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More than one service has lost me as a customer due to this process. I don't want a company to use me to verify their slop.

Oh, yeah, it was definitely being done for the wrong purpose. But it was fun, more fun than solving the problems. OOP and the design pattern craze made it feel like progress, when it was actually just about messing around.

This takes me back to the era of object oriented programming and UML diagrams. More time was spent framing the solution than implementing it. Is there maybe one more design pattern that could be applied? And when the time to implement came, all those diagrams were mostly in the way. But doing it was fun, since it allowed you to focus on the fun, big picture and skip the nitty gritty details that were actually hard to solve.

I feel like people are going down that slippery slope with harnesses and skills and what not. With the right prompt, and with the right model, and with a sprinkle of magic, the solution will emerge. Oh, it didn't? Let's see if there's a new model available, or if someone has come up with a new clever skill or something. Maybe then... Because actually solving annoying problems is not fun, even less so now that the code is a black box only the LLM can understand.

Oh, I like this a lot!

We recently picked up Monopoly with a new generation of players, and the flaws of the design were now apparent to adults. I think this could be a significant improvement.

Don't get me started with that U2 album I never purchased...

I don't know if it's quite the same. To not have seen movies with sound would have required living under a rock for decades. To not know if the paren problem has been fixed only requires not having tried it for a year, and not being part of any lisp communities.

I'm the first one to admit my ignorance when it comes to LLM capabilities. Hence the honest question.

Thanks! Yeah, it was probably over a year ago that I tried it. Just the thought of a statistical program coding lisp while picking the number of closing parens based on a hunch made me shiver.

Can it already reliably close parens? I was disappointed some time ago, but sounds like it's ready for a new go...?

Software might be solved, but not everything is solvable by software.

Has there yet been any signs of any service actually being successfully hacked due to the vulnerability?

Kind of seems like they just shut down their PHP service like everyone else... If this is the case, hopefully they can set up a temporary static site to inform about relevant updates.

I downloaded the thing, was going to try it out to verify. But the checksum didn't match (probably just a random string generated by an LLM). I left it at that and turned off php.

Which ones would you say are worse, and why?

Strange coincidence? Can someone see a potential connection here?

I got this same earlier, but now it seems to be working. Perhaps just an oddly timed bug with some ads that has nothing to do with the incident?

This has been out for hours! Why is this not the top post here? It's climbing, and hopefully will soon be, but... This is massive, right?

I had to shut down my own backend services. Luckily a big part of my service can run on a static website.

Regular buyers are gamers who spend a lot of time playing games. That's who you want to target, since that's the group who are actively looking for new games, and they also want their games to last. It's not about completionism, it's about spending hours and hours playing games.

I'm with you on this boat, but I believe I see the point in the way it's marketed. An average person who makes regular game purchases likes long games. They want value for their money, and the number of hours is a big factor. This game has a big piblisher behind it, and I believe they know exactly what they're doing with the marketing!

Devtools capturing the key combo for switching between windows (cmd+< on my keyboard) is driving me crazy! In my workflow I often have to switch between browser windows while having devtools open, and this annoyance has forced me to install Chrome.

That's how stuxnet got through!

How about they create a virus that copies itself onto USB drives? Getting that virus out there doesn't sound that hard, just creare some crap game.exe and put it on itch.io for free. All it takes is for a kid to borrow nuclear-engineer-dad's USB drive and plug it in their infected PC.

I'm not a fan of using AI, it doesn't amplify the work I do that much, but I'm terrified by what is already possible today.

They could, but I could always hope they wouldn't, and most of the time I wouldn't be disappointed. AI companies don't even have means to attribute to someone the solution they're selling.

I get kicks out of developing novel solutions to unsolved problems. I might be wrong, but I like to think it's the kind of stuf LLMs are not yet great at. Call me selfish, but I now have absolutely zero interest in sharing my findings with the world because of LLMs, since once I do, LLM companies can start selling my work.

LLMs evened the battlefield for all that has been developed so far, but what about future discoveries? I think it remains to be seen if LLMs can come up with these novel solutions rendering innovators useless. If not, then LLMs might be crippled by software becoming more closed in the future.

Japanese public transport is insanely quiet! No talking, no phones ringing... It's my happy place.

Good list. And if you support both portrait and landscape, you need to support twice that, and you need to be able to switch on the fly.

But for the apps that don't currently support both orientations, it's possible they don't have support for switching aspect ratio on the fly. This design might help with those apps not completely breaking when folding/unfolding.

Yeah! Seems like that's the assumption in this ongoing discussion, so I thought my point of view would be interesting. I'm not saying I'm doing it the right way, possibly I'm being very stupid, but the point here is that it's not just the "normies" who don't know what Sol is.

Yes! Though I mainly use it for one-shotting full files, so I'm not copying over small diffs. I did try copilot at some point in vscode, but after a week or so I felt like it was slowing me down. Something I knew would be a simple and quick change was now slow since I didn't have enough ownership of the code to do it quickly myself, and prompting for the change took longer than changing it manually if I had had full ownership. So I went back to coding by hand things that aren't a one-shot file.

I'm a coder and a daily driver of ChatGPT and I don't really know what Sol is or how I can access it. I follow discussions here and know of its excistence, but I can't remember its relation to other models or tiers by heart. What ever the default thing the website is giving me has been good enough for my needs for years.

I'm not sure about the listed facts... I opened up Helsinki where I live, and got this: "Every residential building has a sauna -- it's not a luxury, it's basic infrastructure, like having hot water."

Certainly it's very common, but certainly not "every" residential building has one.

Apple Maps got really good at some point! I once pick it by accident for navigation, and never went back to Google Maps.