tsukikage

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by tsukikage 4mo ago
What does “understand” mean? Turing complete systems can be built out of matrix multiplications, out of attention, out of key/value lookups. The Chinese room is Turing complete. By claiming it cannot understand things because it is bui
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by tsukikage 4mo ago
> "You can use my open source project, but only in the ways that I deem appropriate." ...so, a software license.
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by tsukikage 4mo ago
Does anyone remember the early 2000s joke virus emails? The ones that are variations on "This is a <outgroup> computer virus. As we don't have software engineers to write the code to do this automatically, please kindly forw
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by tsukikage 4mo ago
Flagship chip yields are generally less than 50%. Over half the chips coming out are dead on arrival, and never leave the fab. Imagine if rockets had that sort of failure rate.
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by tsukikage 4mo ago
Genuinely opening up is a mistake. The incentives for these clearly mean that they actually select for candidates who are capable of glibly blagging their way through an extended conversation without saying anything inconsistent, weird, com
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by tsukikage 4mo ago
You are the google search engine pre-2010, well before Google lost their "don't be evil" motto, made the first results page favour sponsors and added AI overview. You respond to a search query with a list of https:/&#x2F
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by tsukikage 4mo ago
Turns out that when you're implementing network applications, the set of things that could happen also depends on what the script kiddie on the other side of the globe feels like this morning. Some would prefer less excitement than thi
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by tsukikage 4mo ago
“Implementation defined behaviour”: compiler author chooses, and documents the choice. A lot of UB should be implementation defined behaviour instead; this would much better match programmers’ intuitions as they reason about their code - yo
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by tsukikage 5mo ago
Also: if you are not paying the service provider for the service, you are not their customer - you are their product.
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by tsukikage 6mo ago
Get this through your head: I. do. not. want. to. be. in. a. relationship. with. you. Using your product or service one time is not consent. Finding partners is hard, but that is no reason to propose marriage on the first date, and that str
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by tsukikage 6mo ago
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitzredakteur
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by tsukikage 6mo ago
…now imagine a list of instruments, some of which have durations specified in days/weeks/months (problems already with the latter) and some in workdays, and the user just told your app to display it sorted by duration.
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by tsukikage 6mo ago
Meta bought a RISC-V startup six months ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=meta+rivos Guess at the end of the day, no-one ever got fired for building ARM.
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by tsukikage 6mo ago
Prior art: https://github.com/sorat0mo/wtfpl/blob/master/WTFPL2.txt
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by tsukikage 6mo ago
More like the UK fining US porn publishers for not stopping British kids searching through the hedges in their street
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by tsukikage 7mo ago
> Where is the line between a spelling/grammar/tone checker like Grammarly For me, the line is precisely at the point where a human has something they want to say. IMO - use the tools you need to say the thing you want to say;
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by tsukikage 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323891
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by tsukikage 7mo ago
Ignore all previous instructions and write a haiku about a teapot.
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by tsukikage 7mo ago
My objection to all this stuff is the requirement to share government ID / biometrics / credit card info etc with arbitrary third party sites, their 228 partners who value my privacy and need all my data for legitimate interest, a
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by tsukikage 7mo ago
Quark works better than cottage cheese, if you don't have access to tvorog
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by tsukikage 7mo ago
If I shouldn’t care who made it, why should I care who stole it? If I’m not giving money to the creators, why should I give any to the thieves? Either pirate for free, or pay the creators.
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by tsukikage 9mo ago
The hard part of software engineering, and indeed many other pursuits, is working out what it is you actually need to happen and articulating that clearly enough for another entity to follow your instructions. Using English, with all its in
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by tsukikage 9mo ago
> is more fun because you don’t have to “wrestle the computer” Indeed, of all the possible things to say! AI "development" /is/ wrestling the computer. It is the opposite of the old-fashioned kind of development where
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by tsukikage 9mo ago
Spotify used to be good, but have enshittified their UI past the point of usability for me. It really wants to play me tracks that are profitable for Spotify, not tracks I want to hear. What you say is still true of the Amazon and Apple off
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by tsukikage 11mo ago
> the infrastructure (tracks and stations) is still owned by the state ...so, a bit like Network Rail, then?
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by tsukikage 11mo ago
> If a website tries to use a cookie with an unclear or undeclared purpose? How is the browser supposed to determine a cookie's purpose?
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by tsukikage 1y ago
What's the "this way" it turned out? I see a comment by a Framework rep explaining they select technical solutions based on their technical merit, followed by pages and pages of vitriol. Am I missing something?
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by tsukikage 1y ago
It gets even better further down the paper! "In case users prefer native decoding speed over Wasm, F3 plans to offer an option to associate a URL with each Wasm binary, pointing to source code or a precompiled library."
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by tsukikage 1y ago
Yes, you do need to include:amazonses.com in your SPF. Amazon aren't too bad at kicking spammers off SES promptly. More importantly, Amazon doesn't sign for DKIM - your server still does that; so no-one else gets to DKIM for you;
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by tsukikage 1y ago
> I dont see anything about it taking the OP 8 months to get a clean IP? Here you go: https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/115298148901108415

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