stcg

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by stcg 17d ago
> proxy SDK monetization Wait what? I never heard of that. I call that a botnet
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by stcg 18d ago
Or make a different poll :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks
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by stcg 26d ago
Fun read! I love the depth in seemingly superficial texts. Sometimes I similarly ponder claims or questions in advertisements.
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by stcg 1mo ago
> Oxiis is a universal, friction-drive motor system that transforms any conventional bicycle into a smart e-bike. Its name fuses the Greek Oxis (agility) and Axis (pivot)—perfectly reflecting how its high-performance drive core delivers
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by stcg 1mo ago
I have a similar experience with GPT 5.6 sol. Nowadays I often prompt like "I heard there is also this different direction, what do you think about that?" Another thing I do is asking the agent to make a decision matrix for choice
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by stcg 1mo ago
That is also what I do now (both with NixOs and Guix Os), both for personal computers and for servers. - I inspect the agent's changes, and only apply them - at once - if they are OK. So I have no half applied bad changes to my system,
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by stcg 2mo ago
Wiki page for people like me who never heard of this test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Smith_Eating_Spaghetti_te...
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by stcg 2mo ago
Yet another case of mistaking price for value. When evaluating whether public money is well spent on education it must be more important how valuable it is to the public , not what the price for the work is to the individuals. I like the
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by stcg 2mo ago
I like the word "botspeak". Another example of typical botspeak is "smoke test". Why not just say "test"? It feels like a way of downplaying the ability to detect problems.
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by stcg 2mo ago
What makes you think it is slop? The emdash?
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by stcg 3mo ago
A letter from me addressed to the agent, describing me and the goals of the project. Not AI-generated, no code or commands. Nothing specific to the technology, because that gets out of sync fast, or might steer the agent in the wrong direct
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by stcg 3mo ago
This is like saying "A slow leak is cheaper than a burst pipe" Yes, okay. But with both you will have a bad time cleaning up. There is a third option: good abstractions. I did see this pattern described in the blog in practice a
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by stcg 3mo ago
> That sure looks like software to me! > But, at the same time, the user experiences it as a graphic. An animated GIF, for example, contains a small amount of code-like data to say how long each frame should last for and when to stop
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by stcg 3mo ago
In the referenced benchmark GLM-5.2 (max) got 25% of all questions correct. GPT-5.5 (xhigh) got 57% correct. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience I'd much rather have some answer that I can veri
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by stcg 3mo ago
Anyone know why there is a high frequency signal on top of the long term trend in that graph? https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...
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by stcg 3mo ago
I wonder what is the difficulty in rewriting strncpy uses that makes it take six years? Was it widespread? Or was it more of a long going effort, where it was only changed if there were some changes in the same file? Or is there some other
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by stcg 3mo ago
Beter wording: your brain is made for detecting dangers and attention grabbers are taking advantage of that
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by stcg 9mo ago
Other advantages to generating content: (1) fewer copyright issues. (2) No creators to pay, just GPU bills scaling with the use of the platform. (3) a much smaller critical mass. Given these advantages I expect the current "social medi
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by stcg 1y ago
I don't see consistent and correct as separate. Consistent is correct, and correct is consistent.
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by stcg 1y ago
This sounds like how I think. But for me, it often results in situations where I think much harder and longer than others but fail to act. I learned to sometimes act instead of thinking more, because by acting I gain information I could not
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by stcg 1y ago
"Let it crash" is a sentence that gets attention. It makes a person want to know more about it, as it sounds controversial and different. "Let it heal" doesn't have that.
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by stcg 2y ago
One of the biggest usability problems with Python dependencies is that the name you import might be different from the name that you use to install the package. So if you find some script on the web that has an `import foo` at the top, you
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by stcg 2y ago
Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
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by stcg 2y ago
"XOR" as encryption probably refers to one-time-pad encryption, which is a very secure encryption strategy if done well, albeit often impractical. (Note: I'm not saying anything about this specific code, which I have not loo
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by stcg 3y ago
Is bluetooth not usable anymore?
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by stcg 3y ago
I don't think becoming vegetarian helps. From the article: > The study found evidence that food processing is a likely source of microplastic contamination, as highly processed protein products (like fish sticks, chicken nuggets, to
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Simple Made Easy (2011) [video](youtube.com)
186 points by stcg 3y ago|40 comments
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by stcg 3y ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." (Goodhart's law)
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by stcg 3y ago
"Wishful thinking is the weakest form of hope."
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by stcg 3y ago
It's wrong if they share it. But then they did not 'steal' the information. They shared it (wrongfully).

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