alekratz

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by alekratz 5mo ago
For something like this, I would generalize a "bug" to encompass both software and human processes. Some decision-maker saw some metrics consistent with spam and enacted a spam-blocking measure. Any decision like this is going to
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by alekratz 8mo ago
Do you suppose there's any connection between how LLMs write and how humans write?
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by alekratz 1y ago
When I loaded up the page, something like 5 empty HTML files downloaded automatically, did this happen to anyone else? Firefox Linux
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by alekratz 2y ago
> (Is it the year of Desktop Linux yet?) I know this is a bit of a tongue-in-cheek comment but I would argue that the year of the Linux desktop was in 2022 when the Steam deck, albeit a non-desktop machine, was released. It's a pret
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by alekratz 2y ago
For anyone curious, MCMC = "Markov chain Monte Carlo" - the article doesn't actually tell you what it stands for until a number of paragraphs down. (This is a massive pet peeve of mine - if you are going to call something &qu
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by alekratz 2y ago
I'm not a Go programmer, but I feel like I've sort of "grown up" around them as the language has evolved. for a while I thought that the `if err != nil { ... }` was silly to put everywhere. As I've grown and written
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by alekratz 2y ago
there's this wisdom I read a long time ago: "there's millions of photos of the Grand Canyon. There's only one or two photos of the Grand Canyon with you in it."
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by alekratz 2y ago
some of us do not want to be found. obviously the easiest way to opt out of (most) of these things is to use a port other than 6667 and 6697, but when you've been operating on those ports for 10+ years, and you have an old friend who w
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by alekratz 2y ago
If you can get a 5090 for that price, I'll eat my hat. scalpers with their armies of bots will buy them all before you get a chance.
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by alekratz 2y ago
Hey, I made something like this last year. It wasn't a self-contained unit, it was just a receipt printer with a script that would run every morning at 8am, getting the forecast, word of the day, and quote of the day. The idea was that
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by alekratz 2y ago
one thing that frustrates me about current ChatGPT is that it feels like they are discouraging you from generating another reply to the same question, to see what else it might say about what you're asking. before, you used to be able
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by alekratz 2y ago
I always thought it was because it needed to be rigid and specific.
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by alekratz 2y ago
>No, the other reason they're using this is to make it so annoying that you'll spend $20/yr to buy a 4chan pass to bypass it. I think this is a really cynical outlook, especially for a website that is not run as a modern t
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by alekratz 2y ago
one of the biggest problems that 4chan has to combat is spam. unfortunately, at 4chan's scale, hcaptcha and recaptcha are not free. 4chan is not exactly a font of money, either. the only reason they turned to this awful homebrew captch
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by alekratz 2y ago
The remastered annoyed the hell out of me because it was so buggy. I ragequit the game because there was some point that I had gotten to where one of the characters bugged out in a cutscene and wouldn't move the game forward. I had to
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by alekratz 2y ago
I don't think the lexer hack is relevant in this instance. The lexer hack just refers to the ambiguity of `A * B` and whether that should be parsed as a variable declaration or an expression. If you're building a syntax tree, then
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by alekratz 2y ago
> Why load on boot? -> Because we need to, don't worry. I believe the reason stated was "because we know it will not be tampered with after boot". Not saying it's a good or bad reason, but this is dishonest paraphr
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by alekratz 2y ago
I love seeing Adam Cadre's name in the wild, I know him through the Lyttle Lytton contest that he's held every year since 2001. It's a fun deep dive of terrible (on purpose) writing. https://adamcadre.ac/lyttl
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by alekratz 2y ago
it's dead simple early 90s text based protocol, and the servers have a remarkably lightweight footprint. simplicity also means you don't get the modern niceties like built-in media embeds or reactions (things that I really love fr
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by alekratz 2y ago
it's kind of disappointing that they're focusing on food in this. I get that it's a quarter of their revenue, but one of the things that makes japanese convenience stores so convenient is that you can do more than just buy st
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by alekratz 3y ago
The place I run into this the most is, strangely, chipotle.com. Still can't order online on Firefox.
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by alekratz 3y ago
You're asking me to sign up before I can even see what I'm signing up for. Let me look at the content first.
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by alekratz 3y ago
I am begging these language designers to show me what your language looks like right off the bat. It should be the first thing I see on your language's homepage. I shouldn't have to click through vaguely-named pages to see single-
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by alekratz 4y ago
This doesn't seem to work in Firefox, tale as old as time.
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by alekratz 4y ago
That happened to me too.
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by alekratz 5y ago
With firefox's market share of about 10%, the "we don't support firefox" message is basically announcing "our website is useless to 1 in 10 people". Very frustrating.
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Wiki History Game(wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com)
19 points by alekratz 5y ago|2 comments
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by alekratz 5y ago
So what happens when you don't have a smartphone?
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by alekratz 5y ago
> Is it just me or is the appeal here: "Look! Poor people are having unapproved fun! Shame and Horror!" and assurances that they will suffer for it. This is not the kind of drug people do for fun. This is the kind that is done
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by alekratz 5y ago
> dd if=/dev/zero it or `shred` it. Probably takes longer but more secure.

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