smithkl42

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by smithkl42 1mo ago
Love this. The way the Greek is displayed isn't very helpful, though. Specifically, any vowel with a grave accent displays the accent as a separate letter, which makes it very distracting to read. I don't think it's a problem
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by smithkl42 3mo ago
Given all the flat surfaces on this, I wonder how much more difficult it would be to turn the flat surfaces from canvas into solar panels.
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by smithkl42 3mo ago
I've been driving roundabouts for decades, and think they're great - they really help with traffic flow. I've never found them confusing. I had to drive this specific Kirkland roundabout the other day, and ended up missing my
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by smithkl42 3mo ago
I'm waiting until my kids are out of the house (just a couple of years now) to repurchase the 3-volume set. The first purchase didn't survive my kids' childhood - which, yes, I think Watterson would have approved.
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by smithkl42 3mo ago
I'd be more likely to assume that it's a really great one, where folks like and trust each other enough that they can give each other crap like this and everyone understands and appreciates it, like good friends trash-talking each
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by smithkl42 3mo ago
Good point. The pager attack on Hezbollah was risky because it involved physically changing the pagers enough to put explosives in them. Quite a lot easier just to ship devices with some subtly insecure code.
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by smithkl42 3mo ago
Consider yourself lucky. He's a beyond-sleazy, probably criminal online influencer, important in what's called the "manosphere". He's made a lot of money exploiting and abusing women and encouraging other people to
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by smithkl42 4mo ago
If I were in charge of, say, the Mossad, I would have as a significant part of my budget purchasing every single bluetooth device on the market, and set a bunch of underemployed Israeli CS grads to work at finding these vulnerabilities, and
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by smithkl42 4mo ago
If that was the case, it seems like those companies would have forced the city to clean up 10th and Jackson.
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by smithkl42 4mo ago
Until we have robot police officers, there will always be a human in the loop. But right now, there's a whole category of "drunk and disorderly" / "breach of the peace" kinds of laws that are ~100% up to the di
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by smithkl42 4mo ago
I wonder what they mean by this? > The camera can have different ways of seeing encoded in it, including kinds of gazes that enforce social agreements about what kinds of behavior and people are considered “normal” The phrase "kinds
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by smithkl42 6mo ago
Been bit by that before: it's not just an issue with Dapper, it can also hit you with Entity Framework.
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by smithkl42 7mo ago
I honestly think this is going to be a big part of what remains when AI is doing everything we currently think of as our work. Legally or morally, some things need a human in the loop.
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by smithkl42 7mo ago
Am I the only one who is mystified by this whole idea? People aren't CPU's. Good luck getting them to follow the code that you thought you were using to define their roles. On the contrary, what makes any complex system work is fl
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by smithkl42 7mo ago
Copilot is basically ChatGPT after Microsoft hit it on the head with a pipe hard enough and long enough to drop it about 20 IQ points.
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by smithkl42 8mo ago
That does raise the question of what the value is of a "skill" vs a "command". Claude Code supports both, and it's not entirely clear to me when we should use one vs the other - especially if skills work best as, we
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by smithkl42 8mo ago
That doesn't work very well if your developers are on Windows (and most are). Uneven Git support for symbolic links across platforms is going to end up causing more problems than it solves.
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by smithkl42 8mo ago
Soon...
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by smithkl42 8mo ago
It's all about managing context. The bitter lesson applies over the long haul - and yes, over the long haul, as context windows get larger or go away entirely with different architectures, this sort of thing won't be needed. But w
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by smithkl42 8mo ago
I'm one of those really odd beasts that feels some sort of loyalty to Microsoft, so I started out on Copilot and was very reluctant to try Claude Code. But as soon as I did, I figured out what the hype was about. It's just able to
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by smithkl42 8mo ago
This is an N of 1, of course, but I can relate to the other folks who've been expressing their frustration with the state of Claude over the last couple weeks. Maybe it's just that I have higher expectations, but... I dunno, it re
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by smithkl42 8mo ago
FWIW, I'm one of those who holds to moral absolutes grounded in objective truth - but I think that practically, this nets out to "genuine care and ethical motivation combined with the practical wisdom to apply this skillfully in r
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by smithkl42 8mo ago
On our end, it's all electronic - we never print anything out. So yeah, on our side, "email with extra steps". But I have no idea how the mortgage companies handle it on their end.
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by smithkl42 8mo ago
There were two St. Anthony's. The one in this painting is the first St. Anthony. He was celebrated by Athanasius in a widely read biography and was famous for fighting off demons in the Egyptian desert. He lived from ~251-356 AD. (But
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by smithkl42 8mo ago
I think it USED to be true that you couldn't really use an LLM on a large, existing codebase. Our codebase is about 2 million LOC, and a year ago you couldn't use an LLM on it for anything but occasional small tasks. Now, probably
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by smithkl42 8mo ago
If you're interested, a perfect example would be this question here ("should I enable application insights profiling on production Azure web apps"): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77855606/shoul
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by smithkl42 8mo ago
I can only speak for myself, but I very much resonate with this. I was an active contributor on SO in the early days - it was fun to help folks out, and it was often the only way to get help when I needed it myself. For me, it stopped being
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by smithkl42 9mo ago
I work for an insurtech (!), and something like 90% of our communications with mortgage companies is via fax. I kid you not.
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by smithkl42 9mo ago
Somebody obviously raised the question in a meeting somewhere, and there's no incentive to be the guy who says, "Nah, that's perfectly safe" - and every incentive to CYA.
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by smithkl42 9mo ago
Complaints are amazing! I've said for years that you know you're succeeding when people start complaining. Complaints are a sign that users see something potentially valuable, and are frustrated that they can't get there. Eve

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