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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
The original ones that shipped Linux were fine. It was only when Microsoft started giving away XP to Netbook OEMs to kill the desktop Linux threat that things really went bad. People talk about modern Microsoft and how much they do for open
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
Is that reading the image? Or just identifying the source of the image and returning the authors write up on their website? You’d have to use new images with different messages using that font to be sure Gemini isn’t “cheating” here
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
Or a hobby.
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
I don’t disagree with your divinity spell comparison but unfortunately there is a lot of value in the prompts because these spells are the “programming languages” of LLMs.
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
Signal is already well known to governments. In fact a few years ago there was a report in the UK media about how some governments used signal instead of official channels like email and did so because of Signals disappearing messages featu
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
But that’s not just 8 lines. If I were to try and run those 8 lines on their own then the compiler would fail because half of those functions are undefined. Even the article itself doesn’t claim the agent is only 8 lines long. And once you
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
That’s a distinction in search of a reason though. Being able to run code in the same unix process or a new one doesn’t really matter all that much in the context of self modifying code. But even if we cared about that, this isn’t a LISP sp
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
Most of the code in agents is to handle unhappy paths and human friendly interfaces. I’m sure you could trim most languages core loop too if you discarded all the stuff that actually make agents peasant to use.
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
Neither is Apache Ant not Anthropic CLI yet they’re cited a lot in this discussion too.
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
There’s also Adam Ant. Who was also a household name. Some people have also heard of ants of the formicidaen variety.
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
That seemed to be a common theme for games in America even into the 90s. Just looks at the games approved by Sega of America vs Sega of Japan
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
It’s actually quite easy in most cases: 1. You can generally get a feel for the intent by the developers reputation. 2. Look at the code that changed as part of the same commits. Eg was the vulnerable code included as part of the same commi
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
It’s more the other way around: the first Mario game was a Donkey Kong game. The user avatar is only “Mario” in appearance. He was called “Jump Man” in that game and even his outfit colours differed from the Mario games that followed.
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
> I assume it's probably a software bug, they assume it's an exploit. They're not mutually exclusive. I suspect you and the security team are arguing the same thing but with different terminology. When vulnerabilities (whi
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
> It's because you (like me) aren't quite as paranoid as security people are. I work heavily with security-conscious clients where vulnerabilities would be catastrophic. And we are talking high profile clients that are juicy ta
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by hnlmorg 3mo ago
As someone who really doesn’t take themselves even the slightest bit seriously, if there was ever a chance that your comment was funny then I would have realised it was a joke. ;)
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
How? Neither their comment nor mine have anything malicious in their tone nor content.
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
> I wouldn't assume that all of those security mishaps stem from an endless series of blunders from "stupid" programmers. The saying doesn’t mean that all vulnerabilities are blunders. It means we shouldn’t automatically a
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
Yes, and my point is that hasn’t been the case in my experience.
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
Yes, I got their point. My point is that’s the opposite of reality.
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
You’ve got the saying backwards: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
Ahhh that makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
> Open models like GLM 5.2 are getting good enough to handle 90% of tasks, and will eat most of their usage unless they start serving it at cost. Most people either don’t have the money to buy hardware to run open models and/or don’
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
You’re conflating two completely different things. I’m a retro gamer. I have around 20 systems all hooked up and ready to play from the Atari 2600 through to modern systems like the PS4. In fact I bet I have systems you hadn’t even heard of
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
It was a trade association not Microsoft. And bullshit like this is the entire reason for trade associations existing. Microsoft themselves support self-hosting Minecraft servers. As evidenced by the fact that the server software itself is
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
Lots of modern cars cater for this. It’s actually a marketing point with manufacturers like the VW group publicising how they’re bringing back tactile interfaces. And some ranges of cars never took that away (for example Jaguar).
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
I cannot comment on the cost in the US, but in the UK it would be the farm that’s more expensive because the cost is relative the distance. You still have to file the same government applications to close a dirt road as you would a busy cit
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
I wouldn’t even trust experienced developers to merge code without peer review.
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
Server shutdowns are a problem regardless of the platform. There used to be a time when PC games allowed you to connect to random servers. These days Minecraft is the only one that still allows it. And even there, Microsoft go hard on the u
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by hnlmorg 4mo ago
> especially if you were mislead into buying a PS5 with a disc drive thinking it'd be supported at least until the end of the product's lifespan 8 years is roughly the lifespan for a games console though. And I say this as some

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