kiitos

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by kiitos 1y ago
doing an HTTP GET to your server is my request to access some content your server serves. that's my right as a client. and it is your server's responsibility to determine whether or not to respond to my request. that's your s
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by kiitos 1y ago
making an HTTP GET request to an IP and port over the public internet, and getting a response back, is an interaction defined in a technical context, which has its own definitions for concepts like public/private. stuff like licenses.t
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by kiitos 1y ago
i don't know how to explain my points any more clearly than i have, so if you don't grok the intent then i guess we're at an impasse, and i guess also to my points you would be someone in the "llm maxi" camp :)
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by kiitos 1y ago
what a just totally bizarre perspective all of the stuff that's being complained-about is absolute 100% table-stakes stuff that every http server on the public internet has needed to deal with since, man, i dunno, minimum 15 years now?
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by kiitos 1y ago
looks like both you and they dodged bullets in this outcome, so all worked out in the end
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by kiitos 1y ago
i mean sure if you're gonna take some epistemological position then every legal concept is a fiction, but that's not a particularly interesting nor useful angle on the discussion or, to put it more succinctly, and quoting one of t
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by kiitos 1y ago
> The URLs appeared to match the official npm's site. The domain "npmjs.help" is pretty clearly malicious at a glance, just from the ".help" TLD alone, but yeah as you say > Once I had it in my head (erroneous
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by kiitos 1y ago
"what people generate is boring and easy to validate" mostly that -^ but i guess also transitively, that (a) you can even identify whether code is boring and simple in the first place; and (b) you're able to tell the LLM to m
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by kiitos 1y ago
before "how" the question is "why" would you steelman his position? should you?
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by kiitos 1y ago
> Still, he talked to folks about ideas, and that's something that we should have more of. no he didn't, and this is absolutely self-evident, he trolled and victim-blamed and had no interest in talking to anyone about any kind
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by kiitos 1y ago
if you go to https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/last-72-hours as of right now (11 sep 2025 2145h utc) you actually can't find this dude's death in the list any more, and that list includes minimum 51 victim deaths
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by kiitos 1y ago
> In practice, most of what people generate is boring and easy to validate: you know within a couple minutes whether it's the right shape, whether anything sticks out the wrong way, the way a veteran chess player can quickly pattern
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by kiitos 1y ago
> If we are going to create a binary of "understand LLMs" vs "do not understand LLMs", "we" are not, what i quoted and replied-to did! i'm not inventing strawmen to yell at, i'm responding to claim
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by kiitos 1y ago
what a great reference! thank you! another prolific example of this fallacy, often found in the blockchain space, is the equivocation of statistical probability , with provable/computational determinism -- hash(x) != x, no matter ho
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by kiitos 1y ago
> Anthropic's more technical users inherently understand how LLMs work. good (if superficial) post in general, but on this point specifically, emphatically: no, they do not -- no shade, nobody does, at least not in any meaningful se
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by kiitos 1y ago
how did you evaluate the sender address via DKIM to get "clean" response? I mean I know there are methods to verify stuff about a received email, DKIM by itself only handles message integrity and not sender details, for that you n
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by kiitos 1y ago
if you are programming in C++ then you have opted-in to a set of syntax and semantic properties that are ancient and well-defined and core to the language. those properties include at a very basic level exactly the sigil under discussion he
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by kiitos 1y ago
huh? the from: address in every email is an arbitrary and unverified text string that the sender provides, anyone can send an email to anyone else and specify a from: president@whitehouse.gov and that's how it will show up to the recip
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by kiitos 1y ago
encoding/json works perfectly great even today, please troll somewhere else
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by kiitos 1y ago
I'm not sure how this is a problem, and I'm very sure that even in the presence of this "problem" it is far better for a language to have a batteries-included stdlib than to not
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by kiitos 1y ago
first of all, that doesn't exercise JSON v2 at all, afaict second of all, sonic apparently uses unsafe to (unsafe-ly) cast byte slices to strings, which of course is gonna be faster than doing things correctly, but is also of course in
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by kiitos 1y ago
> Lets say four services inter-communicate with some protocol, it is extremely annoying to impose a deployment order where the producer of a message type is the last to upgrade the message schema i don't know how you arrived at this
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by kiitos 1y ago
the link in the email went to an obviously invalid domain, hovering the mouse cursor over the link in the email would have made this immediately clear, so even clicking that link should have never happened in the first place. red flag 1 but
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by kiitos 1y ago
how is this any worse than a spear phishing email that gives a login link to a malicious domain that looks the same as the official domain?
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by kiitos 1y ago
"open source" and "in the public domain" aren't like separate things from "copyright", they describe specific sub-sets of stuff underneath "copyright", which is a top-level category that establis
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by kiitos 1y ago
ok well we are not talking about the same thing, keep on carrying that torch, i wish you the best
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by kiitos 1y ago
when you said "crypto won" you weren't talking about a regulation war, you were talking about a war between crypto and banking in general, in that war crypto has obviously not won, or even really entered the fight trump coin
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by kiitos 1y ago
huh? "list 20 biggest files in the current directory" is a search query, or a llm prompt input, it's not any kind of precise incantation.. ? I mean if greppers is just translating queries like that to related command-calls, t
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by kiitos 1y ago
algorithmic complexity is 100% absolutely orthogonal to the stuff you've mentioned what you're describing is something different than big-o, in the sense that is commonly understood, and what your interviewer almost certainly inte
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by kiitos 1y ago
huh? there is no concept of any single "default incantation" of any command -- every command always has multiple "incantations" depending on what you want to do with it nobody would ever directly copy and execute any &qu

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