Piskvorrr

4 ms·

1.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
I mean, it is obvious for a human inspecting the one specific input and output sample, but how do you do this at scale ? (Spoiler: cross your fingers and hope, that's how)
2.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
Except when they "extract" something that wasn't in the source. And now what, assuming you can even detect the tainted data at all ? How do you fix that, when the process is literally "we throw an illegible blob at it a
3.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
In which case...what good is a model that predicts semi-randomly? Oh. ("But it works - when it works" is a tautology, not a useful model)
4.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
That is, literally, faith-based business management. "We suck, sure - but wait, a miracle will SURELY happen in version 5. Or 6. Or 789. It will happen eventually, have faith and shovel money our way."
5.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
By then, the startup will have folded, and the C-levels will have moved on to the next Idée Du Jour.
6.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
- terminally online - DLC - IRL As in, "things that happened before my Xth year of life are Normal, nay, Traditional even. Everything afterwards is Ephemeral, and possibly Heresy as well." Alas! All is ephemeral.
7.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
HTAs were equal parts great (for their time) and terrible (plus they stuck around until IE died): a bog-standard webpage, but IE-only and with local-user process execution powers. Also, the local persistence was...problematic. Only similar
8.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
I am afraid that you underestimate the power of organic, human stupidity.
9.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
How I envision this to work: - vibe code a thing - it doesn't work, but it was CHEAP - hire someone "to fix it" - actually means "rewrite most of it, but cheaper" - also means "become the scapegoat" To a d
10.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
Data at rest, also? Meanwhile, same govt. invests in LLMs slurping power by the megawatt, but surely that is an unproblem.
11.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
IDK if any pulse dialing phones (as opposed to DTMF) are still capable of reaching the phone network at large, but I'd imagine that's the use case.
12.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
An opportunity to rant about South Africa, because that's surely what the email said - honest, that came out the request to transcribe! In other words, a singularly noisy pipe. (yeah, I know, it's going to be great as soon as it
13.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
And they're a best-effort, asynchronous store-and-forget^Wforward, reply-whenever-if-at-all solution.
14.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
It moves slowly enough that the wheel will approximately never turn enough to generate significant torque.
15.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
Well that's a bit of a balancing act, isn't it? "Why isn't this feature on the site, it would be more useful to me; also, that feature is annoying and useless to me" - says literally everyone. Thus, we get a bui
16.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
TLDR: files a flight plan, then does something completely different. FAFO ensues.
17.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
And that's a great example of missing the context right there. "There's this impossibly great offer here. OF COURSE I take it, because there's no way everyone's getting fired after the first year, why would there be
18.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
Attempting to unionize. Then the factory owners hired thugs to decapitate the movement. Oh wait, that's not the disneyfied technooptimistic version of Luddites? Sorry.
19.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
Once you start taxatively naming "these are the Only Blessed Ranges," you'll be bitten by the usual brouhaha "email address ends with .[a-z]{2,3}". We all know how it went, and ".[a-z]{2,4}" didn't cu
20.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince has entered the chat. (the name was a unique symbol) Yes, all abstractions leak, there will always be edge cases. Doesn't mean "JUST USE ASCII DUH" (the lowercase extension is for the wimps
21.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
There seems to be a vast gap between "free" and "more expensive than running LLMs". Also, the water seems...more necessary. Going without LLMs for three days will not threaten your life.
22.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
"Any speech" meaning "any speech you wish to suppress," obvs. Although "make all speech technically illegal, only prosecute where convenient" has been historically authoritarians' usual next step.
23.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
And then of course, all you need to do is declare any speech pornographic. Voila, the 1st - neutered.
24.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
I have been trying. As I may not have been entirely clear the first time: It's not that hard to wrap your python/java/whatever app in a polyglot executable that will run on your Linux box, on your Mac, and on your Windo
25.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
Aspirations are nice and all. Java's had them for three decades now.
26.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
"Please note this is intended for people who don't care about desktop GUIs, and just want stdio and sockets without devops toil."
27.
by Piskvorrr 1y ago
The devil is in the details. What do you mean, "requires Windows 11"? What is even "glibc" and why do I need a different version on this Linux machine? How do I tell that the M4 needs an "arm64", why not a le
28.
by Piskvorrr 2y ago
Looks like you haven't used a decent IDE: these things have been standard for decades , locally and with minimal requirements. But wait, now it happens in the Cloud (meh, that's not gonna fly anymore, too last decade)...AND requi
29.
by Piskvorrr 2y ago
Extremely lucky, probably not. More in the sense "under different circumstances, this would have gone into the folder Uninteresting Landings, never to be viewed again." Ubiquitous smartphones mean petabytes upon petabytes of borin
30.
by Piskvorrr 2y ago
So, in essence, it's now incrementally better than a templating script (except when worse), but Have Faith, it will be Better Soon. TBH, that's the same song that's been on repeat since the Dartmouth Workshop. In 1956. Jam ye

More ›