miki123211

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by miki123211 1mo ago
I didn't have any specific app in mind (I have stories but not with this specific industry); I brought it up as an illustrative but hypothetical example of the broader phenomenon. The Applause thing is absolutely real though.
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by miki123211 1mo ago
And then there's the problem of undocummented / illegal immigrants that the US has, which nevertheless can often get some state services and have enough ID to pass by. Because it's a political issue, nobody can either legaliz
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by miki123211 1mo ago
I think Pope Leo would respectfully disagree. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/pope-leo-xiv-bank-cust...
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by miki123211 1mo ago
What PE loves to do (and where I think a lot of the vibe comes from) is buying companies from owners who care about the craft and turning them into companies that care about nothing but money. Let's say you make an app for first respon
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by miki123211 2mo ago
I don't use Linux (on the desktop, I use it on headless machines), yet I still agree with this statement. When I saw that title, I thought the note would be about their "incredible journey", fortunately that is not the case.
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by miki123211 2mo ago
> These patterns invalidate every later thinking block: • [...] Rebuilding the top-level system prompt or tools array between requests in the same conversation. Many people unknowingly do this (at a high cost to them because of the c
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by miki123211 2mo ago
The designers of the internet made one fundamental mistake, namely applying meatspace norms to cyberspace. In the "real world", you don't really need that much security. Your actual security comes from the fact that all the w
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by miki123211 2mo ago
> Truly native > Built on GTK[...] If it's built on GTK, it's not "truly native" on anything but Linux (and with the lack of accessibility to boot). If you're not crafting your own NSButtons and such, you are
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by miki123211 2mo ago
Because they're all in countries who would ignore such litigation.
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by miki123211 2mo ago
The temptation to offer different / inferior / limited content to scrapers will be too strong, so such solutions are doomed to fail. This would likely work as "Cloudflare SideChannel", a (hypothetical) Cloudflare product
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by miki123211 2mo ago
I highly doubt the adversaries actually care about kernel.org in particular. It's more likely that they're trying to scrape the entire internet, and cgit is just unfortunate enough to have autogenerated pages, where each page seem
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by miki123211 2mo ago
And if you're a bot operating at scale, you can use different devices for crawling and challenge solving. Do you have an underpowered TV box that would need hours to solve difficulty 6? Do you also have a Windows box where somebody ins
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by miki123211 2mo ago
I view types as "the thing that prevents programmers and agents alike from writing bad and incorrect code in the future". They're a way of encoding invariants that doesn't require the programmer to worry about accidental
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by miki123211 2mo ago
This goes even deeper than that. Users don't choose their university by how good that university's software is (just as we don't choose apartment complexes and power companies this way). This gives university IT no incentive
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by miki123211 2mo ago
It's very hard to make a TUI (or a web app) that has 0 screen reader accessibility. It's also much harder to make a TUI that has great screen reader accessibility (it's much easier for web apps). "native" apps are a
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by miki123211 2mo ago
Such buttons are more visible to (screen reader) users who navigate the web exclusively with arrow keys. Landmarks are important, but to navigate by landmark, you need to be experienced enough to know the right quicknav keys. Some beginner
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by miki123211 2mo ago
"Scroll to content" doesn't mean what you think it means. It doesn't scroll to the "useful" part of an article. It doesn't skip past the introduction / filler / two pages of "this is how my
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by miki123211 2mo ago
Color coding doesn't decrease usability for disabled people (and I say that as a screen reader user). You just need to ensure that color is not the only way the relevant information is conveyed.
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by miki123211 2mo ago
The chips in these cards are a perfect example of a computer you own but don't control, and when that's a good thing. The only reason fast transit cards work is that the chips on them are under control of the transit agency, and
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by miki123211 2mo ago
> a computer can never be sad or horny or have taste Neither can a record player. Nevertheless, we consume recorded music.
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by miki123211 2mo ago
In the 21st century, the only professions that can successfully unionize are those you can't replace with workers from a non-unionized country. If your students are in Oklahoma, your teachers also have to be in Oklahoma. If the Oklahom
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by miki123211 2mo ago
I think large-scale systems are optimal when the number of tasks is relatively bounded and costs don't matter. When you're doing something "at scale", you want smaller models, weaker heuristics and rules written in code,
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by miki123211 2mo ago
Yes! As long as you have some criteria to judge the final answer, you can do a kind of "prompt-side RLVR", where you have the model generate prompt changes, try a bunch of different prompts and see which ones improve the results.
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by miki123211 2mo ago
I heavily disagree. Nvidia has a strong interest in open source AI being a strong contender to proprietary models. They don't want a single AI company to win, as that company would then have enormous leverage over Nvidia, and could per
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by miki123211 2mo ago
I really want this for Whisper, particularly in some kind of a power-efficient, portable form factor. I think people underestimate how much of a revolution having an always-on, privacy-preserving personal notetaker / secretary would be
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by miki123211 2mo ago
Same with telecom companies. We don't really have the demand for as many telecom companies as actually exist in the world. There's a reason we just have one Whatsapp and one Instagram, not three or four almost-but-not-quite clones
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by miki123211 2mo ago
TBH, most government bureaucracy is just pure overhead connected to a jobs program. A competent government, focused on delivering the services that citizens are actually entitled to, not on paying clerks or avoiding career-ending events at
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by miki123211 2mo ago
Alternatively, modern AI is good enough at optimizing its own kernels that it just keeps pushing costs down. Unlike the semi-decentralized inference provider community, OpenAI has both the talent and the compute to throw at the problem of m
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by miki123211 2mo ago
The frontier labs have competing goals in mind. They want high growth (which means little friction for account creation), API access (because enterprise money is the best money to have), and distillation protection. Besides, identity verifi
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by miki123211 2mo ago
I spent 5 minutes on this and still couldn't figure out a way to sign in with my own subscription / direct API key. They're claiming it's possible, but the onboarding is thoroughly broken.

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