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- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 week ago:
One of my favorite papers! On a similar note, I recently started reading A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. Although it’s a lot more recent (2018), I’d argue it’s required reading in light of the LLM hype craze.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 week ago:
Absolutely, the author needs to be able to reason about their changes, no matter what. However, the reason why I think the two situations are fundamentally different, though, is that it’s a lot easier to validate the existence of features than it is the non-existence of bugs or malicious behavior. The biggest risk to removing code is breaking preexisting features, whereas the biggest risk to adding code is introducing malicious behavior.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 week ago:
Agreed. I have a sense that, eventually, development communities will figure out etiquette and policies to govern LLM usage. But how do you enforce that kind of policy? Right now, it’s essentially a judgement call by the maintainers. It’s hard to catch sneaky LLM usage.
On the other hand, I think there are objectively good ways to use LLMs for software:
- High-level design and planning
- Technical Research (although this tends towards the most popular tech)
- POCs & rapid prototyping
- "Textbook" solutions
- TDD Red/Green development (where the LLM generates failing tests based on the high-level spec, and the programmer writes the implementation)
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 week ago:
25kLOC delta in a single PR should be cause for instant rejection
Not to pick at nits, but it would be VERY different if it was 1k lines added and 24k lines removed. There’s something extremely satisfying about removing 10k+ lines of unnecessary code.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in A.I. Clash With Trump 2 weeks ago:
Has “performance” or “merit” meant much to Trump for anything else?
- Comment on Not Found 2 weeks ago:
This Pentagon has now indicated they’re willing to abuse the “supply-chain risk” label for political reasons, casting doubt over all future, legitimate uses of the label.
That’s a massive mistake and we’re all far less safe because of it.
- Comment on Not Found 2 weeks ago:
OpenAI made a statement agreeing with Anthropic’s “red lines”. Google has yet to do the same, although there’s been quite a lot of chatter from employees about it.
- Comment on Administrative task management 3 weeks ago:
I’m the cloud infrastructure business we like to call that the 9mm test. It’s quite effective.
- Comment on Life advice from the pedophile in chief himself. 3 weeks ago:
Whoa you gotta put an NSFW tag on images like these.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 3 months ago:
The only reason why memory might get repurposed is because the demand for AI has collapsed. The bubble that’s most likely to burst is a financial bubble, and is unlikely to reduce the demand for AI from users… So I wouldn’t count on it.
- Comment on Freaky ass bird 3 months ago:
It’s also gonna confuse people worried about AI slop…
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 3 months ago:
(not so) fun fact: tinnitus can cause chronic depression and anxiety! Ask me how I know …
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 3 months ago:
As others have already said: take breaks. It’s really easy (speaking from experience) to “get used” to a volume level that’s way too loud, ESPECIALLY if using isolating or noise-cancelling headphones.
Part of how your brain figures determines if something is too loud has to do with contrast with the environment. Yelling at the top of your lungs sounds a lot louder in a quiet library than it does in the middle of a live concert. Taking breaks both recalibrate your sense of loudness and gives your ears a rest.
If you can afford decent “reference” or “studio” headphones, you’ll enjoy the same music at MUCH quieter levels than cheaper or lower-quality headphones. They are designed to be used for long periods of time by professional audio engineers and musicians, who are notoriously protective of their hearing and perfectionistic about even the most subtle of sounds.
Although I was a broke college student and couldn’t afford hardly anything they talked about, I learned a ton scrolling through audiophile forums like Head-Fi ( www.head-fi.org/forums/ ). Now I’m less broke but somehow equipment envy and window-shopping just feels more right than spending way too much money on something I probably don’t have the time to enjoy anymore… Such is life.
- Comment on What the democrats just did. 4 months ago:
I’m accused of being a witch
Witch? Nah. Sealion? Yah.
- Comment on What the democrats just did. 4 months ago:
lol this thread is off the rails and should probably get modded
My summary of the conversation so far: @PugJesus@piefed.social offered evidence of some (supposedly controversial) event. @Objection@lemmy.ml rejected it outright without offering any competing evidence. Both are, according to the other, somehow a variety of fascist bootlicker. The shitposting aura is weak; too serious.
- Comment on Rivian Tore Apart A Xiaomi EV And Discovered What America Can’t Match | Carscoops 4 months ago:
It’s also what happens when the entire world outsources manufacturing to one county: that country gets really really good at making stuff better than anybody else in the world.
- Comment on Is there a self-hosted project that does base64 url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion? 5 months ago:
The
/character isn’t a part of the base64 encoding. In fact, only one part of the URL looks like base64. No plain base64 tool (whether via CLI, self-hosted, or otherwise) will be able to decode an entire URL like that. You’ll first need to parse the URL to isolate the base64 part. This is literally solved with a single line of bash:echo "https://link.sfchronicle.com/external/41488169.38548/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG90ZG9nYmlsbHMuY29tL2hhbWJ1cmdlci1tb2xkcy9idXJnZXItZG9nLW1vbGQ_c2lkPTY4MTNkMTljYzM0ZWJjZTE4NDA1ZGVjYSZzcz1QJnN0X3JpZD1udWxsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV90ZXJtPWJyaWVmaW5nJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zZmNfYml0ZWN1cmlvdXM/6813d19cc34ebce18405decaB7ef84e41" | cut -d/ -f6 | base64 -d - Comment on It's on your blood! 7 months ago:
The argument you’re making sounds similar to something like “Fossil Fuels are safe, it’s just the CO2 that’s dangerous.”
I didn’t read it that way at all. Their argument sounds more like “there’s nuance that you’re glossing over.”
It seems that we all agree PFAS are generally nasty chemicals, some worse than others. Teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene) is just one of the “nicer” ones.