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kul_··on OpenJev
Is it only me or do others also find LLM generated websites so off-putting?
kul_··on How I write software with LLMs
LLMs are great at aggregating docs, blogs and other sources out there into a single interface and there has been nothing like it before.

When it comes to coding however, the place where you really need help is the place where you get stuck and that for most people would be the intersection of domain and tech. LLMs need a LOT of baby sitting to be somewhat useful here. If I have to prompt a LLM for hours just to get the correct code, why would I even use it when the tangible output is just carefully thought out few 100 lines of code!

kul_··on Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting
Assuming an ext-IP (60k ports) can easily represent 100 household if we statically assign ports. Given CGNAT with dynamic port allocation this can easily go up to 5x? That's wildly inaccurate given the core problem is to "target" a small set of users which is based on this geo info. Not sure how well this elephant sits in a room full of engineers solving this specific targeting problem.
kul_··on Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting
Not sure about US, but Indian ISPs are doing this already to conserve IP space given huge userbase. In theory it would work similar to how a NAT gateway works for outbound communication. Skan + geo would be hard nut to crack in India.
kul_··on Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting
> A lot of the big ad networks right now instead rely heavily on geo-data

How does this work in today's age where ISPs normally will have at least one level of NATing with ipv4. And given ipv6 with prefix delegation is still far away this should continue to be very imprecise?

kul_··on Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers
Reminds of the old days, when reverse engineering game binaries were a thing. Finding hex strings, no-op'ing if conditions, adding jmp instructions. Many heroes forgotten with time as more and more of software onboarded the cloud offerings. I wonder how much of it is still relevant and in what fields?
kul_··on Ask HN: How are account balances updated in a real bank?
I cannot tell if this is a serious comment.
kul_··on Does DNA have the equivalent of IF-statements, WHILE loops, or function calls?
I misread this for some reason and I am now interested to know if DNS can be made to work dynamically this way instead of being just preconfigured static records?
kul_··on PostgreSQL Lock Conflicts
This is excellent, kudos to the author. I wonder if pg exposes enough control to develop a tool along with this information which help analyze locks and their effect on queries on a live server.
kul_··on Egg whites can be transformed into a material capable of filtering microplastics
But then, how will you separate salt from microplastics?
kul_··on HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know
Cynical but sadly true.
kul_··on Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
Moderna vaccine also seems to have similar storage requirements with a high price tag. BioNTech otoh has impractical storage requirements for the third world. AstraZenca's price and storage combiation may open possibilities for distributing this globally.
kul_··on Investigating TLS Blocking in India
Isnt' SNI based on the 'Host' header?! This is a news for me that SNI is not encrypted in TLS. Its a problem with the protocol not the ISPs then.
kul_··on Researchers Step Up Efforts to Develop a 'Universal' Flu Vaccine
Scientists already have a precise knowledge of what the human body is made of, is it possible to develop a shot which basically annhilates anything in the body which is not supposed to be there? I mean instead of developing a vaccine which kills xyz vareity of microbes it will destroy everything which is not in human genetics.
kul_··on Mozilla re-enables TLS 1.0 and 1.1 because of Coronavirus (and Google)
Why do you have to do it alone? Cant you ask for another colleague to help you out on this?
kul_··on Learning Clojure Made Easy
Learning clojure is relatively easy, the hard part would be to get paid for writing it.
kul_··on Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
Did you also show her Sex.
kul_··on WannaCry – New Variants Detected
Is there analysis on what encryption algorithm was being used? And how the payment confirmation switch works on the malware.

Is it possible instead of patching the OS, to release a patch which patches the malware binary to no-op the payment switch?

kul_··on Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?
QM/MM for fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria.

http://www.zmescience.com/medicine/computer-simulation-antib...

kul_··on Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms?
I have never seen anything more elegant than Disjoint Set Datastructure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjoint-set_data_structure
kul_··on 15 years trying to make everyone separate HTML, JavaScript, CSS – and then
I am not sure if you had chance to play with JAXB, it maps xml very cleanly to java objects. I mean you can have the whole darn thing define inheritance and it would generate the corresponding relation in Objects too.

IMO It just needs to be given some consideration before rejecting as old bloated piece of crap.

kul_··on 15 years trying to make everyone separate HTML, JavaScript, CSS – and then
Agreed. Take the example of people hating XML and trying to reinvent everything good XML already had with JSON and JSON Schema. http://json-schema.org/
kul_··on How to pay programmers less
I feel like the article is more of a satire than practical.
kul_··on Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
SHIT!
kul_··on How We Release So Frequently
Never rolling back makes a lot of sense, and ia often asserted by the fact that many migration frameworks dont even provide rollback facility e.g. flyway. A database migration is a major high risk change IMO and should be well thought through.
kul_··on Test-Driven Development is Stupid
I tend to agree with this. First, no I am not against writing unit tests, they are great way to trap regressions. But test driven DESIGN? really?

Do you drive your car (software) by banging against rail guards (unit tests) to reach a destination? They are there so that you do drive off the road accidentally not guide your way.

kul_··on Visual Studio Code is now open source
Yes, its misleading for sure. I think `Visual Studio Code` has like 1% of features of full blown Visual Studio?
kul_··on Vim setup for Markdown
+1 http://stackoverflow.com/a/20799071/552525
kul_··on Steve Wozniak on Steve Jobs Movie
Time for a Ross Ulbricht movie maybe?
kul_··on Cljs2go – A ClojureScript to Go compiler
fascinating project!
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