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by metalrain 1y ago
So can you construct valid image that would also act as zip bomb? Jpeg and other lossy compression images should allow some of that, but dependens on compatibility of compression between gzip and image format. There is that example where yo
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by metalrain 1y ago
I think TODOs are great for refactors you cannot start right now. It's very local, this code should change but it might not be possible during the timeframe I've been given. For future reader it might give hint what to change or w
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by metalrain 1y ago
Pretty similar view than others have expressed in veiks of "LLMs can be good, just not at my [area of expertise]".
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by metalrain 1y ago
I think it's about social acceptance. People give up their money and time to have children. Please make them feel good for it. Make it desirable.
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by metalrain 1y ago
MCP works for small, well defined actions (like examples in the article), but enterprise APIs can have hundreds/thousands of endpoints/schemas for different concepts and variations of operations. For example how would you MCP Goog
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by metalrain 1y ago
The amount of different units just stunts me, we are really early.
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by metalrain 1y ago
"'take your profits’ in quality versus quantity is up to you." As mainly AI invester not AI user, I think profitability is great importance. It has been race to top so far, soon we see race to the bottom.
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by metalrain 1y ago
It's not about "model quality". Most models can improve code their output when asked, but problem is the lack of introspection by the user. Basically same problem as copy paste coding, but LLM can (sometimes) know your exact
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by metalrain 1y ago
Yes, very easy for most days to find some hours of that price differential. However my calculation needs it to happen all the time for 10 years in row. Alternatively: 6 hours with 45 €/MWh differential, 3 hours with 90 €/MWh diffe
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by metalrain 1y ago
I don't think lithium ion is even the right comparison in this case. This could more comparable in spirit, although 900 times bigger in capacity and not yet finished. https://www.vantaanenergia.fi/en/about-us/
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by metalrain 1y ago
Seems like very common AI hype post style. "If you aren't using this AI feature you are left behind." I usually block people for posting like that.
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by metalrain 1y ago
I think LLMs are great and patient teachers. But code is something I like to write myself, it's not about speed of producing code. It's keeping it such you still fully understand it.
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by metalrain 1y ago
I think what and how are so tightly linked, you need to know how to make a thing so you better know what thing to make. Let's say you want to build worlds fastest car. You can order the pieces and maybe build a car from someones instru
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by metalrain 1y ago
While RSC as technology is interesting, I don't think it makes much sense in practice. I don't want to have a fleet of Node/Bun backend servers that have to render complex components. I'd rather have static pages and&#x2
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by metalrain 1y ago
It feels like this idea needs Cap'n'Proto style request inlining so client can choose what parts to stream instead of getting everything asynchronously. https://capnproto.org/
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by metalrain 1y ago
Having minute of downtime per year is quite a big tradeoff. It makes sense for Stripe, they would lose lot of money when not operating. But in smaller companies you can choose to take more downtime to reduce engineering time. Instead of ski
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by metalrain 1y ago
What a terrible UX on that site. This site barely works on my mobile. When I think storefront I think simple & fast, this site is not at all that. Stores are "hidden" by design, it is about the products and store itself just p
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by metalrain 1y ago
I would love to used PBT more, but many tests I write have only one answer per input. Think sum like aggregations. For then it's not clear how would one derive the answer from the generated inputs, that is what code is for. But PBT can
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by metalrain 1y ago
How did you train this? I'm thinking there isn't reference output for live video frame to splats so supervised learning doesn't work. Is there some temporal accumulation?
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by metalrain 1y ago
I think separately deployed services built from same monolithic codebase makes a lot of sense. You get to choose resources per service, but can get the benefits of sharing code/tests.
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by metalrain 1y ago
Exactly, describing more complex compositions, lighting, image enchancements/filters there is so many things you know how it looks but to describe it such that LLM gets it and will reproduce it is pretty difficult. Sometimes sketching
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by metalrain 1y ago
It's a good reminder that AI chats won't make web searches obsolete, just embed them at deeper in the stack. Maybe Google search revenue moves from ads to more towards B2B deals for search API use.
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by metalrain 1y ago
If there would be massive EMP that fried all chips around me, I would be for short while somewhat useless. Most of what I've done is in software, I could not build computer from electronic parts, not even full adder from memory. Maybe
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by metalrain 1y ago
Why? They need tens of millions of users for that valuation.
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by metalrain 2y ago
Even when software you use aren't malicious and are implemented in safe manner, how do you make sure they are used in way you want? Let's say you have MCP server that allows modification of local file system and MCP server that mo
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by metalrain 2y ago
I remember one time when I got my daily step counter alert when I was eating chips on a sofa. I chuckled. For step counting they really seem to only track certain hand motions, I though they would somehow notice how feet hits the ground and
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by metalrain 2y ago
So what happens if Google sells Chrome? Who will buy it? Will they be as advertising/tracking heavy as Google is? Is there any other reason to own Chrome? Is it any better if Meta, Alibaba, Microsoft or any other big company with money
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by metalrain 2y ago
JSON Patch solves real problem, but when you have that problem you wish you didn't have it. Often you can split the document in smaller subdocuments that are easier to work with.
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by metalrain 2y ago
Fatigue problem isn't solved by having more technology, it's about human condition. There is always push/pull between doing new things vs keeping things same.
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by metalrain 2y ago
Very reasonable, solving bugs one layer deeper can be very valuable, if you don't go too deep into the rabbit hole.

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