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SkiFire13

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SkiFire13
·21 godzin temu·discuss
I'm now imagining two little SaaS getting together and making another small little SaaS.
SkiFire13
·3 dni temu·discuss
If you feed data to a LLM then there will always be a prompt injection. What you described is limiting the damage that the prompt injection can do, but also its usefulness.
SkiFire13
·3 dni temu·discuss
Honestly they sound like pokemon game names.
SkiFire13
·5 dni temu·discuss
> and that data fetched from the internet can be changed later

So do you want the VCS to be the source of truth or not?
SkiFire13
·5 dni temu·discuss
> The source of truth remains decentralized, in the individual VCSes.

That's not entirely true, if the VCS's tag changes the proxy might not pick it up.
SkiFire13
·8 dni temu·discuss
Density is not the correct measure here because empty land decreases density but doesn't need to be covered. What matters is how much the population is clustered.
SkiFire13
·12 dni temu·discuss
I graduated from a not so incredible university and we had multiple such rooms. Teaching assistants and some tutors helped supervising the exams and it wasn't easy to cheat without getting caught.
SkiFire13
·14 dni temu·discuss
It has a Rust-like syntax, enums, matching, traits, etc etc. Yes, it also loses a lot of special characteristics of Rust, but it has to be different somewhere. Moreover a lot of people like Rust as a high level language, i.e. ignoring the lower level capabilities and lifetimes, and this seems to be a direct response to that feeling.
SkiFire13
·14 dni temu·discuss
If you are into constructive logic then this will only work for proving negative statements (where indeed the definition is the same as what a proof by contradiction would give you). For positive statements you won't get back a direct proof term of your initial statement, but rather a proof of a double negation of it.
SkiFire13
·15 dni temu·discuss
My understanding is that the "logical bits" view breaks down for unions, because the nth logical bit could be at different offsets depending on the union variant that's considered active.
SkiFire13
·17 dni temu·discuss
Everyone talking about malware in dev dependencies as if dependabot only raises issues about that, but it does not. It raises warnings about all sort of "vulnerabilities" irrespective of the threat model.

Even worse, it incentivizes randomly updating dependencies, which is what actually allows supply chain attacks.
SkiFire13
·18 dni temu·discuss
> I don't buy the notion that tests do not test relevant skills.

> In my long career I've noticed a strong correlation between SAT scores and academic performance as well as job performance.

A test doesn't need to test the relevant skills for that, it just needs to test _something_ that correlates with academic performance and job success.
SkiFire13
·19 dni temu·discuss
Do you need a blockchain for that though? There are cryptography schemes to share a secret (e.g. the recovery keys) between multiple parties, requiring at least N of them to get together to recover the original value of the secret.
SkiFire13
·19 dni temu·discuss
> A bad abstraction would at least have had one fire in one place

That's true only for "good" abstractions. Bad abstractions will often require you to change code in all the places using it, requiring you to understand how all of them work and what are their requirements, _all at the same time_.
SkiFire13
·20 dni temu·discuss
> smart contract-based process for recovering ids if keys get lost or hacked

How would that even work?
SkiFire13
·20 dni temu·discuss
And you did not notice how many things require Google Apps/Play Integrity? Heck, most people don't even know how to install apps without the Play Store.
SkiFire13
·21 dni temu·discuss
$30/quarter doesn't look like a "free tier" in the first place
SkiFire13
·28 dni temu·discuss
> I've been thinking about this in art. Is it the end result that matters, or the process of creating it?

What is the "end result" you're talking about here?

Programs are complex beasts, you cannot just quickly look at them and get an idea of what's they are actually doing. You might look at the behavior of the program in some limited circumstances, but that will make you blind to all the other situations where bugs will likely hide! In the end a code review is looking at what the "end result" is, and it requires quite a lot of effort!

So without knowing what the end result is, how can you justify the effort for such code review? And that's where the process comes in, as an indicator of what to expect.
SkiFire13
·28 dni temu·discuss
> also shift the responsibilities to the AI agents as well

That's not gonna fly most of the time.
SkiFire13
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Quite the opposite, GPUs running at a stable rate degrade less than GPU that continuously hit highs and lows (like it would happen on a gaming rig).