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prometheon1on The appendix is not, in fact, useless

Is it an argument from authority or an argument from experience?

prometheon1on Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Graphics Card with 14,080 CUDA Cores and 48GB VRAM

"We put a speed bump at the dangerous crossing to prevent accidents, but they made a car that has more suspension so that they can still cross it at almost the same speed."

prometheon1on GTA 5 source code leaks online

I'd imagine a complex game engine has some bugs or weird behaviours in specific conditions. If it can be proven that the closed source game has a lot of the same bugs/behaviours, that is likely enough to win a lawsuit.

prometheon1on Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app

The situation seems to be documented in the server repo: https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook-sync-server?tab=r...

prometheon1on Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices

There was also "Fox issues DMCA takedown against the original YouTube clip it put into Family Guy":

https://www.neowin.net/news/fox-issues-dmca-takedown-against...

prometheon1on Beyond Memorization: Violating privacy via inference with LLMs

Just for fun I tested this as well and while GPT-3.5 was wrong, GPT-4 was correct

prometheon1on ChatGPT cut off date now April 2023

Do you think everyone who learns things using ChatGPT does so by copy pasting? That's quite an assumption

prometheon1on Show HN: OpenAPI DevTools – Chrome extension that generates an API spec

You could potentially go one step further and make Python classes that wrap the whole API automatically from the OpenAPI file: https://github.com/mom1/apiclient-pydantic-generator

prometheon1on Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome

I'm not sure whether the problem is in the firefox runtime or in the way google optimizes for Chrome (and maybe even "accidentally" slows things down on firefox)

prometheon1on Marcel the Shell

In that case, is it even more similar to xonsh?

https://xon.sh/

prometheon1on Ask HN: Is anyone using cloud dev environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?

It sounds like the number of instances needed fluctuates heavily, maybe max number of concurrent instances needed in a month is ~500 64GB instances while average could be ~100 instances?

prometheon1on Advent of Code 2023's new AI/LLM Policy

Are you saying we should not have motorcycle races? I agree that motorcyclists and runners should probably not compete in the same race, but there can be a competition where participants try to code the solution and another competition where participants try to build a machine that can code the solution at the same time.

prometheon1on How LSP could have been better

- Embrace the web with Internet Explorer.

- Extend the web with CSS as an open standard.

- Extinguish competition by being the main browser and not following the CSS standard.

Still follows the recipe quite well in my opinion.

prometheon1on Atlassian Acquires Loom

Text to speech models like Whisper are getting good enough that screen readers would stand a chance. The video itself is still more difficult to caption, but the things that would be shared in video are probably being shared with screenshots right now, so it would not be worse.

prometheon1on How LSP could have been better

Windows and Office are both mentioned as products that are leveraged to do EEE on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

They are not extinguishing their own products, but using their products to extinguish alternatives. The example I mentioned actually fits the wikipedia definition quite well in my opinion.

prometheon1on How LSP could have been better

What we are seeing now could fit a timeline where Microsoft is doing EEE again, as well as a timeline where Microsoft is trying to change its ways.

Building VSCode, LSP and Typescript could still prove to be the Embrace and Extend phase. There are some worrying signs, e.g. many VSCode extensions built by MS don't work on open-source VSCode builds like code-server and VSCodium. From a business perspective, this makes sense, as GitHub Codespaces and vscode.dev now have features that are difficult to get in competitors. Maybe at some point they will try to Extinguish all local development and push everyone to use a cloud version of VSCode? (See e.g. Python integration in Excel)

The truth is probably a lot more complex, but we can't rule out anything yet.

prometheon1on Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users

I tried a few different android apps a few years ago and since then I'm a happy user of Keepass2Android.

prometheon1on Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years

> When you train LLMs on the output of LLMs, it gets significantly worse.

That is also quite an assumption, it could be that training on the output of better LLMs also reduces this worsening of output. There might even be a tipping point where the LLMs get good enough that training on their output is better than training on the output of humans.

prometheon1on Writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge

I knew I remembered this app, but almost couldn't find it. Was it this one?

https://write.sonnet.io/

prometheon1on Organization probably doesn't want to improve things

Is the article not valuable without address the root of the problem?

The author explains how he copes with the way organisations behave. Without this coping mechanism, he would be less happy and more angry. This coping mechanism could help a lot of unhappy/angry people right now, while solving the root problem requires more time and collaboration. Maybe it is also okay if we make people more happy right now, and work on the root problem in the next article?

prometheon1on 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack

If a bank allowed people to log in to their bank account and make transfers based on only email+password and someone stole money from a bunch of accounts, would the bank face any criminal liability?

I don't know the answer, but I would say your DNA sequence should be secured similarly to your bank account.

prometheon1on Working on Multiple Web Projects with Docker Compose and Traefik

The comment you are replying to mentions profiles (and links to their own blog about it). Do you mean the same feature or something different?

prometheon1on We built the fastest CI and it failed

I thought using your own runners for free in Gitlab was already an option before Github Actions even existed

prometheon1on ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard

I mainly use my macbook m1 as my keyboard (also when connected to external screen)

Before this I used a thinkpad as my keyboard

prometheon1on ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard

This was exactly my line of thought when I got the Moonlander (except I thought Colemak). It has been gathering dust in my shelf for almost 2 years now.

prometheon1on Guido van Rossum on his favorite Python IDE [video]

I am not sure whether my interpretation of REPL driven development is the same, but in VSCode I use "Python Interactive Window" a lot. I can run lines, .py files and cells (lines of code split by "#%%") in an interactive Python shell, and run simple statement directly in the same shell for inspection and debugging. This sounds like a similar featureset as elpy, but of course the exact workflow of elpy in emacs could still be preferable to you and many others.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py

prometheon1on Organic Maps

Thanks, will do!

prometheon1on Organic Maps

Do you use the search functionality a lot, and is it giving you the results you want? And if so, do you have any tips on how to write search queries?

I love Organic Maps, but when I try to search, I think I find what I'm looking for about 1 out of 5 times.