hansvm

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by hansvm 5d ago
Maybe 3 decades ago people had excuses, but the latest decade of cookie abuses have been designed by people who not only knew better but who took that better world into account as they buried it away from the general public. The fact that h
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by hansvm 11d ago
I'm not sure how other people are using LLMs for instrumentation, but IMO the layer you want running in prod is very different from what you want running for a one-off test. E.g., I have some code floating around which burns a pinned c
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by hansvm 12d ago
I know you're not the culprit, but it's annoying to see crap like this (highly invasive tracking, ostensibly for slightly more efficient tax collection), when far cheaper, better efforts (like Rhode Island's attempt to add to
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by hansvm 12d ago
FWIW, I've seen the flip-side as well; solid coding patterns are easy for a person (or an LLM) to copy. To abuse the analogy a bit, your gardeners are happy copying whatever happens to be there, bad code will dominate that process unle
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by hansvm 13d ago
- The big problem is that malicious ads are being displayed without appropriate attribution - Add that attribution -- blame Google (or, supposing the ads are good, credit Google; a good header goes a long way toward swaying people's op
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by hansvm 13d ago
That seems fixable. When people include this JS garbage, have a header/title/etc stating that this is Google's professional opinion. Bake it into a library offering enough other features that a large number of people are incl
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by hansvm 13d ago
The fatigue aspect matters too, but another important point I was trying to get across is that not all reviews are created equally. In a working, well tested, properly factored system, with a high quality PR, I can do a cursory, local analy
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by hansvm 13d ago
Assuming the LLM never got anything wrong or otherwise had to be re-prompted, that means your devs were reviewing 130 SLOC per hour, on what was described as moderately greenfield (examining new implementations rather than comparing to old
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by hansvm 16d ago
I've had good luck disabling the internet when I need my work computer to run faster. Those "security" checks are optional, and it'll let you work offline. If just logging filesystem interactions and whatnot for future u
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by hansvm 16d ago
> scrolled reddit > no focus-wandering, no lollygagging
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by hansvm 17d ago
My doctor's privacy policy is a bit more abusive than OpenAI's. It exists mostly because of a $%^&&* legal framework rather than malice, and I've grown accustomed to "if I don't want to die then I sign away
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by hansvm 17d ago
Those are two separate questions: > How can I afford? Mostly not my money, tech makes one fabulously wealthy, I care more about math than fast cars or whatever (even as a pizza driver you can afford a fancy car if that's your primar
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by hansvm 17d ago
> not a counterpoint >> isn't a counterpoint Where do we disagree?
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by hansvm 17d ago
It's a medieval measurement, still in popular use. Nowadays it means approximately 2.54 centimeters. Historically, it's the height of the ash pile a "witch" would leave behind, and the word has morphed only slightly from
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by hansvm 18d ago
Not a counterpoint per se, but I burned $50k recently on a much more modest math problem (result already known, just thought I had a sketch of a more interesting proof), and the LLM thought it had proved it within those bounds but had inste
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by hansvm 18d ago
The streets are power washed often enough that it's usually fine, at least if you're careful where you step.
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by hansvm 18d ago
What happens when "security" includes a time component? A shocking number of modern systems depend on time, either in enough time having elapsed to prove something about the attacker, or in little enough time elapsing as a critica
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by hansvm 19d ago
Yep. The next step is getting people to bother aiming for the urinal and hanging their member above it while shaking off any last drops. Till then, I don't think this design survives a collision with the real world.
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by hansvm 20d ago
Quietly
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by hansvm 21d ago
Directly charge for your services, let the AI find a way.
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by hansvm 21d ago
Good thing we're not trying to deploy them into fully autonomous weapons or anything....
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by hansvm 21d ago
I normally go with `.*/` -- I find that hidden files are much more likely than hidden directories to be useful.
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by hansvm 21d ago
IME people are usually shoving their personal preferences in CLAUDE.md, sometimes automatically as the agent updates the file with that developer's pet peeves. - Right now at $WORK, CLAUDE.md has a line saying to put one-off scripts in
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by hansvm 24d ago
I bet you're right. Why though? I've gotten thousands of uses out of mine. Even if you shop infrequently that just means they'll wear out more slowly, so surely that's viable for everyone else, maybe with a 7yr break-eve
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by hansvm 25d ago
I'm not sure what else might happen, but at a minimum the Babel Fish will finally be real, even without internet.
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by hansvm 25d ago
I'd be surprised if the 3 judges share a common language other than English at the requisite level for judging writing.
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by hansvm 25d ago
It probably just literally doesn't work for most people. If you click through, see a broken page, and see that the top comment thinks the way in which it's broken is interesting, that'll probably be more interesting to engage
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by hansvm 25d ago
I have a fully functional, updated Chrome derivative with all the features enabled, and they went out of their way to dynamically load a Update your browser to access this website message as the only visible content rather than test
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by hansvm 25d ago
Being good at a thing and explaining it well are different skills. Part of the problem is that you have to empathize with your audience when explaining. It's not sufficient to break a problem down into its essence; its "essence&qu
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by hansvm 25d ago
The other comments hit the big ones (didn't have to download, had a free tier, didn't have significant irreversible character choices, had meaningful solo or quasi-social activities, etc), but I think a major contributing factor w

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