jasonkester

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by jasonkester 6d ago
But that's silly. If you don't trust a website with your cat photo, don't upload your cat photo the website. As I said above, the only thing my site does with your cat photo is show it back to you when you ask to look at it.
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by jasonkester 6d ago
Anybody who has ever run a website with customer data can instantly understand why they do it this way. I don't see any malice. It's simple, really. You have a website where people can upload their cat photos. There's a de
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by jasonkester 12d ago
Somebody suggested tagging posts to specify whether they were things you built vs things you asked an llm to build. That was just a copy paste of one of the options.
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by jasonkester 12d ago
Good idea. I've edited my post to include that. Frankly, it's surprising that we'd even need to stipulate something like this. It would never occur to me to post to a "show us what you're cooking" thread with
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by jasonkester 12d ago
[HUMAN-CODE] I'm building a video game. It's part Valheim, part Ultima IV: https://stravaeger.com/ You can play the demo in the browser now (mobile as well as desktop), but I'll be packaging it up for Steam s
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by jasonkester 23d ago
I expect that after enough cycles of it training on it’s own output, it will converge on the One True Paragraph filled to saturation with AI cliches, and will refuse output anything else.
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by jasonkester 24d ago
Don’t forget the old “downvote the other comments so mine goes to the top “ trick. All your best stuff will get downvoted by at least somebody eventually. For some reason, that somebody always gets in early enough that you notice.
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by jasonkester 1mo ago
> Personally I do both That’s what you get from listening to “successful people”. You get to learn about all the things they tried that failed, then the things that did work on that 24th try, which was successful. The “survivorship bias”
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
It's best not to think of BigCentralThing as your "partner". They're just the big central thing that lists things. They have their own motivations that don't matter to you, so long as they continue to list the thi
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
Pretend the SPOT is youtube, for an example. Upload your video there, then drop a link to (any variation of) the url into this text field. A quick import script runs, and now we have the video in our database too. Or at least, a record w
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
I haven't seen this in practice. For my site, roughly 100% of the new additions to our database come from people climbing a route that's in the Big Database that we just don't know about yet. It's just a matter of dropp
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
It sounds like the real issue is the "stable ids" one. You need a Single Point of Truth that matches up stretches of waterway with an ID that won't change. You can then sprinkle .isNavigable and such onto your record along
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
No. I’m expecting everyone to answer direct questions that they are the only one who can answer by thinking up the answer with their own brain then writing or speaking that.
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
Yeah, it's tough because to be the Single Point of Truth, you'd need to be the List of Parking Places in the Netherlands, not just the accessible ones that you care about. You might even need to be The List for Europe. Being The
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
I just can’t understand why this is not a fireable offense. Like, I can see getting a strong warning the first time somebody notices you do this, then if you persist you’d have to be let go. Just like anybody else who is clearly not doing t
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
I run a website that's in a similar situation, and it sounds like the author is close to the correct solution, but needs to take things one step further: There needs to be a Single Point of Truth, and it should not be your little websi
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
“Logout buttons must be buttons because they trigger unsafe requests” But this is just more of the pedantic developer nonsense that everyone is complaining about here. I’ve built tons of sites in my time, and the logout “button” is always a
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
Actually, for me, being llm generated makes this more impressive because it marks the first real world example of a genuine new product built with ai that I have ever seen. For 6 years I’ve been reading hype about amazing productivity boost
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
Can we save everybody having to put “I know about ChatGPT, but I’m asking for advice from an actual human who has experience with this so please refrain from answering if you’re not one of those” on every post they make, and just have that
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
> We’ve just got this wild culture where everyone puts such a premium on their own time but now doesn’t value anyone else’s My favorite example of this is dropping a random acronym into a message board reply and repeating it five times w
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
For what it’s worth, I recently retired from a 30 year career as a developer and while I’m aware of all three of those things, I’ve never used any of them in or out of work. And I’ve hosted my own web server these last 20 years.
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by jasonkester 2mo ago
I had to flag this article for violating HN's policy against submitting things written by AI. Which is a shame, because the premise is intriguing. But it's pretty rude to expect every one of us to sift through ten pages of AI tel
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by jasonkester 3mo ago
I don’t think this is about fairness so much as a wish that developers would look out for their own self interest just a tiny bit. We all get the full-court open source brainwashing during our early years of learning about programming, so i
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by jasonkester 3mo ago
I’ve had this happen a few times in the past, back when you’d fire your expensive people and replace them with cheap human labour instead of AI, so I have a word of advice. Be sure to have “updated your rate schedule” recently, which explai
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by jasonkester 3mo ago
I don’t get it. Why did you title your hn submission after a feature that doesn’t exist? Why not use that space to say something that your thing actually does? It’d save everyone a lot of confusion.
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by jasonkester 3mo ago
I tried your monsterwriter site (nice looking app, by the way), and logged in with google. I don't see any option to "control where my data is stored". As far as I can tell as an end user, I've just created an account
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by jasonkester 3mo ago
Yeah, you definitely should have linked to that instead of a Github repo (or copied the text across to the repo readme). The copy is still pretty focused on the Developer experience building something that uses your thing. But I can't
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by jasonkester 3mo ago
Sounds cool, but you never got around to explaining how “users control where their data is stored “, which is odd because that’s the title of your post. So if I’m a user of an app built with your thing, how do I go about controlling where m
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by jasonkester 3mo ago
Because people move to different countries. There's no way to update the billing address of my US bank to a foreign address. My UK bank is in the address of my house there. My French bank is in the address of my house here. As I said
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by jasonkester 3mo ago
It's amazing that companies still can't handle the concept of somebody moving to a different country but still using a credit card from their original country. I spent two days on the phone with Microsoft last year trying to find

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