friendzis

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by friendzis 2mo ago
You are assuming that the hypothetical friend has been isolated from any kind of technology from the last few decades. The friend can, presumably, use search engines and the very same chip chipities to get the very rudimentary domain knowle
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by friendzis 2mo ago
Having an experienced friend looking over your shoulder and taking notes of every step might help a bit, I reckon
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by friendzis 2mo ago
"rawdogging" - as the youth says - weights on local comodore cluster? They are either using some generic web frontend, ala chatgpt, some local app like claude desktop, or programming app like cursor. Each of those will detect that
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by friendzis 2mo ago
> They didn’t even get to that point. Because my friend didn’t have the vocabulary to ask the AI to write code. What harness did you use? In e.g. claude, there are two modes: 1. Spit out code 2. Draft a plan, ask questions, GOTO 1 You li
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by friendzis 3mo ago
The thing is, humans make do. Given lacking, outdated documentation somewhere on sharepoint, big picture revealed somewhere in passing at some meetings or water cooler talks, underprioritizing refactoring humans still deliver something ev
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by friendzis 3mo ago
For the majority of people it's the opposite of utility. Not even inutility or uselessness, it's negatively useful. In any social network where "network effects" are a thing in the first place, there is more content prod
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by friendzis 3mo ago
The point is lost somewhere. Prepared statements for SQL, innerText for HTML and similar do not show tractability of escaping, they sidestep the escaping problem altogether. Those are interfaces where escaping is no longer needed precisely
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by friendzis 3mo ago
While all you said is essentially correct, I want to nitpick that things like prepared statements quite specifically separate instructions from data and innerText is designed to skip processing of instructions in the input. They are indeed
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by friendzis 3mo ago
No, that's a misconception that led to decades of vulnerabilities. You see, you can (usually) easily tell what a particular escaping transformation does. That does not tell you neither how it will be interpreted down the line, nor what
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by friendzis 3mo ago
"if only we could align the models just a tiny lil bit better" is a rehashed "if only we could escape untrusted inputs just a tiny lil bit better" from 2000s, that were RIPE with various form of malicious injection. Ever
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by friendzis 3mo ago
> Curious as to where the line between “addictive feature” and "good UX" is. Is deliberate pagination actual impedance to use or merely an annoyance that's been weeded out with modern UX design? When does a feature that si
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by friendzis 4mo ago
> Obviously given that large scale persuasion is now cheap and automatable - even in a representative democracy you might well choose to set the political weather by directly targeting the electorate. In "the older days" even b
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by friendzis 4mo ago
It's 100% the money. Tests "would you vote the same as you favorite politician/party" routinely show parties to be way less aligned than the electorate tends to believe. The several few "high steaks" issues get
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by friendzis 4mo ago
> The difference between lobbying for representatives versus people directly is that representatives have to answer to the people - whereas no-one loses their job as a citizen if they get persuaded by story tellers. I would not be so sur
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by friendzis 4mo ago
> However average people are actually pretty good at making the right moral, common sense calls, if not the technical legal detail. I suspect that's in part because they are not living in the Westminister ( or whatever your seat of
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by friendzis 4mo ago
First, my comment is a knee jerk reaction to the idea of representative democracy falling to authoritarianism, don't take it as seriously in favor of direct democracy. Second, your comment hinges on an interesting hidden assumption. Th
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by friendzis 4mo ago
When you think about it, the idea of a representative democracy is rooted in the technical difficulties of implementing a direct democracy: both spread of information/discussion to the masses and organizing the votes. In this day and a
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by friendzis 4mo ago
In between flat material-ish (hehe) design windows and 3d compiz cube with burn effects we have settled on transparency and blur effects with a bit of visual planes thrown in. It's highly unlikely we will end up tokenmaxxing everything
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by friendzis 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155538
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by friendzis 4mo ago
> These complaints of distillation are inflating the problem to make it sound worse than it is This is, in part, a problem every judicial and legislative system has faced since forever: form versus function. Take a classic elicitation sp
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by friendzis 4mo ago
> Perhaps we need more R&D in here to accelerate progress. In general yes, just that "more" is monstrously massive to the point of it being closer to science fiction than reality, IMO. To reiterate, various assays fluctuate
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by friendzis 4mo ago
There's a ton of variation within medical testing and tons of different conditions affect test results in similar ways. VERY FEW tests (test classes maybe: biopsy, microbiology, skeletal Rö) can yield diagnoses in the first place. Most
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by friendzis 4mo ago
> If the whole population had a full body scan every quarter, the “weird” things would feel more like the noise they are. That's a tautology. We already have quite robust methods for detecting developed anomalies, treating every a
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by friendzis 4mo ago
> It also implies an unbounded and user-controlled cache key. While the concern is valid, caching is entirely optional at query level, therefore it is totally valid to cache only certain "filters".
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by friendzis 4mo ago
> That said, management needs to know there's pain and in a language it speaks - risk. Cost, legal, whatever. In my own experience, people in management generally refuse to evaluate risks that are not immediate. Instead of looking a
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by friendzis 4mo ago
> If your hands dealt with injury directly without sending pain signals up to your brain, you'd never change the behaviour that led to that harm or reconsider your priorities. At some point in one's early single-digit they lear
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by friendzis 4mo ago
> This is a pain signal. Some IT dude saying things are crap in every meeting is not. More often than not it is some IT dude observing network crap-out once a month, performing analysis, noticing an upward trend and then saying in every
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by friendzis 5mo ago
Fun fact. There is this threads twitter clone from meta. How do I login? I "log in with Instagram", where "I log in with Facebook". Guess how well data recovery works when there is literally no password set. I'm sur
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by friendzis 5mo ago
My profile picture is old enough to open an account on instagram
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by friendzis 5mo ago
My point is that presence of LLMisms is in itself a form of disrespect

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