megadal

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by megadal 2y ago
> There is zero need to implement the functionality with JS. I tend to agree outside the context of a browser, but the post is about PDF.js.
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by megadal 2y ago
Tax documents. I'm going to discontinue this conversation though.
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by megadal 2y ago
They do if your want to fill them out in the browser coupled with an authenticated context, which is usually pretty important for forms. Usually you don't just want random users filling out any data within your enterprise. You also can
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by megadal 2y ago
People don't usually use PDF.js just to render PDFs. You can also extract text to use within a web application, preview a PDF, have users sign PDFs and fill forms in the browser (where their authenticated context resides) and a host of
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by megadal 2y ago
Your approach to sandboxing browser PDF rendering is to just not do it..? You realize this particular problem requires JS to solve, right? It's not just there arbitrarily. That's like saying your approach to web application harden
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by megadal 2y ago
The use case you describe hardly describes what most workers do though. That's a robot Butler, not a desk worker who takes calls and fills out forms based on what the customer on the other end of the line says, or a factory worker (whe
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by megadal 2y ago
> people like Altman get excited are that if AI is as good as humans all round then you can replace the workforce. I get that. I guess my point is this already seems to exist. We could combine AI with machinery to replace almost everythi
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by megadal 2y ago
Very crude. Unusable infrastructure counts towards GDP as well, if I'm not mistaken.
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by megadal 2y ago
Also > natively embedded into a message I don't think any chat platform ever does this because they would like to support low bandwidth clients but maybe I'm just making this up. Practically every service uses a separate file s
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by megadal 2y ago
If that's the goal then perhaps we already surpassed it and I personally am not impressed. It's useful but basically every method of quality control requires a human. I've found that components of general intelligence special
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by megadal 2y ago
If I'm not mistaken LLMs contain NER and text classification pipelines so you can leverage the exact same infrastructure. I can't see how AGI from that perspective _isnt_ just an LLM routing tasks to more specialized NLP models to
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by megadal 2y ago
I think the biggest bubble that needs to burst is probably the whole "AGI" thing. The definition of it isn't clear but from what I gather it's basically an aggregate of emergent capabilities that work together to produce
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by megadal 2y ago
The use case you described can be achieved with a subset of NLP, and has basically already been possible for years. Named-Entity Recognition (NER) and Text Classification will allow you to figure out what kind of text you're looking at
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by megadal 2y ago
Rich text yes (markdown rendering, most IRC clients support this) and emojis yes (IRCv3 explicitly supports UTF8, but I am pretty sure servers and clients generally supported this anyway prior to standardization). Also videos/images yo
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by megadal 2y ago
> Be serious. Unless you significantly extend IRC, it absolutely is not an equivalent replacement for Slack/Discord, and it's foolish to pretend that it is. Maybe prior to IRCv3 this was true.
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by megadal 2y ago
Is "don't feed the troll" better? This behavior is unacceptable but I'm really leaning towards the belief that sensationalizing this will only make it more likely.. This is about as big of a recognition a single troll co
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by megadal 2y ago
The fact that you can create a crypto more easily today has nothing to do with whether or not crypto is a commodity (though I suspect that point is not really why you made this comment). It's the fact that there's an overwhelming
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by megadal 2y ago
From Wikipedia: > In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that specifically has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who
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by megadal 2y ago
While those are some big hurdles, I still don't believe they should impede decent UX. After spending years tweaking poor UXes and months building good ones, I really think good UX starts with a strong foundation. If a stack starts out
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by megadal 2y ago
> Besides the main compiler part, the project comes bundled with an interop layer, which allows you to easily call C# code from Rust and vice versa. I guess the part I am still missing is when you say Rust in this context, it seems like
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by megadal 2y ago
It's strange how pervasive poor UI/UX (and poor software in general) is in enterprise software. I have never seen an ERP that looks and feels good to use (though I am sure some exist; I suspect Odoo falls in this category, but onl
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by megadal 2y ago
Yeah but you would be constrained basically to a subset of .NET, as it is no longer a native language but a .NET language, so it's not like you'll be JITting huge Rust applications (where compile time is actually high). There are
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by megadal 2y ago
How is this is more useful than just compiling Rust into a dll and using that, or better, writing some framework or tooling that automates the process of marshaling/unmarshaling data for a Rust dll? A .NET target for Rust just makes no
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by megadal 2y ago
Genuinely asking as parsing without an AST is something I've never seen explained: How do you go from source code to bytecode without an AST? Isn't the bytecode just a flattened representation of an AST obtained by some sort of tr
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by megadal 2y ago
Perhaps my understanding is off, but I am pretty sure parsing and translating SQL into bytecode still involves an AST. Just that query processing itself is done from the bytecode (produced presumably from an AST or something similar) rather
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by megadal 2y ago
Yes, but surely you can see the similarities in both name and use case. By itself it seems innocuous but coupled with the blatant misuse of the term "Open-source", fake reviews and rather strange commit history, you can maybe unde
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by megadal 2y ago
Also the name seems borrowed from Dokku, an actually open source product in much the same domain.
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by megadal 2y ago
It probably was open source before the license was modified to prevent commercial use, which is not open source.
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by megadal 2y ago
Maybe the article should be titled "Self-hosting forms, the n8n way" then, because if I was working with a dev who did this I would definitely question their sanity. But as an article about a cool way to utilize n8n, this is fair,
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by megadal 2y ago
Fair point. This is still intentionally low quality clickbait

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