leptons

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by leptons 7mo ago
AI is constantly trying to introduce bugs into my code. I've started disabling it when I know exactly where I'm going with the code, because the AI is often a lot more confused than I am about where the code is going.
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by leptons 7mo ago
I've never seen a human estimate their "programming career" in kilohours. Is that supposed to look more impressive than years? So, you've been programming only about 7 years? I guess I'm at about "170 kilohours
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by leptons 7mo ago
>I'm still very happy with what we got "One person's slop is another person's treasure" I'm not all that impressed with "AI". I often "race" the AI by giving it a task to do, and then I
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by leptons 7mo ago
All that stuff would take me about 5 minutes without AI. Those are things with 10,000 examples all over the web. AI is good at distilling the known solutions. But anything even slightly out of the ordinary, it fails miserably. I'd much
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by leptons 7mo ago
That problem might be considered a software problem, not a hardware or physical problem. The instant pausing of the music is the real problem. Software developers probably don't move around as much as you do, and I'd bet if they d
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by leptons 7mo ago
That's nonsense. There's plenty of people that want those APIs that don't work at Google. And it does not give Google "unmediated access" - you have to explicitly opt-in to allow the browser to use them when a websi
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by leptons 8mo ago
Same here, except I took it further and was calling out of state BBSs to download the latest warez. First phone bill after getting the modem was $250, in around 1984 (or about $800 in 2026). Parents were pissed. That's when I learned a
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by leptons 8mo ago
Your disagreement only remains valid because of Apple using their blocking power to quash web APIs from becoming standards. You can shill all you want for Apple, but they are being sued by the DOJ for abusive business tactics, which include
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by leptons 8mo ago
I have to wonder if Apple will allow any of this to move forward in the W3C standards committee since they've been blocking many things that would make web browsers as capable as native apps. Apple perceives web-based applications as c
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by leptons 8mo ago
>So maybe JS should be more secure than any other language. And it probably is. The sandboxing and security have been around a very long time. If Python were the de-facto browser language, people would also blame it for "security pr
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by leptons 8mo ago
Javascript isn't more insecure than any other language. Any language can have the same or other security issues.
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by leptons 8mo ago
>20 years of serious browser security bugs caused chiefly by JavaScript I think you may be confusing Javascript the language, with browser APIs. Javascript itself is not insecure and hasn't been for a very long time, it's typic
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by leptons 8mo ago
LLMs produce slop far to often to say they are in any way better than cold fusion in terms of usable results. "AI" kind of is the cold fusion of tech. We've always been 5 or 10 years away from "AGI" and likely alway
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by leptons 8mo ago
I worked for an ad-tech company for 3 months. I could not wait to get out of there. It became clear to me quickly that the data these people wanted to collect on anyone and everyone could be used against me should they want to - not that I
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by leptons 8mo ago
>The GGP comment talks about how all these non-hetero people are somehow more dangerous That's nonsense. More scary? Where the fuck are you getting this bullshit? Stop. Just go outside and touch grass instead of making up shit just
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by leptons 8mo ago
>You seem afraid of non-hetero sexuality at every turn. You don't know me well enough to form that opinion, and you're completely, absolutely wrong. All I did was state that this "solution" isn't quite as clear-c
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by leptons 8mo ago
>cnbc are fabricating stories while drunk? Don't forget the possibility that it's AI slop.
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by leptons 8mo ago
OP was writing how great the LLM is, and that he couldn't do this stuff as easily before LLMs. And that simply isn't true. Instead of breaking down the task himself into achievable steps, the LLM did that "thinking" for
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by leptons 8mo ago
I've frankly given up on LLMs for most programming tasks. It takes just as much time (if not more) to coddle it to produce anything useful, with the addition of frustration , and I could have just written far better code myself in the
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by leptons 8mo ago
It's not like I'm eating a lime every hour, or every day. It's just an example.
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by leptons 8mo ago
That doesn't work for me. The main server is constantly using the disks to record security cameras, run VMs 24/7, Plex, a web server, a VPN (so I can dial in to my local network remotely), and a lot more.
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by leptons 8mo ago
All of my IT equipment in my office is running through a single UPS that measures power consumption. I do have a bit more than just that server hooked up to it. There's also a Dell i5 running DDWRT as my main gateway/router, the f
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by leptons 8mo ago
Cheap to buy old hardware, but electricity to run those old rigs isn't really cheap in many areas now. My server is costing me about $100/month in electricity costs. It does have 16 spinning disks in it, so I accept that I pay for
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by leptons 8mo ago
I've had the LLM "lie" to me about the code it wrote many times. But "lie" and "hallucinate" are incorrect anthropomorphisms commonly used to describe LLM output. The more appropriate term would be garbag
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by leptons 8mo ago
MAGA seems to want to go back there, and they're trying to start WWIII to get there.
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by leptons 8mo ago
One thing I love about low-sugar citrus is the ability for it to not spike my sugar levels. I use Miracle Fruit extract which alters the taste buds temporarily to turn sour flavors into sweet flavors. I can eat an entire lime and it tastes
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by leptons 8mo ago
>The whole point is that it is amateur hour and it's wildly effective as a learning tool. You sound so proud of your accomplishment, and I question if there's really nothing to be proud of here. I doubt you really learned anyt
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by leptons 8mo ago
Maybe you missed the part where I described that not all CPUs work the same, not all have out of order instruction issuing, register renaming, or even any cache at all. OP was blanket talking about assembly, without realizing the many diffe
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by leptons 8mo ago
Well this particular comment thread isn't "good". If you think so, then maybe you should try reddit.
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by leptons 8mo ago
Ooof I remember the bank switching on PIC microcontrollers was particularly awful. I still got it to work, but it wasn't very fun.

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