macbook ever and it's actually incredible how much I prefer the daily driving experience versus my brand new 9800x3d/RTX 5080 desktop, or my work HP ZBook with 13th Gen intel i9. The ba
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by Philip-J-Fry 9mo ago
Isn't the point that this is the source of truth? If someone needs access to a secret, you would implement it in this DSL and commit that to the system. A side effect would run on that which would grant access to that secret. When you
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by Philip-J-Fry 9mo ago
What do you use AI for? Pretty much everyone in my company also uses AI. But everyone sees the same downsides.
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by Philip-J-Fry 9mo ago
I don't understand how anyone seriously hyping this up honestly thought it was restricted to JUST AI agents? It's literally a web service. Are people really that AI brained that they will scream and shout about how revolutionary s
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by Philip-J-Fry 9mo ago
No? Advertising money is paid upfront. X number of impressions. You get paid a cut for hosting the ad. The ad might be a huge failure and lead to zero clickthrough or purchases. But the money has already been paid for the campaign.
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by Philip-J-Fry 9mo ago
My new build (2023) would have had 0 ethernet if I didn't request it. It's so cheap to wire it in and so useful for the future I don't know why it's not just standard. It had phone sockets though, for whatever reason. Wh
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by Philip-J-Fry 9mo ago
This feels like something Apple should do with iPhones. Find My and air tags was already a huge success because of the ubiquitous nature of iPhones. Apple could add this to iPhone, sell it as privacy focussed. Let you message anyone in your
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by Philip-J-Fry 9mo ago
I'd assume not since Waymo uses lidar and has entire depots of them driving around in close proximity when not in use.
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by Philip-J-Fry 10mo ago
To be fair, asking why someone wants to do something is often a good question. Especially in places like StackOverflow where the people asking questions are often inexperienced. I see it all the time professionally too. People ask "how
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by Philip-J-Fry 10mo ago
This is what I tend to do. I still feel like my expertise in architecting the software and abstractions is like 10x better than I've seen an LLM do. I'll ask it to do X, and then ask it to do Y, and then ask it to do Z, and it&#x2
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by Philip-J-Fry 10mo ago
Insurance is cheaper on safer vehicles. A 90% reduction in accidents is a 90% reduction in _paying out_. That reduces operating costs.
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by Philip-J-Fry 10mo ago
If your function changes it's behaviour based on the type, then it's not generic. Your list_contains function should be able to just do a == comparison regardless of whether it's an int or a string. This is effectively no dif
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by Philip-J-Fry 10mo ago
Mullvad is great for privacy. But it's blocked by pretty much every VPN block list. NordVPN at the very least bypasses all the ones I regularly encounter. I do use Mullvad for most web browsing though. But Imgur for example is blocked
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by Philip-J-Fry 11mo ago
I also saw a similar thing. I also naively pointed at "cosmic rays". It wasn't until someone found the actual bug that I realised how unlikely that was. The actual bug was unsafe code somewhere else in the application corrupt
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by Philip-J-Fry 11mo ago
Exactly, unless someone is in imminent danger there's basically no reason to do a high speed chase. Get the plate, track it on the thousands of ANPR cameras that exist, look up the owner and just knock on their door later on. Like 99%
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by Philip-J-Fry 11mo ago
Producing power by the mid 2030s? Isn't the entire point of SMRs that they are effectively a complete package and it takes very little effort to ship them out and getting them to produce power. Or is this just a pipe-dream we were sold

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