Buddahriffic

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop when you feel like it, just like any other verification method. You don’t really prove that there are no problems with software development, it’s more of a “try to think of any problem you can and do your best to make sure it doesn’t have any of those problems” plus “just run it a lot and fix any problems that come up”.

  An LLM is just another approach to finding potential problems. And it will eventually say everything looks good, though not because everything is good but because that happens in its training data and eventually that will become the best correlated tokens (assuming it doesn’t get stuck flipping between two or more sides of a debated issue).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It helps in the sense of once you’ve looked at code enough times, you can stop really seeing it. So many times I’ve debugged issues where I looked many times at an error that is obvious in hindsight but I just couldn’t see it before that. And that’s in cases where I knew there was an issue somewhere in the code.

  Or for optimization advice, if you have a good idea of how efficiency works, it’s usually not difficult to filter the ideas it gives you into “worthwhile”, “worth investigating”, “probably won’t help anything”, and “will make things worse”.

  It’s like a brainstorming buddy. And just like with your own ideas, you need to evaluate them or at least remember to test to see if it actually does work better than what was there before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sudden epiphany.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Big fish in a small pond.

  Guessing I’m not the only one in here that had a similar pathway with video games. Maybe games in general, as chess was similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Though on that note, I don’t think having an LLM review your code is useless, but if it’s code that you care about, read the response and think about it to see if you agree. Sometimes it has useful pointers, sometimes it is full of shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they don’t do analysis but can fool people because they can regurgitate someone else’s analysis from their training data.

  If could just be matching a pattern like “I have a network problem with <symptoms>. Your issue is <problem> and you need to <solution>.” Where the problem and solution are related to each other but the problem isn’t related to the symptoms, because the correlation with “network problem” ends up being stronger than the correlation with the description of the symptoms.

  And that specific problem could likely be solved just by adding a description of that process to the training data. But there will be endless different versions of it that won’t be fixed by that bandaid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my ideal relationship⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I just never saw it that way. Like there’s object as in inanimate thing, or there’s object as in object of the sentence, which is just the entity that isn’t doing the verb in the sentence, but that doesn’t imply they can’t be the subject of another sentence or that removing their agency is ok. There’s a difference between desiring someone and not caring what they desire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my ideal relationship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Some common ones: worker, consumer, commuter, fan, voter, reader, viewer, subscriber…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my ideal relationship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole “sex object” complaint never made sense to me tbh. Like I’ve always wanted “sex object” to be a part of my identity. It’s great for non-sexual stuff to be appreciated, but I’d want my partner to just be horny for me at least for a portion of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what’s going on inside the large companies that are hoping to cash in on the AI thing? All workers are being pushed to use AI and goals are set that targets x% of all code written be AI-generated.

  And AI agents are deceptively bad at what they do. They are like the djinn: they will grant the word of your request but not the spirit. Eg they love to use helper functions but won’t necessarily reuse helper functions instead of writing new copies each time it needs one.

  Here’s a test that will show that, with all the fancy advancements they’ve made, they are still just advanced text predictors: pick a task and have an AI start that task and then develop it over several prompts, test and debug it (debug via LLM still). Now ask the LLM to analyse the code it just generated. It will have a lot of notes.

  An entity using intelligence would use the same approach to write the code as it does to analyze it. Not so for an LLM, which is just predicting tokens with a giant context window. There is no thought pattern behind it, even when it predicts a “thinking process” before it can act. It just fits your prompt into the best fit out of all the public git depots it was trained on, from commit notes and diffs, bug reports and discussions, stack exchange exchanges, and the like, which I’d argue is all biased towards amateur and beginner programming rather than expert-level. Plus it includes other AI-generated code now.

  So yeah, MS did introduce bugs in the past, even some pretty big ones (it was my original reason for holding back on updates, at least until the enshitification really kicked in), but now they are pushing what is pretty much a subtle bug generator on the whole company so it’s going to get worse, but admitting it has fundamental problems will pop the AI bubble, so instead they keep trying to fix it with bandaids in the hopes that it’ll run out of problems before people decide to stop feeding it money (which still isn’t enough, but at least there is revenue).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, back when I still watched cable TV, Canadian Tire had a recurring character in their ads where some neighbours were talking about a problem and the Canadian Tire guy would pop in with how Canadian Tire had a product that could help with that very problem.

  Sounded like a normal kind of ad, but the guy came off as so smug and corporate, he was pretty much in the uncanny valley with his behaviour. Trying to play the ad off as a natural conversation just came off as so fake and I hated the ads to the point where I boycotted the windshield wipers despite them looking like exactly what I wanted.

  They weren’t, I’d later learn after enough time had passed after they fired the guy (because turns out I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t stand him) and I decided they had learned their lesson. But the ads did more to drive me to other stores than help Canadian Tire’s business, even though they were already one of the default options (for those who don’t know them, they are a big box store that is like Home Depot plus car parts, outdoor sporting/camping/hunting, but minus a bunch of the hardware and any contractor focus).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, though getting useful information out of documentation is a skill on its own that not everyone possesses. But I agree that “it’s in the manual” can be useful, especially these days with how common useless manuals are.

  Like I just bought a motherboard and the paper manual it came with was useless, like it didn’t even differentiate between installing Intel or AMD coolers, so clearly didn’t contain much specific information for that particular board.

  The online manual had more useful information, unless you want more info about uefi settings, where you’ll be lucky if it has full information of uefi options for the release uefi, let alone the latest version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Knowing apple, at that price point, performance is going to suuuuuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3218: Subduction Retrieval⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you do that, the volcanoes could start sucking the rocks back in, along with the people and animals, and we aren’t well adapted to living in reversed volcanoes. Within a few generations, survival pressures will probably select for shorter posture (to more easily move around in tight spaces), stronger build (to be able to push rocks out of the way more easily), skills with mining and smithing (obviously), and beards on women (so they, too, can easily carry around small snacks for later).

  So yeah, carry on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨love venn diagrams🫶⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna need a bigger screen or a projector to draw a circle large enough for your mom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like people who reply “rtfm”, except these people actually think they are helping, while the rtfm replier just thinks the question asker isn’t worthy of their knowledge (or wants to hide that they don’t know while maintaining their “I am wise” persona).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put the shoes on⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll see your grand and say 950 is still too high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glorious cracked out wall kitten returns with more wisdom for the masses.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the danger is on the pulling out side, so it makes more sense to do the harder ones for the safer part. Plus, when you’re parking, it’s easier for others to predict what you’re doing, whereas pulling out gives more opportunity for someone walking by the line of cars to be surprised. If you’re pulling out forwards, it’s trivial to see someone about to walk in your path. If you’re backing out, you might not even be able to see someone who is 1s away from stepping in your path, especially if they are coming from your blind side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oopsie poopsies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And the AIs that generated the images won’t give a shit at being called out when they are right, but the artists affected when they are wrong makes me wonder if they really do give a shit about the artists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you absolutely must play one of their games, buy used console games, with the added bonus of keeping their kernel anti cheat shit off your PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the exact % depends on how stable everything else is.

  Like a trivial example, if you have 3 programs, one that sets a pointer to a random address and tries to dereference it, one that does this but only if the last two digits of a timer it checks are “69”, and one that never sets a pointer to an invalid address, based on the programs themselves, the first one will crash almost all the time, the second one will crash about 1% of the time, and the third one won’t crash at all.

  If you had a mechanism to perfectly detect bit flips (honestly, that part has me the most curious about the OP), and you ran each program until you had detected 5 bit flip crashes (let’s say they happen 1 out of each 10k runs), then the first program will have something like a 0.01% chance of any given crash being due to bit flip, about 1% for the 2nd one, and 100% for the 3rd one (assuming no other issues like OS stability causing other crashes).

  Going with those numbers I made up, every 10k “runs”, you’d see 1 crash from bit flips and 9 crashes from other reasons. Or for every crash report they receive, 1 of 10 are bit flips, and 9 of 10 are “other”. Well, more accurately, 1 of 20 for bit flip and 19 of 20 for other, due to the assumption that the detector only detects half of them, because they actually only measured 5%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is talking about average consumers? We’re not trying to market something here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Improved overall system stability and data accuracy? With error correction, you can also push performance farther, since you can tolerate a certain amount of errors, instead of needing to aim for 0% error rate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thx for the diabeetus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s no longer accurate, as there are plenty of authentic Chinese restaurants in areas with Chinese communities that aren’t just trying to get western locals to visit. The dim sum place I’ve been to didn’t even have much English on their menu and it really helped to have some colleagues present who knew Chinese (both the language and the food).

  Easily one of the best meals I’ve ever had, and I’m not usually a fan of the western chinese style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microslop 🤮⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That one was just as popular with windows users back in the day, or at least the groups I ran with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microslop 🤮⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably because Mac marketers never thought of it. Their whole marketing strategy during the 90s wasn’t even about what Macs or PCs could do but that cool people liked Macs and only middle aged business men liked PCs. Despite most of the games that weren’t on both platforms being on the PC side and Macs being the overpriced underperforming one (which IMO is the opposite of cool).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all SO simple!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just one approach to addiction. Personally, I think it assumes people are weak with no self-control, which seems to be exactly the argument you’re making.

  The emphasis on abstinence and any exposure at all being a failure might even make binging more likely if someone gives in just a little, as their counter is now reset, so might as well take advantage.

  And the obsession/fascination with the addiction target continues or even gets ramped up.

  I like the moderation approach a lot better. I don’t binge drink every weekend anymore, but if I do feel like having a drink every now and then, I just do instead of spiraling because I need to treat it like some sort of personal failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nothing really matters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just make sure you have permission from the leg’s owner first or things can get complicated legally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Fruit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One difference that I’m aware of is we were using bone needles at that point to make more advanced clothing, which would have helped in an ice age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s all about a) whether microbes can get to it, b) whether microbes can survive on it, and c) whether microbes can thrive on it. If the answer to any of those is no, then it won’t decompose.

  If it just relies on a, then opening it starts its countdown.

  If it just relies on b, then it won’t rot but the preservatives might be an issue for us, too. Though it could rot eventually if circumstances change (like it gets soaked with clean water or if the preservatives break down over time).

  If it just relies on c, then it might just be waiting for some moisture for an existing colony to take off, but it’ll just sit until then.

  Eggs are a and maybe a bit of b mixed in. You don’t even need to refridgerate eggs if they weren’t washed like they do for commercially available ones (at least in north america, dunno about elsewhere). Not that unwashed eggs are necessarily better, as they can have bacteria on the outside of the shell from things like chicken shit.

  Once I understood the role moisture plays, I stopped using a lid on my garbage so that it would dry out and stink less. It works unless I’m thowing out a bunch of fish guts or something that stores/traps moisture well, and even then, the stink isn’t as bad.