yallpendantools

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by yallpendantools 4mo ago
I think the myth/claim of a 10x developer is true but only relative to said rockstar engineer's immediate environment . Put simply, the 10x developer is a 10x because they've spent ~10x more time immersed in the problem doma
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by yallpendantools 4mo ago
My thoughts are, apparently, a threat to OpenAI's valuation. lol.
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by yallpendantools 4mo ago
This was my earliest use-case for LLMs and it remains to this day as the most compelling value proposition of all the fancy new LLMs. I have always tried to abide by DRY in my programming career with the huge exception of writing unit tests
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by yallpendantools 5mo ago
I think it's not so much the technical scope that makes it "not the AI you read of as a child" but the societal impact. AI/robots/automation was supposed to usher in some kind of techno-utopia for all the good and b
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by yallpendantools 5mo ago
I'm repeating a point I made in a sub-thread but please WHY should the onus be on yt-dlp to review their decision on a project that has zero commitment to review their very code? I get the idea to "battle-test" the rewrite fi
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by yallpendantools 5mo ago
Why should yt-dlp commit to review their decision in the future about a project that makes no commitment (that I've seen) on reviewing their source code? I get the idea to "battle-test" the rewrite first but (a) how does one
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by yallpendantools 5mo ago
> I can't imagine they'd spam every account with an email address It's not "spam" if it is relevant to me, such as security incident disclosures. Also, as tiffanyh pointed out, what's wrong with Github blog
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by yallpendantools 5mo ago
So? Is this where your corporate paying clients should find out about an issue of this severity? Not to mention Twitter is not an open platform anymore! (A) I'm an employee in an organization paying for Github. (B) I don't have
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by yallpendantools 5mo ago
Ugh this is the dose of cold water from reality that I didn't want but definitely needed. More than a decade ago I had a project that used a pretty aggressive input-suggestion widget on the UI. We used a jQuery plugin for it and it was
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by yallpendantools 5mo ago
wellackshually the bloatware explicitly asked for consent. There was a checkbox at the end of the EULA asking you "I also don't agree to not install the ask.com toolbar. You wouldn't do that, would you?". There is a stat
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by yallpendantools 5mo ago
You know there are software which are so marvelously monumental, they inspire me to improve in my craft. Among them in no particular order - The Witcher 3 (honorable mention, for all its jank, Skyrim) - Sublime Text and vim - Krita and Proc
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by yallpendantools 6mo ago
Double tinfoil hat mode: an attacker learned of my plan to finally update my personal computer out of 20.04 today and is DDoSing canonical so I can't do that and I remain vulnerable to the backdoors they've found. The plot thicken
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by yallpendantools 6mo ago
Man, this SUCKS big time for me. Just a few months ago, $PARENT_CONGLOMERATE mandated all under its benevolent wing to migrate to GitHub for reasons of synergy and efficiency. So now it's my turn at $DAYJOB to be migrating us from our
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by yallpendantools 6mo ago
> Y'all have no idea how high impact cats are. > inconsiderate of 1 in every 10 people in public spaces. It's high-impact for you but low-impact for humanity in general or even just for businesses with a rat problem. 1 in
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by yallpendantools 6mo ago
Is there a tenable workflow for the marketing department to use a SSG over Wordpress? - WYSIWYG editor is table stakes. The lovely folks at marketing once thought I was hacking when I `ps -eaf`-ed in an unresponsive Macbook. - They "pu
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by yallpendantools 7mo ago
Why are some numbers skipped? E.g., 58 [59 60] 61 [62] 63 64 65 66 67 68 [69] 70
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by yallpendantools 7mo ago
I beg to differ that "the technology is here". Everyone I see who uses voice commands have to speak in a very contrived manner so that the computer can understand them properly. Computer vision systems still run into all sorts of
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by yallpendantools 7mo ago
I think you make a good point but also, honestly, VR seemed so beyond Facebook's depth. Zuck, IMO, was reaching for a pie on a table at the other end of the room. I understand the whole point of acquiring Oculus was to get allies on th
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by yallpendantools 7mo ago
> That's why I had kept my pixel 4a for years until is finally kicked the bucket 2 years ago. RIP I'm sure it was a noble device. My Pixel 3a is currently my wireless router for very German reasons. I worry this will kill off t
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by yallpendantools 7mo ago
Is BLE the only way for Bluetooth to have multiple connections? I'm no audiophile but in my experience, the audio quality noticeably drops when multiple devices are connected (I've only ever had at most two at a time). I reasoned
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by yallpendantools 7mo ago
Actually, a week ahead of the BBC, my sister informed me wired headphones are making a comeback. With a smug grin I told her, "Comeback? It never left my side." I've had to ally myself with a brand I've once sworn off ju
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by yallpendantools 8mo ago
The parent post I was replying to: > banning advertising on the Internet. It's the only way. It's the primordial domino tile. You knock that one over, every other tile follows suit. It's the mother of chain reactions. You,
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by yallpendantools 8mo ago
Ads per se are not evil. The motherfucker we'd want to shoot, however, is targeted advertising and especially those that rely on harvested user data. In a sense, I'm just agreeing with a fellow comment in the vicinity of this
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by yallpendantools 8mo ago
Goodness if that's true... And I actually felt bad when they banned me from the free tier of LFS.
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by yallpendantools 8mo ago
> This topic is being discussed endlessly everyday on all major platforms and for the past year or so the consensus is strongly against using copilot. So it would be easy to link me to something that shows this consensus, right? It would
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by yallpendantools 8mo ago
> Copilot is notoriously bad. "notoriously bad" is news to me. I find no indication from online sources that would warrant the label "notoriously bad". https://arxiv.org/html/2409.19922v1#S6 from
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by yallpendantools 8mo ago
Butting in here but as I have the same sentiment as monkaiju: I'm working on a legacy (I can't emphasize this enough) Java 8 app that's doing all sorts of weird things with class loaders and dynamic entities which, among othe
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by yallpendantools 9mo ago
Which just begs the question, how much can you really change social media? How much are you really in control of your feed? This is where the "pubic square" analogy breaks down. Besides, there are a lot of communication mediums&
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by yallpendantools 9mo ago
I'm just getting an anti-bot filter page then an age verification and then nothing.
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by yallpendantools 9mo ago
"Well actually..." As the word-setter this might be an own-goal. As a word guesser, a random haphazard tactic might get you the word. I'll Monte-Carlo my point but I have a warm bath tub waiting...

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