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by cube00 1y ago
> We don’t sell your personal data as a source of revenue A well compensated lawyer could drive a truck through that statement, we'll start with the classic "sharing with our (allegedly) trusted 1000 partners" that you alw
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by cube00 1y ago
> try to encourage standing for those who can e.g. by having high-top tables, or taking away chairs from around tables Why do people feel it's their role to take away choice if someone wants (or need) to sit down? I don't buy t
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by cube00 1y ago
> Many developers subscribe to their $200/month plan. There's no way "many developers" are paying $2,400 annually for the benefit of their employers. There's no way companies are paying when they won't even
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by cube00 1y ago
"But I can just add print statements" is the bane of my existence. If they really insist then I encourage them add trace logging instead so at least it's not wasted effort.
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by cube00 1y ago
> I often think about what an incredible bargain YouTube was at $1 billion. It's hard to tell if it's actually turning over a profit when they only report revenue for it.
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by cube00 1y ago
> it works well for what we use it How do you handle the slow console?
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by cube00 1y ago
Registrar is the big one, if yours decides to do a Google and randomly ban you and automatically decline your appeal with AI, you're stuffed.
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by cube00 1y ago
>usually making your own car is legal It may be legal but good luck ever getting registration for it.
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by cube00 1y ago
What's worse, many plaintext HTTP connections today are entirely invisible to users, as HTTP sites may immediately redirect to HTTPS sites. That gives users no opportunity to see Chrome's "Not Secure" URL bar warnings a
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by cube00 1y ago
I don't trust LLMs to do the kind of precise deterministic work you need in a spreadsheet. It's one thing to fudge the language in a report summary, it can be subjective, however numbers are not subjective. It's widely known
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by cube00 1y ago
I spotted a custom dialog in an Excel spreadsheet in a medical context the other day, I was horrified.
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by cube00 1y ago
> isn't your brain just a cloud of matter and electricity that just reacts to senses deterministically? LLMs are not deterministic. I'd argue over the short term humans are more deterministic. I ask a human the same question mu
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by cube00 1y ago
When I think how easy I can misclick to stuff up a spreadsheet I can't begin to imagine all the subtle ways LLMs will screw them up. Unlike code where it's all on display, with all these formulas are hidden in each cell, you won&#
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by cube00 1y ago
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by cube00 1y ago
Nobody really knows, they hide Copilot inside each of the business units and then claim it's too hard to split out.
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by cube00 1y ago
It's not as profitable as the original promise of AI to cut labour costs on a massive scale. Stockholders won't be happy.
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by cube00 1y ago
Hopefully as IPv6 gets more adoption we'll be able to open up some of these services, although IoT devices never get firmware updates so they'll have to sit behind Wireguard so maybe not.
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by cube00 1y ago
Yet non-tech people are paying for ChatGPT which blows my mind.
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by cube00 1y ago
If you're able to use a curl release after March 2022, --json [1] is a great shortcut for REST API calls. [1]: https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#--json
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by cube00 1y ago
I was wondering why there were so many gradients in the CSS, ask and LLMs certainly deliver. /s
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by cube00 1y ago
These are the style of sites LLMs create when you ask not to use any component libraries. For some reason they gravitate to this style (and chern out reams of slop CSS to get there). They really don't like the current trend of large he
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by cube00 1y ago
> None of this makes sense to me. OpEx good, CapEx bad.
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by cube00 1y ago
> The reason we see people overcomplicating everything to do with the web is that they follow advice from people with radically different requirements. Or they've had cloud account managers sneaking into your C-suite's lunchtim
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by cube00 1y ago
The conglomerates can also host it on their extensive cloud infra at a price small competitors will never be able to match because they own the cloud infrastructure too. Somehow the service+infra is the same cost or cheaper then buying the
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by cube00 1y ago
This repo [1] is a brilliant illustration of the copium going into this. Third line of the Claude prompt [2]: IMPORTANT: You must NEVER generate or guess URLs for the user - Who knew solving LLM hallucinations was just that easy? IMPORTA
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by cube00 1y ago
> It is great at catching the little silly things we do as humans. It's great, some of the time, the great draw of computing was that it would always catch the silly things we do as humans. If it didn't we'd change the
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by cube00 1y ago
It'd be interesting to understand how much of that memory pressure is down to the devs compared with the frameworks now trying to cache everything in sight. React Compiler automatically memoizes values and functions, reducing the need
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by cube00 1y ago
I referred to secure rendering. Tauri apps take advantage of the web view already available on every user’s system. A Tauri app only contains the code and assets specific for that app and doesn’t need to bundle a browser engine with every
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by cube00 1y ago
> They'd probably do it happily even without a warrant. ...and build them a nice portal to submit their requests and get the results back in real time.
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by cube00 1y ago
Yes, even using C# couldn't save them. > A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Silverlight decodes strings using a malicious decoder that can return negative offsets that cause Silverlight to replace unsafe obj

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