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by mwcampbell 1y ago
This! I'm tired of the constant calls to be as mediocre as we can get away with, in the name of getting things done faster and cheaper.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
Would it be feasible, with hayro-interpret and krilla, to take an existing PDF and round-trip each of the pages while wrapping the contents in marked content spans and adding tags, to remediate the accessibility of an existing PDF? Round-tr
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
Are there places where it reliably saves time, though? Unlike most software tools, LLMs are stochastic, right?
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
Why do you say that? I'm in agreement with the other responses, and this thread has prompted me to start a recurring donation to the Internet Archive.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
Want to share any links, particularly about building one's own Debian image? I'm especially curious about the bootloader.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
> Are there even any social networks anymore? Mastodon?
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
> (outside of very RAM-constrained hardware, at least) I've spent much of my career working on desktop software, especially on Windows, and especially programs that run continuously in the background. I've become convinced that
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
Can we all please stop complaining about async Rust and just acknowledge that the problem they were solving was both really hard and urgent for the success of the language (particularly given priorities among the most well-resourced tech co
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
As the article mentions, Windows introduced a futex-like thing in Windows 8. I know that the original Win32 critical section is based on a kernel-level semaphore. What about the SRW lock introduced in Vista?
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
Have you looked at using accessibility APIs, such as UI Automation on Windows, to augment screenshots and simulated mouse clicks?
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Is using AI wrong? A review of six popular anti-AI arguments(seangoedecke.com)
4 points by mwcampbell 1y ago|0 comments
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
Does your Eloquence installation include multiple languages? The one I have is only 1876 KB for US English only. And classic DECtalk is even smaller; I have here a version that's only 638 KB (again, US English only).
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
> (If you are good, remote work with high TC is definitely available.) But how good do you have to be at things other than the work itself (edit: and how lucky as well) to land one of those jobs with higher compensation? For someone outs
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
I think I made a conscious effort in my 30s not to become a crusty old Python dev. But I predict that in another decade or two, I (now in my 40s) will be a crusty old Rust dev.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
So then in this version, when someone escapes the Matrix, they're really just having their consciousness switched to a different simulated world?
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
Why do you think the anti-AI side has highly motivated reasoning?
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
I wonder if it's actually accurate to attribute authorship to the model. As I understand it, the code is actually derived from all of the text that went into the training set. So, strictly speaking, I guess proper attribution is imposs
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
For an extended, colorful telling of the experience outlined in that paper, check out Bryan's earliest recorded talk on DTrace, particularly the section starting at the timestamp in this link: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
The argument you're responding to is effective enough, based solely on the fact that it has led me to second-guess whether I chose the right line of work, that it would be worth expounding on what you think is wrong with it.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
I aspire to live up to your description of the best sort of developer. But I think there might also be a danger that that approach can turn into an excuse for spending the week overthinking (possibly while goofing off as well; I've don
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
Ah, OK. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if Electron made it work by weakening the sandboxing. Someone should look into that though before we assume that's the case.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
Why do you say the way Chrome does it requires custom installer logic? Electron is able to use Chromium's sandbox for renderer processes without imposing any installer requirements as far as I know.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
It should be uncontroversial to say that we understand the failure modes of working with other people much better, because we have millennia of experience with that.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
So why not wait and find out what those useful and not-so-harmful bits actually are, if there are any?
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Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do(baldurbjarnason.com)
17 points by mwcampbell 1y ago|11 comments
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AccessKit: Reusable UI Accessibility [video](youtube.com)
3 points by mwcampbell 1y ago|0 comments
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
You present that title as if it's obviously outlandish, but I think that earlier article does a reasonably good job of backing up that title.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
He explained why he hasn't tried it in the section "The Challenge". Also see footnote 21, which says that what he called his "quirky constraints" in the main text are really bedrock ethical concerns. I respect him a
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
I disagree with you on this. Artists, writers, and programmers deserve equal protection, and this means that tptacek is right to criticize nerd piracy culture. In other words, we programmers should respect artists and writers too.
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by mwcampbell 1y ago
> there's no escaping it no matter how much you might want to And if we accept that inevitability, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The fact that some people _want_ us to give in is a reason to keep resisting.

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