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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
That seems even harder to do because an agent wouldnt be output text verbatim, which means you cant make use of a rendering bug (eg parsing escape codes). So you’re back to depending on the agent to execute code locally. at which point you’
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
I don’t think tmux is the most worthwhile target because you’d need the user to either execute code locally (thus negating any point in targeting tmux) or rely on the user curl or cat some compromised document (in which case you’re better o
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
That’s not what I said and the snarky remark about my experience is unwarranted (I have more experience in “software engineering” than many on here have been alive) My point was just that I just find it amusing that people call themselves e
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Funny enough, I was thinking about the SEO too when I wrote my comment. The problem is that it’s in the sites interest to be SEOed. But it’s against their interests to be AI crawled.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
What amuses me is that “lab” is shorthand for “laboratory” and virtually no computer research happens inside a room people would typically call a lab. It’s a little like the trend of calling developers “engineers”. There’s no actual enginee
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
I don’t disagree with you in principle but there is a difference. The MD content isn’t intended for human consumption whereas HTML is. So you either have that injection readable to your users, which could be jarring to non-technical readers
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Google had a better reputation. But these days I’m really not convinced they’re significantly better than Amazon. Weirdly I’d put Microsoft above modern-Google, and that’s still a low bar.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
That’s a recent addendum and is far from universally taught.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Isn’t there more exceptions to that rule than there are examples where it’s correct?
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
One of the recent TV spin offs did look to address that nuance. Unfortunately it completely butchered the story line with weird tails of space-witches and one dimensional characters. The one thing I did think the prequel movies did well, pe
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
The actual data is more nuanced. While trends are that movies are, on average, getting slightly longer, there are as many exceptions to that rule as there are examples of it, not just in the present day but also in the past too. And it can
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
CRUD didn’t exist in the early days of the web. People keep talking about a browser in the modern context but the GP specifically said “early days of the internet” (which, in fairness, would mean pre-web. But I think it’s safe to assume the
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
CSS wasn’t around in the early web. Building a browser in the early web was actually a very achievable goal for exactly the reasons it isn’t now. There was not JS. No CSS. No SVG. In fact very few widely supported image formats (and graphic
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
There’s literally no difference in difficulty between audio and video. They all suffer from the same problems of indexing content. They all have multiple different encoding formats available. And they all need a frontend widget in your clie
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Early web didn’t have JS. Nor PHP. In fact a lot of early web pages were written using static HTML with C++ invoked via CGI/bin for processing form data. So writing a browser would teach you the HTML plus C++ too. The early Internet (w
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
The issue is many streaming services require DRM in the browser. I can’t recall if Chromium supports that, I have a feeling Google only include that DRM in Chrome. But if it is available in Chromium then you might be able to build an Electr
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
It’s all correlates to the same outcome Runtime = scene length * content And since movie runtimes have remained relatively consistent but content has increased, that means scene length has to decrease.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
I did write a media centre around 15 years ago. What that link you shared describes is the very real toll that maintaining an open source project demands. Not the specific complexities of transcoding multimedia. From personal experience, th
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
> I know very well how opinionated other developers are. I'm explicitly saying it's a waste of energy to be that picky about code style. To be honest, I completely agree with you. The point I make is that not everyone would. An
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
No. It was built before Android / Apple integrations existed and was built around tactile controls and voice interactions. But I think Apple Car play is a far far more useful product these days than anything I built 15 years ago. Even
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
I think you’re underestimating how opinionated developers are. The fact that we are disagreeing on this point is great evidence that there isn’t an easy to define, proverbial line in the sand.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
You don’t need to understand much of ffmpeg to build a media centre. Your requirements here are extremely simplified and there are hundreds of guides online on how to use it for very simple transcoding. But if you don’t want to use ffmpeg d
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Whilst I do agree with you on that specific example, it’s worth noting that code standards as a whole are a somewhat blurry line that can be extremely subjective at times.
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
It’s not that difficult to be honest. VLC / ffmpeg can do most of the heavy lifting. And there’s no shortage of libraries for rendering in a UI. There used to be dozens of options to choose from. Multiple different XBMC forks. Multiple
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
I think a lot of the change can be contributed to FX becoming cheaper, easier and better. It created a race to the bottom for the most visually spectacular movie. And when it’s cheaper, you can throw more in at the same budget. Then the nex
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
I completely agree regarding modern movies. I recently watched the Borderlands movie and while it had its obvious faults, the biggest flaw in my opinion was the jarring pace that one scene would switch into the next. That movie had a short
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
In the TV and Media section ( https://debloat.dev/c/tv-media ) there are 11 recommendations and 4 of them are XBMC. There used to be so many options for media centres. What happened?
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
I don’t think anyone in the west are swooned by Iran. Heck, a lot of Iranians aren’t even swooned by the Iranian propaganda. What I think you’re doing is misinterpreting the wests disgust at Trumps war with Iran as favouring Iran when in fa
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Nicely done!
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by hnlmorg 2mo ago
Letters in a row maybe. But one mistyped word shouldn’t cause subsequent words to appear mistyped

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