ethin

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by ethin 5mo ago
> I still do the thinking on how to solve my problems, I only outsource the tedious part, which is typing the code and fixing the syntax errors till it all compiles and does what I want. Do you really though? Here's a question: how
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by ethin 5mo ago
Are they though? Because I really shouldn't have to use Claude Code (and I don't) just to get even decent results. As I said, I thought one of the biggest advantages AI was supposed to have was that it wouldn't need such cons
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by ethin 5mo ago
Do you have a point? Because last time I checked, AIs were supposed to be better than us fragile faulty humans, and weren't designed to emulate us and all our faults.
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by ethin 5mo ago
Eto.forms too...
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by ethin 5mo ago
I'd like to add: * Don't roll your own standard controls Seriously. Don't. You want a single-select box? Use a combo box or radio button group. Want an edit box? Use an edit box. Want a list that finds things as you type? Tha
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by ethin 5mo ago
A project that's 2/5/10/30/100m LoC is obviously not going to be understandable entirely in someone's head. Documentation is critical. But if I'm reading your code, and I come across something confusing or
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by ethin 5mo ago
The other is pure complexity. We can reasonably trust the Zig implementation because it had a lot of talented people working on it. But then they threw it out and rewrote it in Rust, and it's like okay a huge number of tests pass but:
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by ethin 5mo ago
I have the opposite experience. The library I develop depends significantly on external behavior, so point an AI at it and it will come up with tests like "test if a string is NULL" (even though I annotated it to be nonnull/a
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by ethin 5mo ago
I mean, sure, but the only reason the court didn't answer the question of whether algorithmic feeds were forms of speech was because the justices decided to take the easy way out and reject it on procedural grounds.
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by ethin 5mo ago
It doesn't have to be written by a lawyer. The robots.txt file is an administrative directive, by the webmaster of the website, that you, being a scraper, MUST NOT go to page x and/or y, or MUST NOT go to directory z. All the law
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by ethin 5mo ago
Okay, so let's say we decide to go through with "banning the algorithm" (whatever that is). Let's say this is actually implemented, as naively as everybody seems to think this issue is. What happens to: * The homepage of
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by ethin 5mo ago
> By that logic no product regulation could ever exist because it restricts in some way the free expression of any corporation subject to it. Except that this is case law, not something I'm pulling out of my ass. See Moody v. NetCho
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by ethin 5mo ago
> It’s just the algorithms promoting things I want banned. And again: the only reason the algorithm promotes things is because that person signaled that they were interested in it. They might've gotten it recommended by a friend, ac
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by ethin 5mo ago
I definitely agree with those. Age verification laws in general I have lots of beef with because they're so nonsensical.
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by ethin 5mo ago
I wish I could get the Flipper 0 or 1, but it isn't accessible from what I know. And I'd build my own (I'd use it for my AC which has one of those shitty IR AA/AAA-battery style) or maybe even a way for me to control it
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by ethin 5mo ago
How exactly would you do this without, you know, violating the first amendment? Algorithmic feeds are nothing without the content. People get toxic sludge because they signal to the algorithm that they like that.
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by ethin 5mo ago
No, the mania is based on extremely bad/cherry picked evidence. There are at least 6 studies alone (some including meta-analysis) which has found absolutely no link to prove social media is addictive or harmful to children. If anything
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by ethin 5mo ago
Yeah I was so tempted to ask if this person has ever actually met a project/product manager...
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by ethin 5mo ago
Sure, but the record already shows how well that goes. These companies have marketed their products so badly (or well, depending on your viewpoint) that lawyers think that these tools are glorified search engines. Then they get busted in co
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by ethin 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure this has already been tried and it... Didn't go well for the person doing it. If memory serves they got a rule 11 sanction out of it.
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by ethin 5mo ago
You would think these AI companies would learn by now that the legal field is not a place where you screw around. I mean, we just have to look at the record. Apparently, these particular AI boosters are incapable of learning
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by ethin 5mo ago
It's also hilarious that they complain about this because, from what I've seen, most LLM hypers will talk about something being irrelevant or taken over by AI with no understanding of what that something really is or involves.
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by ethin 5mo ago
This is like saying lawyers should be allowed to submit AI-hallucinated case references or quotations in court documents. Because by your logic, that, too, should be perfectly acceptable. Yet is not, for hopefully obvious reasons. Why exact
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by ethin 5mo ago
I'm no musician but I paid for a Reaper license just because the software is so good and useful and the licensing scheme is so reasonable. Like, it's kind of hard to beat that.
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by ethin 5mo ago
Okay, but how do we know that all 400 plus hits were actual vulnerabilities? I didn't read too deeply into it so I might've missed something but did someone test and validate each of those vulns to confirm that they were actually
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by ethin 5mo ago
> But rust does make it a lot harder to leak memory by accident. Rust variables are automatically freed when they go out of scope. RAII has entered the chat.
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by ethin 5mo ago
The other problem with this is that there are few CAPTCHA alternatives. CF turnstile is one, but of course that means Cloudflare owns even more of the web. HCaptcha is inaccessible and actively discriminatory against individuals with disabi
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by ethin 5mo ago
So, so many pro-AI/AI boosters just... Ignore this rather inconvenient fact in my experience. They will hype up how epic agentic coding is, or agentic <whatever here> is, all day long, but they will never tell you that LLMs are r
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by ethin 5mo ago
Yeah but if you do that, you have to then turn around and look at how all the goalposts keep moving around. That is what I was (originally) trying to get at, and why I phrased it like I did. If we truly had actual (artificial) general intel
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by ethin 5mo ago
No, I am not looking for ASI. We have yet to achieve AGI. Unless you can definitively prove that we already have? Because, I mean, if we've already achieved AGI then that obviously means that you can define what intelligence actually i

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