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evilduck
·2 days ago·discuss
Making the upgrades or maintaining or crafting from scratch a plugin isn't free, it costs tokens and time and attention. And you're almost assuredly reinventing a wheel that someone else already did and probably did better. I like have the ability, but I prefer not needing it.
evilduck
·3 days ago·discuss
PFAS doesn't immediately harm you like missing a few pints of blood does.

And it's not like you're concentrating higher levels of PFAS into the recipient, they likely have the same average blood concentration levels as the donor does since we're all equally exposed to the same sources.
evilduck
·3 days ago·discuss
Most of the new Github bloat will just be thrown away. Vibe coding scratches an immediate itch and it's easy to do. Once the problem changes nobody is going to update the first project because that's hard, they'll just vibe code an entirely new solution leaving the first to rot until they delete their dead repo clutter or move on from the company and the account and all of its repos are deleted in one fell swoop.
evilduck
·4 days ago·discuss
llama was unintentionally released and has been a flash in the pan for them since. They've failed to capitalize on it at all post-v2. v3 models were a launch mess and quickly surpassed. The only thing it has left in 2026 is name recognition. Honestly their non-LLM things are more important and relevant, like their SAM models. https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/ but none of these seem to be making them serious money or exist and standalone products.
evilduck
·14 days ago·discuss
Their gas is priced competitively. Everything is hard to compare because it's usually not even available aty other gas stations. It's like half of a Bass Pro Shops tacked on to a bizarre bbq restaurant that lacks seating. Comparing it to 7-11 or a Sinclair or Conoco gas station makes little sense. It's closer to a Love's Travel Center, and in which case their pricing holds up.
evilduck
·18 days ago·discuss
You can also build systems that require secondary approvals without needing approval escalation up the chain. Creeping on women is a lot less likely if you need a peer or even a subordinate to review what you're doing.
evilduck
·21 days ago·discuss
Yeah: It's a 128 year old home in a small town in the middle of nowhere. Hit it up in street view and look at the dilapidated neighborhood in the dying town it sits in, surrounded by a 50 mile radius of farm land.

Unlike ancient European masonry homes in some of the most passive of climates globally, a 128 year old wood construction house in the central United States is not desirable for most people. This one is in a location that gets hot summers and cold winters. Homes of this age come with substantial upkeep and modernization costs, they lack modern amenities like central air and heating, good insulation, or even a kitchen that fits normal modern appliances, they creak everywhere and are drafty, floors aren't level or are warping, they have a distinctive odor that's impossible to remove, and they harbor surprises from all sorts of things that the last 7 generations of owners did for themselves over the decades. My family has owned similar properties in Missouri. The price is reflective of the market demand, not the losses the owner dumped into it.
evilduck
·22 days ago·discuss
>the best ideas float up to Codex/Claude imo

They only float up if people create things like RTK and other people try them though.

It's fair to sit this one out and let others figure out if it's worth it or not but tools like RTK, Headroom, caveman mode and others do reduce input and output tokens that need to be processed, and for local LLMs that can have measurable speedups. Whether or not that ultimately hurts the resulting output I don't have enough data to say, but I am happy to play with them to find out.
evilduck
·24 days ago·discuss
Sure they will. When the real or perceived cost of addressing supply chain attacks exceeds the cost of changing tooling workflows, they will switch.
evilduck
·25 days ago·discuss
You're describing the FBI or your state level equivalent. And they actually do exactly what you are describing, but in measured efforts. I've even had them come by my place of employment before. They clearly lack the resources to work at this scale though.

The problem with a phone number you suggest is that it will get spammed and abused with fraudulent imposters too (the complete and utter destruction of trust in phone calls and text messages should also be corrected by the government, but that's a different topic).

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber
evilduck
·25 days ago·discuss
This is a real world trolley problem scenario. You can break workflows or you can let everyone get pwned by supply chain attacks. Which is the greater harm?
evilduck
·26 days ago·discuss
"Oops, we uploaded the wrong files" is the standard deflection every time people like this get caught.

Look up "Reflection 70B" drama.
evilduck
·30 days ago·discuss
I'll second this, with the caveat that I've not yet tried to build anything with Fable.

Every engineer can now produce things in the front end that doesn't look like complete and utter garbage, sure, but everyone is also producing the new-era of Twitter Bootstrap pages. It all has the same touched-by-AI look and it might as well be customer kryptonite from everything I've experienced at my workplace with customer surveys and collaboration. It has raised the floor substantially for internal tools and admin pages though.
evilduck
·last month·discuss
The argument seems to be that they think LLMs made the implementation languages equal or irrelevant, therefore PHP is as good as any of them now. The flip side of this argument is that PHP is not any more compelling than it was before, it's just adequate now that so many deficiencies have been addressed.
evilduck
·last month·discuss
No, I don't know. Maybe this exact reply is why you get the interactions you do though.

You perceive opposing viewpoints or poking holes in logic as "hating on you", which is playing the victim, followed by alluding to conspiratorial nonsense against you.
evilduck
·last month·discuss
> and this is about not stepping on someone else.

This is asserting personhood or consciousness of LLMs by default in your phrasing and then warning me about the dangers of violating your assertion. You're making the same wager and mistake. There's no important difference, you have no evidence for LLMs being a "someone" any more than you do for a god existing. Warnings about made up things hold no weight.
evilduck
·last month·discuss
Mostly because perverts tend not to press charges when they're confronted, not because they wouldn't have legal standing. Also your scenario is clearly not what I was replying to about civil disobedience.
evilduck
·last month·discuss
I don't think you could plausibly do this and only catch a property crime charge. If you're caught, forcefully removing worn objects from another person will almost certainly catch you a misdemeanor battery charge in most US jurisdictions.

I'm no lawyer and things vary by location, but clothing is generally considered an extension of the person and usually touching their worn objects constitutes physical contact with the person themselves. Doing so with intent of committing criminal mischief, vandalism, or felony property damage will get all of them thrown at you. If you hastily do so and happen to harm the person in the process (since you're naturally grabbing at someone's eyes, that seems like a serious risk), there's a good chance you'll be given an aggravated or felony battery charge instead.
evilduck
·last month·discuss
This seems like a variant of Pascal's wager.
evilduck
·last month·discuss
Websites no, but there have been many Mac apps that I have paid for even though a lower quality free option existed.