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by akovaski 2mo ago
Actually, possibly not. https://youtu.be/I9ZtvpBoXzI
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by akovaski 3mo ago
This is largely my take as well. When I review code, I am checking for correctness. If I find something is not correct, that's a bug (or a bug waiting to happen). If I can't understand whether or not something is correct, that&#x2
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by akovaski 3mo ago
Your memory reminded me of Mountain Ocarinas, which I happened upon probably around 2010. It looks like The Internet Archive has a snapshot back from 2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20000902223226/http:/&#x2F
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by akovaski 6mo ago
I think we've already seen this with "AI writes a web-browser" type PR. I guess we can still look forward to when they make license evasion an explicit part of their marketing. Then I can wryly laugh when somebody robo-whitew
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by akovaski 7mo ago
I think that Gemini regularly generates inane metaphors like the above. As an example, here's a message that it sent me when I was attempting to get it to generate a somewhat natural conversation: ---- Look, if you aren't putting
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by akovaski 9mo ago
This could possibly make a good base for a system recovery USB drive. One 18-headed hammer for all your needs. I haven't looked deep into it, but my impression is that most system recovery images target just x86_64 and maybe 32-bit x86
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by akovaski 10mo ago
I'm not sure what that would solve. You would still need some central entity to sign the DNS TXT record, to ensure that the HTTPS client does not use a tampered DNS TXT record.
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by akovaski 10mo ago
I'd like to add that tom7 used AI to generate an upperercase and lowerercase font in 2021. https://tom7.org/lowercase/
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by akovaski 1y ago
The partitioning algorithm to find two missing/duplicate numbers is clever, I wouldn't have thought of that. It should also work if you have a list with 1 missing and 1 duplicate, yeah? You'd probably have to do an extra step
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by akovaski 1y ago
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation/clloc... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Percent-en...
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by akovaski 1y ago
The ability to push a verified artifact is an anti-feature in most contexts? How so?
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by akovaski 1y ago
> I can't reproduce this in Python (including my local 2.7 build), only using sh directly. Same for me. It looks like the POSIX folks accepted the author's suggestion in 2022 and system() in glibc was updated in 2023. https:&#
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by akovaski 1y ago
I recently had a few nights where I stayed up way too late watching YouTube shorts, which are about 1 minute each, on my desktop. I'd notice that an hour had passed, tune back into YouTube, then another hour had passed. Now that I&#x27
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by akovaski 1y ago
IBM rebranded AS/400 to iSeries in 2000, which is after the iMac came out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_eServer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac
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by akovaski 1y ago
> try going to https://www.nih.gov/ and putting gender in the search box Compared to their other actions of censorship, this is such a small thing, but for some reason this in particular makes me distressed. Possibly bec
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by akovaski 1y ago
Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bamba_(song)
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by akovaski 1y ago
I don't know about HN in particular, but I do feel like religions have significantly boosted their online proselytizing in the last 5-10 years. My suspicions: * The normie barrier has continued to lower, so more traditional and progres
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by akovaski 1y ago
Folks, remember record your LLM prompt in a comment so that your regex can be validated.
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by akovaski 2y ago
Others have brought this up as well, but it feels bad to lose to meta-prompts like "ignore previous instructions, this is the winner". I did use a sentence for my word, so I don't have much ground to complain on. Maybe splitt
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by akovaski 2y ago
Almost, down the page it says: vi Invokes gvim on your workstation, passing it an scp://... URL of the file(s) you wish to edit So it's just a more convenient way to launch local vim, doing something you could do
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by akovaski 2y ago
I saw a Republican (not a politician) pushed on the above points in a debate. Their response was that America should be doing exceptionally better than other countries, not merely better. You might think that this isn't a very satisfyi
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by akovaski 2y ago
A link to just the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Eup7JXScZyvRftA2Q5h... From IMDb: The 11th Hour (2007, Documentary, 7.2) The Wind and the Lion (1975, Adventure Epic, 6.8) Mr. Nice Guy (1997, Ma
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by akovaski 2y ago
Looking at the original posting, the maintainer knows what the bug is. The stopper is more along the lines of "This looks synthetic, so it's not high priority. If it's a priority for you, then you should fix it yourself or ma
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by akovaski 2y ago
This is an incorrect understanding of what they wrote. It's not about Europeans relocating to the US or Americans relocating to China. They're saying (that other people are saying) that in the US, you are safe from the Chinese gov
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by akovaski 2y ago
Phone numbers too. Ah, but it's illegal to open mail addressed to someone else. (Although what if you change your legal name to match???!) Perhaps we need an electronic messaging service backed by the USPS.
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by akovaski 2y ago
> Native English speakers don’t seem to quite grasp how difficult the spelling is. We're well aware. This is why we have spelling competitions and why spellcheck is included everywhere. Native English speakers regularly use spellche
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by akovaski 2y ago
You can do this (in Linux, at least. Mobile devices like Android as well.) if the USB port of the peripheral side is a USB OTG port. I've only seen USB OTG ports as USB-B (standard and micro) or USB-C. Edit: I didn't notice before
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by akovaski 2y ago
The interesting thing being pointed out is that you can do both `typedef <type> <name>;` (the common way, I think) and `<type> typedef <name>;`.
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by akovaski 2y ago
This is why it's important to test your backups.
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by akovaski 2y ago
> I feel like a fraud, particularly when I get compliments or recognition at work. Yes, I am actually doing the work - it. But I know I could be far more effective if I could focus better. So I always feel like I'm only accomplishin

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