smolder · HackerTrans

28 gün öncediscuss

Yeah, I have fixed issues that could have potentially destroyed the company I was working at. There was an instance of a lazily written script which just took user input for a file open. It could read sensitive files on the system because of lazy development. The other devs praised me for fixing it, but I didn't get any recognition comparable to the losses our company could have had if it got exploited.

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28 gün öncediscuss

You're saying "this is normal" without making an argument that it's sensible.

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3 ay öncediscuss

Paleontology has been really helped by the ease of sequencing, to the point where many evolutionary arguments are moot. Humans are apes, birds are dinosaurs. Some people still dispute it, but not with evidence on their side.

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3 ay öncediscuss

Yes, processes changed. Because you don't need NAT, mainly. Overall it's simpler, with more bits in the addresses.

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Not much more complicated than IPv4. There are more bits. The addresses are longer. It's not hard to grasp if you understand the prerequisites to understanding networking in general.

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It's not. I learned how IPv6 worked SO LONG AGO that I really can't understand remaining confusion.

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Thank you for sharing.

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3 ay öncediscuss

I wouldn't say that's robust email monitoring at all. It's embarassingly bad. Gmass shouldn't exist and your salespeople should be out of a job.

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5 ay öncediscuss

We need models that are smarter than humans. So far, the cost of an AI query + training is dwarfing the effort it would take to teach an intelligent human how to do a task. We are dumping an incredibly amount of money/effort into making AI do stuff when it's still not competitive with humans, because dumbass people are controlling investment. The stock market is not a replacement for competent investment. The fact people buy meme coins shows how fucked we are.

Deceiving people is not a sustainable business model, but it is the most prominent one in the US right now. Lie to the public, sell them stuff that's bad for them at too high of a price, get rich quick, then act confused when your economy collapses because the victims of your grift can't spend anymore.

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7 ay öncediscuss

This is desperate rebuttal from ignorance.

My point stands. You haven't innovated, you've just leaned on an LLM to work with your unoriginal DSL. I'm sure it's worth 100 megawatt-hours.

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7 ay öncediscuss

LLMs aren't like a screwdriver at all, the analogy doesn't work. I think I was clear. LLMs aren't useful outside the domain of what they were trained on. They are copycats. To really innovate on software design means going outside what has been done before, which an LLM won't help you do.

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7 ay öncediscuss

> There is absolutely no reason why software today has to be written like software of yesterday.

I get what you're saying, but the irony is that AI tools have sort of frozen the state of the art of software development in time. There is now less incentive to innovate on language design, code style, patterns, etc., when it goes outside the range of what an LLM has been trained on and will produce.

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7 ay öncediscuss

I don't know why people think wind turbines are ugly... Someone who admires gold toilets, no less. I think the opposite.

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7 ay öncediscuss

A as in Ang, clearly.

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The classic version is not a developer, it's a mechanic or some other blue collar job. I've seen it on a sign in a machine shop 20 years ago.

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yeah the real war is between people who do useful stuff and the trillion dollar industry which means to displace them.

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This is just another aspect of the failure to foster a positive society. The rich who are balls deep in AI don't give a fuck about what happens at a societal level. They want numbers to go up and the result is dumb people in charge of things they shouldn't be in charge of.

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7 ay öncediscuss

children now don't have to work hard, but they're precious because no one is having children in the educated world.

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7 ay öncediscuss

This is a misunderstanding of what community is, said by someone who doesn't know.

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7 ay öncediscuss

Yes, I would also prefer that servers were community run as in the hl2 days.

I would still argue that there are technical issues leading to some amount of cheating. In extraction shooters like Hunt Showdown, Escape From Tarkov and a few others, people can run pcie devices that rip player location and other information from the machines memory in order to inject it into an overlay with a 2nd computer, and they do go to these lengths to cheat, giving them a huge advantage. It wouldn't be possible to rip that info from memory for these "ESP cheats" if the server didn't needlessly transmit position information for players that aren't actually visible. IMO this is a technical failure. There are other steps that could be taken as well, which just aren't because they're hard.

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