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by mubou 1y ago
Blaming all of frontend for Next.js' issues is a bit much, but I agree; people have been complaining about Next.js for a long time. It's slow, complicated, and a PITA if you need to do anything outside the box. Unfortunately, opti
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by mubou 1y ago
Technical description: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/blob/master/protoc...
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by mubou 1y ago
I was going to pass this off as another trash OpenAI frontend, but it's actually a legitimate machine learning project! They even trained a custom model for it. Well done. I wish we got more interesting ML work like this on HN, instead
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by mubou 1y ago
I've always considered it more a "willingness to learn / problem solve" rather than intelligence, although I suppose the two may be correlated. Most people I've seen who can't handle technology give up at the f
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by mubou 1y ago
I wish it were more common for open source licenses to have an attribution clause, like Apache does with its (optional) NOTICE files. When you put years of effort into a work, you deserve credit for it. Edit: Actually, using a library via a
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by mubou 1y ago
Another good option is to actually just use puppeteer (headless chrome)
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by mubou 1y ago
https://archive.is/0vfWF This article is a huge nothing-burger that seems to hinge on the sentence "some would-be AI sleuths claim that the em dash is seldom seen outside of AI text," which is just plain nonsense.
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by mubou 1y ago
tl;dr: by putting them in the home directory Everyone does this; it's pretty standard. Using XDG directories (~/.local/bin) is most common nowadays, but hey, you do you. It does annoy me that cargo has its own bin directory i
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by mubou 1y ago
No, in XP you were essentially logged in as root 24/7 (assuming it was your machine), and any program -- including your browser -- was running as root too. I remember watching a talk about how stupidly easy it was to write rootkits for
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by mubou 1y ago
Another often-underappreciated advancement was the UAC added in Vista. People hated it, but viruses and rootkits were a major problem for XP.
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by mubou 1y ago
Probably didn't help that Clip Studio is predominantly used by Japanese artists, and virtually all models capable of producing anime-style images were trained on a dataset of their own, stolen pixiv art.
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by mubou 1y ago
If you use stable diffusion to make an image, are you "drawing"? Coding is the act of writing code. Prompting an AI until it poops out a half-working product is not writing code. Having the editor/copilot generate some boiler
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by mubou 1y ago
I'm not really understanding what this does specifically. It looks like it creates the filesystem on the host machine using chroot and then tarballs it? Is there an advantage to that over combining layers and using cache mounts to avoi
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by mubou 1y ago
How much do you think you would need to implement in the language before you can write the Shard compiler in Shard?
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by mubou 1y ago
I think what you're looking for is an `internal` modifier. This allows class members to be public within a library, but private outside it. It's been proposed since 2015: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScrip
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by mubou 1y ago
"Yes, we totally meant to do that" Anyone who got the update (I keep mine paused as long as humanly possible, security be damned), did it actually install IIS?
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by mubou 1y ago
What do they even hope to accomplish with that? Get you hired? Or bait & switch the client? In any case, you should talk to your company's legal team (and not randos on the internet). Whatever the former employer is doing, it sound
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by mubou 2y ago
Torrenters are probably the #1 customer for VPNs, so advertising in places that will reach those potential customers makes perfect sense, and not desperate at all IMO.
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by mubou 2y ago
`fs::recursive_directory_iterator` Oof. You might want to look into how voidtools' Everything works before calling this "efficient." (The fastest windows search tools don't actually recurse the filesystem, but instead re
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by mubou 2y ago
It can even export as Mermaid? That's awesome. I could see that being super useful as a way to take a db schema and turn it into a chart for a github readme. Definitely bookmarking this. Btw, the SQL import doesn't seem to work fo
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by mubou 2y ago
Windows Defender. If I download a sketchy binary, I'll run it through VirusTotal, but there's no reason to have any of that junk running on my PC all the time.
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by mubou 2y ago
So much empty space. Does anyone else miss compact, purposeful UI designs?
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by mubou 2y ago
That's fair. I do wish error handling in Rust were easier (try blocks have been in "unstable" for almost a decade). Panicking probably shouldn't have existed in the first place.
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by mubou 2y ago
I still have redirects on my blog for URL patterns that old versions of my site used 10-15 years ago. I'm confident that no one has ever bookmarked or linked to those pages (no one's reading my blog lol), but it's a matter of
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by mubou 2y ago
LLMs don't approximate human thought , though. They approximate language . That's it. Please, I'm begging you, go read some papers and watch some videos about machine learning and how LLMs actually work. It is not "thi
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by mubou 2y ago
Of course, you're right. Neural networks mimic exactly that after all. I'm certain we'll see an ML model developed someday that fully mimics the human brain. But my point is an LLM isn't that; it's a language model
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by mubou 2y ago
It's not age-old nor is it controversial. LLMs aren't intelligent by any stretch of the imagination. Each word/token is chosen as that which is statistically most likely to follow the previous. There is no capability for unde
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by mubou 2y ago
> A server that demands a client to trust its certificate and to work with up to date encryption methods raises a barrier and shuts people out. Going to need to back up this statement somehow, because the only time I've seen TLS pos
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by mubou 2y ago
> I'm referring to the fact that the rust code panics at the slightest sign of discomfort. That's kind of up to you as the developer though. I generally avoid writing functions that can panic -- I'd even argue any non-test
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by mubou 2y ago
On top of that, I hear the RAW format on some smartphones is saved after the phone does its fake-HDR and computational photography bullshit, so it's even further from "raw" with those cameras.

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