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by xnorswap 1y ago
Using LLM's in any unfamiliar context is dangerous. When asking them anything, always follow up with: "Are you sure?". Far too often it'll cheerily apologise and correct their own answer.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
It doesn't stop specialized malware, but it stops clipjacking. Security isn't an absolute. You're not trying to stop all vectors, you're just trying to put up a barrier to trip up by far the most common and easy method.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Right, but the confirmation prompt could say something like, "You're sending $100k to L33tHaX0R, are you sure?" But that would require the protocol to also have the ability to set friendly names against public addresses. You
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by xnorswap 1y ago
You've reminded me of how I near bricked the family 386 because I wanted to more easily play GORILLAS.BAS. I was quite used to loading it up in QBASIC.EXE and then executing it to play. But I wanted to just run it by opening the file i
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I guess I shall screen record it, this is new-ish windows 11 laptop. ( This might also be a "new outlook" vs "out outlook" thing? )
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Your post seems entirely anachronistic. 2007 is the year we did get video streaming services: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer Steam was selling games, even third party ones, for years by 2007. I'm not su
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by xnorswap 1y ago
You're probably right, I'm likely massively underestimating the time, it's long enough to be noticable, but not so long that it feels instantly frustrating the first time, it just contributes to an overall sluggishness.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
It vastly depends on what software you're forced to use. Here's some software I use all the time, which feels horribly slow, even on a new laptop: Slack. Switching channels on slack, even when you've just switched so it'
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I'm not asking for default loading sites into readability mode, just that the button to load a site in readability mode isn't arbitrarily hidden. I don't understand how hiding a button is "giving users control". Wou
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Why not just always show it?
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Somehow this site is both plain HTML yet also blocks the Firefox reader button, rendering it unreadable. ( Edit: Browsing to https://justfuckingusehtml.com/index.html shows the reader button, I guess Firefox has a really du
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by xnorswap 1y ago
AI autocomplete can be infuriating if like me, you like to browse the public methods and properties by dotting the type. The AI autocomplete sometimes kicks in and starts writing broken code using suggestions that don't exist and that
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by xnorswap 1y ago
You shut down someone disagreeing because: > [...] what matters is what the judges decided But then say > SQL schemas are basically the opposite of file layouts Which is you disagreeing with what a judge has decided? It seems hypocrit
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I want to believe that can work. There's a neat idealism to the final approver being responsible for any bug fixes. It's encourages knowledge sharing prevent knowledge silos; the approver needs to be well versed enough to fix bugs
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by xnorswap 1y ago
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I'm not following you at all?
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by xnorswap 1y ago
It looks like it's limited to 10 requests per minute, it's less of a hug and more of a gentle brush past. It's documented as "Per IP", but I'm willing to bet either that documentation is wrong, or it's pic
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by xnorswap 1y ago
People who make statements like that are the kind of people you dread will pick up your pull request. You just know you're going to go from maybe spending an hour cleaning up some suggestions to a 3-day philosophical battle to get them
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by xnorswap 1y ago
It no longer works for virgin media (UK cable monopoly). I got myself into a loop where no matter what I did, there was no human in the loop. Even the "threaten to cancel" trick didn't work, still just chatbots / automat
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I agree there's a teaching problem happening somewhere. I'm not sure I blame CS-education since I'd wager that most developers don't have a formal CS background. I too regularly however come across people who believe som
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by xnorswap 2y ago
My layman understanding is that it's the other way around, C doesn't have a string type. Since C doesn't have a string type, "quoted strings" are actually char[] but with '\0' as an extra last character. P
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by xnorswap 2y ago
What surprises me is how much people on this site underestimate facebook. Facebook literally is the internet for millions of people. Facebook marketplace is far larger than craigslist and ebay combined, even if you take both of those at t
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I'm confused about what exactly constitutes "slam door", because wikipedia says they were last in operation 2005, but there were definitely still the type of "open the window to open manually" type used on the Readi
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by xnorswap 2y ago
If you're not claiming to be me, then I can't see why you shouldn't be able to use the name xnorswap, especially if that's your company name. I don't own the name, and if you have your own presence under that name,
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I did say that, it's the very next line: > Verification should always have been "This is who they say they are", not an endorsement
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I knew a pedant would get me on that. I'm talking about people, who are still verifiably the same people, becoming unverified. Yes, where accounts have changed hands, or changed identity, they should be unverified. That's actually
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Among other reasons, if you allow acquisitions then you allow being taken over through a reverse takeover. If you're a small company, then you can "acquire" a larger company which then absorbs the original company. You can fu
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Even before the takeover accounts could be "unverified", which makes a mockery of the concept of verification. Verification should always have been "This is who they say they are", not an endorsement. The "algorithm
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I've been thinking some more about this, and it occurred to me that you'd want to encode sentence boundaries as a pseudo-word in the n-tuples. I then realised that "[period] <word>" would likely dominate most commo
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I wonder how much accuracy would be improved if expanding from single words to the most common pairs or n-tuples. You would need more computation to hash, but I bet adding frequency of the top 50 word-pairs and top 20 most common 3-tuples w

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