cfiggers

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by cfiggers 8d ago
Imagine a password, but it a) types itself for you and b) detects when it's being sent to an impostor site and blocks them from seeing itself, so it can't be phished. Tada, passkeys.
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by cfiggers 13d ago
That's easy, they'll check whether there's one big fingerprint vs >10^10 little tiny fingerprints and conclude accordingly \j
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by cfiggers 15d ago
Thanks for clarifying. I think we're talking about different things. Your response would make sense to me if I was making a case against AI for professional use based on "skill atrophy among professionals who use AI" or somet
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by cfiggers 15d ago
Are you arguing that a TI-84 has materially similar effects on development of critical thinking, writing, and reasoning skills as ChatGPT?
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by cfiggers 15d ago
I'm sympathetic to the author's core position. I think LLMs as they're currently deployed are doing net societal harm so far. For example, for every React app whistled up in five hours, there's a high schooler or college
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by cfiggers 21d ago
Programmers pervasively underestimate the sheer amount of manual brunt work that business users routinely do by hand and with their own eyes, mouse, and keyboard to make spreadsheet-based processes "work out." I work in Finance. I
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by cfiggers 1mo ago
When I and my (still fairly young) family needed to move cross-country, my wife and I accepted a credit card offer with 0% APR for the first year and put all our moving expenses on it. Then once we settled, we paid it down a bit at a time e
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by cfiggers 1mo ago
In that podcast DHH was talking about how in Omarchy you can change the system settings, monitor setup, themes, window chrome, installed programs, window manager config, keyboard shortcuts, etc. using agents. This is facilitated by Omarchy
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by cfiggers 1mo ago
EMDR is an amazing thing, you might look into it. Be well, friend.
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by cfiggers 1mo ago
What's amusing to me in this context is, summarizing emails and such has for a while been a supposed use case for AI—the LLM serving as the "synthesist" to explain long texts accessibly. But with this math question, a human &
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by cfiggers 1mo ago
This is a theme in Blindsight by Peter Watts as well. In that setting, field experts working at the bleeding edge are so advanced that non-experts literally can't understand what they're saying at all. So there's a whole clas
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by cfiggers 1mo ago
If it isn't still common practice 40 years from now (8/18/2066), I'll give the first person to challenge me and cite this comment $1 USD (or equivalent value in the One-World Order-issued omni-currency that we will pro
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by cfiggers 1mo ago
This sounds roughly similar to, "If eating steak is nutritious and tastes good, why would you not eat an 8oz sirloin for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for an entire month?" "Too much of a good thing" does exist. Someone
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by cfiggers 2mo ago
I do the same with mine, except that I haven't been on a flight since I got it :)
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by cfiggers 2mo ago
Some phones bypass the battery when plugged in, but not all do. I know it's advertised as a feature of some gaming phones because graphics-intensive gaming is one use case where you'd want to use the phone heavily while plugged
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by cfiggers 2mo ago
One way of defining Wisdom is the ability to look at a set of metrics and discern when an adjustment or adaptation to them is needed in order to better approach the true objective we are optimizing toward—since the true objective is almost
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by cfiggers 2mo ago
Is that generally caused by Steam, or by the game itself needing an online connection?
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by cfiggers 2mo ago
I did not know that!
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by cfiggers 2mo ago
That really would be a first!
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by cfiggers 2mo ago
2.0 fixes a ton of stuff over 1.0, but yeah you're not wrong. Between custom keybinds, hot strings, and pop-up menus I have literally hundreds of tiny AHK scripts running 24/7. I'm pretty sure there's stuff I've lit
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by cfiggers 2mo ago
AutoHotkey adds a malleable computing layer to Windows.
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by cfiggers 2mo ago
In my opinion, it's best to hold your views along a gradient of strength/importance. It's easy (aka close to thoughtless) to just collapse everything you believe into either extreme of "Matters not at all" or &q
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by cfiggers 2mo ago
Strong agree. I was especially disappointed because it felt like he was dropping breadcrumbs all through the book and then... Nah, none of that foreshadowing mattered. The central tension of the book is handled by an off-screen deus ex ma
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by cfiggers 3mo ago
> it’s pretty clear that the industry isn’t biting Zig isn't finished yet (they still have not released a v1.0). They're still iterating on the language itself and want the flexibility to make backwards-incompatible changes w
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by cfiggers 3mo ago
I would say the flagship Zig project is TigerBeetle, not Bun.
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by cfiggers 3mo ago
Consensus may give a hint to what is or isn't reality. But consensus—even expert consensus—does not determine reality. Experts can be wrong. Most of the experts, even, can be wrong simultaneously. Philosophy is the exercise of test
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by cfiggers 3mo ago
It's definitely not a system default (unless it's a system I've had access to for more than ten minutes!), but: I use Janet[0] for this. [0] https://janet-lang.org
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by cfiggers 3mo ago
Right, yes, of course... the, um... domain reflections and... line settling levels. It's like you read my mind, thanks for addressing those.
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by cfiggers 3mo ago
I mean... Yes, but there's nuance here. Using 400 MB of RAM vs 100 MB of RAM is close to unnoticeable in a world of a GB+ for a single Chrome tab ... And if "easier for our developers" means the end user is getting more regu
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by cfiggers 3mo ago
Hey, that's clever, actually. I didn't do that because I didn't think of it!

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