andix

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601.
by andix 2y ago
Exactly my experience. It's always missing something. And the generated code often can't be extended to fulfil those missing aspects.
602.
by andix 2y ago
I just looked it up, it seems to be the rate limit that's actually kicking in for me.
603.
by andix 2y ago
I like your thinking :)
604.
by andix 2y ago
No. Edit: I'm not going to code asm just to be cool.
605.
by andix 2y ago
Aider. I tried Cursor too, but I don't like VS Code and not being able to chose the LLM provider. I think there are already a lot of tools that perform kind of equally.
606.
by andix 2y ago
> Like, write an Arduino program that performs stuff like that works amazing > But for anything involving my $dayjob it's been fairly useless beyond writing unit test outlines This was my opinion 3-6 months ago. But I think a lot
607.
by andix 2y ago
Boilerplate is better than bad abstractions. But good abstractions are far superior.
608.
by andix 2y ago
I don't see the point in AI code completions, they are just distracting noise. I'm only doing bigger changes with AI. Prompt based stuff, like "extract the filtering part from all API endpoints in folder abc/xyz. Find a
609.
by andix 2y ago
That's more or less my suspicion. A few months ago I tried to do a small project with Langchain. I'm a professional software developer, but it was my first Python project. So I tried to use a lot of AI generated code. I was really
610.
by andix 2y ago
> A language like Golang tries really hard to only have _one_ way to do something Really? Logging in Go: A Comparison of the Top 9 Libraries https://betterstack.com/community/guides/logging/best-golang...
611.
by andix 2y ago
I've made the opposite observation. Without proper abstractions code bases grow like crazy. At some point they are just a huge amount of copy, paste, and slight modification. The amount of code often grows exponentially. With more line
612.
by andix 2y ago
With Claude the context window is quite small. But with adding too much context it often seems to get worse. If the context is not carefully narrowly picked and too unrelated, the LLMs often start to do unrelated things to what you've
613.
by andix 2y ago
I try to keep "boring" code to a minimum, by finding meaningful and simple abstractions. LLMs are especially bad handling those, because they were not trained on non-standard abstractions. Edit: most LLMs are great for spitting ou
614.
by andix 2y ago
I've got a lot of hallucinations like that from LLMs. I really don't get how so many people can get LLMs to code most of their tasks without those issues permanently popping up.
615.
by andix 2y ago
That's just a prank. But it shows how little the president cares about democracy, or even monarchy.
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by andix 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933 Edit: you can use a democratic process to kill off democracy. In the end democracy is dead, and it doesn't really matter anymore why.
617.
by andix 2y ago
You forgot "wilfully letting go of democracy". US democracy is far away from dying, but who knows how much longer it can keep holding up.
618.
by andix 2y ago
Those concepts are not science fiction, they were very often used in the past already. Just read about how the most famous dictators in history came to power, and what they did first. Discrediting scientist is a standard step for most dicta
619.
by andix 2y ago
Some VPN providers publish third party reports about their security. My VPN provider does that very extensively. My ISP doesn't do that at all. It's about who you trust more. Your decision to make.
620.
by andix 2y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, I don't know a lot about Nikola and the Icevo partnership. The YouTube channel is still worth watching.
621.
by andix 2y ago
If somebody is interested in how the Nikola Trucks drive, there is a great YouTube channel from a German truck driver, that drives the European version (IVECO) of the Nikola truck on a daily basis across Europe. https://www.youtu
622.
by andix 2y ago
So you're suggesting to use Tor for everything? Or what's your solution?
623.
by andix 2y ago
Please tell me how to do it right.
624.
by andix 2y ago
If this is your threat model, then VPNs are definitively not enough. Still a European VPN provider might be better than nothing.
625.
by andix 2y ago
Exactly the point. It's a security measure for regular people, who don't commit crimes and aren't a high value target for government agencies. With a VPN your employee can't track what websites you're visiting over
626.
by andix 2y ago
I have no idea what "TFA" refers to. My argument is: Some/many providers are known to abuse user data, are required by law to store them. Are actively and legally selling the data. Most VPN providers don't do that. Some
627.
by andix 2y ago
It might be true. But I know that the shady cop in my neighborhood could easily put in a request to my ISP to get some data about me. But he could never get the same data from the NSA. I'm not a terrorist, so I don't feel threaten
628.
by andix 2y ago
As long as you are not a terrorist, all those surveillance programs will never be used against you. It would put those programs to risk, by exposing them. If you need to protect yourself against the most sophisticated surveillance programs,
629.
by andix 2y ago
SNI over ESNI seems to be still the standard. I was not aware of that. https://esnicheck.com/
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by andix 2y ago
If VPN providers would do that, it would soon be public knowledge. For some ISPs the abuse of user data is a known fact. So VPN is just the safer bet. But don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming this is impossible, it's just les

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