andrewaylett

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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
That does somewhat depend on the size of the context. LLMs won't add information to context, so if the output is larger than the input then it's slop. They're much better at picking information out of context. If I have a
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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
I approve of Renovate's distinct recommendations for libraries vs applications. For a library, you really want the widest range of "allowed" dependencies, but for the library's test suite you want to pin specific version
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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
Honestly, I don't think there's a bright line. What's the difference between "code" and "data"? It's as much about intent as anything. If my focus is on my content then I'm probably not progra
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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
I keep a command `git-remove-merged`, which uses `git ls-remote` to see if the branch is set up to track a remote branch, and if it is then whether the remote branch still exists. On the assumption that branches which have had remote tra
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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
I would say that a "language" is a necessary component of a "programming language". An empty file was an IOCCC winner: https://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr/ but you need to interpret that empty file
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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
With the system as it existed in 2000, it was very much "free money". That was before the introduction of fees, which are still not applicable for Scottish students studying in Scotland, and in combination with the interest rate
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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
It's not Turing-complete, and as you say, it's a markup language and it's not general purpose. But neither is a necessary component of "programming language".
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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
It's a throwaway comment in the article, but I feel it's important to push back on: HTML is very definitely a programming language, by any reasonable definition of "programming language". Edit to add: It might not be a
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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
Surely the first step is to stop issuing loans in such a way that will cause the next generation of students to suffer the same problems, freeing us up to sort out the problems of previous generations without moral hazard. The UK had what
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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
They rely on manufacturer support for device firmware, just like anyone else.
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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
Artificial AI.
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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
Bad example. I tried that search with Kagi and the first result was the answer, while the second was a discussion site which also gave me useful information: https://kagi.com/search?q=Ford+Focus+wheel+nut+torque&r=gb&amp
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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
I object to the framing of the title: the user behind the bot is the one who should be held accountable, not the "AI Agent". Calling them "agents" is correct: they act on behalf of their principals. And it is the princ
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by andrewaylett 8mo ago
They are different, and the biggest reason is (I suspect) that a Zulip workspace is self-contained while a Matrix server is able to federate with other Matrix servers. Other European institutions are also adopting Matrix, so federation may
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by andrewaylett 9mo ago
Just because the hooks have the label "pre-commit" doesn't mean you have to run them before committing :). I, too, want checks per change in jj -- but (in part because I need to work with people who are still using git) I nee
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by andrewaylett 9mo ago
IMNSHO yes. But not necessarily so drastically -- a VW (to pick an example I've seen evidence of: https://www.thedrive.com/article/10131/the-volkswagen-arteon... ) will ping at you if you stop touching the st
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by andrewaylett 9mo ago
There are two layers, both relating to concentration. Driving a car takes effort. ADAS features (or even just plain regular "driving systems") can reduce the cognitive load, which makes for safer driving. As much as I enjoy driv
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by andrewaylett 9mo ago
Shout out for Smart Launcher, which I'm very much enjoying: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ginlemon.flowe...
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by andrewaylett 9mo ago
You should probably be running your renewal pipeline more frequently than that: if you had let your ACME client set itself up on a single server, it would probably run every 12h for a 90-day certificate. The ACME client won't actually
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by andrewaylett 9mo ago
A certificate that's valid for both a regular domain and an onion domain gives you a degree of confidence of common ownership.
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by andrewaylett 9mo ago
Let me see if I can understand this properly: There's a linear buffer of pages, most of which come from the pool. It's not clear to me under what conditions these are returned to the pool? Is it when the specific session termina
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by andrewaylett 9mo ago
Might possibly be a new I frame, the embedded video doesn't seem to be all that high quality.
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by andrewaylett 10mo ago
In part a follow-on from the Stack Overflow thread, when I was younger I found various "how to ask questions" articles to be really useful (I particularly recommend Jon Skeet's https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/201
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Asking Questions Internally(aylett.co.uk)
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by andrewaylett 10mo ago
The corresponding answers graph: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1927992/a...
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by andrewaylett 10mo ago
You may have not realised that legitimate email has failed (and it might even be true) but my experience suggests it's unlikely that it hasn't happened. I only have a handful of users, but when I was greylisting I'd get repo
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by andrewaylett 10mo ago
Me, I'm the target audience :). From the linked articles, I understand "greytrapping" to be adding clients that attempt delivery to an invalid address and don't retry when greylisted to a deny list.
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by andrewaylett 10mo ago
Honestly, greylisting is a hack. There are better options available nowadays, for all that I was almost certainly using greylisting when the author wrote the text in the article. The key insight behind the idea is that common junk mailing
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by andrewaylett 10mo ago
Specifically for Minecraft, Realms works for this: I subscribe, I allow my children and friends to access our instance via gamer tag. Users on the same network can access each others' worlds, at least between XBox and Android, so multi
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by andrewaylett 10mo ago
That scenario is harder to distinguish from the adversarial case that public hosts like Cloudflare serve. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that a project like OpenWorkers can be useful without meeting the needs of that part

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