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by vaylian 7mo ago
> which don't have any common social connections How would you actually know this? Facebook is a surveillance company, but they are not omniscient.
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by vaylian 7mo ago
Those two things are unrelated to each other. And yes, we can do without age verification and we can have E2E encryption. Age verification is causing more harm than good. It also doesn't meaningfully help with any of the problems menti
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by vaylian 7mo ago
Part of the problem is: No one currently knows where these "massive changes" will lead to. It's also not clear if more people working in the trades will be a good macroeconomic alternative either.
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by vaylian 7mo ago
Speed is useful, when you have a good idea or a hypothesis you want to test. But if you are running in the wrong direction, speed is of very little value. With LLMs it might be even harder to stop and realize that you are creating the wrong
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Some things just take time(lucumr.pocoo.org)
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by vaylian 7mo ago
> Wouldn’t it be ironic if all the early adopters were the losers because they liked the hacky nature of it? This happened to a lot of early computer adopters, low level programmers, etc. Relevant XKCD: 598
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by vaylian 7mo ago
That's not quite what they write: > Might I be 7% more effective if I'd suffered through the early years? Maybe. But so what? I could just as easily have wasted my time learning something which never took off.
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by vaylian 7mo ago
And thus it is reasonable to not use LLMs. And it's not only the training process that's problematic. There are so many individual LLM users who waste electricity on tasks that they would have solved by thinking for themselves jus
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by vaylian 7mo ago
> Having done a fair bit of logging to databases with various scripts, I believe this was a simple matter of overflowing the SQL column length for a field, causing the entire INSERT to fail. This is a common beginner mistake when you fir
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by vaylian 7mo ago
> It's one of the slowest languages on the planet It's fast enough for many use cases. That doesn't mean that there is no room for optimization, but this is far less a deciding factor these days. > it's not type sa
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by vaylian 7mo ago
The lead dev seems to think about using AI with FastAPI already: https://tiangolo.com/ideas/library-agent-skills/
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by vaylian 7mo ago
What language is universally better than Python? I don't think Python is perfect, but it is definitely one of the best languages out there. It is elegant and it is has a huge ecosystem of libraries, frameworks and tutorials. There is a
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by vaylian 7mo ago
Neocities is picking up the slack: https://neocities.org/
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by vaylian 7mo ago
The greatest barrier to understanding is not lack of knowledge but incorrect knowledge. That's why good names matter. And naming things is hard, which is why it makes sense to comment on variable names in a review.
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by vaylian 7mo ago
> I will lose the credibility There's grammatical mistakes and then there is sloppiness. Only the second makes me disregard someone's comment. > I will lose the credibility of my message if there is too much mistake... The c
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by vaylian 7mo ago
What would the benefit of that procedure be?
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by vaylian 7mo ago
> why should rest of society cater to them? Because these undocumented people are still humans. They deserve access to information services. It's as simple as that.
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by vaylian 7mo ago
It implies that the user has access to the technical infrastructure that supports age verification. Sucks to be you, if you can't afford a recent Apple or Android device to run the AgeVerification app. There is also the problem of miss
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by vaylian 7mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260313125244/https://old.reddi...
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by vaylian 7mo ago
"Left behind" in terms of speed or are there other aspects that people are missing out on?
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by vaylian 7mo ago
This is intriguing. But I wish there was a rationale/philosophy document on that site, that explains what the intentions and use-cases behind this project are. Given that cryptography is such a fundamental part of the design, I wonder
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by vaylian 7mo ago
I like simple solutions. But paper has severe storage capacity limitations, which makes it impractical for storing large amounts of data.
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by vaylian 7mo ago
The instructions say that rows 2 and 3 in the template can be either lower or upper case. How does the website determine the case in those rows? Does it simply check if row 1 looks different from the other rows?
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by vaylian 8mo ago
Obligatory comic: https://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/201... But they are still a tech company. So it is likely that this will also affect tech workers.
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by vaylian 8mo ago
Source: https://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
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by vaylian 8mo ago
You technically don't even need a 300MHz processor for the use cases that you name. But Intel and others kept developing faster CPUs anyway.
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by vaylian 8mo ago
Cool. Any information on what will be included in the next release?
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by vaylian 8mo ago
Helix has built-in Tree Sitter support. > "Move to end of the scope" You can select the current syntax object under the cursor with alt+o and expand the selection to the enclosing syntax objects with further presses of alt+o. T
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by vaylian 8mo ago
> Just watching filesystem for file changes This is non-trivial, if you want to do it efficiently. On Linux you can set up an inotify listener for individual files, but not for entire directories. This also breaks down if you are working
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by vaylian 8mo ago
> you can only use AI on Helix through LSP How do other editors do this, if they don't use LSPs? Helix specifically choses LSP as the integration mechanism (in combination with TreeSitter) for supporting different programming lang

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