ehnto

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by ehnto 7d ago
Maybe if there were consequences, there wouldn't be so much corruption that leads to these silent firings.
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by ehnto 12d ago
Some modern headset designs don't use the top cap to do that. There's a bunch of products that exploit that to put toolkits, spare CO2 canisters or whathave you in that spot.
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by ehnto 20d ago
Meanwhile in another city not far away, the cards are instant but the gate has to think for a while. It's inconsistent too, so you inevitably run into it. I feel either the gate is making international round trip calls through the inte
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by ehnto 20d ago
That's not quite what I meant sorry, I meant Reddit handles it differently to Imgur (one blocks the homepage and one blocks deeper links but not thr homepage. I agree with what you're saying though
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by ehnto 22d ago
Both Imgur and Reddit have put a lot of roadblocks up lately as well. I think some of it is driven by trying to reduce bot traffic. It's quite inconsistent though which is really frustrating. I can look at the imgur homepage feed, but
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by ehnto 22d ago
Which in turn reminds me of Soundblaster audio cards! I suspect inference chips are closer to the GPU story than the Soundblaster story though. I remember one soundblaster card I bought came with a Lara Croft demo, that exploited the incred
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by ehnto 22d ago
Fair warning, I have found local models and frontier models to be very bad at the specifics when it comes to cars. Small differences like month and year model can impact oil capacity, oil weight and things like that, the details that matter
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by ehnto 25d ago
Fair, it's shallow because I was succinct however, I do understand the problem space more in depth than this. But if I were to pick one single thing that would speed up the most UIs across the board, it would be poor handling of the UI
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by ehnto 26d ago
One of the biggest causes of slowness is just waiting for web requests. The fact that so much software is either online or built using the same stack even if it isn't, puts all that software in this blocked/waiting state constantl
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by ehnto 27d ago
When we were young in a small rural town outside the US, we would borrow copies of Windows 95 or 98 from the school. In order to get them activated, rather than a keygen or other kind of crack we figured out that we could call the Microsoft
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by ehnto 29d ago
I have always thought this about western media. For all of us in non-us countries, the locations, roads and objects are all slightly foreign to us, giving it that other-world feel movies have. But for those in the US, wouldn't it all b
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by ehnto 1mo ago
That is an insane statement, LLMs generate swaths of text from almost nothing. If they are adding so little value as to be as transparent as a pen and paper then why use one at all? Transcription doesn't need an LLM so that's not
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by ehnto 1mo ago
It would be an automated scan and exploit across all services exposed, and the motivation is just to add a node to a botfarm/ddos network or spam node. Your website is already on a database if it has an SSL certificate and domain. Like
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by ehnto 1mo ago
Talented people should still be worried, the problem is not the developers, it's the type of work the industry can support. There aren't that many jobs that require above average software capabilities, and you're competing wi
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by ehnto 1mo ago
I don't think I've seen any university teach anything but software table stakes. If even that. Fresh grads sometimes come to us having never actually written a program of their own volition.
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by ehnto 1mo ago
We sort of already did that though. There is basically no mentoring in software, juniors have to teach themselves, seniors are often just the juniors who managed to get competent enough to do the job generally, and are probably not the ones
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by ehnto 1mo ago
> The most egregious of these cases for me is often long tenured engineers who have lost interest in the craft... Which is an incentive problem, they have likely reached an equilibrium with their company. Genuinely few companies provide
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by ehnto 1mo ago
It's fine, I am just being a nit, but static doesn't mean zero code. There is still a server and program turning a web request into a response. But in your case it's not your problem, it's cloudflare's. I only menti
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by ehnto 1mo ago
If it's a computer publicly visible on the internet then it has an attack surface, not having a scripting language enabled reduces it a lot but not entirely. There is still a web server involved in a static site being served, amongst o
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by ehnto 1mo ago
Not that I follow my own advice, but a popped server can still be a liability for you. If you don't need it online I would take it down. Don't want to suddenly realise you've been an email spam node for several months.
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by ehnto 1mo ago
You pretty quickly learn to qualify incoming traffic since it directly impacts how you track conversions. But definitely to begin with, you see thousands of "people" view a page and no one bites, it can be disheartening until you
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by ehnto 1mo ago
I wonder if the AI labs will throw out their own copies of the Internet Archive after it's been sued out of existence. Probably not.
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by ehnto 1mo ago
I find DDG is struggling to, or chosen not to, filter or derank obvious AI generated content farm sites. Of which there are an insane amount of already. We thought blogspam was bad, at least it was easy to ignore. It's hard to find aut
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by ehnto 1mo ago
Unsurprisingly all search engines seem to be struggling with AI content sites as well. It's rare to get human articles, sometimes rare to even get authorative websites. It's frequently a bot site with a plausible enough name like,
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by ehnto 1mo ago
The node capturing the voice command could be the thermostat. From my understanding they are targeting very small devices. So that could be a master home automation node, but why not also a single purpose device? I can think of more bad exa
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by ehnto 1mo ago
Turning a voice command into a tool call should be self evidently useful, being able to do that on a small embedded device is the novelty here. In this theoretical example, the thermostat is hosting the model on device and would use no exte
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by ehnto 1mo ago
Unfortunately drone companies have a habit of pivoting into defence before realising their initial civil intentions.
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by ehnto 1mo ago
I met so many awesome people in SWG. It did a really great job of fostering social interactions in a real way, not just transactional menu button presses. To get a lot of things done in the economy and the different aspects of the community
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by ehnto 1mo ago
I think what frustrates me about the constant AI talk, is that it's like a global bikeshedding/yak shaving convention. It's an onslaught of details and opinions that don't matter that much. People arguing about single pe
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by ehnto 1mo ago
Real world domain knowledge and experience cuts through the chaff too. LLMs are going to have people reinventing the wheel and wasting tonnes of time on stuff that won't work out. If you're a domain expert you are going to be much

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