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by zarzavat 1y ago
After having used Claude for a couple of months it's really nowhere close. We are at the level of the original Waymo cars where they had to have a person behind the wheel ready to take the controls, just in case it inexplicably decided
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by zarzavat 1y ago
If you search back HN history to the beginnings of AI coding in 2021 you will find people observing that AI is bad for juniors because they can't distinguish between good and bad completions. There is no surprise, it's always been
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by zarzavat 1y ago
To be fair, plants are where you really need a sharp knife. There's a reason why they do these tests with tomatoes.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Thought it was just me! This started happening just today.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
The UB in this case is "you may get another value in the sandboxed memory region if you dereference an invalid pointer, rather than a guaranteed trap". You can still have UB even in a sandbox. Seems like they got overly attached t
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by zarzavat 1y ago
> AND-masking does not really allow for producing the necessary traps for invalid accesses. Why does it need to trap? Can't they just make it UB? Specifying that invalid accesses always trap is going to degrade performance, that&#x2
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by zarzavat 1y ago
I still don't understand why it's slower to mask to 33 or 34 bit rather than 32. It's all running on 64-bit in the end isn't it? What's so special about 32?
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by zarzavat 1y ago
You can't put this all on the users. The JS/node/npm projects have been mismanaged since the start. node should have shipped "batteries included" after the left-pad incident. There was a boneheaded attachment to sma
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by zarzavat 1y ago
I agree in principle, but child_process is a thing so I don't think it makes much difference. You are pwned either way if the package can ever execute code.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
If you live in Figma then you never have to use what you design.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
> so there's no benefit showing me documents, web pages, and god-knows-what-else at the same time. I always just disabled these from Spotlight. If I want to search for files I use the search bar in Finder.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
react.createElement(react.Fragment, /* React code here */)
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by zarzavat 1y ago
> I have literally never heard an argument made for react that included merits of the framework itself. That doesn't mean that those merits don't exist. Most of the new React competitors are just reinventions of HTML templating
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by zarzavat 1y ago
I'd much rather eat a cake that has the texture of a cake rather than some food science abomination. It's corporations that have taught you to desire the wrong definition of a cake. Grandmas should not be cooking cakes from boxe
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by zarzavat 1y ago
The Nordic countries have always been into social control but Denmark adds a side of paranoid ethnonationalism into the mix which leads to some very strange values.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
> set an age limit of 16 to have social media This just shows how futile it is. How do you actually stop someone from using social media? If a 15 year old signs up for Mastodon what is Australia going to do about it?
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Claude is a junior. The more you work with it, the more you get a feel for which tasks it will ace unsupervised (some subset of grunt work) and which tasks to not even bother using it for. I don't trust Claude to write reams of code th
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by zarzavat 1y ago
> Their ability to refactor a codebase goes in the toilet pretty quickly. Very much this. I tried to get Claude to move some code from one file to another. Some of the code went missing . Some of it was modified along the way. Humans ha
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by zarzavat 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Between this and Google locking down Android, one day the only way to get secure communications will be to buy Huawei etc. Thank God for China, bastion of free speech.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Then why bother backing up at all? Buy some gasoline and set your laptop on fire, you'll never get more secure than that.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
ESM has Hot Module Reloading. When you import a symbol it gives you a handle to that symbol rather than a plain reference, so that if the module changes the symbol will too.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Anthropic, if you're listening, please allow zoned access enforcement within files. I want to be able to say "this section of the file is for testing", delineated by comments, and forbid Claude from editing it without permiss
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Even print debugging is easier in a good debugger. Print debugging in frontend JS/TS is literally just writing the statement "debugger;" and saving the file. JS, unlike supposedly better designed languages, is designed to sup
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Detection is 14/15ths of the battle. Forcing attackers to produce a brand new exploit chain every few weeks massively increases attack cost which could make it uneconomical except for national security targets.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Good find, I admit I had jumped on the Thames Water is Evil bandwagon, and for the record they are evil, but in this case they have been out-eviled by that other driver of British societal regression: > Campaigners had fought the plan,
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by zarzavat 1y ago
There's actually nothing the developers can do about this particular issue other than to display all colors and allow colorblind people to see the colors that they can see.
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by zarzavat 1y ago
I guess my point is, if 20 years ago you'd said to me "In the future there'll be a CLI program where you type into a box and it writes your code for you, and it's as good as a well-studied but inexperienced junior, I&#x2
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Do we not have general AI already? What would models need to do for it to be general AI?
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by zarzavat 1y ago
Agreed, offsets are an anti-pattern. Any time you have a nonzero offset you almost certainly want either a tz name (e.g. Europe/Paris), a local datetime, an instant, or a formatted string. Datetime + tz name: a point in time and space

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