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by distcs 4y ago
Random question: What's the plant or tree on the cover page of the book? The one in the picture appearing on top right corner?
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by distcs 4y ago
Have you looked at the documentation or are you just guessing? When you realize how impenetrable OpenSSL or any TLS lib documentation looks to people untrained in cryptography, you would gain a new appreciation for Git man pages!
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by distcs 4y ago
So true! All of this makes me feel like I missed out on the golden era of open source. I mean I was there 25 years ago but my programming skills were not good enough to write something like ls command, let alone something like curl! If I kn
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by distcs 4y ago
Literally said in the comment you are replying to if you bother to read until the 3rd para!
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by distcs 4y ago
It is really sad to see comment threads like this that devolve into shallow and petty dismissals devoid of any actual content or substance!
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by distcs 4y ago
> The author doesn't state who came up with the term "steel thread" and I'm suspecting it was the author. That's a weird type of suspicion. A simple search yields some prior usage of this term: https:/&#x2F
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Ask HN: Is Pascal any good for modern programming?
6 points by distcs 4y ago|2 comments
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by distcs 4y ago
> "Viper mode is terrible though." was not a good way to express this. Agreed and thanks for calling it out. Will be more careful next time.
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by distcs 4y ago
> "It sucks, but I can't substantiate that" is not really good discussion. Agreed! Fixed that. See sibling comment of mine.
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by distcs 4y ago
So I fired up Emacs: emacs -q M-x viper-mode RET Chose expert level 1 for beginners so that it is closest to Vi behavior. (Recommended level is at least 3 but that does not make a difference for what I am about to explain.) C-x
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by distcs 4y ago
Viper mode is terrible though. Half the things I am used to in proper Vim do not work correctly in Viper mode. I don't remember those annoyances anymore but someone who has recently tried viper mode may be able to share the details. (E
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by distcs 4y ago
I believe we can omit the copyright notice completely by Berne convention but there are advantages to keeping the copyright notice at least to show who the copyright owner is and what the first year of publication was, if not more. Explicit
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What are the benefits of Vertico over Helm or Ivy?(old.reddit.com)
2 points by distcs 4y ago|0 comments
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by distcs 4y ago
> Edit: I’m wrong in the present case! Author has some cool projects on GitHub under themetaschemer. Maybe I am missing something but I visited their GitHub but could not find any cool projects. Clearly there are better examples of peopl
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by distcs 4y ago
> academics don't design for the real world This is yet another ad hominem which I frankly find very distasteful. Plenty of real world software that you see around has been designed by academics and are hugely successful in the real
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by distcs 4y ago
> understanding the background of who made it can help understanding its blindspots That background was already provided in the comment by fuklief. What value does the comment by margorczynski add to this discussion?
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by distcs 4y ago
I really think that ship has sailed. I mean recently there was an ASDF tool version manager that had nothing to do with ASDF the system definition facility. It is becoming more and more common to reuse names without any regards for traditio
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by distcs 4y ago
> You can simulate a policy with AWS IAM Policy Simulator Is it reliable though? I have experienced many situations where a role has access to a policy and yet the policy simulator said that access is denied due to "organization p
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by distcs 4y ago
> So a theoretician who had little experience actually using such solutions in real life? These low-effort, borderline ad-hominem comments like yours make these comment threads a terrible reading experience. These comments add nothing to
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by distcs 4y ago
Sadly most Monty Python jokes are lost on the young crowd today. :-(
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by distcs 4y ago
Pictures of urinals was not what I was expecting on HN on a bright Sunday morning but fantastic article!
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by distcs 4y ago
Just wondering if something like a YAML file would be a simple enough graph database for you or if you are looking for something complex?
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by distcs 4y ago
Why impose the "embedded systems" space requirement on the OP? The OP does not work in embedded systems space. So it is not relevant to this article. The OP is telling us what they would do, not what you should do and definitely
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by distcs 4y ago
Python or Go or a mix of both. I have seen new devs with no experience in either get get up to speed quickly in both. For a startup, velocity is critical.
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by distcs 4y ago
No, the point of the thread is if there is anything in the article that is specific to AI. It is not. The concern about hooking up the output of a program to external systems is a general security concern related to any software: AI or not.
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by distcs 4y ago
I did not flag it but I agree with the flag. The concerns raised in the article hold equally true for non AI software too. Relying on the modern AI trends to bait an audience on the pretext of AI related concerns when the concerns are equal
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by distcs 4y ago
It is a bad idea to take the output of any unvetted computer program and hook it up an endpoint that can do bad things. It does not matter whether the computer program is AI or not. Any computer program that is hooked up to endpoints that c
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by distcs 4y ago
> That's something we have definitely not figured out as society yet how to deal with that. Surely, the laws that exist in society deal with it! Where I live, the organization or person who ran the computer program that caused someo
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by distcs 4y ago
Or don't hook up any Rube Goldberg to computer programs without good reason. The same Rube Goldberg machine can be made with your Unix program: [ "$(head -c 1 human-response.txt)" = 'A' ] && do_bad_thing
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by distcs 4y ago
> The AI is given the capability of triggering an HTTP request to that JSON API and is told that the human on the chair is the significant other of the human communicating with the AI and that triggering that web request would pull the t

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