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VBprogrammer
·позавчера·discuss
I suspect the easier option is to use AI to review your own code. The arms race between developers and attackers might even make some of the AI valuations come true.
VBprogrammer
·позавчера·discuss
It really feels like we've crossed some kind of event horizon with AI exploding in so many seemingly unrelated directions.
VBprogrammer
·3 дня назад·discuss
I guess life would be boring if we were all the same. I found the 1.0 litre turbo in the Sandero to be perfectly adequate in power. I hated almost everything else about the car though. And again, I don't usually have this problem, more often I fall in love with the little rental cars we get and start checking how much they are on the used market before remembering we have no need for a second car.
VBprogrammer
·3 дня назад·discuss
Isn't the fix to constrain the abilities of a user agent to only the permissions of the user inputing the prompt? I guess that's not a lot of fun because you have to implement some kind of query API which respects user permissions on top of the underlying data storage rather than just letting the agent have at it. Any fix at the LLM level seems destined to fail.
VBprogrammer
·3 дня назад·discuss
Chances are most manufacturers are going to use a cheap USB camera. Can a raspberry pi emulate webcam? Just place the same video of you diligently staring out of the window on repeat.
VBprogrammer
·3 дня назад·discuss
It seems like you are being downvoted but I've had the exact issue you mention where there is heavy over-banding on the road surface. Or where you try to move out to overtake a cyclist and it decides to correct you back into lane.
VBprogrammer
·3 дня назад·discuss
Ever driven a Dacia? I had one for a rental in Portugal. Honestly the least comfortable and most irritating vehicle I've ever driven. I'm not just being fussy, we've had plenty of Hyundais, Citroens and the like without a problem.
VBprogrammer
·3 дня назад·discuss
The snap method of tying a bowline is my favourite. In nice rope it looks really fancy and can be done mostly from muscle memory (except remembering to pass the free end through from the backside to avoid a shameful cowboy bowline).

I found myself in a similar situation taking my kids crab fishing. We were quite high above the water so I was trying to tie the thin string on the net to the bucket so we could lower it into the water to fill it. After trying to think of the fancy way of doing it I just went with doubling up the string and tying a round turn and two half hitches, an embarrassingly simple knot which has most of the advantages of anything more complex.
VBprogrammer
·4 дня назад·discuss
Knots in general are a harmless and occasionally useful pasttime for many people. In fact I have a length of rope under my desk I will occasionally pick up and practice a few useful knots in just to keep them in my muscle memory. It's similar in many ways to people who solve rubix cubes or play with fidget spinners.
VBprogrammer
·5 дней назад·discuss
Those are completely orthogonal to accepting all of the risk, from the point of view of a CEO, of battery failures for cars you sold 10 years ago.

But yes, making things repairable is really important. And, I certainly have concerns that the danger of high voltage batteries will soon be used to introduce so much regulatory burden that it becomes impossible for individuals and small companies to repair them.
VBprogrammer
·6 дней назад·discuss
That's easy to say when you aren't the one considering adding a huge liability to the companies bottom line.

There are also some elements of EV ownership where they require some TLC, like not overcharging them when doing mostly local journeys, not using rapid charging more than necessary etc. If manufacturers were carrying the can it would be easy to let these things go out of the window.
VBprogrammer
·8 дней назад·discuss
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VBprogrammer
·8 дней назад·discuss
I used to regularly go to a comedy show on the site of an old brewery in Wandsworth. The comedy cost £20 but the beer was free. Apparently the site was the oldest continuous used brewery in Europe and the head brewer decided to keep the record going after the site was sold to a property development company. However, there was a prohibition against competition and licensing issues meaning they couldn't charge for beer.
VBprogrammer
·13 дней назад·discuss
My partner had booked a table for lunch for us and our friends. Six adults and six children. One of the couples had forgotten a party earlier that morning, so we tried to move the booking a couple of hours later.

Unfortunately the only phone line was answered by an AI bot who stubbornly refused to move the booking, simply telling us there was no availability within an hour of our booking.

Fortunately my partner was passing so was able to go in and speak to someone is person who was happy to move our booking back 2 hours. Lunch and drinks for our party must have come to several hundred pounds.

I'd estimate our party was between a third or maybe half of all the customers there. Had we chosen to book elsewhere I bet someone would still be patting themselves on the back about how clever they were to save a few minutes a day on actually answering the phone to actual customers.
VBprogrammer
·14 дней назад·discuss
In any ordinary times this would be an incredible endorsement. I'm not sure it works in the current timeline though.
VBprogrammer
·14 дней назад·discuss
This feels like a stretch. It would be impossible for someone who didn't know how an engine worked to repair or improve the design of it.
VBprogrammer
·16 дней назад·discuss
It's merely a ToS violation.
VBprogrammer
·21 день назад·discuss
> Can there be bugs? Sure. That's the price of not reading or understanding every line.

I've yet to come across a human developer who's output would meet this standard, despite writing every line.

In fact, having an LLM review our code is catching quite a few bugs before it reaches QA.
VBprogrammer
·21 день назад·discuss
I have a vague memory of there being some case law or interpretation here. But certainly doesn't bare much resemblance to what the original law makers had in mind.
VBprogrammer
·22 дня назад·discuss
I've often wondered what basis companies are using for the "opt-in to tracking or pay to opt out model". It has spread now to even fairly reputable organisations.

This, at least to my understanding, runs contrary to the spirit of the GDPR regulations. Permission has to be freely given which, when the alternative is paying a subscription, it quite obviously isn't.