Timwi

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by Timwi 7d ago
> I'd love to see data, but my intuition is that the average developer has access to dramatically better security reviews and far lower cost than ever. Where? If I ask Claude to do a “security review” of my software, it gets blocked
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by Timwi 8d ago
> I loathe LLM prose, no matter who posts it I don't know if it's even possible anymore to write a detailed, technical article without a swarm of people showing this reaction.
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by Timwi 8d ago
Yeah that's “edit” in English.
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by Timwi 8d ago
I had the same thought. This is honestly plagiarism.
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by Timwi 9d ago
It would have been nice if a replacement had been suggested.
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by Timwi 9d ago
Yes, and that might help some people who always bought the game, but it won't change the situation going forward is what I'm saying.
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by Timwi 9d ago
You make it sound like you think “modified” means “degraded” and the original is always superior just for being the original.
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by Timwi 9d ago
I don't think most Japanese speakers would characterize their language as having “four writing systems”. They would say three and not include Romaji in the count. This is not to say they don't use Romaji, but it's not consi
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by Timwi 9d ago
> Is it because people think the topic is interesting but don't actually care about the content? I'm having difficulty seeing where you draw the line between “topic” and “content”. I found the article interesting as it taught
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by Timwi 9d ago
For me, the lightbulb cartel comes to mind in which leading manufacturers at the time agreed to limit the longevity of incandescent lightbulbs. (This is often cited as an egregious case of planned obsolescence, but Technology Connections ha
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by Timwi 9d ago
Brains output muscle movements. The only evolutionary purpose of brains is to make decisions on what muscles to move when and how. Language is one byproduct of that. Another byproduct that is not unique to humans is memory.
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by Timwi 9d ago
The link was made because many early uses of the phrase “it's just autocomplete” were in a context of denying that it's “intelligent” or that it “can think”. This in turn was generally used to downplay the concerns from AI safety
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by Timwi 10d ago
I first learned programming in the 1980s on a C128 by reading the list of BASIC commands in the user manual. I'd say the level of complexity and capability is somewhat comparable to Scratch today. I too ended up spending a lot of time
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by Timwi 14d ago
A Bitcoin does not have any pre-defined value. The value of Bitcoin keeps fluctuating, and historically has risen dramatically from its initial value of 0. If this weren't the case, there would be no investment/speculation in Bitc
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by Timwi 15d ago
I'm not sure what this lawsuit is going to accomplish. Even if Sony loses, they will pay a nominal fine, and then they'll just change “Buy now” to “Play now” and “game you already own” to “game you already have” or something and i
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by Timwi 15d ago
Or maybe you could start focusing on the content instead of how it's made.
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by Timwi 15d ago
I experienced mild brain freeze as a child but it went away in adolescence. It doesn't seem pleasant so I don't envy those of you who get intense versions of it.
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by Timwi 15d ago
Everybody who can speak can do it because that's what you do when you say [k] or [g].
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by Timwi 15d ago
I certainly can't, and until now I'd never heard of it either (I'm over 40). It's not uncommon to assume that other people's experiences are like one's own until told otherwise. For me, it took until at least a
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by Timwi 16d ago
> People only think that because we've been conditioned by computers to value answers more than how we got to them. By computers? My dude, it's not computers that condition us that way. It's exams in school. Give the right
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by Timwi 16d ago
No. Just because the AI beats you, you don't automatically know how it did it. You can't easily learn from it just by observing it.
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by Timwi 16d ago
I'm not the one you replied to, but I think I get their point. If you have a machine that can solve math problems at the push of a button, you don't really need to amass discoveries anymore just in case someone might need it years
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by Timwi 16d ago
Why would they stop trying?
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by Timwi 18d ago
If it could do this while properly crediting the researchers (the “giants”) it would be a different matter.
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by Timwi 18d ago
By saying it “isn't that hard” you're admitting that it could definitely be easier.
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by Timwi 18d ago
It could be argued that Turkish and simplified Chinese succeeded simply because they were supported by, you could even say imposed by, a government that controls > 90% of the population speaking the language. Neither was the case for Ara
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by Timwi 18d ago
Your comment could be read as implying that Unified Arabic, the subject of this post, must have been useless as an idea because it wasn't widely adopted. In reality, there are many factors, not only pure practicality, that lead people
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by Timwi 18d ago
Computers do not “have that mostly covered now”. Typesetting and font rendering technology is so Western-centric and so entrenched that support for writing systems with slightly different base assumptions, such as Arabic, Devanagari and man
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by Timwi 28d ago
It's so weird for me to live through software evolution to the point where this no longer goes without saying. In the Windows 3.1 days, it was nearly impossible to make a program that wasn't fully keyboard-usable. Even if you left
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by Timwi 28d ago
1. Make sure that the tree view control has screen reader support and that it has all the normal keyboard commands (such as right/left arrow for expanding/collapsing a parent node). 2. Make sure that the text box has a label that

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