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by dirkc 5d ago
> Quiet is not proof that nobody is recording, and a detection is not proof that anyone is So, you might sometimes know that someone might be recording? I don't want to dismiss that as useless, but that is a difficult signal to inco
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by dirkc 9d ago
> “There are two types of people: those who have suffered a catastrophic loss of data, and those who will.” When I was a teenager, I was the reason for data loss for my dad, twice. Both times it was because I was re-partitioning a hard d
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by dirkc 9d ago
I love an e-ink display project! The one thing that always trips me up in projects like this is power delivery in a way that I'm happy with. I always end up having a USB cable looking awkward somewhere or being limited in where I put m
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by dirkc 11d ago
LFS prepared me for Gentoo :)
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by dirkc 23d ago
Sorry, I wasn't implying your advice doesn't carry weight. Was more just thinking about the things that (used to) happen when you introduce more parties to process of creating software.
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by dirkc 23d ago
But why stop at rewriting in another language. Get another sub agent to invent a new language, create a database, query language and maybe another few DSLs. Then you've got an ecosystem! You can now re-position your initial solution an
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by dirkc 23d ago
And then another sub agent that argues for the whole system to be re-written in another language
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by dirkc 29d ago
Would you be able to taper by stretching out dosages, take a pill every 25 hours instead of 24?
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by dirkc 1mo ago
Just don't put it in charge of a company making paper clips
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by dirkc 1mo ago
Would building an LLM from scratch imply writing code by hand?
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by dirkc 1mo ago
> circular economy I get what you mean, but in general circular economy means something different, positive in my opinion. Here is what wikipedia has to say: > a model of resource production and consumption that involves sharing, leas
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by dirkc 2mo ago
Many times I wonder if it's possible to collapse abstractions? The idea of making the whole stack simpler. I'm not overly optimistic of LLMs achieving this, but it they do, I will be paying more attention.
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by dirkc 2mo ago
This immediately made me think of nand2tetris.org, but as a game. Is that what NANDGame is?
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by dirkc 2mo ago
I'm curious about ways to entice agents to perform weird and wacky things when working on a codebase.
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by dirkc 2mo ago
Isn't the problem with formal methods that it isn't clear whether or not most of the useful code we use are actually formally verifiable? The article mentions NP-complete, but is it actually a solvable problem in general? > For
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by dirkc 2mo ago
Earlier today I found this - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11755 I've been thinking lately about different ways to get agents to do interesting things when let loose on a code base. Think mischief, not malice. Someth
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Adversarial Code Obfuscation for Defending Against LLM-Based Analysis(arxiv.org)
3 points by dirkc 2mo ago|1 comments
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by dirkc 2mo ago
Thanks, clearly my caffeine intake is at issue
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by dirkc 2mo ago
I see a reference to Khan Academy, but not Go?
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by dirkc 2mo ago
For small applications having an observability stack like ELK or Prometheus + Grafana tends to outweigh the application itself ito cost and complexity. I haven't found something I'm 100% happy with to self host and tend to just go
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by dirkc 2mo ago
I get a cloudflare 502 error for standard.site
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by dirkc 2mo ago
Isn't that just saying CapEx is a bigger part of their costs as if that is a positive thing?
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by dirkc 2mo ago
I did something similar, for similar reasons. In the end I just did whatever to get it published. If you show up at my door, I'll pour you your choice of beer/coffee. But I agree, it feels very invasive! On the web side of things
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by dirkc 3mo ago
> As for me, I’ve found that the community and activity proxies are still good. Definitely still something to look into. A project I'm checking in on from time to time is https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash&#x2
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by dirkc 3mo ago
Keep the timer, but after 30 seconds, deduct a point, after 60 seconds show an option to reveal the word / give up.
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by dirkc 3mo ago
I got curious and had a look at some of the code (>1m .rs). I was surprised to see code for a S3 client in there? I clearly don't get the value proposition of bun? And even if I accept that you want to bundle your run time, package
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by dirkc 3mo ago
I like the idea, but I didn't like losing after a few words. Now it might just be me not being good at losing, but who is? Maybe the game can always progress to the next word with your total score being reduced. So if you get all withi
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by dirkc 3mo ago
> as we aggressively adopt AI for engineering Why do we need to aggressively adopt things rather than thoughtfully adopt things? It sounds like they are probably punching AI and engineers in the process
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by dirkc 3mo ago
The challenge is that more and more people are producing project like this - 1,000s of commits and > 200k lines of code - and saying it was carefully created using agent based workflows and not vibe coded.
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by dirkc 3mo ago
Thanks for all the info you've provided! Maybe I'm just being a little grumpy. If I really need to look into a repository, I clone it and use vanilla git command line tools to have a look. It's just annoying that the modern w

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