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personal site Https://Quinnjh.net view as a graph here https://qjarvisholland.github.io

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quinnjh
·10 dni temu·discuss
Certainly not _all_ of it, but a few billion at least.

for the curious:

https://www.usaspending.gov/search?hash=5ec35bf87ec1fd63d28d...
quinnjh
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
This makes me think of how boxed cake recipes decided to leave out the eggs because people liked to still feel like they were "cooking" for people.
quinnjh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
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quinnjh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Well there goes my hunch!

Thanks for the input
quinnjh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
For the non haskell folks like myself, what would that look like/ why is parsing better? Perl i get
quinnjh
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
My hunch is that it would take years of hundreds of thousands of developers working with machine code, posting stackoverflow questions with machine code, and publishing github repos written on it with documentation. Thats all the free labor LLMs leveraged to use high level langs.

>We won't be developers, we won't be devops, we'll be modelops! /s

I can still see this happening with higher level langs. the thing is the compiler is not replaced in the training data, more likely LLMs will give rise to semideterministic layers on the compilers

I could see nvidia achieving this first with how nice the devex is with CUDA
quinnjh
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
> for RSA and ECC, is there anything preventing us from using keys 10x bigger?

you can run benchmarks yourself: openssl speed rsa1024 rsa2048

also this (slightly dated) java ex writeup covers this well: https://www.javamex.com/tutorials/cryptography/rsa_key_lengt...

tldr trade off is found between better performance and how many years the data needs to be assumed confidential
quinnjh
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
is it possible to have greater success with the specificity? I don't think i ever drew a bike frame properly as a kid despite riding them and understanding the concept of spokes and wheels...
quinnjh
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
This site is a gem that has accompanied me on many spikes in the last year :) datasette's original music is top tier too. cognitively stimulating but not attention stealing.
quinnjh
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
so no subscription is needed?
quinnjh
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3844047/cisa-cybersecurity...
quinnjh
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
>If we are all supposed to be talking to agents now, what's the difference[...]?

it's a little cringe, but arguably the benefit of having agents use rails would be tht when you review and audit the agent produced code, you review something that is, as you put it: "beautiful and simple code" and "making it easy to reason about..."

I loved rails back in 2017. I may be an outlier but the line tempts me to try it again despite having adopted the who cares attitude to langs. Would be nice to hear from someone first hand if they felt it helped.
quinnjh
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Article was a bit of a nothingburger for the technically inclined.

Digging into the paper, the significant finding (RCE) is achieved via:

A payload was written which installs a reverse shell backdoor for root persistence. The payload was sent from a computer hosting a Wi-Fi to which the watch was connected, to ensure the watch had a reachable IPv4 address. The program ncat was used both to send the payload to the watch's network service, and to catch reverse shell connections.

So if i understand this- it requires the watch being connected to a compromised AP. Anyone get a different read?
quinnjh
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
I haven't managed to design a pcb without finding an issue in the first run.

Shoutout to OSHpark's prototype service. Something like 5 bucks an inch and you only have to toss out 3 if you find a fault.
quinnjh
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
What was the benefit to you over using USD? (actually wondering)
quinnjh
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Very curious project! Enjoyed the storytelling buildup on the site.

Digging into the repo i can see over 50 open issues from the past few days with a lot of requests for refunds.

Are there any "success stories" ? Could go a long way to building trust in the tool.
quinnjh
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
earlier show hn thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4548251
quinnjh
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
Definitely seemed like a ballmer joke to me, with how it changes size
quinnjh
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
google ai estimates that 4.7 billion hours have been spent in minecraft. At least these are real :)
quinnjh
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
We love engineer Kala. She decided to do a thing, while marking progress on her "technology tree" of skills gained by (very arguable) necessity. Dealing with permits and city beuaracracy seems like one of the hardest parts!