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> Reddit started ignoring subreddit subscriptions

Where are you seeing this? When? I go to "Home" and I only see my subscriptions.

I have a cosmetic filter to avoid clicking on the "Popular" link but I never see anything from the front page that's not part of my subreddits. I don't use the app.

There is a short term vs long term gain aspect to this.

For me programming was never only about creating the thing but also about becoming better at design and problem solving. So I'm still doing things mostly by hand to get these benefits. I'll use the LLM as a brainstorm partner.

It's like when I'm trying to learn a foreign language. Asking the AI for a translation of a paragraph is the easy shortcut but you know it's not going to help in the long run. It's better to manually look in the dictionary or look for real-world usage, or even ask the AI to explain the grammar, the effort itself is what helps crystallize the knowledge.

This approach won't be intuitive for the next generation. But LLMs can definitely be used to teach you how to do things instead of doing the things for you. We need to educate people about how to use them a way that make them better rather than simply delegate thinking.

Same experience and I do work (remotely) for a US company. We aren't allowed to have non-local LLMs touch the whole codebase of the product so we still code many things by hand.

The "I haven't written or read code in a year" experience is not universal.

And I also have roughly the same approach for my own projects. I use LLMs to brainstorm design, algorithms, data structures, maybe have it spit out small building blocks in isolation, but I'm still very much in control and owning every line.

Many people derive joy and purpose in being useful to others.

This is not a critique of LLMs, it's just the new state of affairs that since people can more easily solve their own problems it has somehow become more difficult to be helpful to others.

For many hobby open source developers the reward and motivation was simply random people saying thank you.

You can do that right now in ChatGPT? Every answer has a "Branch in new chat" button. You can go back to any point and branch again.

A Canadian politician did this during a speech in front of the house/parliament or whatever. In the middle of the speech the LLM wrote "Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech" and he read it verbatim and then continued on, not even realizing what he just read.

The markers aren't words that you can sprinkle in your prose, they are a statistical bias in the selection of the words.

I think they mean it like this: imagine you ask me a random number sequence. I give you a random number sequence. Little did you know, I used a very specific PRNG to generate it, so later I can prove with certainty that your number was generated by me, and you can't say you came up with it yourself.

There is no room for false positive here in the same way you can't randomly find a collision in a hash function if it's strong enough. Like the rate is so infinitesimal that it is effectively zero.

Now replace random number sequence with prompted string of words. And instead of using the PRNG on every word I use it every n words. If the generated text is sufficiently long I can tell by matching the expected deterministic pattern.

You can defeat it by changing the words yourself and triggering a false negative but there isn't really any room for a false positive if the text is long enough and the pattern matches perfectly. If the pattern doesn't match then I can compute a probability.

LLMs can be very good at 2. Finding the best architecture, data structures, algorithms, looking on arXiv to see other ways to solve the problem, etc.

You have to work in design mode and stop it from pissing code. Describe the requirements as detailed as possible and refine them based on the responses. It's quite rewarding and helps structure the way you think about the problem.

What do you mean you don't remember, your repo is from 8 months ago, this release is from 18 hours ago. And how does "Gemini couldn't get it to work" translate to "it's broken"? It sounds like your vibe-coding session didn't work first try and you haven't tried to understand what the problem was.

You could also look at other repos in github to see what they do to do the same task.

It's used by most users, that's what they are saying, it doesn't matter that the file format is obscure.

If you make a video player based on ffmpeg you take input videos. The attacker can share a specially crafted video with the victim. Same kind of attack as sharing word documents.

Just a point about precision, Google Maps fire overlay is based on NASA Firms + some processing, and it's not perfectly accurate.

It is currently marking my little town as under fire / burned down, but it's not and hasn't been so far. (north west front of the fire, next to the lake). It looks like their contouring algorithm is very greedy and any hot spot marked in the past few days has become part of their fire perimeter.

The massive fire clouds probably contribute to the difficulty of measuring ground temperature from satellite.

How interesting I was just reading yesterday his paper "An enduring error" about how we have been miscounting the Archimedean solids for two thousand years.

But also, for this conjecture to be wrong is quite surprising to me. Intuitively I would think any convex polygon to be topologically equivalent to a circle, and any convex n-gon should be deformable into its regular version, then back to the other one…

As you may have guessed, it's Latin.

> doesn't do anything but make your life harder.

No it also encourages the local market and healthy competition. This way in the future we don't fall into the same enshittification trap.

I thought an industry standard was to use proxy files. Open source editor Shotcut use them for example. Create a low resolution + intra-frame only version of the file for very fast scrubbing, make your edits on that, and when done the edit list is applied to the full resolution rushes to produce the output.

This is the worst to me. It happened to me a few times already. Someone says or writes something wrong. You correct them. They get defensive and justify the error by saying it's what the chat bot wrote.

It's very frustrating, they delegate the responsibility of having written wrong information or code away to the bot, as if there was nothing they could do.

Social aspect. There is no need but it's more fun to spend the end of the Universe with other intelligences than each in its own place.

It is counter intuitive but information can still travel between places that are so distant that expansion between them is faster than the speed of light. It's just extremely slow (so I still vote for going to the party at the highest density place).

We do see light from galaxies that are receding away from us faster than c. At first the photons going in our direction are moving away from us but as the universe expands over time at some point they find themselves in a region of space that is no longer receding faster than c, and they start approaching.

Already a big problem in art, people go on witch hunt over what they think are signs of AI use.

It's sad because people that are ok with AI art are still enjoying the human art just the same. Somehow their visceral hate of AI-art managed to ruin human art for themselves as well.

> The bandits who fall in area B1 are those individuals whose actions yield to them profits which are larger than the losses they cause to other people.

Are there real life example of this? Or does anyone that scams people richer than them qualifies maybe?

Hurting the enemy is intentional and thus has an implicit "gain" built into it, even if it's just psychological. The physical losses can be deemed acceptable because of it, if the satisfaction derived from hurting the enemy balances them out. The OP is describing stupidity where the result is a true loss or zero gain, because the intent wasn't to hurt in the first place.

You can change sync settings on a per-profile basis. I have 6 profiles, 4 of which I synchronize between different computers. They use different sync accounts. So for example on my personal profile I sync the passwords but not on the work profile.

For me that's how it works unless I already have a Firefox window opened. If I have multiple windows of different profiles already open (which happens all the time) it may add it to the wrong one, so I sometimes need to drag and drop the tab between the windows.

> I usually start with the default profile, then navigate to "about:profiles" to open all I need.

Just add -p in the shortcut properties to start on the profile manager.

I do it all the time I'm not sure what you are talking about.

I use Tree Style Tabs extension (obviously), so maybe the feature is coming from there?

You can definitely drag and drop a tab from one window to another, target window can be in a different profile.

You can select multiple tabs with SHIFT and then drag and drop them to the other window, no problem.

I don't understand some of these comments. Start firefox, pick profile, opens a window in the selected profile.

The only weirdness is when you have multiple windows of different profiles opened at the same time and you open a link from a different application it may open it in the last used window which may not be the one you wanted. But then you can of course just drag and drop the tab from one window to the other.

The point of profiles is that they are completely isolated from each other, like separate installs, so I don't think starting to share preferences would be great.

I've been using profiles for 15 years and I didn't even know it was in about:config.

Just add -p in your shortcut to start on the profile manager.

Command prompt, terminal? What are you talking about?

You just have to add the -p in the shortcut properties.