v3xro

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by v3xro 6mo ago
> I think I'm mostly just mourning the fact that I got to do my hobby as a career for the past 15 years, but that’s ending. I can still code at home. It could hardly have been a hobby if people were willing to pay you for it (and g
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by v3xro 6mo ago
No, you outsource it because it's not your core competency. I think humans should be able to do anything and not narrowly specialise as narrow specialisation leads to tunnel vision. Sometimes you need to outsource to someone because of
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by v3xro 6mo ago
> Not being sneered at by some insecure kid is nice. How very adult of you.
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by v3xro 7mo ago
The only way I see out of this crisis (yes I'm not on the token-using side of this) is strict liability for companies making software products (just like in the physical world). Then it doesn't matter if the token-generator spits
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by v3xro 7mo ago
This really resonated with me, thank you for writing it <3 > Companies value velocity and new launches and shipping first at all costs because of course they do; it’s table stakes. Speed of delivery is basically the number one corpora
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by v3xro 7mo ago
There's nothing to recover from, what are you even talking about? I'm not a token user (and I can't make predictions about the future and whether it will force me to use token but still). That the industry is collectively hav
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by v3xro 7mo ago
Really? I will most likely be using IntelliJ 2027.x with whatever the latest plugins are for the programming languages I write by hand.
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by v3xro 7mo ago
> If I can somehow hate a machine that has basically stopped me from having to write boring boilerplate code, of course others are going to hate it! Poor author, never tried expressive high-level languages with metaprogramming facilities
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by v3xro 8mo ago
What hype? I have and will continue to be anti-BigAI from the very beginning. Until the mechanism is no longer that of a probabilistic model, the data gathering that of massive copyright infringment and the runtime that of a "let us bu
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by v3xro 9mo ago
That's not a technical problem though is it? I don't see legal scenarios where unverified machine translation is acceptable - you need to get a certified translator to sign off on any translations and I also don't see how cha
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by v3xro 9mo ago
Would be nice if every article about LLM/AI had that as a tag so you could skip past them...
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by v3xro 10mo ago
Just like the digits of PI...
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by v3xro 10mo ago
Again, citing the UK here, if you go to your doctor and get a prescription, all you need to pick it up is your name + address (said verbally over the counter) - no ID needed. I do not have statistics for the false pickup rates but I very mu
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by v3xro 10mo ago
When buying alcohol in a physical store, in the UK we have the "Challenge 21/25" schemes https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/facts/information-about-alcohol... such that yes if you look very young the cashier&#
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by v3xro 10mo ago
What prohibits Google from offering a way to register your long-term app signing key without identity verification, publishing apps that are still verified by their automated tooling and then opting in to the usual denylisting/app st
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by v3xro 10mo ago
Perhaps the focus of the team behind the compiler has changed over the years - but there is still backwards compatibility (via TaSTy), the new syntax changes are not mandatory (for the moment) and when they do become so there will be a full
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by v3xro 1y ago
To add to the above - I see a parallel to the "if you are a good and diligent developer there is nothing to stop you from writing secure C code" argument. Which is to say - sure, if you also put in extra effort to avoid all the un
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by v3xro 1y ago
There are already hefty fines for owners of businesses where the people are not working "legally". There's a "share code" that employers are supposed to check to verify visas. All the laws and machinery is already t
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by v3xro 1y ago
> living at taxpayers' expense Presumably the form for applying for benefits has a reasonably high bar for identifying the fact that you are in fact legally present in the country? Or how else do you imagine people living at "t
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by v3xro 1y ago
And even then you're never asked for it if you look over 25. Which is fair - if in doubt, verify, but usually you don't need to give over your *identity* to a place that serves alcohol.
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by v3xro 1y ago
I am sure by now it has been explained by others. But basically - an ID document is like a bearer token that does not need to call a central authority every time it is verified. I am sure there are cases where it is, but a digital token tha
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by v3xro 1y ago
> But artificial intelligence doesn’t care about optionality. It rewards specificity, domain expertise, and the ability to produce measurable results. I'm sorry what parallel universe are you living in? My dog produces measurable re
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by v3xro 1y ago
Still negative interest in being in the users of AI-generated group. Make it work, make it not steal other people's work and we'll talk then. :)
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by v3xro 1y ago
If you have malware that can read your disk, then you have bigger issues than MFA? In other words - focus on solving the real issue (ability to give more fine-grained permissions to programs) rather than restricting the ability of users to
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by v3xro 1y ago
Oh no, maybe I should just be uhhh a responsible parent and not give my kids unlimited access to a browser instead of imposing a privacy nightmare on everyone else :)
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by v3xro 1y ago
Probably the saddest comment I've read all day. Crafting software line-by-line is the best part of programming (maybe when dealing with hardware devices you can instead rely on auto-generated code from the register/memory region d
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by v3xro 1y ago
What I see is that it's trivial to 'self-host' locally - go buy a product from Synology/QNAP etc. - they have an ecosystem, easy setup, apps, everything. Three issues from my perspective: 1) cost and 2) security+privacy
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by v3xro 1y ago
There's Immich https://immich.app/ and https://ente.io/ which are both E2E encrypted and not locked to any ecosystem (besides, e.g. Apple only has E2E encryption when you have Advanced Data Protection
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by v3xro 1y ago
While we can't wish it away we can shun it, educate people why it shouldn't be used, and sabotage efforts to included it in all parts of society.
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by v3xro 1y ago
Yes :)

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