thwarted

5 ms·

31.
by thwarted 4mo ago
It's safer in the same sense as if you're paranoid about your date being a serial killer, you meet them in a public venue. It doesn't mean your date isn't a serial killer, but the risk profile is different because other
32.
by thwarted 4mo ago
"I need you to turn your key and enable the missile silo's MCP server, sir". ~ the opening scene from a reboot of War Games, probably. A few years ago there was consternation over the US's missile launch system using 8&q
33.
by thwarted 4mo ago
Reducing buffer size puts back pressure on the whole system, which can be valuable to manage load (but often throttles faster stages and that throttling makes people uncomfortable). A meaningful metric is how much of the buffer is used at a
34.
by thwarted 4mo ago
I remember a book I read as a pre-teen, 40 or so years ago, about a kid who wanted to be "perfect". A wear a tree of broccoli on a string around your neck to learn how to overcome embarrassment. A perfect person never makes mistak
35.
by thwarted 4mo ago
Having a key isn't a distinguishing aspect, it's the position in the "web of trust" network that is important.
36.
by thwarted 4mo ago
Interesting, TIL. That makes the conversion to @2001 even stranger.
37.
by thwarted 4mo ago
> "[IPv6:2001:etc:etc::192.etc.etc]" I'm trusting this is a throwaway example and that you used a real IPv6 address literal in this test, without the "IPv6" and with only colons and no dots (unless you mean to
38.
by thwarted 4mo ago
> There are very principled reasons why LLMs do not know how many letters are in words, and it says nothing about their facility for understanding meaning. … Tokens are the most basic input unit of an LLM. But tokens don't generall
39.
by thwarted 5mo ago
This "common sense" you refer to, is it the same common sense Babbage was subject to? "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will t
40.
by thwarted 5mo ago
> it turned out that predicting elections is still very hard So maybe we shouldn't be doing it. The value of predicting an election in the large out in public seems kind of dubious, and it's more like gambling than actually
41.
by thwarted 5mo ago
When the default "search" results are AI, it's difficult, if not impossible, to "choose", since Google is pushing the AI so hard.
42.
by thwarted 5mo ago
Sometimes a given presentation is called biased but it's not that the reporting is biased but that the actual event is or the source material is biased or lacking. "Dog bites man" is not biased against the dog if they don&#x
43.
by thwarted 5mo ago
Isn't a "centi-millionaire" someone who has $10,000? Exactly what order of magnitude of millionaire was this person?
44.
by thwarted 5mo ago
Recognizing someone's "fist" and other patterns in their communication is part of traffic analysis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis
45.
by thwarted 5mo ago
> Hundreds of job search extensions are in the scan list. LinkedIn knows which of its users are quietly looking for work before they've told their employer. … Extensions tied to political content, religious practice Why are these
46.
by thwarted 5mo ago
> To be serious, we need to talk about what cuts are to be made to SS/Medicare/Medicaid and the military. But no one wants to have that discussion The military-industrialist complex is a socialist jobs program.
47.
by thwarted 6mo ago
being specific is the essence of lawmaking and the whole difference between having a Congress and having a mom ~ P. J. O'Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"
48.
by thwarted 6mo ago
I think my favorite is wifi access points that support tftp to load a firmware image (with some kind of hardware switch to enable this state). These can be made effective unbrickable and it's really nice for experimenting.
49.
by thwarted 6mo ago
This reminded me of work to get the C64 to do 80 columns in software, using a 3x7 pixel grid (with one row and column used for spacing), some of which were part of commercial products. https://www.pagetable.com/?p=901 >
50.
by thwarted 6mo ago
> Or you can look at the analytics, which tell you everything you need to know immediately, always up to date, with perfect precision. Analytics do not tell you everything you need to know immediately. The analytics may say that no on
51.
by thwarted 6mo ago
Yes, this is why I mentioned comparative advantage.
52.
by thwarted 6mo ago
The issue here is that the sister could have used ChatGPT herself, so why bother hiring the plumber. The plumber has provided less value than was expected. But make no mistake: the value the sister was looking for was to have someone else d
53.
by thwarted 6mo ago
"Where are we? Are we where we wanted to be?" "I'm not sure. But at least we got here fast."
54.
by thwarted 6mo ago
> or whatever GitHub and the like are called GitHub is a social networking site that just so happens to have code hosting related features.
55.
by thwarted 6mo ago
Oh, a separate GitHub account that has its own forks of the repos the agent is working on. Yeah, that's probably the most secure, isolated, and safest. The merge to the canonical repo then needs to go through a human, or at least separ
56.
by thwarted 6mo ago
Generally a good idea, but I'm not sure why you should even want to fork a git repo when a local clone should be sufficient. But this is probably a terminology mixup from the way github presents forks and clones.
57.
by thwarted 6mo ago
> WiB is different from Move Fast and Break Things and again different from YAGNI though. Yes, which is why I listed all three. It's not about if the vibe coding results in any of these strictly, it's that the vibe coder can
58.
by thwarted 6mo ago
> It shows that you can build a crazy popular & successful product while violating all the traditional rules about “good” code. We already knew that. This is a matter of people who didn't know that or didn't want to ackn
59.
by thwarted 6mo ago
> can we demon strait somehow a unpriv non root user "demon strait". Was this speech to text? That might explain the punctuation and grammar.
60.
by thwarted 7mo ago
The upvotes ultimately train the bots, reenforcing the content posted. Even the most passive form of interaction has been co-opted for AI.

More ›