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by jcarrano 7d ago
My impression was that the major argument against static site generators is the unfriendly UX for non-technical contributors to the site, and with LLMs that problem is completely solved.
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by jcarrano 7d ago
Destroying things is part of human experience. Kids got to have that.
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by jcarrano 14d ago
AI is trained with an overwhelming amount of web-related code that is open source. For embedded, not only is the training set smaller, but much of what's publicly visible is not of great quality.
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by jcarrano 16d ago
It is called "Reggaeton be Gone"[1]. I think the author had too many problems with his neighbor. [1] https://github.com/ronibandini/reggaetonBeGone
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by jcarrano 16d ago
If it can transform into Winamp I don't care if the code is LLM generated, typed by infinite monkeys or found in some ancient scrolls. Jokes aside, how can you be sure that the official Spotify app (or any app, or Windows) was not writ
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by jcarrano 22d ago
If this could be made to work reliably, it would imply that cameras would have the ability to doxx users.
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by jcarrano 29d ago
Regarding the Egyptian messages, if you care about these things you simply avoid doing business (especially in regulated industries) in the third world. The fact is that, even before the incident with the messages, cell providers had to sit
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by jcarrano 1mo ago
According to the article, the scanning facility has been there for a while, so it may well be that they have been destructively scanning books for a while, even before AI. It makes sense for the major book retailer to have digital copies of
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by jcarrano 1mo ago
Plus, it almost does not change between releases, so you need to learn it only once. The few times when I tried to use a recent version of Photoshop, however, I could not figure out even basic stuff like layer masks,
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by jcarrano 1mo ago
18 years ago I was accused of plagiarizing an unnamed online monograph (I was never told which one) on an English literature exam that I wrote with pen and paper inside a classroom. It was a very weird experience.
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by jcarrano 1mo ago
What I don't get in these cases is why they do this if they are not looking for a bribe? Just for sport?
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by jcarrano 1mo ago
What if they had usb drives with Linux installers in blister packs at electronics stores?
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by jcarrano 2mo ago
The same "fair use" as when Google trained its model on everyone else's photos.
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by jcarrano 2mo ago
Did anyone here ever worked under these sorts of "metrics"? I can't even imagine what a torture it would be.
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by jcarrano 2mo ago
The problem with this feature is that the agents could realize the phone was being wiped. For the duress pin to be 100% effective, it would have to log in normally to a default install.
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by jcarrano 2mo ago
> Increased tactile stimulation of the hind legs causes an increase in levels of serotonin.This causes the locust to change colour, eat much more, and breed much more easily. [1] Fascinating. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by jcarrano 2mo ago
You could jump on a train from NL and be in Belgium in 15 minutes, get a "bootleg" physical copy of the diary and head back to NL. No one is suing for that.
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by jcarrano 2mo ago
> usernames were passed as arguments to getent(1) to retrieve the corresponding passwd entry Always try to use actual API/system calls (in this case getpwnam) instead of calling sub-processes.
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by jcarrano 2mo ago
Watch his lecture series on YouTube. We you started programming, you had to adapt your brain to the way of thinking of computer programs. Think of this as an continuation of that evolution, were you acquire new methods of reasoning that can
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by jcarrano 2mo ago
> life is short—play naked! Such a concise way of saying what I've been thinking for a long time.
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by jcarrano 2mo ago
Meanwhile in Germany I see, quite literally, 12 traffic signs on a 100m stretch of road. I'm pretty sure that looking at all those signs adds up to a few seconds at least.
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by jcarrano 2mo ago
In dbus, it seems the feature is intended for two processes to know they can access the same shmem and other system resources. I'm struggling to understand in which circumstances would that be useful.
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by jcarrano 2mo ago
Aside from the writeup, how stupid must one be to commit cybercrimes from a Windows 11 computer full of spyware?
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by jcarrano 3mo ago
If signals were based on low impedance current loops as opposed to voltage-based like they are today, interference could be much reduced. This would break phantom power, so power to preamps would have to be send through another set of condu
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by jcarrano 3mo ago
Steps to reproduce: 1. Get pwned 2. Open Notepad++ 3. Get pwned again (?)
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by jcarrano 3mo ago
We are living through CVE-inflation (or CVEflation?) where anyone who discovers a bug using LLMs will instantly claim it is huge security hole.
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by jcarrano 3mo ago
How is this supposed to be zero-click? All attack scenarios require either the attacker to modify configuration files, or the user to click on a malicious shortcut.
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by jcarrano 4mo ago
Optically, it looks very nice, but it kills my CPU.
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by jcarrano 4mo ago
I found, in my rather recent experience with Go, that using anything other than zero for invalid, default or "sentinel" values is a source of potential problems due to the lack of real constructors.
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by jcarrano 4mo ago
It is also relatively easy to work, since ancient times. Iridium is the rarest metal, so rare and hard to work that it is not practical.

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