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by jongjong 5mo ago
As an engineer I'm too busy processing spreadsheets with AI to concern myself with the menial task of food production.
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by jongjong 5mo ago
1. Avoid passing live instances (by reference) to other instances as much as possible. Because you don't want many instance references to be scattered too widely throughout your codebase. This can cause 'spooky action at a distanc
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by jongjong 5mo ago
This has been obvious to me since I graduated with a BIT majoring in 'Software design.' I literally went to university with software design and software architecture being my core interests. When I graduated, I was shocked to lear
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by jongjong 5mo ago
Credit cards are a horrible idea. We are essentially forced to use them. It's like giving every person you buy from the password to your bank account and trust them not to steal your money. Wire transfers are better.
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by jongjong 5mo ago
But what if they shut down the entire tracking system just before?
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by jongjong 5mo ago
Reminds me of when I wrote a lightweight blockchain from scratch including the Lamport OTS (quantum resistant) signature scheme and then most of the leaders from my crypto community at the time turned against me for no reason. The signatur
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by jongjong 5mo ago
This interpretation makes sense. I think even the 'fair use' clause in the US doesn't protect LLMs. One argument I've heard often is that LLMs synthesize their training set to produce novel output in the same way as a hu
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by jongjong 5mo ago
Logically, I think there's a big difference between code which was produced from a simple generic prompt without other input vs code which was produced from a multiple complex prompts with large existing code as input. When I'm fe
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by jongjong 5mo ago
This is why I advocate for making everything as simple as possible. The more complex the tech, the more likely it will be lost through the passing of time. It's kind of insane how much knowledge a human being needs to have to build ce
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by jongjong 6mo ago
This makes a good point. A lot of people think that big tech has a duty to provide jobs to smart, ambitious people. They assume that we live in some kind of socialist system. They feel like it's a kind of deal; they accept all the regu
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by jongjong 6mo ago
There seems to be a pattern that if someone who was not pre-selected by some elites ends up making their own money (I.e. real 'self-made') they are swiftly attacked by the system. On the other hand, look at Nancy Pelosi; she didn&
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by jongjong 6mo ago
It feels like the political forces underpinning the software industry are coming to light but it seems like there are two opposing forces now instead of just one.
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by jongjong 6mo ago
I want to support OAuth2, not OpenID so I don't rely on a JWT; I call the issuer's endpoint directly from my backend using their official domain name over HTTPS. I use the sub field to avoid re-allocation of usernames/emails
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by jongjong 6mo ago
If this kind of vulnerability exists at the platform level, imagine how vulnerable all the vibe-coded apps are to this kind of exploit. I don't doubt the competence of the Vercel team actually and that's the point. Imagine if this
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by jongjong 6mo ago
Ah yeah but I wanted my platform to provide universal OAuth with any platform (that my app developer user trusts) as OAuth provider. If you rely entirely on subject identifiers; in theory, it gives one platform (OAuth provider) the ability
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by jongjong 6mo ago
I remember implementing OAuth2 for my platform months ago and I was using the username from the provider's platform as the username within my own platform... But this is a big problem because what if a different person creates an accou
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by jongjong 6mo ago
Yes, this is a genuine problem with AI platforms. It does sometimes feel like they're suspiciously over-promoting certain solutions; to the point that it's not in the AI platform's interest. I know what it's like being o
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by jongjong 6mo ago
Never thought I'd be reading this on TechCrunch but fully resonates and it's an interesting article. Also, I understand why some people think we live in a simulation. It can be explained to some extent; we're glued to our pho
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by jongjong 6mo ago
I decided to not open source my latest project but it has nothing to do with security concerns. My code is perfectly secure and bug-free. My concern is mostly financial. Most people would be in a better position to monetize my software than
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by jongjong 6mo ago
Claude does a great job generating the code. The hard part was the UX like if the app gets complex, then I want a new feature which adds more complexity on top; because of the way the application/UX is designed, it's hard to integ
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by jongjong 6mo ago
The distinction isn't meaningful to me because I feel like one of the humans from Planet of the Apes here.
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by jongjong 6mo ago
Fully agree. I started hitting this bottleneck when I combined a low-code backend I built with Claude Code to generate web applications. I can build applications rapidly but the requirements and UX are the bottleneck. So much so that I ofte
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by jongjong 6mo ago
Formal proofs can only ever work to validate against requirements... But a major issue with a lot of modern software is that the requirements themselves can be incorrect and some requirements can logically conflict with other requirements..
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by jongjong 6mo ago
I feel like this is a trend. A few months ago, my phone was hacked because I was using a free QR code scanner app which I'd been using for like 5 years without issue. It was an effective hack. I'd wasted 3+ hours jumping through h
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by jongjong 6mo ago
Me think this good idea. Regular language unnecessary complex. Distract meaning. Me wish everyone always talk this way. No hidden spin manipulate emotion. Information only. Complexity stupid.
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by jongjong 6mo ago
Sure, but I think the media mostly misleads through omission and shifting the focus. It seems trivial, but on a national or global scale, so many things happen that it becomes a powerful force. Every day, the media ignores millions of event
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by jongjong 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure the luck came first because optimism/pessimism is a learned trait. I say this as someone who considers themselves "Optimistic by nature, pessimistic by experience." I was born in lucky circumstances but t
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by jongjong 6mo ago
My interpretation of the newspaper image-counting experiment is quite different from that of the author. My view is that unlucky people don't trust the system (for a good reason) so they don't trust the text; given the nature of t
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by jongjong 6mo ago
Yep but there are strange undesirable characteristics that are being selected. Some of which we don't fully understand. For example, it is my personal belief that there is a selection mechanism for high suggestibility (by social media
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by jongjong 6mo ago
He did deny it multiple times on Twitter/X. Probably your news source of choice is the one which omitted this fact. I think it probably did look a bit that way and maybe he did it for engagement, maybe he intended to create controversy

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