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Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:05PM (#50318418)
Just not very well. It's a hard problem. And they're not incentivized to slow down.
What about the typescript rust port https://blog.cloudflare.com/typescript-rust-port ?
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:36PM (#49701753)
leveraged options gambling
There is an open source web browser proxy thing called finicky [0]. I use at work that lets me redirect urls clicked in other apps like slack to specific browers (firefox / chrome) or even specific chrome profiles. It'll also allow you to rewrite the urls.

[0] https://github.com/johnste/finicky

Re:Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:38PM (#46955454)
It's likely against the ToS rather than illegal. But if they're deleting IDs correctly after verifying I guess you just have to get past 30 days
Re:Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:51AM (#46602575)
We have this also. https://coppellchronicle.substack.com/

Article about it: https://simonowens.substack.com/p/this-local-newsletter-cove...

40%+ conversion rate on substack.

Re:Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025 on Sunday August 24, 2025 @09:51PM (#45009474)
It's load shedding, but it's weighted towards people abusing their quota usually over some rolling weighted average. The benefit is that they are dropped immediately at the edge rather than holding sockets open or using compute/resources. It usually takes 30s-1m to kick in.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Leaning towards yes now!
You can just order brand new ones from China for even cheaper I imagine. https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/703472647/saying-i-do-to-lab-...
Re:Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event on Saturday July 26, 2025 @02:13PM (#44695954)
Is it a kid friendly event for a 8 year old who doesn't know any YouTubers? Like we he have fun seeing all the maker stuff?
Re:Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update) on Monday July 21, 2025 @12:02AM (#44631690)
The problem here is the infrastructure required to demo the changes to the user. Like yeah you made a code-change, but now I have to pull it, maybe setup data to get it in the right state, check if it's functioning how I want it to. Looking at the code it produced in a diff can waste a lot of your time if it doesn't even work as expected.
Re:Protecting My Attention at the Dopamine Carnival on Monday July 14, 2025 @10:17PM (#44567254)
I've found the same. I actually enjoy Instagram ads. I despise almost every other ad I can think of.
Using cline for a bit made me realize cursor was doomed. Everything is just a gpt/anthropic wrapper of fancy prompts.

I can do most of what I want with cline, and I've gone back from large changes to just small changes and been moving much quicker. Large refactors/changes start to deviate from what you actually want to accomplish unless you have written a dissertation, and even then they fail.

Re:The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger on Sunday June 29, 2025 @11:33AM (#44413920)
I think a reasonable thing folks want is to not have their art or design used to train these models without permission.
Re:ElevenReader by ElevenLabs on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:23AM (#43022768)
This raises an interesting question around the rights of the author/publisher and who they sold their ebook rights to. If in 3 years we have a perfect AI voice that can read any book as good or better than mid-level narrators, why would you ever buy an audiobook when you could just buy the ebook and pick your voice(s). What a time to be alive
Re:Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 4 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @09:21PM (#42581552)
Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search on Monday August 05, 2024 @04:49PM (#41165466)
Lets not kid ourselves. This wasn't a random reviewer giving you a hard time, your extension is definitely being "reviewed" way up the chain in order to find any menial reason to not allow you.
I started a small service recently in rails. I'm forcing sorbet with typechecking (you can still set things to false like tests which sometimes are a pain to get to pass). It feels almost like a typed language with LSP jump to etc. It's getting there.
Re:Meta 3D Gen on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @09:17PM (#40861977)
Autodesk has been building practical 3d models for years with generative design. I have to imagine it's only getting better with these recent advances, but I'm not immersed in the space.
Re:K-Means Clustering on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:39PM (#38976824)
I applied to a certain scraping fintech in the Bay Area around 5 years ago and was asked to open the Wikipedia page to k-means squared clustering and implement the algorithm with tests from scratch. I was applying for an android position. I still laugh thinking about how they paid to fly me out and ask such a stupid interview question.
Re:How Two Pharmacists Figured Out That Decongestants Don't Work on Thursday December 21, 2023 @03:16PM (#38726238)
I think a lot of people watched this Vox video about sudafed 2 months ago and became armchair experts tbh: https://youtu.be/ZlFF7A8nk0w
Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:07PM (#38561160)
I looked at is as if it were a good aspirational target for 5 years from now. It was obvious the whole video was edited together not real time.
Re:Google Drive has lost user data on Sunday November 26, 2023 @11:35PM (#38428102)
Do you run a daily cron or something? I've been trying to figure out how to backup my photos from google.
Mine are all high up in second floor so it does make a difference.
I use blueiris which barely works because I'm overloading it with 9 reolinks at 4k. I'd like to figure out my bottleneck but it works enough barely that it's not worth mucking with it.
Re:I built a Plane Spotter in 120 secs with ChatGPT on Monday September 04, 2023 @12:22PM (#37381954)
Yet.

The wider context window and better tooling are all being worked on.

Re:They Bypass YouTube Video Download Throttling on Monday August 14, 2023 @10:30AM (#37121454)
What proxy do you use?

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