librarian42

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by librarian42 3y ago
Do you have a nose like an anteater or are you actually a cyclops? I don't think typical human's noses occupy a large space in the center of their vision.
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by librarian42 4y ago
ChatGPT has done that for me too, but as you note asking the question a slightly different way produced a positive response. I think they simply trained it to produce “I don’t know” as a response to certain patterns of input.
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by librarian42 4y ago
I asked chatGPT questions about some Open Source libraries, such as what interfaces to use for certain tasks. It recommended deprecated APIs and claimed that the preferred APIs didn’t support options they do (for example, it claimed pg_exec
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by librarian42 5y ago
I can't even. Did they use the one that's basically Forth with a string stack (No, not Postscript, Forth with a string stack) or the one that's basically m4 (the higher level of the two sendmail scripting languages) implement
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by librarian42 7y ago
I used BeOS. It had some great features, but it wasn't great the way NeXTStep was great. If it had been built on top of C++ 11 or later, instead of whatever C++9x they were using, maybe.
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by librarian42 8y ago
Technically that was an SQL injection attack. :)
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by librarian42 9y ago
Bitcoin's value is backed by people's belief in Bitcoin. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth any more than Dogecoin. And calling the massive waste of resources involved in Bitcoin mining ethical is fucking hilarious. Congratulatio
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by librarian42 9y ago
Netflix chooses to use DRM. That's completely on them.
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by librarian42 9y ago
Earlier this year I downloaded a season of a TV show I wanted to catch up on, into Google Play on my tablet. A few weeks later I was on a plane, and finally had a chance to watch them. Google Play had blithely decided to save space (possibl
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by librarian42 9y ago
Flash and Silverlight were low friction. And both are deprecated or unavailable on a lot of players now. Making DRM harder for the end user is the only effective push-back. It worked for music. It's working for e-Books. It would have
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by librarian42 9y ago
> i want DRM to be a difficult and cumbersome stack to use Exactly. Even flash plugins are too easy, really, so long as flash is ubiquitous. NOW would be the time to hit it, as flash is less common (almost completely absent on mobile) an
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by librarian42 11y ago
Unnecessary dependencies are a bug. I've seen people pull in half a dozen nested libraries just to avoid writing ten lines of code. Sometimes re-inventing the wheel is the right thing to do.
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by librarian42 11y ago
Simplify the interface. Don't combine unrelated functionality in a single library.