UweSchmidt

3 dagen geledendiscuss

It's usually not possible to prove that something was put in deliberately and maliciously, so that puts the bar very high. We know it for sure in some of the supply chain attacks, and should assume that other kinds of bugs are being introduced by malicious actors across the board, rather than to risk downplaying the issues to "just blunders".

UweSchmidt

4 dagen geledendiscuss

Maybe it's time to take a closer look at reality and correct this meme, which might casually blur the issue and deflect responsibility?

Looking at the IT security landscape we see every layer, every product category if not every product itself riddled with issues at one point or another. At the same time the incentives to put those security issues in are huge, and we know attackers work systematic, creative and persistent to introduce those weak points.

Security is hard and many bugs certainly happen due to mistakes, but I wouldn't assume that all of those security mishaps stem from an endless series of blunders from "stupid" programmers.

So I would go with “Never attribute to ignorance that which is adequately explained by malice.”

UweSchmidt

4 maanden geledendiscuss

It doesn't look like they put AI into vim like Microsoft into Notepad. Someone used an outside AI to code something with vimscript, what do you expect? I'll be worried if they mess with even the smallest bit of established muscle memory of any vim user, but a separate language (probably a dead end) and apparently some new diff options don't seem too terrible.

UweSchmidt

9 maanden geledendiscuss

Even more important would be the purple hyperlinks (or any other distinct style) for those links that you've already visited.

UweSchmidt

9 maanden geledendiscuss

That's just a basic financial credit score, and you can easily rent without one (even though some financial accountability is probably reasonable to balance the strong renter protection laws here). What's so nefarious about it?

UweSchmidt

9 maanden geledendiscuss

My AI suggests a few existing algorithms to tackle the problem of comparing two sound curves - maybe this one is not too hard?

I'll check out that app when it's ready, good luck!

UweSchmidt

9 maanden geledendiscuss

Accuracy indicators for rushing and dragging are very useful, but equally interesting would be an indicator that checks for a consistent peaks, so every note is played with equal volume. A dream would be if your app can detect differences in sound (fingernails occasionally scratching the string, fretbuzz).

Is there any way to get notified when your app is done, or do you have a name for it already so we can search for it in a couple weeks?

UweSchmidt

3 jaar geledendiscuss

Very interesting, thanks!

UweSchmidt

3 jaar geledendiscuss

>This is way before all the LLM and Generator models, but it was such a fun project.

That means something more sophisticated has to exist today and should be commercially available. Can anyone explain to what extent companies use this stuff in their interaction with customers, and how successful is it? (Somehow I still see AI still as one-off things people do for fun or AI being used to hype up rather mundane software.)

UweSchmidt

5 jaar geledendiscuss

We have to assume that Google devs see these crappy spammy code websites too on a daily basis, right? What's up with the incredibly strong programmer culture over there, gone already after 20 years? You'd think someone would take these weak search results personally...

UweSchmidt

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Not really. "Going green" is a radical new concept for humanity that goes counter to all incentives and instincts and only recent developments have shown that painful measures are necessary. It was not a trick to get rich at other peoples expense.

India and China are suffering from their own pollution and have incentives to "go green" all by themselves, not because the West demands it.

Green technology is often high tech and tech that is accepted in Western markets and is helping to lift people out of poverty through market mechanism, not finger pointing.

Finally the first world got rich several generations ago. We are not related in any way, shape or form to any real or perceived sins of our grandfathers. Any such idea is old testament biblical theology.

UweSchmidt

7 jaar geledendiscuss

Interesting jobs are, kind of by definition, hard at the beginning: Many interesting and clever things are already in place that you have to learn in a short period of time: not just the big technologies, but a lot of smaller things like tools, environments and a lot of culture.

Inevitably you run out of cool things to learn, and very few jobs can keep challenging you mentally all the time. Almost by definition a job must get more boring over time.

You can do some learning and growing on your own, but that only goes so far: You can write a script and look up stuff and apply it at your job, but can't quite break out a sample project in the new framework.

Almost by definition, the person who can handle coming in at that kind of job and grok it all, can't be the one who does the job for years on end. Enjoy the ebb and flow of the job lifecycle - after a hectic start, settle in and enjoy it for a while.

But then: leave! If the company is smart, they'll put you on a new challenge if you ask. Most likely you'll have to quit and apply somewhere else. Then you will be on 100% of your mental capacity again in no time :)

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