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wzdd

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Nicholas, a systems programmer in Sydney, Australia.

[email protected] http://code.lardcave.net

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wzdd
·3 dni temu·discuss
The OP notes that they had to use special phrasing to get their exfil to work, so clearly GitHub was aware of the issue and made an attempt to prevent it.

It seems like the proper fix is for GitHub not to allow their agentic workflow to execute in a public repo context if it also has private repo access. Or, to use your phrasing, for GitHub to flag and disallow this easily-detectable and dangerous type of misconfiguration.
wzdd
·5 dni temu·discuss
Given the Mandelbrot program is 450k probably not.
wzdd
·19 dni temu·discuss
"Factual mistake" is a bit harsh, but the missing piece is that there are multiple ways to romanise Japanese; all of them produce "valid Romaji" but only in the particular system being used. Si is how you write し in romaji using the kunrei-shiki romanisation. In the Hepburn romanisation it's shi. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese#Diffe... .
wzdd
·20 dni temu·discuss
Oodi is at least equally community / maker space and library, very distinctively and attractively designed, quite new, and in the middle of Helsinki, so there are a lot of non Finnish speakers visiting so there is a large English section.
wzdd
·29 dni temu·discuss
It’s a nice engineering approach, but I’m interested in the motivation. Um and ah is distracting in a transcript, where you can naturally pause to take in information; in speech however it can serve as a focusing point to indicate the next part is important. See https://medium.com/better-humans/dont-worry-about-saying-um-... for example. The weirdly obsessive zeal that orgs like Toastmasters have about eliminating them is weird.

Disfluencies aren’t necessarily bad even if the word starts with “dis”!
wzdd
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
> In your analysis you have shown that exactly one of these reasons is anecdotal.

This was actually the convincing one for me though. “Did AI increase the rsync bug rate? Dunno, can’t tell yet” seems like a fine conclusion to me. Plenty of people in this thread and previous ones on the topic seem convinced one way or another, so it’s nice to see actual numbers.
wzdd
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
It is certainly unkind, when a developer asserts the opposite of what you have assumed about their code, to double down and imply they are lying.
wzdd
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
The code is part of a function called expand item list. It looks like it over allocates memory and uses a bump pointer for internal allocation, only expanding the allocation when necessary. Thus OOB writes to the list would hit the allocated memory.

You’re not a bozo but it is helpful to read the code.
wzdd
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I have one of these and run Debian 13 on it. I love it. Having only two USB ports is annoying and I ended up buying a relatively expensive PD Thunderbolt hub, and there are some compromises that come with the territory (middling battery life, trackpad certainly isn't Macbook-quality). In general, though, it's great and it feels fun in way that I haven't felt about laptops in a long while.

As others have noted the company has done some pretty shady things with some of their other products, and I would not really expect a warranty, so this isn't really a recommendation. But my personal experience after ~six months of use has been good.
wzdd
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
> Every time someone imagines a country going after Microsoft

You don't need to imagine it: the comment you are replying to links to a press release from a Government agency "going after Microsoft". And yet somehow we haven't seen Microsoft stop doing business with the Australian government.
wzdd
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
It really depends. If you're cranking out prototypes or testing ideas, it's genuinely great. But if you're familiar with the code it's very easy to spot its (many) mistakes. It's Gell-Mann amnesia.

Then again, I just caught Claude writing setTransparent(!opaque == false), opaque being a bool, on a purely vibecoded project. Which was pretty impressive. ("• You're right, that's nonsense.")
wzdd
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
> Cream in his coffee, butter in his soups, all the gristle he could handle.

I've noticed Claude is specifically fond of three-element lists consisting of (standard example of class), (standard example of class), (nonstandard example of class). It's interesting because Claude often gets the nonstandard example more or less incorrect -- in this case, because gristle isn't an example of a high-fat-content food.
wzdd
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
People said the same thing about a joke Douglas Adams made in his Hitch Hikers series -- that the (corrupted) Ultimate Question to which the answer was 42 ("what do you get if you multiply six by nine?") was a maths joke because 6x9=42 in base 13. Douglas Adams said this was nonsense.
wzdd
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Quotes from unhappy staff are in the Business Insider article which the article links to in its third paragraph.
wzdd
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Zip disks were much less floppy than floppies. They felt more similar to a single magnetic hard disk platen. Presumably the stiffness was what enabled the head to float above the medium, while also allowing tighter read/write timing because it wasn't subject to such variation. Having a single manufacturer of the disks (at least initially) probably also helped.
wzdd
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Approximately 10 minutes is enough time to see the benefits but not the disadvantages. These effects might disappear again after multi-week interactions with AI, after it has led them down the wrong path, wasting hours; gaslit them into believing an incorrect solution is correct; or repeatedly misunderstood the problem.

This initial honeymoon phase happens whenever someone starts using a new tool, fades after weeks or months, and and is not the time to evaluate the deleterious effects of the tool.
wzdd
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
They carry information in regular human communication, so I'm genuinely curious why you'd think they would not when an LLM outputs them as part of the process of responding to a message.
wzdd
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
You can also configure the scroll direction on Windows (through the registry with 10, using the settings GUI with 11) and in Linux (depending your DE).
wzdd
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Kind of like what3words, except what3words uses three words which you stand a chance of remembering, whereas this produced, for an address similar to mine, "Miniature nerves eulogize gaily inside erect lion yet able stables hiss the conclusive consultation."
wzdd
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
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