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by efitz 1y ago
I am not a fan of DSLs. Perhaps there are use cases where they are the best tool, but in general they impose a significant learning burden on those who join a project that uses a DSL. I’ve seen several DSL projects wither and die because
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by efitz 1y ago
Fact check: true
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by efitz 1y ago
Wow so much hate on this article. Instead of the vitriol and downvotes, maybe next time just point out “you can put arbitrary data in exif”. But you missed half the point of the article, which was the EXTRA DATA to make the image more LLM-u
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by efitz 1y ago
I think that this is interesting research. As LLMs are becoming an important part of building stuff, I suspect that we will find that embedding context close to where it’s needed will yield better results in longer or more complex workflow
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by efitz 1y ago
Claude, please create an image of a man looking down at a fresh grave on a bleak overcast autumn day, in the style of a political cartoon. On the headstone is the epitaph “Blogosphere, killed by LLMs”. Take this image and post it on my blo
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by efitz 1y ago
I’ve always said “lockout turns a possible password guessing attack into a guaranteed denial-of-service attack”. Worse, it means that if an attacker can guess or otherwise obtain user names, the attacker needs nothing but network access to
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by efitz 1y ago
Time based expiry (“freshness”) is not about likelihood of brute force. Brute force prevention is handled by delay/lockout policy for online systems, and by password complexity rules or key length/cipher combinations. Nobody san
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by efitz 1y ago
It sounds like a kooky idea and neglects the fact that “the government” isn’t some magical source of money; it got that money from its citizens somehow (taxes or inflation). It’s a much simpler idea to just have citizens vote for what they
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by efitz 1y ago
I think legislators are skilled politicians and many are lawyers of varying competence. I would not expect them to deeply understand the negative downstream economic consequences of changing an obscure provision of the tax code. Maybe som
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by efitz 1y ago
I don’t think it really changes the narrative. 2020 was also a congressional election year, even had Trump won (as he appeared to want desperately) he could not have been assured of a Republican congress. My argument is simple: Occam’s Raz
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by efitz 1y ago
This is just wrong. It was passed in 2017 (during Trump’s presidency). It was to go into effect in 2020 (a presidential election year during Trump’s presidency). He hoped to be re-elected.
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by efitz 1y ago
> Wait, so is this first-class rail service for who? For those whose private jets are in the shop? For all the VCs whose money they are going to burn.
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by efitz 1y ago
I love the aromatherapy candles :lol:
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by efitz 1y ago
When someone insists the only way to understand their <whatever> is to come in person and study under their direct tutelage, my scam/cult detector redlines.
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by efitz 1y ago
This is reason #597 why you just don’t allow platforms to censor. If a site wants to be a publisher, by all means, be a publisher, and don’t monetize user content. If a site wants other people to provide the content for free, then sorry- no
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by efitz 1y ago
It already did. Programming languages already are very strict about syntax; professional jargon is the same way, and for the same reason- it eliminates ambiguity.
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by efitz 1y ago
I really appreciate the thoughtful and non-punitive approach, and intend to add your self-service-unpause approach to my own arsenal of tricks.
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by efitz 1y ago
Yep, but it will backfire as they just write laws to protect their own interests; drone companies’ donations can’t protect them from annoying politicians but probably can for everyone else.
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by efitz 1y ago
Exactly. What I’ve been saying to my friends for the last couple of months has been, that we’re not going to see coding jobs go away, but we’re going to run into a situation where it’s harder to grow junior engineers into senior engineers b
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by efitz 1y ago
This seems like a good way to ensure that Māori literature doesn’t ever get discovered unless someone is specifically only looking for Māori literature. Ironically using such a system in a library may contribute to its extinction. Librarie
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by efitz 1y ago
What if we like, I don’t know, you know, separate data from formatting ?
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by efitz 1y ago
In the US it just means an experimental type designation from the FAA.
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by efitz 1y ago
It’s advertising so that if someone puts a nice comment here they can link to it from their marketing page, and maybe some HN scraper will magnify its reach, or some user will post on their social media. Here’s the real headline: Electric a
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by efitz 1y ago
A server cannot make a client behave a certain way. Explicit doesn’t matter in this case, and as many of the comments said, most of the time the best thing to do for the server is to spread retry load randomly over an interval. Explici
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by efitz 1y ago
Why a lookup table? Why not just have the client remember the last backoff, and multiply it by a constant and apply a ceiling? def getNewBackoff( oldBackoff: int): int { newBackoff = oldBackoff * BACKOFF_CONSTANT if (newBackoff > BACKOF
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by efitz 1y ago
Why are we homo sapiens self-aware? If evolutionary biologists are correct it’s because that trait made us better at being homo sapiens. We have no example of sapience or general intelligence that is divorced from being good at the things t
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by efitz 1y ago
After reading this article, I couldn’t help but wonder how many of Stephen Wolfram’s neurons he uses to talk about Stephen Wolfram, and how much more he could talk about Stephen Wolfram with a few orders of magnitude more neurons.
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by efitz 1y ago
I have a feature suggestion: When you ‘lnk add’ a file, check it for patterns that might indicate it contains a secret, and warn the user if indications of a secret are found. Require —force or something to override.
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by efitz 1y ago
Only now we are going to connect it to the real world through agents so it can blissfully but uncomprehendingly act out its blackmail story.
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by efitz 1y ago
In the 70s and early 80s you might get a record like this made of flimsy plastic as a toy in a cereal box, or as a happy meal toy, etc. never heard of postage stamps but seems like a similar use case.

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