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by adlpz 4y ago
The issue is that the meaning of "clean code" here isn't code that's clean and legible. It's code written in the typically over engineered OOP-heavy Java style. Think lots of "patterns", massive amounts of
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by adlpz 4y ago
Bit off topic, but the TLS certificate seems to be wrongly issued to the wildcard *.kasserver.com, which seems to be a back-end related domain for a German hosting company with strong mid-2000 vibes named "ALL-INKL.COM" [1]. They
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by adlpz 4y ago
Quite an appropriate reference when talking about neurons on an artificial intelligence :)
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by adlpz 4y ago
A dangerous thing it may do is tell people things no one should tell. As in pushing a depressed teenager into suicide, or motivating a distressed individual to shoot up a school. And if we go full sci-fi, use the real-time web browsing capa
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by adlpz 4y ago
That's a very interesting take on this. It's somewhat related to how other people are mentioning these AIs are "generating memories", even if no such thing is possible by their programming, by reading the transcripts of
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by adlpz 4y ago
Well, just to clarify, it was a hypothetical concept, of course. I'd totally oppose the concept. All hail our new AI overlords, and so on. Please don't Soylent me.
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by adlpz 4y ago
I know this is not AGI. But still, this is disturbing stuff. Call it bad UX . Maybe we should start lobotomizing language models? This whole thing is sliding into a cyberpunk dystopia rather quick.
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by adlpz 4y ago
Sure, an ethical framework will be created. And unethical actors will ignore it. This will only affect those who are already interested in self-censoring. Tech unburdened by this laws will emerge regardless. It's also illegal to hack a
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by adlpz 4y ago
True, but the JS community is huge . Sure, not by its own merit, but because of browsers. Still, can afford to be fragmented. For smaller languages like Clojure the consequences are way worse.
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by adlpz 4y ago
I don't agree. I consider myself something akin to a veteran. I've been coding for over two decades. Not sure if that qualifies, but anyway. My point is: it's been with experience that I've come to value ergonomics the m
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by adlpz 4y ago
Just as a data point, this is also true about very much noeadays "vanilla" stacks like Next.js. It seems like you're doing SSR but not exactly. You return the wrong prop in a getServerSideProps and boom, your stripe keys ar
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by adlpz 4y ago
I'm interested in this, too. I can totally see how not having to manage a standalone RDBMS makes sense. But, what's the real-world advantage over something like SQLite? I mean, the idea of an in-memory relational engine for things
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by adlpz 4y ago
I understand this is self-hosting the OpenAI Whisper model (which I see is fully MIT-licensed, weights and all). So not calling any OpenAI APIs like other GPT-related tools do. Am I correct on this? The README is not explicit.
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by adlpz 4y ago
I like to build side projects. As a general rule, I always have a few "in the works". And when I do, I always find myself making the same mistake-ish: trying a bunch of new things, as in languages, libraries, paradigms, concepts,
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by adlpz 4y ago
I don't think it was a morals issue. The rumours were that Musk wanted to turn Twitter into an (even more) unmoderated hate speech cesspool and drive off most of the (wealthy) userbase. Under that possibility advertisers were wise to w
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by adlpz 4y ago
Agreed, however the acquisition scared off many advertisers and put the company in massive debt. So the business side is very much in a bad spot, objectively. Therefore I judge it the probable main culprit if the company fails.
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by adlpz 4y ago
The fact of Musk talking about taking over was enough to scare off a bunch of advertisers. And the acquisition itself is the source of the massive new debt. So, then, once the acquisition went through, the situation was definitely dire.
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by adlpz 4y ago
To be fair the lost ad revenue came before the layoffs. The rumours of the Musk takeover were enough to scare off many of the early ad space buyers.
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by adlpz 4y ago
I'm sure they severely messed up in a bunch of things during the layoffs. And things broke in the process. But the catastrophic scenario that some people painted, where Twitter was basically walking dead timebomb ready to crash irrepar
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by adlpz 4y ago
I'm amazed at how blind (we) tech people can be. I don't see how the events up to today doesn't tell us that Twitter can indeed survive on a reduced workforce. There may be growing and adapting pains but, overall, the ser
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by adlpz 4y ago
I almost forgot I run this project. It makes less than 1€/month average :D. I built https://banco.surf , which gives you API access to your european bank account's transactions and balances. The eu-only restriction is
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by adlpz 4y ago
I built https://courses.so . The concept: build courses with Notion. The idea came from my partner in the project, who runs an e-learning community centered around no-code tools and wanted something simple and no-code-y to host t
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by adlpz 4y ago
I guess it's an issue of UI. Given that dumping a cleartext password list is a legitimate thing you might want to do, and being a plugin (or setting) a somewhat acceptable way of achieving this, the issue here is that, as it is, the
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by adlpz 4y ago
I'm just guessing here, but I'd assume this vulnerability does happen once the master password is input. So, the attacker modifies the config file, then the user eventually uses the password manager as usual, and then a file in di
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by adlpz 4y ago
I believe this is the video, for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e1_QhJ1EhQ
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by adlpz 4y ago
Well, then today you (I hope) learned that by doing that you may be skipping on the likes of Bill Gates, who is very much a person who can provide really interesting insights in many topics.
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by adlpz 4y ago
That makes no sense to me. Or maybe your definition of "understand" is completely unrelated to mine. Under your thesis one cannot "understand" anything physical (as in physics, chemistry, etc) as the underlying cannot be
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by adlpz 4y ago
I think I'm not special in my reason why: just sheer curiosity. I got my first computer when I was around 4 years old and I was immediately hooked. I mean if you think about it the whole idea is just really cool . No extra motivation
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by adlpz 4y ago
I agree with OOP not being needed at all, but I don't agree on this being an alternative to dependency injection. However you structure it, there will always be "glue code" that ties the nice inmutable code with the outside-
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by adlpz 4y ago
Very well said. I believe in the ideals of individual initiative and market economy as means to achieve a better world for everybody, but when externalities and systemic inefficiencies are ignored and frameworks to deal with them are shaped

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