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by g051051 4mo ago
Why not have the LLM go straight to LLVM IR? What would a program look like when you remove all (or most) of the layers of abstraction needed by humans? Or are LLMs too contaminated by the training data to do this? I almost wish I could
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by g051051 5mo ago
> When I first started, I was enamored with technology and programming and computer science. I’m over it. Wow, that is incredibly sad to hear. I'm 40+ years in, and still love all of that.
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by g051051 6mo ago
How is that "threatening"? Genuinely curious.
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by g051051 6mo ago
Looks like they just updated it. Check under the globe.
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by g051051 6mo ago
I have an experimental project where I was asking various LLMs/tools (ChatGPT, Cursor, Google, Lovable) to implement an old game for me. They all failed spectacularly in various ways. For example, when trying to debug an issue, got i
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by g051051 6mo ago
As I commented in the other post, it killed mine at work, because my boss is pushing "AI" really hard on the devs. Fortunately, he's now seeing enough evidence to counteract the hype, but it's still going to be present
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by g051051 6mo ago
I'm 62, and it's had the opposite effect on me. I've never stopped loving writing code, learning new things, trying random stuff, etc. I code all day, and spend more time playing with stuff in the evenings (the main differe
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by g051051 7mo ago
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." Pretty neat, though.
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by g051051 8mo ago
My Nvidia Shield Portable is sad to hear this. They updated it to Lollipop 5.1 and then killed it. Pretty much useless now.
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by g051051 2y ago
The worst excesses of "modern" web presentation, coupled with a complete lack of actual gardening info...I'm completely baffled. 1% "here's your zone", and 99% "your zone is almost no use for gardening&qu
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by g051051 2y ago
> People often don't perceive you as an actual human if you've only ever been a video square to them. I don't have a camera, so I'm just a picture of Uncle Fester. No one I work with (across 3 jobs) has seen me in n
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by g051051 2y ago
I had (probably still have) a similar-ish problem. I have an old nVidia Shield handheld that I bought a wired ethernet adapter for. Something about that adapter would kill my network dead after a random interval. It took a while to figur
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by g051051 3y ago
It's unlikely that "regulators" had anything to do with it, given the quick resolution. I'd be more inclined to think that Epic went back to Apple hat-in-hand and begged to be let back in, probably promising to muzzle S
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by g051051 3y ago
> And they should have been held accountable, were they? Huge stock hit (since recovered, of course), top executives lost their jobs, fines, had to give away a paid product, extra oversight, cost of fixing security, several rounds of lay
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by g051051 3y ago
You told a reporter that story. The reporter, _without verifying it_, then tells his newspaper that the story you told is true and he's verified it (which is a lie). Now the newspaper publishes it. Who's responsible?
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by g051051 3y ago
They do not publish fraudulent data. They publish data provided by the credit grantors. If the credit grantors don't do their due diligence, that's on them, not the CRA. And if credit grantors fail to due that due diligence oft
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by g051051 3y ago
> other sources which leaked or sold it to them. Every data source (such as a bank or credit card) provides that data to CRAs because consumers granted permission to do so when entering into a business relationship. Either that, or it&#
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by g051051 3y ago
> Update their dependencies within two months of a critical security vulnerability being patched (Mar 10 to May 12). They thought they did, but failed. > In the event of a breach, detect it within a reasonable timeframe (76 days is no
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by g051051 3y ago
> Equifax leaked about half of all Social Security Numbers back in 2017. They weren't leaked , they were stolen . Does a bank "leak money" when it's robbed?
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by g051051 3y ago
> The moment credit agencies started running their own monitoring services, it seemed like they were openly admitting that they were defaming people. I still do not understand why this is legal. If you're signed up for credit monito
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by g051051 3y ago
> They have successfully convinced the public that identity theft is a separate and distinct crime done exclusively by one person to another rather than simply fraud that they are aiding and abetting. This demonstrates a fundamental misu
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by g051051 3y ago
I went round and round with AMD support between December 2022 and April 2023, explaining exactly where the issue was, sending the event logs showing the driver was being blocked because of the signature, sent screenshots of the certificates
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by g051051 3y ago
Fun fact: Ryzen Master needs a kernel driver installed in order to function. This driver was signed with a cert that expired a while back. For years they required you to disable virtualization based security (because as a side effect it
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by g051051 3y ago
> Is agile still appropriate today? It was never appropriate. It was created by consultants to sell consulting services. In that way, it's a huge success. As a practical development methodology, it's always been a disaster
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by g051051 3y ago
Congrats to the authors for taking a potentially great article and wrecking it with insane distractions and useless web BS. Pipes was an amazing piece of software and deserves better than that.
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by g051051 3y ago
The last two organizations I worked for had full QA teams with people who wrote the tests, not just test plans. The devs sometimes provided features to facilitate it, but the QA teams were the ones that constructed the tests, ran them, and
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by g051051 3y ago
Really? Then show me a video that doesn't look like what I described, if you want to be taken seriously. That demo is, what, 5 clicks with a decent gui builder?
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by g051051 3y ago
Let me guess...simple image recognition of the slider, the names need to match a CSS property? Wow, so impressive .
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by g051051 3y ago
I can't vouch for the quality, but Humble Bundle has a Godot bundle up now, a mix of Godot 3 and 4 stuff (and Blender), for literally whatever you want to pay for it: https://www.humblebundle.com/software/everythin
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by g051051 3y ago
The initial vulnerability was in the "modern" web application that fronted the legacy mainframe application. It was completely patchable, but was missed as described in the article.

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