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by dheera 2y ago
I would prefer if the script did the things that already are a command. It can confirm with the user: "Execute command (y/N)?" Fuck cutting and pasting stuff from one terminal into another terminal. That's also focus-int
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by dheera 2y ago
> implement a correct concurrent http server in 1/10th the time with an LLM than what you could do it without Absolutely fucking yes.
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by dheera 2y ago
If you are evaluating how well people code without LLMs you are likely filtering for the wrong people and you are way behind the times. For most companies, the better strategy would be to explicitly LET them use LLMs and see whether they ca
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by dheera 2y ago
I just block all unscheduled calls and calls from unknown numbers. If there isn't a calendar event and it isn't coming from a known family member or close friend, the call doesn't go through. I also have multiple cell and vir
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by dheera 2y ago
Not really if you understand how China works. DeepSeek software developers are not the ones who want to censor anything. There is just a universal threat from getting shut down by the government if the model starts spitting out a bunch of s
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by dheera 2y ago
> I bet they took out big short positions on Nvidia before their announcements Good for them! I hope this teaches Wall Street to not freak out about an unverified announcement. Wall Street lost billions, and I hope they learned their les
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by dheera 2y ago
Transit renaissance? Until I can get across both the 84 and 92 bridges by train, to Half Moon Bay, and to Santa Cruz by train, I wouldn't call it a renaissance. Even Cupertino doesn't have a station ffs
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by dheera 2y ago
Anonymity should still be a choice. Especially location anonymity. While I don't mind 7 billion people knowing what I intentionally said publicly, I don't want 7 billion people knowing where I sleep or where I am at this exact mom
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by dheera 2y ago
Yes, and also, I'd argue that anonymizing your location is a sacred feature of the internet that anytime someone builds a better mousetrap we WILL build a better mouse. The internet is not a place where requiring proof of location is w
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by dheera 2y ago
I just use LLMs to help me with ffmpeg (and many other similarly complex tools) commands: https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/helpme $ helpme ffmpeg capture video from /dev/vide
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by dheera 2y ago
That, or even use sensors to detect pedestrians coming along that are likely to want to cross, estimate their crossing time based on their walking speed, and make their light turn "go" as soon as they hit the intersection. Some in
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by dheera 2y ago
"pedestrians have to press the beg button, wait for the light to cycle through its routine, and then walk across the street" Quite often what happens is - Pedestrian presses button - Light doesn't change for 30 seconds and th
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by dheera 2y ago
Yeah the guards go home for the evening and then you can probably walk in after dark. You'd have to walk a really long distance in some of them though, because the vehicle gates are usually a very long walk from the scenery, and that
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by dheera 2y ago
I did a bunch of astrophotography in the Atacama desert last year, it was an absolutely phenomenal place. There are a lot of celestial objects you cannot image from the northern hemisphere and there aren't many other places in the sout
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by dheera 2y ago
I mean, it's a speaker in a box, so you could also just snip the speaker wires, ditch the circuit board, solder some extension wires, and plug it into an external audio amplifier box of your choice. If you go that route you don't
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by dheera 2y ago
> Javascript Oh, so that's what it is. Bleh. Ok. I thought it was cooler and made use of the fact that PostScript is a Turing-complete language to write Tetris in PostScript. (I never really understood the PDF format but I always as
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by dheera 2y ago
> We download the reprojected data from UW SSEC's RealEarth program I really wish GOES's official images would provide the high resolution imagery directly. We shouldn't have to go through RealEarth to get it. However I&#x
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by dheera 2y ago
> I don't do popups anywhere. You won't see something that interrupts your reading to ask you to "subscribe" and to give up your e-mail address. Every time I get hit with a popup by a site I usually just leave. Someti
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by dheera 2y ago
Just store the thumbnails in a cache or in a dotfile subdirectory. This can be transparent to the user. If the user is going linearly down or up the list you can also use a Kalman filter to predict what files and directories the user might
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by dheera 2y ago
I absolutely detest this whole "library" business. Why can't just I open a file? Or just browse a folder, click some files and edit them? WTF is a "library"? A "film roll"? Keep it real. I also wish they h
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by dheera 2y ago
Plot twist: OpenAI uses their GPU farms to mine cryptocurrency so that they get those unimaginable sums of money
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by dheera 2y ago
How is Webauth'n Crunch not phishable? Most implementations throw about 20 "recovery codes" at you and at the absolute fucking worst possible moment while the user is trying to do something urgent, they say "save these i
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by dheera 2y ago
Keys can be symmetric or asymmetric depending on the algorithm. From the standpoint of a non-technical user, they're not any different in nature; a password and a private key are both just strings that give full access to your account.
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by dheera 2y ago
Everything boils down to some password or key (effectively a long password) access to some SQL instance. Anything on top of that is just fluff. The database can still be compromised directly.
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by dheera 2y ago
Passkeys and 2FA recovery codes are all just shitty replacements for passwords. Fight me. Grandmas and Joes end up putting these recovery codes in a Google doc because they don't know what the hell else to do with them. That is NOT mor
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by dheera 2y ago
> JLCPCB Minimum order of 5, as is the case for many similar factories. Great for startups, sucks for hobbyists.
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by dheera 2y ago
Also > All-in-one PCB: Doesn’t need any 3D printed parts or such I actually am fine 3D printing and laser cutting stuff at home but I don't have the stuff to make a PCB and don't have the hand skills to do anything more than t
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by dheera 2y ago
If only their software was open source ... but probably some CEO insisted that they be closed source because of "competitors"
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by dheera 2y ago
I wonder why there haven't been more effort into roller-less vacuums. Shop vac style, just air, no exposed moving parts other than wheels. For all of us who have no carpet, and pets that shed hair that tie up rollers, it would make per
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