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by heikkilevanto 5mo ago
Ownership is one question. IMO, a more interesting question is who is responsible when the code does some real-life damage.
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by heikkilevanto 6mo ago
I started to use github copilot with vscode, but have never been too happy about the system. Over the months I gravitated to much more agentic workstyle, hardly ever editing much code by hand. The vscode IDE was getting more in the way. I h
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by heikkilevanto 6mo ago
Why would FBI ever announce that they are investigating something? Is it that time of the year where they have to convince budget makers about their importance? Or are they trying to direct attention from something else? Epstein?
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by heikkilevanto 6mo ago
Yes, that is the law here in the EU. You are not allowed to send me emails unless I took some positive action to subscribe. Rightly so.
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by heikkilevanto 6mo ago
I use SqLite for a small hobby project, fine for that. Wanted to read the article to see why I should not, but it attacked me with a "subscribe" popup, so I stopped there. The comments here seem to be based on daydreaming on scali
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by heikkilevanto 7mo ago
I guess EU will have to retaliate, and forbid any US based routers, for exactly the same kind of reasons
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by heikkilevanto 7mo ago
> Saying you are not your work is wishful thinking. Try giving it up and check in on how much of you is still the same. I retired a few years ago, and I believe and insist that I am very much the same person. To see a person only as what
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by heikkilevanto 7mo ago
And before that, COBOL was supposed to allow computer users to write in almost plain English without even knowing the machine instruction set. It did change the programming landscape, but there was still a huge need for this new kind of pro
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by heikkilevanto 7mo ago
I like their privacy policy
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by heikkilevanto 8mo ago
> I find it interesting that a substantial number of people seem to think it's wrong or unethical to cold-email someone about a potential recruitment or business opportunity if they post their email in a public place I find it inter
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by heikkilevanto 8mo ago
> Not everything is a state secret. No, but almost everything is a potential DDOS. And slight modifications to emails, documents, and calendars can cause a lot of havoc that may be hard to detect.
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by heikkilevanto 8mo ago
Well, if you have a perfect evaluation function, you don't need to search. And if you can do a perfect search to the end, you don't an evaluation function. Un(?)fortunately none of these extremes seems reasonable for a game like c
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by heikkilevanto 8mo ago
I just bought Kampot peppers from https://www.unclespepper.com/ which is in Germany, the name notwithstanding. And yes, I paid with my Danish Visa card. No problems except that I had to adjust my ad blocker once.
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by heikkilevanto 8mo ago
If we consider the prompts and LLM inputs to be the new source code, I want to see some assurance we get the same results every time. A traditional compiler will produce a program that behaves the same way, given the same source and options
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by heikkilevanto 8mo ago
A bit too mathematical for my taste. I learned my tuning theory by owning a harpsichord, and learning to tune it. A harpsichord is more sensitive to the "rounding errors" in equal tuning, owing to the richer overtones, so equal te
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by heikkilevanto 8mo ago
I thought the article would be about the various meanings of operators like = == === .=. <== ==> <<== ==>> (==) => =~=
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by heikkilevanto 9mo ago
Several times, to be sure
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by heikkilevanto 9mo ago
Same here. Tried out Proton and Fastmail, and chose Fastmail. Been happy with it for a few months so far.
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by heikkilevanto 9mo ago
I wonder how the data in Danish MitId is managed and stored. The thing is used for everything here, from doing taxes to buying real estate to getting a library card.
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by heikkilevanto 9mo ago
I think there must be a continuous spectrum between the extremes you describe.
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by heikkilevanto 10mo ago
I had a similar experience many decades ago, taking a long overland trip and being out of touch of news for almost half a year. Coming back, I realized that the world had gone on perfectly well without me following all the daily drama. Most
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by heikkilevanto 10mo ago
I admit I have never worked with it, but I have a strong feeling that a formal verification can only work if you have a formal specification. Fine and useful for a compiler, or a sorting library. But pretty far from most of the coding jobs
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by heikkilevanto 10mo ago
Slowly degoogling my life. Switched to FastMail a while ago, it works. Have written a simple shopping and todo list web app, and a minimal photo gallery. All very simple, mostly for one user only: Myself. Using these as excuses to learn abo
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by heikkilevanto 10mo ago
Good explanation on tokenizing English text for regular search. But it is far from universal, and will not work well in Finnish, for example. Folding diacritics makes "vähä" (little) into "vaha" (wax). Dropping stop word
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by heikkilevanto 10mo ago
Strange, I remember trying the Silmarillion a few times, many years ago, and finding it very hard reading. Whereas I re-read the Aubrey-Maturins every few years and find them easy, if not always light weight. I juts counted, 44 books so far
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by heikkilevanto 10mo ago
I don't know, but for me Perl has not died at all. I still use it for smallish scripts and some CGI. Maybe I am an old retired fart, but it is the tool I reach for, when the problem looks like Perl-ish. Like I reach for C or other lang
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by heikkilevanto 11mo ago
I have never been much info blogging, but I am in the habit of writing things down in small text files on my computer. It has almost the same benefits as a personal blog that has no outside readers, and a bit less stress about having to wri
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by heikkilevanto 11mo ago
I hate titles like "Why don't you use blah-blah". Usually because blah-blah might be an acceptable (maybe good?) solution to a problem which I don't have. Let me ask in return: Why should I even care about blah-blah. If
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
FairPhone Moments looks like a good idea. But why does it require a mechanical switch? I am not going to upgrade my FP4 just for that, but might be willing to install an app that does the same kind of thing
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Slightly off topic, but I once had a Siamese cat. I could not teach her to fetch a ball, but she could very well teach me to throw again. And it had to be a yellow foam ball - none of the other colors were of any interest.

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