Klathmon

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قبل 4 أيامdiscuss

I feel like we have the technology to prevent a car from starting if the driver is significantly impared, but "solving" addiction, cancer, and heart disease are much harder problems.

Obviously it would need to be implemented carefully, but I personally would be more than fine blowing into a tube to start my car if it meant saving 12k lives a year with a very low false positive rate.

That being said I know it would never be implemented in a sane way in the US, and you would probably have situations like your car insurance automatically increasing due to a faulty sensor, so I'm ultimately against it unless a lot of other stuff changes.

But it's still much more possible than "preventing drug addiction"

قبل 6 أيامdiscuss

If they're using a static threshold of 200 views and there aren't many of these left it could pull them all out of that category.

It could obviously be fixed but I was more curious than anything

قبل 6 أيامdiscuss

How many of these images are there? I cycled through a few and ended up hitting at least one duplicate [1] that I do actually enjoy (but I can't find the name of it now that I refreshed the page, I know it had the verrazzano narrows bridge in the title)

Is there a chance a site like this could ruin their metric by inflating all the views for these lowest viewed items? Or do these not count?

[1] https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/67395c18-c83c-865f-b0db-4736574...

قبل 7 أيامdiscuss

AES is so cheap with hardware acceleration that I could see an argument that it prevents casual sniffing of the traffic. Personally I think the false sense of security would outweigh those benefits, but I'm not in their shoes.

But DES is so broken that it's more of a giant flashing beacon saying "look here there are terrible decisions being made!"

قبل 7 أيامdiscuss

Yeah it wouldn't have changed this specific case but still why use it? It's slower even without AES NI!

قبل 8 أيامdiscuss

Is there any valid reason to still be using 3DES in 2026?

It was formally deprecated in 2018 and has been surpassed in just about every single way by AES long before that.

At this point I feel like it's use is such a huge red flag

قبل 8 أيامdiscuss

I also have no idea what I'm talking about, but to me this seems closer to the "caveman mode" that some people use to compress info into fewer tokens. Going through the image tokenizer allows you to leave the source text untouched while still gaining (some of?) the benefits

قبل 8 أيامdiscuss

That's like saying quantization isn't real because the frontier labs aren't using it in their production inference.

This is a lossy process, it produces worse results. It might be worth it for some situations, but applying it to everything would just be making your SOTA model worse

قبل 15 يومًاdiscuss

But it's not just him, it's the entire party aggressively supporting him and everything he does.

قبل 19 يومًاdiscuss

There are also cases where breaking a "rule" is the right thing to do.

I've had several instances where I told the model to do something that was accidentally impossible if taken at face value. The most memorable one is when I told it to re-run just a specific CI job, but it didn't have any way to do that, so it just ignored that part of the prompt and re-ran all CI jobs by pushing another commit.

Ultimately I preferred what it actually did, but technically it violated what I told it to. I have a feeling in a benchmark that would be points against it

قبل 25 يومًاdiscuss

I've been pretty damn happy with codex and vscode.

Between the codex app, cli, and vscode extension there are options for most ways of working

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

This is what I'm advocating for.

Give each dev's AI agent its own identity with its own access controls and tokens and everything.

It helps solve both the access control and attribution issues

قبل شهرينdiscuss

> I don't see 'grandma' building here own calendar app via Claude Code that reminds her of the family birthdays.

If you think of apps in the traditional sense I think I agree with you, but I have a feeling things are about to become a lot more messy.

Grandma might not even know she's building her own calendar app.

I don't think we are that far from being able to ask a general purpose AI to "help me not forget my family's birthdays" and it creating and maintaining code for that purpose. Not quite an app, but more than a one off script, I think AIs are going to unlock this weird situation where they're running a bunch of barely organized code almost as an extension of thinking.

قبل شهرينdiscuss

In our internal metrics you can see a clear increase in PRs and CI runs in general that tracks with agentic coding adoption, and it's significant, so I absolutely buy that GitHub would be struggling to take the brunt of that without big changes

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

There have been a few instances, IIRC there was an Apollo mission that had a head cold spread among the whole crew.

But that's unlikely to be the case here because they've been up there isolated for over 6 months now

قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

And if you like it, picking up any QMK or ZMK compatible keyboard would let you do it in firmware too!

قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

Should you never use a calculator because you want to keep your math skills high?

There are a growing set of problems which feel like using a calculator for basic math to me.

But also school is a whole other thing which I'm much more worried about with LLMs. Because there's no doubt in my mind I would have abused AI every chance I got if it were around when I was a kid, and I wouldn't have learned a damn thing.

قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

> For code modifications in a large codebase the problem with multi-shot is that it doesn't take too many iterations before I've spent more time on it.

I've found voice input to completely change the balance there.

For stuff that isn't urgent, I can just fire off a hosted codex job by saying what I want done out loud. It's not super often that it completely nails it, but it almost always helps give me some info on where the relevant files might be and a first pass on the change.

Plus it has the nice side effect of being a todo list of quick stuff that I didn't want to get distracted by while working on something else, and often helps me gather my thoughts on a topic.

It's turned out to be a shockingly good workflow for me

قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

If the LLM is able to handle it why do you need to maintain those specific skills?

قبل 6 سنواتdiscuss

Think outside the box (outside the bulb?)

z-wave "behind the switch" modules are super easy to install (you pull out the switch on the wall, and you put a small box in between the switch and the mains wiring), and you can control a whole circuit with one ~$40 switch. Depending on which one you get, they also support 3 and 4 way circuits (although with some caveats).

And it comes with the additional benefits that it will always work with the manual switch (turning it off or on), and it will work with any lightbulbs you may want to use in the future, but the downside is that you can't really get full RGB colors in the bulbs if that's something you are going for.