jerf

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by jerf 2mo ago
Ah, my favorite exception to fraud: Puffery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery If everyone knows it's a lie... well then I guess it's not a lie anymore, is it? I kind of understand why the law takes this
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by jerf 2mo ago
I think you really want to look at this in terms of the fact that it was already getting difficult to convince companies to hire junior engineers. They already don't want to pay for the inevitable several months of training before they
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by jerf 2mo ago
Memory isn't what I meant by the partitioning; I meant the entire context of the memory. But to your implied point about getting an advertisement into a memory file... that makes it even more amusing to hack Google's own AI to put
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by jerf 2mo ago
Oh wow, thank you for that chart. That is fantastic. The premium is huge . And for good reasons.
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by jerf 2mo ago
The best way for a politician to lie is to convince someone else of the truth of the lie and then put that someone in front of the cameras. That way, there's no hint of body language or anything else that indicates it's a lie. Bot
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by jerf 2mo ago
I mostly use languages where the feature doesn't even exist. We don't generally miss it. I also blocked a proposed mandatory dependabot at work a few months back because I didn't like the way it created a pipeline for any hac
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by jerf 2mo ago
IPOs experiencing significant drops after their IPO is not a crazy theory, it's pretty much the norm: https://potomacwealthmanagementllc.com/2026/03/04/underperfo... Not guaranteed, but the norm. I'
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by jerf 2mo ago
Lock in isn't about physical versus digital. This came up a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138750 Disks can be locked in and digital can be completely free.
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by jerf 2mo ago
You will also not get very far in engineering if you have a production incident, someone proposes a thing that will mitigate it partially but significantly, and you insist that we can't deploy that mitigation because we need to do the
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by jerf 2mo ago
I hate that it's hidden too. There's no reason for it to be hidden and arguably some reason for it not to be hidden. I did discover one reason for it not to be just "env" though, which surprised me, which is that "s
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by jerf 2mo ago
I don't think you're quite getting it. I'm saying, don't get in the box . "But the bait looks so nice!" Yes. Yes it does. Yes, you may have to sacrifice and not get some things you want in the moment. Our capi
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by jerf 2mo ago
Nobody is claiming this is a complete solution to security. I would call this "necessary but not sufficient". You won't get far as an engineer if you refuse to implement "necessary but not sufficient" changes becaus
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by jerf 2mo ago
You don't get in the locked box in the first place. That's the whole point. A day may come where it is the only option. In which case, personally, I will still advocate for not getting in the box. If they're going to hold &qu
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by jerf 2mo ago
General principle: It is way easier to avoid lock in by not being locked in in the first place then to extricate yourself later. It's easy for me not to be locked in to a streaming video service because I had a DVD collection that pred
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by jerf 2mo ago
"And vital for retaining and enhancing usable range of motion (not static stretching, still, but dynamic stretching / mobility under tension)." I'm doing it for knee pain. It's possible it's a placebo because t
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by jerf 2mo ago
Ask yourself the question "which of those things prevents me from going to jail for hosting CSAM" and the answer becomes pretty obvious. I fear you are mentally modeling law enforcement as rational people who will just accept any
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by jerf 2mo ago
I've been using a prompt that comes from the opposite direction for non-programming stuff: "Assume the user is an expert in all fields; while this is clearly logically untrue on a literal level, the user prefers to see a field&#x2
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by jerf 2mo ago
The problem with ? is that it is not handling the error. It gives you a one-character mechanism for not handling the error. This is a regression from Go, from the point of view of Go's design philosophy, not an advantage. It's one
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by jerf 2mo ago
I share the general community's dislike for the way Java did it, but I do agree that it may be an overgeneralization to then conclude the entire idea is bad. Still, to really make it work nicely is non-trivial in the presence of things
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by jerf 2mo ago
Thank you.
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by jerf 2mo ago
While that particular API might be nice, and people and companies should probably push back against the obfuscation, in the end it doesn't really matter. When I hand off between different models I already have the first model prepare a
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by jerf 2mo ago
Wouldn't this be fairly substantially backwards incompatible?
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by jerf 2mo ago
Ask your AI to chart the data flow through the program. Not that that's a magic solution but it's a pretty good start. By default, if you ask an AI to "generate documentation for this code" it generates the same broken d
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by jerf 2mo ago
No. I kind of want to leave it there. But that will probably be looked on disfavorably. I've seen at least a dozen attempts. It's not like it's hard to write it out. There's maybe a couple of variants but they're al
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by jerf 2mo ago
It's not about the digitalness, it's about the hardware that enforces the rights management. You can stick every Super Nintendo game ever made on to a not-very-large SD card. It's completely digital. No one anywhere can contr
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by jerf 2mo ago
I had some success systematically reducing it over time rather than cold turkey. YMMV. It may feel silly measuring out coffee and reducing it by just a small bit every day but it's worth it to avoid the fully withdrawal symptoms.
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by jerf 2mo ago
I'm unclear on the relevance of a comparison between Go and Ruby here. Ruby is radically slower than Go. It's down there with Python, if not a touch behind [1]. From the outside, I'd expect that it's possible that slight
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by jerf 2mo ago
I'm reasonably confident that the author has a reproduction case on their hands. That's easy to directly verify. I'm way less confident in that long and rambling analysis. As fwlr observes, it's not clear that this has b
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by jerf 2mo ago
Do you use Go? Because it sounds like no. In the last four years I've encountered I think two uses of generics in the wild in a 3rd party library. Both quite sensible. Anyone moaning about how it's ruined Go is either not using Go
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by jerf 2mo ago
The term you want to Google on is "fair use", and be prepared for a nightmare of complexity and fuzzy borders if you want to really learn about it. "Non-commercial" use can relate to one particular aspect of fair use, bu

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