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A Bigger Database(blog.glyph.im)
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by krupan 2y ago
It's a really great analogy for how God can allow his creations free will without it messing up His Work. Melkor uses his free will to try and make his own "music" discordant from Eru's but Eru just incorporates it into
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by krupan 2y ago
This is the best explanation of why I also don't use LLMs and I'm grateful it has been put into words here. I love every reason and explanation given, except for me personally I am still writing code. It's just that at this
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by krupan 2y ago
Do I love maps because of the fantasy books I read as a kid? Did I love (and still love) the fantasy books because I love maps? I may never know. I've heard of the Atlas of Middle Earth but never knew this amazing story behind it. T
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by krupan 2y ago
The tracking dots aren't for anti-counterfeiting. The secret service has a separate chunk of code in every color printer that detects if you are printing money and prints out a page that says essentially, "you can't do that.
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On the other hand, because there's a minimum weight for bikes, and frames and wheels are too light now, we get cool tech like motorized derailers and disc brakes
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I mean yes, you are correct. UV does a lot of different things, but this particular "self-contained app" feature is a lot like zero install. You run your app, its dependencies are automatically downloaded and cached for other uv
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I love "wee" for a color choice, lol!
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That's pretty different than getting arrested and thrown in jail by government thugs for not paying up, whether you believe in the cause or not, but ok? Even the non-member BYU tuition is subsidized and a much lower price than other co
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Overall, and admittedly from a bit of a distance, uv run feels like a reinvention of Zero Install, but for only Python. I also wondered why virtual environments were invented for Python when general environment managers (like Modules) alrea
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by krupan 2y ago
You usually have to install something before you can run a program on your computer, so installing uv doesn't seem that bad to me. I still wouldn't call this self-contained because when you run the program it downloads who know
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by krupan 2y ago
Calling Mormons socialist is inaccurate. Socialism is government-forced redistribution of wealth. A large majority of Mormons, at least in Utah, are very much opposed to that. You are correct that a large majority of Mormons voluntarily
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by krupan 2y ago
He's saying that Apple stuff is hard for IT people to configure, customize, and virtualize, but isn't Apple's whole selling point that you don't need to be an IT person to use their products? It's a different marke
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by krupan 2y ago
Just use two dashes. Or like you said, use parentheses, commas, or semi-colons
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"50K+ Active Ghibli AI Artists" Is that referring to the people using this tool? You are calling them artists?
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"Part of Flock’s proprietary tech determines the make and model of the vehicle and also notes if there are bumper stickers, bike racks, any other unique markings that would help identify that vehicle." I have always avoided bumper
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by krupan 2y ago
If safety was the only thing that mattered the your point would be interesting
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by krupan 2y ago
Yes. For now
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by krupan 2y ago
If you aren't listening to the Darknet Diaries podcast yet, you really should be. Episode 146 talks about a signal-like "secure messaging" app that the FBI enticed people to use that secretly had the FBI as a member of every
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by krupan 2y ago
They have made it clear that they do have a plan. I was kind of with you on season 2 until episodes 6 and 7 really brought things back on track
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by krupan 2y ago
Reading this article and then through the comments here, the overall argument I'm hearing here is that we should let the AI write the code and we should focus on reviewing it and testing it. We should work towards becoming good at spe
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by krupan 2y ago
The beauty of stack overflow is that the code you are copying and pasting has been reviewed and voted on by a decent number of other programmers
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by krupan 2y ago
Nobody has to prove a negative, my friend
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by krupan 2y ago
Does this really have to be spelled out?? Because a single human can only intimately converse with and convince a small number of people, while an LLM can do that with thousands (what is the upper limit even?) of people at a time. Also, bec
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by krupan 2y ago
You missed the part about unreliable results. Never in software engineering have we had to put a lot of effort into a tool that gives unpredictable, unreliable results like LLMs.
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by krupan 2y ago
"it's interesting that it didn't just tell me it couldn't do that, instead of lying and giving false info." Interesting is a very kind word to use there
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by krupan 2y ago
Hopefully it copes very poorly so you see the syntax error quickly and fix it :-) Only half joking
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If they store the salted hash of your password but store the answers to security questions as plain text, then your advice is very bad. The db doesn't have to get pwned even, employees of the company will see it
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by krupan 2y ago
DO NOT use your password for the answer to security questions! Yes, your answers should be stored securely, but there's a good chance they aren't. Use a different generated password, or bogus answers if you need to
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Nobody said anything about coal?

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