icepat

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by icepat 9mo ago
Were you intending to respond in this thread instead? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346796
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by icepat 9mo ago
I've also been told the key difference between a Land Rover, and a door-to-door salesman is you can close the door on the latter.
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by icepat 9mo ago
I can yes, the phone sample images on your landing page all render as blank screens, and image loading is not web optimized (they load slowly). Example: https://imgur.com/a/Sh3DtmF
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by icepat 9mo ago
Won't even begin loading for me.
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by icepat 11mo ago
I hadn't checked since I posted this, but today the entire document appears properly unredacted! Nice work.
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by icepat 11mo ago
This is on FF for me. Specifically Zen, which is FF based.
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by icepat 11mo ago
Is this just a quirk in my display, or are all the code blocks in this formatted like a CIA black highlighter
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by icepat 11mo ago
Regardless of if you agree with the US Constitution's perspective on self-evident rights, your point here does not negate what they said, simply indicates that the Russian government is not constrained in the same way the US government
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by icepat 11mo ago
I don't want to have to ask questions like this when using a browser that is intended to anonymize me
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by icepat 11mo ago
Yes, however it still means that the browser is phoning home to somewhere. To be able to make use of that API key, it has to send some data out. Is that data routed over TOR? Does it even matter given that an API key can be used to deanonym
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by icepat 1y ago
Forgejo
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by icepat 1y ago
I made the decision a few months back to go all in on self-hosting, and my own infrastructure. At least once a week I run into something that makes me realize I made the right decision. It's that time of the week again.
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by icepat 1y ago
Yes, however it's also an accepted name for it > Low-background steel, also known as pre-war steel and pre-atomic steel, is any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s. https:/&
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by icepat 1y ago
My go-to as well. Pre-war steel.
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by icepat 1y ago
I'm not sure I follow what you mean, but in general yes. I do find "just read the docs" to be a way to excuse not helping team members. Often docs are not great, and tribal knowledge is needed. If you're in a situation w
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by icepat 1y ago
Yeah, I tend to agree. The main reason that I use AI for this sort of stuff is it also gives me something complete that I can then ask questions about, and refine myself. Rather than the fragmented documentation style "this specific li
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by icepat 1y ago
The mentality you're replying to confuses me. Yes, people can mess things up pretty badly with AI. But I genuinely don't understand why the assumption that anyone using AI is also not doing basic testing, or code review.
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by icepat 1y ago
Exactly, yeah. And once you look over the Ansible, it's a good place to start and expand. I'll often have it emit hemlcharts for me as templates, then after the tedious setup of the helm chart is done, the rest of it is me manuall
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by icepat 1y ago
Right, which is why you go back and validate code. I'm not sure why the automatic assumption that implementing AI in a workflow means you blindly accept the outputs. You run the tool, you validate the output, and you correct the output
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by icepat 1y ago
I agree. I use LLMs heavily for gruntwork development tasks (porting shell scripts to Ansible is an example of something I just applied them to). For these purposes, it works well. LLMs excel in situations where you need repetitive, simple
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by icepat 2y ago
I don't think it's a flaw as much as the system is operating outside the intended design capacity. Imagine how sideways HN would go if nothing at all changed in the way the site operates, and it scaled up to 100x the userbase. Red
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by icepat 2y ago
Reddit, in my opinion, is the absolute worst platform for this. It's incredibly easy to manipulate the appearance of consensus opinion. Also, the degree of power the individual moderators have on shaping conversations means instead of
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by icepat 2y ago
This sounds to me like an argument against platform centralization, as the internet itself isn't a platform, but a protocol. So this is a problem of platforms, and their improper design. Not a problem of the internet itself.
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by icepat 2y ago
Pen and paper in my opinion is absurd. You will never write code by hand. Ever. Writing things by hand teaches you how to do something in a way you will never use, so the memories being developed are going to be attached to a context that i
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by icepat 2y ago
I tend to agree. But will extend beyond computer science students and say especially people who are self-learning. When I was getting started, I actively tried to minimize the number of packages, and abstraction tools I used. Consequentiall
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by icepat 2y ago
Striving for the betterment of humanity, or striving for their peer technology competitor to have their intellectual property moat atom-bombed? I don't think altruism has any real role in this.
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by icepat 2y ago
Plutarch is well known for just making things up. He was the Greek version of the dude in the pub with wild tales about the time he went fishing and caught a shark during a wild storm. When in reality the story actually boiled down to &quot
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by icepat 2y ago
What's more remarkable, is that the user created an account just to post this. Behavior like this on the internet always confuses me. RE: Empathy. I've known a few people who's digital footprints look like this in real life.
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by icepat 2y ago
UseNet is "mature technology"
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by icepat 2y ago
Yes, this is exactly why I think my comment was fair. Meta itself is where it is because it was first and got initial traction. Now it has an effective level of vendor lock-in. It's the equivalent of saying someone who won at slots on

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