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by maltalex 10mo ago
Immutable collections exit, they were just added later. See System.Collections.Immutable: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collecti...
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by maltalex 10mo ago
This might be naive, but why not just scan both sides of the card using Apple Notes or a similar app, then present the scan at the store?
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by maltalex 11mo ago
You don’t see a difference between a major news outlet from a democratic country which has freedom of speech and an outlet from a religious monarchy which has no notion of free speech or even human rights?
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by maltalex 1y ago
The key here is that the researchers used a unique keyword that doesn't appear in the training data with any other meaning. Hence, the model had no benign associations with it, only malicious ones. Poisoning a word or phrase that also
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by maltalex 1y ago
They probably know exactly what your thoughts are about this change.
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Latest argument against regulating AI: that would be the Antichrist(theverge.com)
2 points by maltalex 1y ago|0 comments
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by maltalex 1y ago
If you're reviewing the code, then you're no longer "opening python files with the same frequency that you open up a hex editor to read assembly".
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by maltalex 1y ago
> Neither are humans, so this argument doesn't really stand. Even when we give a spec to a human and tell them to implement it, we scrutinize and test the code they produce. We don't just hand over a spec and blindly accept the
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by maltalex 1y ago
Interesting read, and some interesting ideas, but there's a problem with statements like these: > Sean proposes that in the AI future, the specs will become the real code. That in two years, you'll be opening python files in yo
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by maltalex 1y ago
Thanks for the reply and for your work on C#. I should have been clearer in my message. This specific feature is nice, and the semantics are straightforward. My message is more about some the myriad of other language features with questiona
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by maltalex 1y ago
Cute, but is this actually needed? It's one more thing to remember, one more thing to know the subtleties of, and for what? To save writing a very readable and unambiguous line of code? It feels like the C# designers have a hard time s
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OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms(arstechnica.com)
2 points by maltalex 1y ago|1 comments
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by maltalex 1y ago
> Do you therefore argue programming languages aren't abstractions? Yes, and no. They’re abstractions in the sense of hiding the implementation details of the underlying assembly. Similarly, assembly hides the implementation details
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by maltalex 1y ago
That’s like arguing that random number generators are not random if you give them a fixed seed. You’re splitting hairs. LLMs, as used in practice in 99.9% of cases, are probabilistic.
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by maltalex 1y ago
I completely agree that it shouldn’t be XML. Then again, I worked with Gradle in the past, which is based on Groovy syntax plus DSL. And that didn’t feel good either (though I must admit that I knew less about Gradle than I do about msbuild
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by maltalex 1y ago
It doesn’t scale as well across a large org. We have hundreds of repos, thousands of projects. It is hard to ensure consistency at scale with a local .editorconfig in every repo. Also, with a nuget I can do a lot more than what editorconfig
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by maltalex 1y ago
If you’re working in the .net ecosystem, you need to grok msbuild. Is not exactly painless or elegant, but is incredibly powerful. Creating a nuget package that applies settings and configuration files to consuming projects is the tip of a
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PRC cyber actors target telecom companies as part of a cyberespionage campaign(cyber.gc.ca)
4 points by maltalex 1y ago|0 comments
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by maltalex 2y ago
I think that two things are happening here. First, we need to acknowledge that simplicity is hard. Requirements change, and making things as simple as they can be (but not simpler) requires a lot of effort. Second, programmers love spottin
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by maltalex 2y ago
Nice work, very impressive! What software did you use to create the design? Any recommendations for CAD and PCB design newbies?
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Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft(arstechnica.com)
12 points by maltalex 2y ago|6 comments
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by maltalex 2y ago
Fair. I didn't phrase my question correctly. It wasn't really about MXRoute specifically, but the bus factor in general when trusting your email to a tiny company.
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by maltalex 2y ago
You're not concerned about the bus factor? What happens if the owner suddenly disappears?
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Kinesis MWave(kinesis-ergo.com)
4 points by maltalex 2y ago|0 comments
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by maltalex 2y ago
Some dumb TVs still exist, only they’re called computer monitors now. And they’re a lot more expensive than TVs because TV-sized monitors are a niche product, and because manufacturers don’t subsidize them in exchange for your data.
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by maltalex 2y ago
Painted roundabouts will be invisible when it snows.
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by maltalex 2y ago
It literally isn't. The title of the post is "US officials quietly backed Israel’s military push against Hezbollah".
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by maltalex 2y ago
Correct title: "US officials quietly backed Israel’s military push against Hezbollah". Hezbollah != Lebanon
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by maltalex 2y ago
> But, what's the alternative? Good question. I'm also on the lookout for quality content for my kids. I recently learned that YouTube Kids can be put into whitelist-only mode, and that specific channels, videos, or collections
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by maltalex 2y ago
The "lessons learned" are all very basic. Things like "separate the network management layer from the data network", "provide the network operation center with backup connectivity", etc. This is networking 101.

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