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pennomi
9mo ago
There will always, ALWAYS be the analog hole in security models like this.
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pennomi
9mo ago
GIMP fought against single window mode for ages despite the majority of people wanting it.
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pennomi
9mo ago
It’s really hard, because they’re trying to use a hammer as a hacksaw. It was simply made with ridiculous technology choices.
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pennomi
9mo ago
TUI development is a lost art these days, apparently.
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pennomi
9mo ago
Someone should have told God that when he gave Moses the 10 commandments. They sure have a lot of “Thou shalt not” in there.
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pennomi
10mo ago
We absolutely CAN limit how many homes people are allowed to own. Whether or not we SHOULD is the argument here.
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pennomi
10mo ago
Fan works of Star Wars have long been as good or better than the official releases. The world would be a much richer place if anyone was free to create whatever they wanted.
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pennomi
10mo ago
Filling in creeper holes and cutting down floating trees left by my children is a never ending job though.
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pennomi
10mo ago
If only that truly was a unique trait…
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pennomi
10mo ago
Surely a simple filter by number of stars on a project would improve the quality of code LLMs ingest.
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pennomi
10mo ago
Hot take, nobody should trust anybody. Trustless systems could certainly exist for this, if the government took the time to care.
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pennomi
10mo ago
Which is silly, specifically for telecoms, because get don’t make their money on the standard , they make it on providing the service .
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pennomi
10mo ago
Sometimes you can even get your gullible users to spread those “not ads” for you! Sent from my iPhone
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pennomi
10mo ago
Very spicy containers if they get damaged.
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pennomi
11mo ago
You search for “Canon cameras” and a search result ad shows you where to buy a Canon camera in your area.
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pennomi
11mo ago
Search. If they are interested, they will look for your thing.
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pennomi
11mo ago
3D printing isn’t entirely about automation, it’s also a way to get shapes that are impossible to manufacture traditionally. Modern rocket engines almost all use 3D printing because the shapes are so highly optimized.
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pennomi
11mo ago
Should be easy, it’s not like there’s any legacy code out there written in JS.
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pennomi
11mo ago
No, but it’s a well-established fact that some CAs are run by governments, some of which are publicly trusted by browsers.
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pennomi
11mo ago
Ah but then how would nations spy on people by compromising the root certificate?
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pennomi
11mo ago
As context size increases, AI becomes exponentially dumber. Most established software is far, FAR too large for AI. But small, greenfield projects are amazing for something like Claude Code.
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pennomi
11mo ago
Fine means small, and it’s not a terribly uncommon definition, especially when talking about materials, like paper or textiles.
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pennomi
11mo ago
Over reliance on investors who demand profits more than engineering. The best innovation always happens before being tainted by investment.
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pennomi
11mo ago
Easy, create a DSL that represents dialogue in a visual novel style game. Add some branching, looping, and variables, maybe some labels for jumping to and you’re good. Tada! You’ve basically reinvented Ren’Py.
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pennomi
11mo ago
Cursor is also vulnerable to prompt injection through third-party content.
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pennomi
11mo ago
Right, you’d have to deny the LLM access to online resources AND all web-capable tools… which severely limits an agent’s capabilities.
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1y ago
The problem with adding definitions to words like “thinking” and “free will” is that doing so means humans can no longer pretend they are special. Even in this thread, the number of people claiming some mystical power separating humans from
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1y ago
95% of them can’t turn a block of flint into a spearhead either. Without skills like these, how will the younger generation hunt mammoths?
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1y ago
And let’s not forget how smart octopuses are! If they lived longer than a couple years, I’d put them in the running too.
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1y ago
Sure they have. We see every level of cognition in animals today, and the fossil record proves that they all came from the same evolutionary tree. For every species that can claim cognition (there’s lots of them), you can trace it back to p
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